Abilene Christian Elementary School 2nd Grade 2013-2014 Core Knowledge Curriculum: Fall Year Long Plan

Aug/Sept October November December

• Night Before Christmas • Smart (Shel Silverstein) (Clement Clarke Moore) • Bed in Summer (Robert • Who Has Seen the Wind? • Buffalo Dusk (Carl • Harriet Tubman (Eloise Louis Stevenson) (Christian Rossetti) Sandburg) Greenfield) • Seashell (Federico Garcia • Windy Nights (Robert • Something Told the Wild • The Duel (Eugene Field) Poetry Lorca) Louis Stevenson) Geese (Rachel Field) • Lincoln (Nancy Byrd • Where go the Boats? Turner) (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Tall Tales: “Just-so Stories” – Fishermen and his Wife

Pecos Bill How the Camel got his A Christmas Carol Hump Peter Pan Literature

Charlotte’s Web ( Poster & (Charlotte’s Web Diorama Covered Wagons) Project)

Sayings • “Back to the Drawing • “Eaten Out of House and • “Get a taste of your own Board.” Home.” medicine.” and • “You can’t teach an old • “In Hot Water” • “ Where there’s a will,

Phrases dog new tricks.” there’s a way.”

History Maps & Globes The Constitution

Westward Expansion The Civil War and Geography of the War of 1812 Geography Americas

Season Cycle – summer Simple Machines Magnetism Seasonal Cycle – Winter

Magnetism (Create a Simple Machine) Seasonal Cycle – Science Simple Machines, cont. Fall/Autumn Spiders Elijah McCoy

• review of previous • review of previous • review of previous • review of previous material material material material • count by 4’s • counting to 1000 • counting to 1000 • Combining coins with • subtraction families 1-13 • addition and subtraction • place value Quarters • read recipe • shapes • addition 1-13 families • Time to quarter hour • scale drawings Math • patterns • 4-step way solving word • Temperature to 1 degree • days in week • counting money problems • ½ dozen and ¼ dozen • weeks in year • thermometer to nearest • measure • • boiling/freezing 2 degrees • draw lines • mixed #’s fractions • measure ¼’’ liquid • Review • ai, ay, oi, oy vowels/consonant • final stable syllable • -ed, -ing, -less, -s • -let, -ly, igh, tch blends • y as “I” or “e” • floss rule • -en, -ish, -ist, g/j, Spelling • k/c, th, sh, ch, er, sound • oo, ee, ck/k dge/ge, tch/ch ir, ur, ar, or, wh, qu • ng, ph, ea, ow, ou • -ful, -ness, -tion • Contractions

• Review parts of a Writing/ • Identifying details • Compare/Contrast • Fact/Opinion sentence • Summarizing • Cause/Effect • Classifying Language • Main Idea • Complete sentences • Singular/Plural nouns • Classify Sent. • Synonym/Antonym Shurley • Label with parts of • Improved Sent. • Noun/verb/adj. • Common/Proper Nouns speech • Review Jingles • Question/Answer • Adj./article adj. English Flow • Paragraph pt. 2

• Review, Cont. • Samuel • Review of Creation - • Samson & Delilah • Saul • David Jericho • Naomi & Ruth Bible

Memory Verses: One per Six Weeks 1st – Psalm 118:24 2nd – Matthew 7:7-8 3rd - Proverbs 3:5-6

Abilene Christian Elementary School 2nd Grade 2013-2014 Core Knowledge Curriculum: Spring Year Long Plan

January February March April May

• Discovery (Harry • Rudolph is tired of • There Was an Old Behn) the City. • Bee, I’m Expecting Man with a Beard • Hurt No Living • Caterpillars (Gwendolyn You (Emily (Edward Lear) Thing (Christina (Aileen Fisher) Poetry Brooks) Dickinson) • Limericks Rossetti)

• The Wind Emperor’s New Clothes Magic Paintbrush Talk

Beauty & the Beast Blind Man and the Tiger Brahman Greek Myths Elephant Greek Myths

Literature Iktomi Stories The Jackal El Pajaro Cu

Sayings • “Turn over a new • “Don’t judge a • “Practice what • “Better late than leaf.” book by it’s you preach.” never.” • “Get up on the and • “Cold feet.” cover.” • “Keep your • “Don’t cry over wrong side of the • “Easier said than • “Two heads are fingers crossed.” spilled milk.” bed.” Phrases done.” better than one.” India

(Indian food meal, Japan Today Impana rugs, Dwali Fighting for a History and Immigration and lights) Ancient Greece Cause (Civil (Asian Travel Citizenship Rights) Brochure) Geography China (Olympics, togas)

(Tea & chopsticks, silk robes) Cells – the human body, Digestive & Seasonal Cycle – Excretory system Life Cycles in Nature Water Cycle Insects Winter cont. Science Healthy Diet

• review of previous • review of previous • review of previous material material • review of previous material • making change • count to 2000 • review of previous material • count past 10,000 from a dollar • place value material • Roman #’s • round to nearest • round to nearest • addition families • read line graphs • Dates as digits 10 dollar 1-15 • plot points on a Math • Even #’s • Families 1-17 • families 1-18 • subtraction line • Fractions • Estimate sums • add/sub with families 1-14 • time to the • Quotients • Borrowing with 0 dollars • word problems minute • centimeters • perimeter • solve division with borrowing problems • plane symmetry • align decimals • A before I • over-, pre-, • Multi-syllable words • A after w or q • final stable under- • More than one • Spelling with final • ey, -es, ue, -ous, - syllable with ci, si, suffix c cious, -tious ti, ei, ie, eigh • -ice, -ile, -ine Spelling • -ture • -sion

• doubling rule • Prefixes, suffixes

Writing/ • Author’s Purpose • Point of View • Poetry • Story/Setting • Story/Mixed Language • Inferencing • Identifying Genre • Story/Characters • Story/Plot Elements

• Complete subject • Fragment sent. • Complete • Parts of a letter • Capitalization • Pronouns – reg. & • Contractions Predicate • Parts of an • Punctuation rules possessive Shurley • A/an • Simple Subject envelope • Paragraph • Possessive nouns • Verb tenses • Simple Predicate • Finding parts of • Supporting & non- • Subject/verb • Homonyms English • Noun job table speech supporting ideas agreement • Dictionary skills • Prep./obj. of prep.

• Solomon • Jeremiah • Get Ready for • Ecclesiastes • Naaman • Jesus and Me • Daniel Jesus! Bible • Elijah • Jonah Proverbs • Esther • Review the Year

Memory Verses: One per Six Weeks 4th - Psalm 55:22 5th – Jeremiah 33:3 6th – Phillippians 4:13