- Cass School District 63
- Second Grade
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Second Grade
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Welcome to Second Grade
“Where the Focus is on the Child"
The Concord Elementary School Second Grade classrooms are full of discovery, wonder and imagination. The students engage in reading diverse texts, such as fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, biographies and fantasy. They use their imaginations when they listen to stories, discuss fiction and non-fiction in their differentiated readers and when they read self-selected books. Students use what they have read, as well as their own personal experiences, to write for a variety of purposes. Some of these writing activities include: responding to reading, composing creative stories, writing a math extended response, writing a hypothesis and conclusion to a science experiment and responding to information regarding social studies questions. Students learn that reading and writing go hand in hand.Students in Second Grade continuously discover new ways to solve math problems. They are exposed to a multitude of strategies to solve math questions, which allows them to select the ones that work best for their learning style. The students enjoy sharing with their classmates the strategies that work best for them. Second graders spend time practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. They have come to realize that knowing the math facts quickly and accurately creates a fun learning environment.Second graders often wonder how things work or what happened in the past. During our Social Studies and Science classes, students begin to understand the world around them as well as the history of this great nation. Our Social Studies and Science units are coordinated with our reading series, so it is a great way for students to find answers to their many questions.
This rigorous curriculum is driven by research based textbooks and the Illinois Common Core Learning Standards.
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Classroom Resources
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Parent Volunteering Opportunities
Classroom Assistance Parents are always welcome to participate in classroom activities. Please contact the teacher if you wish to do so. Some activities you may be asked to assist in are reading with students, working on math facts, or working on writing activities.
Field Trips Parent volunteers to assist in learning opportunities that extend the curriculum and learning in our classrooms.
Mystery Reader Please sign up to be a Mystery Reader in the classroom. Please complete the form on the website and return it to your child’s teacher. The teacher will contact you with the date and time you can read to your child’s class.
Classroom Holiday Parties This is a program facilitated by CARE. Please contact your child’s classroom room parent to find out what activities in which the students will be participating.
Sharing Family Traditions and Cultures Volunteers interested in sharing traditional family traditions with the class please contact your child’s teacher.
Learning Center Volunteers assist the Learning Center staff with checking in and shelving books.
Physical Education Field Days At the end of the year, the Physical Education teachers organize Field Days for each grade level. Volunteers assist with the various activities.
Books Alive Celebration Volunteers assist the classroom teacher with activities for the students as they celebrate literacy.