Grade 2 English

Grade two is a very special year of spiritual growth and understanding as the students prepare to receive the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and Holy Communion. It is a true blessing for us to guide and prepare them along the way.

Religion:

• Collect visual evidence of the abundance of God’s creation
• Relate how the stories of Zaccheus and /or the Prodigal Son are examples of how God shows His love and mercy for us through His Son, Jesus
• Define, with examples, sin as a deliberate choice to do wrong
• Describe God’s forgiveness and our personal response to the Sacrament of Reconciliation
• Identify God as Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• Illustrate the connection between the story of the Last Supper as the institution of the Eucharist
• Identify the “real” presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
• Retell the story of Good Friday as the day Jesus suffered and died for us
• Retell that story of Easter Sunday as the day Jesus rose from the dead
• Relate the division of the liturgical year (Advent, Lent, Easter, Ordinary time, etc.) to the life of Jesus
• Identify the basic parts of the Mass i.e. Introductory, Penitential, Liturgy of the Word, Offertory, Liturgy of the Eucharist and Dismissal
• Identify the steps to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation
• Identify people in scripture and in present day situations who live their call to a Christian life
• Identify a talent given by God that can be shared
• Describe the importance of the examination of conscience in the sacrament of the Reconciliation
• Identify what “moral decision making” means
• Explore how, as a member of the body of Christ, we pray in community
• Respond through prayer to personal and community needs
• Define the purpose of the Act of Contrition
• Identify how the Our father (“give us…our daily bread”) connects to Holy Communion
• Express how adoration of the Blessed Sacrament builds our personal relationship with Jesus

Language Arts:

• Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy
• Stories and other texts connect us to ourselves, our families, and our communities
• Everyone has a unique story to share
• Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world
• Playing with language helps us discover how language works
• Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us

Social Studies:

• Local actions have global consequences, and global actions have local consequences
• Canada is made up of many diverse regions and communities
• Individuals have rights and responsibilities as global citizens

Science:

• Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment
• Materials can be changed through physical and chemical processes
• Forces influences the motion of an object
• Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment

Math:

• Numbers to 100 represent quantities that can be decomposed into 10s and 1s
• Development of computational fluency in addition and subtraction with numbers to 100 requires an understanding of place value
• The regular change in increasing patterns can be identifies and used to make generalizations
• Objects and shapes have attributes that can be described, measured, and compared
• Concrete items can be represented, compared, and interpreted pictorially in graphs

Music:

• Singing (mass prep, fun songs with actions, dance game)
• Rhythms (rhythm flashcards, rhythm bingo)
• Dance (folkdance)