Special Activities:

Second Graders begin each school year with an author study of Kevin Henkes stories. Students learn about friendship, manners, and values. Throughout the year students participate in school wide activities such as Red Ribbon Week, Young Author's Week, Science Fair, Multicultural Week, and the Accelerated Reader program. All second grade families are invited to participate in our end of the year writing portfolio party in the spring.

Field Trips:

Desert study - Rockin R Ranch

Reading :

Barbara Bush second graders use the Harcourt Trophies Reading Series. It is a collection of anthologies that include a variety of literature. Phonics skills are reinforced through the MPS Start Phonics Program. All of our students begin each day with the Drop Everything and Read Program which incorporates the Accelerated Reader Program. Second grade teachers encourage reading by presenting a variety of books to their classes on a daily basis.

Writing:

Our second graders are creative writers! They demonstrate the writing process through: journals, personal narratives, poetry, letters, and factual reports Six Traits in writing. Favorite pieces of writing are published in the Bush Bobcat Binding Company throughout the year. Students also collect their best pieces of writing to place in their individual portfolios which are then sent home at the end of the school year. Each child has a very special collection of memories to keep from their year in second grade.

Math:

Our mathematics program strongly emphasizes hands on manipulatives as well as incorporating basic skills into daily math practice. Our curriculum includes: Problem solving, mastery of basic addition and subtraction fact with sums through 18, money, telling time skills, measurement, geometry, numeration, and double digit addition and subtraction with regrouping.

Science & Social Studies:

MPS has developed a nationally recognized science and social studies curriculum. Some topics that we explore are: Changes, Magnets, Balance and Motion, States of Matter, Weather, "Breath, Blood, & Guts," Desert Studies, Butterflies, Ancient Civilizations, the American Revolution, the Westward Movement, Safety, Spanish, and Geography Skills.

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