2nd Grade Goals

   

Term 1 (September-November)

Topic 1: Fluently Add and Subtract Within 20

• Students will review and practice the following strategies to add quickly and accurately: count on, use doubles and near doubles, make a 10, count on and back on a number line, related addition facts
• Students will review and practice the following strategies to subtract quickly and accurately: related addition facts, make a 10, count back
• Students will learn objects, diagrams, and equations to help solve word problems
• Students will learn that good math thinkers use words, pictures, numbers and symbols to explain their thinking 

Topic 2: Work with Equal Numbers 

• Students will learn odd and even numbers
• Students will learn to use repeated addition to write quotations to find the total number of objects in an array
• Students will use arrays to solve word problems

Topic 3: Add Within 100 Using Strategies

• Students will add within 100 using place value
• Students will use math tools such as hundred chart, open number line, counters, cubes
• Students will learn break apart strategy to add two-digit numbers
• Students will look at addends to help subtract and add
• Students will solve  multi step word problems

Topic 4: Fluently Add Within 100

• Students will solve addition problems with 2 digit numbers 
• Students will learn the following strategies to help solve addition problems with 2 digit numbers: models, place value blocks, partial sums, break apart, adding numbers in any order
• Students solve one and two step problems using drawings, models and equations

Term 2 (December-March)

Topic 5: Subtract Within 100 Using Strategies

• Students will count back on an open number line to subtract.
• Students will add up on an open number line to find the difference.
• Students will break apart numbers to subtract.
• Students will subtract using compensation strategies.
• Students will solve one‑step and two‑step subtraction word problems.

Topic 6: Fluently Subtract Within 100

• Students will regroup 1 ten as 10 when subtracting.
• Students will use models to subtract 2‑digit and 1‑digit numbers.
• Students will subtract 2‑digit and 1‑digit numbers fluently.
• Students will use models to subtract 2‑digit numbers.
• Students will subtract 2‑digit numbers using efficient strategies.
• Students will use addition to check subtraction.
• Students will solve one‑step and two‑step subtraction word problems.

Topic 7: More Problem-Solving Using Addition and Subtraction

• Students will represent addition and subtraction problems, including missing‑number equations.
• Students will solve addition and subtraction problems by making sense of the situation.
• Students will solve two‑step word problems using addition and subtraction.

Topic 8: Work With Money

• Students will solve problems involving coins by counting and adding their values.
• Students will solve problems involving dollar bills.

Topic 9: Work With Time

• Students will tell time to the nearest five minutes.
• Students will tell time before and after the hour.
• Students will distinguish between A.M. and P.M.

Topic 10: Add Within 1,000 Using Models and Strategies

• Students will add 10 and 100 to numbers within 1,000.
• Students will add using an open number line.
• Students will add using mental math strategies.
• Students will add using partial sums.
• Students will use models to add within 1,000.
• Students will explain their addition strategies.
• Students will solve addition word problems.

Term 3 (March–June 14)

Topic 11: Use Operations With Whole Numbers to Solve Problems

• Students will solve two‑step addition and subtraction word problems.
• Students will solve two‑step multiplication and division word problems.
• Students will solve two‑step mixed‑operation word problems.

Topic 12: Understand Fractions as Numbers

• Students will identify equal parts of a whole.
• Students will create halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths.
• Students will understand fractions using area models.
• Students will show fractions using area models.
• Students will solve word problems involving fractions of a whole.
• Students will graph unit fractions on number lines.

Topic 13: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison

• Students will find equivalent fractions using fraction strips.
• Students will find equivalent fractions using two types of area models.
• Students will identify equivalent fractions on number lines.
• Students will compare fractions with like denominators using models.
• Students will compare fractions using symbols and reasoning.

Topic 14: Solve Time, Capacity, and Mass Problems

• Students will read clocks and write times.
• Students will identify times written in words.
• Students will find elapsed time.
• Students will determine end times in word problems.
• Students will compare and convert metric units of weight.

Topic 15: Attributes of Two‑Dimensional Shapes

• Students will identify rectangles, parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids.
• Students will classify quadrilaterals based on their attributes.

Topic 16: Solve Perimeter Problems

• Students will find the perimeter of figures on grids.
• Students will find the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.
• Students will find the perimeter of rectangles and squares.
• Students will create rectangles and squares with a given area.

	Reading Themes	Writing Genre	Dates
Module 1	Be a Super Citizen  (Informational Text, Personal Narrative, Fantasy, Biography)	Personal Narrative	September- October
Module 2	Look Around and Explore!  (Informational Text, Narrative Nonfiction, Fantasy, Poetry, Drama)	Descriptive Essay	October- November
Module 3	Meet in the Middle (Informational Text, Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Biography)	Persuasive Text	November- December
Module 5	Lead the Way (Opinion Article, Legend, Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Biography, Informational Text)	Personal Essay	December- January
Module 6	Weather Wise ( Informational Text, Fantasy, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry)	Poem	January- March
Module 8	Time to Grow (Photo Essay, Informational Text, Legend, Fairy Tale, Realistic Fiction)	Procedural Text	March- April
Module 9	Home Sweet Habitat (Opinion Essay, Informational Text, Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Folktale)	Research Report	April- May
Module 10	Many Cultures, One World (Informational Text, Autobiography, Realistic Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction)	Thank You Letter	May-June