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The second grade classrooms are located in the main part of the school building. Two of the classrooms share a common space with the developmentally delayed classroom and two classrooms share a common space with a third grade classroom.
Second grade has approximately seventy students and four teachers. They have a part-time instructional aide that is shared with a special education teacher. The students are heterogeneously grouped.
The curriculum includes Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Art, Music, Physical Education and Guidance. The language arts instruction generally takes place during the first two hours of the morning with an hour of mathematics following. Activities and social sciences are in the afternoon. Whole group, small group, and individualized lessons are employed by teachers as needed. Children are assessed formally and informally throughout the year. Standards of learning serve as guidelines for the curriculum.
Goals of Second Grade:
- To encourage reading for pleasure; to teach to read with fluency, expression
and comprehension; to use word attack skills to decode unknown words.
- To express ideas effectively in writing; to incorporate the City of Salem
writing curriculum.
- To introduce and reinforce basic math concepts; to maintain problem solving
strategies.
- To use beginning exploration skills in science.
- To increase awareness of their world beginning with their own community
and expanding their knowledge base to our country and beyond.
- To demonstrate and promote good health habits and general wellness; to promote
appropriate lifelong social skills.
- To demonstrate and reinforce good organization skills and beginning study skills.
