TOPICS OF SECOND GRADE BOOK 1

PHONOLOGY

 Words with “t”, “d”, “n”, “k”, “p”, “f”, “b” and “v” sounds:

Lesson 1- drum doll day donut door tree ticket table truck tap

Lesson 2- nest knot nuts bank knife pink drink knee skunk
tank

Lesson 3- pencil dress prince fish spider fish spider fan phone kiss
farm dolphin

Lesson 4- baby rabbit van bag visit cave ball video ribbon
love

 Write our words

 Work with sounds
 Use the words to complete sentences
 Accomplish challenges using the words
ENGLISH SKILLS
LESSON ONE –
 Marsupials – Identify which animals are marsupials (especially the
koala bear), places where they live, similarities and differences
between them.
LESSON TWO
 The brave dolphin – Know animals from the ocean, comparing
characteristics of dolphins and sharks and the names of some others
sea creatures.

LESSON THREE
 Scary volcano – Learn about volcanoes, appreciate their beauty and
importance for the planet. Reading and listening to a story about them.

LESSON FOUR
 Pandas – Describing pandas, learning about their habitat and habits
and understand facts about them.
LANGUAGE
 Alphabetical order
 Capital letters
 Practice and review- days of the week
 Nouns
 Articles – “a”, “an” and “the”
 Personal pronouns
 Verb to be present and past
 There is- There are
 Prepositions of place
 Punctuation marks
  Negative sentences
 Telling time
 Adverbs of frequency
 Ordinal numbers

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP- WHAT WE VALUE

Theme- Civic ideals and practices
LESSON ONE
 What are my values?
 Names of values – honesty, responsibility, respect, kindness, courage,
sharing.
 Values role play
 Identify my own values
 Learn values through fables

LESSON TWO

 Making rules reflecting values

 Words to make rules – consequence, rule, safety, law
 My house rules
 The classroom rules
 Following rules while playing games
 Creating our own rules

LESSON THREE

 What if we did not have rules?

 Words to follow rules- courage, blame, choice, self-control
 Self-control: I control my movements and emotions.
 Imagine a world with no rules!
 Identify rules in stories.
STEAM

Theme- Materials

LESSON 1
 What are materials?
 Words to describe materials – material, hard, bend, soft, strong, soak
 Categorize materials based on what they look like
 Measure materials
 Understand materials through stories
 CREATE Project- Build a bridge

LESSON 2
 Describe how materials can be made into objects
 More words to describe materials – hot, change, cold, reuse, parts,
melt
 Explain how some objects can be taken apart to made different objects
 Measuring temperature
 Observe and explain how some materials change by heating and
cooling
 Making art from trash
 Learning how materials change
 CREATE Project – Recycled Musical Instruments
Think Tank- Candy shop

Theme- Exchanging money

 Practice mental math

 Reviewing addition
 Understand what is trading
 Learn all about markets
 Explain what is buying and what is selling
 Understand- What is a service?
 Observing trading in my community
 Role play: candy store