Second grade uniquely blends fables and legends with practical activities, fostering moral development and imaginative learning.
Language & Literature
- Legends, fables, and folktales
- Stories from cultures around the world, including biographies
- Building phonological awareness: rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmenting, syllable blending, and segmenting
- Narrative sequencing and comprehension through retelling of stories
- Vocabulary expansion: finding synonyms, word association
- Reading selected class readers
History
Mathematics
- Place value
- Regrouping (carrying) and renaming (borrowing) in addition and subtraction
- Introduction of place value
- Problem solving, cont. (transition from mental/manipulatives to written)
- Skip counting; 1-12
- Introduction of the multiplication tables, 1-12
- Estimating
- Geometry (form drawing)
Science
Specialty Subjects
- Spanish: vocabulary, pronunciation, culture
- Handwork: crochet back-and-forth and in the round
- Visual Arts: painting, guided drawing, modeling
- Music: Singing, games/dancing, pentatonic flute
- Movement: games, cooperative activities, and small-sided games involving locomotor skills, directionality, spatial awareness, and manipulative skill development.
- Community Class: communication skills, listening, equality and inequality, teasing and bullying, being brave and standing up, making a difference in school
- Gardening
Ready to learn more about second grade at Charlottesville Waldorf School?
Complete our inquiry form here or contact our Admissions Office at enrollment@cwaldorf.org.
