Second Grade
| Mrs. Jen Cerra |
Mrs. Jenna Hawkswell |
| Mrs. Karen Finazzo |
Mrs. Heather Ray |
Liberty Corner second grade classes are lively, challenging, and full of encouragement. We ensure that each student's academic, social/emotional, and physical needs are met by individualizing instruction and offering many opportunities for children to work with partners and in small groups that help them learn how to listen, negotiate, compromise, and cooperate. Liberty Corner Second Graders are encouraged to become confident, responsible, organized learners who exhibit enthusiasm, curiosity and persistence. We guide them as they learn to work together and independently and prepare them for the big transition to third grade.
Language Arts
Our language arts program integrates reading, writing, spelling and word study, listening, viewing, and speaking skills. Comprehension is built by probing questions about a story's content and concepts. Children are exposed to different forms of print, including stories, poems, songs, magazine articles, and nonfiction. Writer's Workshop helps children become stronger writers - stories become longer, plots become more interesting, and characters become more developed in second grade. Themes include:
Friendship
Native Americans
Mysteries
Fairy tales
Space
Social Studies
Our social studies themes are often interwoven with the language arts curriculum. Themes include:
Rules and Laws
Native Americans
Heroes and Heroines
The Fifty States
Science
The second grade science curriculum is hands-on. Students are engaged in learning activities which encourage exploration, discovery, problem solving and critical thinking. Themes include:
Insects
Changes (Solids, Liquids, and Gases)
Sun, Moon, and Stars
Math
The focus of the Go Math! Program is to develop a deep and complete understanding of mathematics. By decomposing and composing numbers, students gain key mathematical fluency. Students will listen and communicate so that they may learn from each other as well as from other’s misconceptions. The program has four critical areas of focus:
Extending understanding of base-ten notation
Building fluency with addition and subtraction
Using standard units of measure
Describing and analyzing shapes
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