2nd Grade

Second grade at St. Agnes is committed to ensuring that each child is striving academically and spiritually. Second grade is a Sacramental year as each child experiences Christ’s forgiveness and sacrificial love by participating in the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.

In second grade, each child will participate in:

Religion

• Sacrament of First Reconciliation
• Sacrament of First Holy Communion
• Prayers: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Angel of God, Act of Contrition
• All Saints Day Research Project and Presentation
• Law of Love
• Sin versus Mistake
• Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist
• Saints: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Therese the Little Flower, St. Nicholas, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Clare of Assisi, Three Children of Fatima
• Jesus Day

Reading

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency
• Key ideas and details: Questioning, Summarizing, Predicting, and Sequencing
• Phonics and word recognition

English/Language Arts

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words in text
• Writing complete sentences and paragraphs
• Write opinion, informational, and narrative texts
• Legibly write upper and lower case letters
• Introduction to cursive

Math

• Number Concepts
• Numbers to 1,000
• Basic Facts and Relationships
• Two-Digit Addition and Subtraction with and without regrouping
• Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction with and without regrouping
• Money
• Time
• Measurement
• Graphing
• Geometry

Social Studies

• History: Then and Now
• Civics and Government: Citizenship
• Economics: Needs and Wants, Goods and Services
• Geography: Maps

Science

• Human Body
• Life Cycles
• Earth, Moon and Sun Relationships
• Scientific Method
• Properties of Matter