Welcome to Second Grade at St. John Vianney!

Classroom Expectations

• Treat others as you wish to be treated.
• Do your best.

Content Areas

• Religion
  • ​In second grade we will continue to build on your child's relationship with Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit.

• ​Language Arts/Reading
  • ​Students will develop and demonstrate more detailed writing skills, understand and be able to craft and structure their writing, apply comprehension strategies and fluency that supports comprehension, phonics, and word recognition.

• ​Math
  • ​Students will be working with time, money, place value, problem solving, fractions, graphs, geometry, and measurement.

• ​Social Studies
  • ​Second Graders will be learning about civics, economics, geography and history, the use of timelines, understanding cause and effect, and problem solving, as well as graphic organizers to convey understanding.

• ​Science
  • ​Areas we will work with are: force and motion, pull and push, gravity and magnetism as force, weather and clouds, and states of matter. We will classify and identify the characteristics of animals, ecosystems, the human body and their life cycles.​

• Stand Firm School Theme
  • In the month of March the Second graders will be presenting the virtue Perseverance during Pride Time.

• During the third quarter Second grade will participate in the Science Fair.

• Service Project
  • I am asking that your child visit the following website once a week: http://freerice.com. As they answer academic questions on a variety of subjects, 10 grains of rice per question right are contributed to a virtual collection site. This project is part of World Hunger that helps distribute food around the world. There is a nice video at the beginning of the website to watch.