OUR CURRICULUM

Reading: Saxon Phonics and Orton Gillingham are two of the many resources we use to meet the needs of each child in reading. Saxon Phonics provides a structured, organized foundation to teaching reading, while the Orton Gillingham approach provides a multisensory approach to reach all learners. In addition, we use a guided reading approach in our reading groups. We teach a variety of necessary reading strategies that include comprehension and fluency. We include novel studies throughout the year. We will be having poetry caf on most Fridays. This helps develop fluency and hopefully, a love of poetry.

Spelling: Our Spelling program is integrated into our Saxon Phonics instruction. We will learn new phonics rules throughout the week and your child will be tested on words that follow these rules on Friday and the new sight words for the week.. The spelling test will also include two dictated sentences that are made up of words with the current phonics rules and previous phonics spellings and sight words.

Writing: In writing this year, our writing specialist, Angie Rogers, will be teaching writing on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Social Studies: It focuses on the following: Georgia and its people , land and topographical regions Government and our leaders Georgias beginnings Native Americans of Georgia

Math: We utilize the Everyday Mathematics Curriculum that integrates multiple learning modalities. One of the many second grade math goals is to master addition and subtraction facts. This will require us to work together to achieve the following goals. Students need to practice each night

Minimum Level of Mastery = 80% of 50 problems completed correctly. Students will also be expected to complete mixed facts as well. Science: Our Science Curriculum is BJU (Bob Jones University) Science and includes a wide array of topics. The curriculum is developed with a Christian worldview. TOPICS Vertebrates and Invertebrates Habitats Energy, Light, Heat Our Five Senses Earth Science The Oceans BIBLE: The 2nd grade Bible curriculum is the ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International) curriculum for Bible. Students will learn about many Old Testaments characters who demonstrate the Biblical traits God would like for each of us to have. We will be learning about the life of Moses, Joshua, Daniel, Job, Esther, Elijah, Ruth, David, Nehemiah, Miriam and Abraham. Later in the year we will be looking at Peter and Paul.