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Grade Two Units/Lesson Plans
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MATHEMATICS

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What's My Rule?
Core Objective: 
Use oral and/or written communication to describe a general rule for pattern. 

Connect patterns, relationships, and functions with other aspects of mathematics and with other disciplines. 
Shape Search
Core Objective(s): Draw and/or model plane figures including triangles, quadrilaterals (squares, rectangles, parallelograms) pentagons, hexagons, and octagons.
It All Adds Up
Core Objective(s): 
Know, record, and apply addition facts (sums to 20 or less) with/without manipulative.

Cooking With Cuisinaires
Core Curriculum Objective:  Identify, name, and demonstrate fractional parts of a set or region using a variety of manipulatives and pictures (equal vs. unequal parts of a whole, wholes, halves, thirds, etc). Write the corresponding fractions and order them correctly.

The Dollar Cookie
Core Curriculum Objective: 
 Recognize, count and write money amount using cents symbol.
Identify equivalent amount of money.

How Much Is That Name?
Core Curriculum Objective(s):
Recognize, count, and write money amounts using the cent symbol

Inching Our Way through Measurement
Core Curriculum Objective:
 
Estimate, measure, compare, and order the length, height, or width of a given object using non-standard and standard units (inches/feet, centimeters/meters) and a variety of measurement tools.
State Standard: (2V:A1)
Explore the concepts of length,capacity, weight(mass), perimeter, area, time, temperature, and angle/estimate and then use a ruler to make linear measurements to the nearest centimeter and inch including the distance around a polygon (determine perimeter).

Money Madness
Core Curriculum Objective: 
Recognize, count, and write money amounts using the cent symbol
State Standard:
(2V:F1) Measurement/Make and use measurements in problems and everyday situations/count, compare, and make change, using a collection of coins and one-dollar bills. 

Fractions: Mud Pie Math
Core Curriculum Objective:
Identify, name, and demonstrate fractional parts of a set or region using a variety of manipulatives and pictures (e.g. equal versus unequal parts of a whole, wholes, halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, and tenths). Write the corresponding fractions and order them correctly.
State Standard:
  Number and Numeration Systems/ Develop the concept of fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals and use models to relate fractions to decimals and to find equivalent fractions/identify the parts of a set and/or region that represents one-half, one-third, one-fourth, one-sixth, one-eighth, and one-tenth and write the corresponding fractions and order them correctly.

Symmetry
Core Curriculum Objective: Identify and/or draw line(s) of symmetry for a given object or representation.
Fractions
Core Curriculum Objective:  Identify, name and demonstrate fractional parts of a set or region using a variety of manipulatives and pictures (e.g., equal versus unequal parts of a whole, wholes, halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, and tenths).  Write the corresponding fractions and order them correctly.
Probability
Core Curriculum Objective:  Record data from experiments using tools, such as spinners and colored tiles/cubes and use the data to predict which of the events is more likely to occur if the experiment is repeated.
Graphing
Core Curriculum Objective: Construct, read and interpret appropriate tables, charts, pictographs, and bar graphs.
Survey and Tally
Core Curriculum Objective: 
Generate questions, collect data using surveys and organize data by tallying.
Motion Geometry
Core Curriculum Objective:  Investigate, recognize, and predict the results of motion geometry (slides, flips, turns).

Ordering Fractions
Core Curriculum Objective: Compare and order fractions using
manipulatives and pictorial representations.

Patterns
Core Curriculum Objective:  Identify, describe, copy, extend, and create a pattern using objects, numbers, and technology to make predictions. (This lesson focuses on using objects to identify, describe, copy, extend, and create patterns.)

WRITING LESSON PLANS

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Key Pals
Core Curriculum Objective:  Engage in sustained writing of various types of compositions (journals, letters, reports, poetry, stories).

LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON PLANS

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Dig Into the Dictionary
Core Curriculum Objective: 
Use alphabetical order to locate information in a dictionary, glossary, encyclopedia, and automated/card catalog.
State Standard:
  Research/Locate information in reference materials/use dictionaries, encyclopedias, and indices.

Where in the World is Flat Stanley?
Core Curriculum Objective(s)
:  Engage in sustained writing of various types of compositions (journals, letters, reports, poetry, stories).

One * Two * Three * Story
Core Curriculum Objective:
  Sequence/organize events and/or steps in a process using dramatizations, retellings, pictures, charts, and media.
State Standards:  Reading/Literature: Demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction selections/organize events in a story or the steps in a process in the correct order.

Write a Silly Story
Core Curriculum Objective(s):
  Engage in sustained writing of various types of compositions ( journals, letters, report, poetry, stories).

Write Me A Story
Core Objectives
: Engages in sustained writing of various types of compositions (journals, letters, reports, poetry, and stories).

Reference Skills
Core Curriculum Objective: Recognize and use parts of books: title, subtitle, table of contents and glossary.

Comparisons
Core Curriculum Objective: Compare and contrast situations, characters, emotions, solutions, and texts.

Descriptive Writing
Core Curriculum Objective:  Develop confidence in communicating through writing compositions for different purposes (to tell, to describe, to inform or explain, to learn, to record personal feelings, to entertain others, to enjoy).

Daily Writing from Self-Selected Reading
Core Curriculum Objective:
Write daily about what is read from self-selected reading.

Multiple Meaning Words
Core Curriculum Objective: Distinguish between multiple meanings of a word and use various meanings of a word in a sentence.

5 "W" Questions
Core Curriculum Objective: 
Teach a variety of post-reading strategies for fiction and non-fiction selections:  retell the story, summarize, paraphrase, outline, apply self-questions, construct story map, semantic map, or arrays and verify predictions. (this lesson focuses on self-questioning.)

Sequencing
Core Curriculum Objective: Sequence/Organize events and/or steps in a process using dramatizations, retellings, pictures, charts and media.

SCIENCE LESSON PLANS

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Basic Needs of Plants
Core Curriculum Objective:
Name the basic needs of plants, (air, water, sun, soil, space).

Classifying Matter
South Carolina Science Curriculum Standards
: Examine and classify common physical properties of solids, liquids, and gases. (IV.A.1.a.)

Classifying Vertebrates
Core Curriculum Objective:
Classify vertebrate animals as belonging to the 5 groups (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish).

Magnetism
South Carolina Science Curriculum Standards:
Demonstrate and describe how the poles of magnets attract and repel each other.

The Water Cycle
Core Curriculum Objective:
Explain the major processes associated with the water cycle.

Weather Watchers
South Carolina Science Curriculum Standards:
Observe and identify weather conditions and patterns. (III.A.1.c.) Create and use symbols to represent weather conditions. (III.A.1.c.) Make simple charts and graphs of observed weather data. (III.A.2.d.)

Water Treatment Plant in Miniature
Core Curriculum Objective:
  Describe ways to keep water clean