Welcome to our Second Grade Webpage

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure"
(Emma Goldman).

“If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.” (1Peter 4:11)

Second Grade is the foundation for success in higher grades!

Learning is fun at Sacred Heart Villa School! Our Second Grade academic program is sequentially designed to build a solid foundation for success. It important that First Grade parents get involved in their child’s process of learning, especially as they start learning how to read. Taking the time to read with your child is one way of helping him/her to understand that learning is important.
It is also important that you know what your child is learning in the classroom so as to follow up with the assignments.

Besides helping your child with the homework assignments, there are some available resources that can assist you to help your child at home so as to reinforce what he/she is learning in school. Below are some internet resources that offer some activities and games for parents to help their children learn the basics skills in Reading, Phonics, Math, English Grammar and other subject areas.

At Villa, we believe that success in school starts with reading. Children are more likely to become better learners throughout their school years when they’re good readers in the early grades. So let’s give each child in Second Grade a good start in reading.

Briefly summarized are the basic skills that the Second Graders should know on different subject areas throughout this school year. In Second Grade, the children learn Reading, Phonics, Math, Grammar/Language Arts, Science, Social, Health, Art, plus extra curricular activities.

Reading/Phonics
The five Steps to Reading include: Vocabulary, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency and comprehension.

Second Grader must have the following skills in order to learn to read fluently:
They must be able to use language in conversation; listen & react to stories, comprehend what’s read, identify and name the letters of the alphabet, listen to the sounds of spoken language, connect sounds to letters to figure out the “code” of reading, read frequently so as to easily recognize words, learn and use new words. They will be learning these skills in Reading, and it is good to reinforce them at home as well.

Math Skills
They are expected to read and write numerals to 100, to count objects to 100 or more, counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, counting coins & value, place value, identify fractions, Missing Addends, addition & subtraction, vocabulary words such as fewer, more, greater than, less than, numeration (number recognition, ordinal numbers, sorting, patterns) graphing and measurement.

English Grammar/Language Arts
These are basic skills that First Graders will learn:
Beginning & Ending consonants; Nouns, Sentence Structure (sentence order), Comprehension (vocabulary building), Verbs, Opposites, Spelling, Rhyming Practice, Main Idea, Capitalization & Punctuation, Contractions, Word Endings etc.

Some Interactive Online Reading Resources which will be helpful for parents. These are just suggestions. You are free to visit these sites or use other resources that are available for you.

http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/other/seirtec/parentpages/phonics.html
Mastering the skills of phonics will help a child to read words and spell words. This site has various fun activities on phonics for children (puzzles, games, writing letters, creating a story).

http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
This site has games and puzzles, plus other activities in all subject area.

http://www.srv.net/%7Egale/
A site for Literature books for all grade level (Grades K-12).

Hooked-on-Phonics is a very interactive reading program useful for First Graders learning to read.