Grade 2

About

Patty Schoenhuber has been teaching at LCS for 21 years. Patty lives in Lincoln with her husband, while their two adult sons reside in Burlington, Vermont, and Bozeman, Montana. In her free time, Patty enjoys yoga, swimming, playing pickleball, and gardening. She is currently taking art classes and focusing on her writing.

Classroom Resources:

Patty Shoenhuber

pschoenhuber@lincolnsd.org

Curriculum

Theme

Year One

  • Bees (Life Science)/Light and Sound Waves (Physical Science)

  • States of Matter (physical science)

  • Geography

  • Schools Past and Present

  • Plant Study - From Seed to Flower (life science)

Year Two

  • Life Science

  • Earth Science

  • River and Erosion

  • Moon and Sun, Planets

  • Physical Science

  • Geography and Economics: 

  • Wonders of Lincoln

Essential Question: Where am I?

Literacy

Reading:

  • Phonics Knowledge: Short Vowels, Digraphs, Consonant Clusters, Bonus Letters, Glued Sounds, Suffixes, , v-e, Multisyllabic Words

  • Decoding Skills - all six syllable types

  • Recognition of Words at Sight: First 200 Fry

  • Read Aloud and Comprehension Skills: 

Writing

  • Handwriting: lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers

  • Sentence construction: Capitals, Punctuation, Subject and Predicate (complete thought)

  • Journaling: Descriptive/Reflective Writing

  • Small Moment Stories: Narrative Writing

  • Paragraph: Response to literature: Opinion and Informative Writing - including: hook, title, summary, opinion, facts, wrap-up

  • Poetry

Math

  • Solves problems involving addition and subtraction within 1,000 and represents solutions. 

  • Add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.

  • Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication – arrays.

  • Understand place value within 1,000.

  • Use place value understanding to add and subtract within 1,000.

  • Measure and estimate lengths in standard units. Identifies appropriate tools to use to measure different objects. 

  • Relate addition and subtraction to length.

  • Represent and interpret data.

  • Reason with shapes and their attributes.

  • Identify coins and count mixed collections of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.

  • Tells time to the nearest five minutes.