Second Grade

Our Primary Years Programme Units

Who We Are

• Central Idea: Communities share basic needs.

Where We Are In Place And Time

• Central Idea: Leaders connect with local and global communities.

How We Organize Ourselves

• Central Idea: Humans produce goods and supply services that are exchanged.

How We Express Ourselves

• Central Idea: The arts communicate an understanding of the world around us.

How The World Works

• Central Idea:  Humans use the scientific process to help them understand how the world works.

Sharing The Planet

• Central Idea: Plants are a life-sustaining resource for us and for other living things.

UFLI/Phonics

We use UFLI as our phonics/literacy curriculum. After UFLI instruction, we use flexible grouping to meet the needs of each student during small group instruction. Our MLL teachers and Scholar Coaches work with us to meet the needs of all students. We are excited to be using AI technology this year to help our students with even more immediate and corrective feedback during some of our literacy centers.

Step Up to Writing

We are using a new curriculum for writing this year. Step Up to Writing is a structured, scaffolded, and focused approach to teaching scholars about writing and how to become expert, imaginative writers.

Math & Math Review

We augment our math curriculum with a review process called Math Review, as well as a Math Fact program that works to build automaticity of basic math facts.  Math review will take us deeper into childrens misconceptions and help us identify holes in their learning and what needs to be taught.  

Social Studies and Science

These subjects are integrated into our daily PYP units of study.

Mays Family Days - Math, Reading, Writing support/resources for learning at home

Your child’s classroom may have a Scholar Coach working alongside their teacher this year. Scholar Coaches provide 1:1 tutoring for K-3 students in reading skills. This tutoring may be provided virtually or in person depending on the current status of the SPPS district. Scholar Coaches are part of the AmeriCorps network of service and Reading Corps.

In addition to 1:1 reading tutoring, Scholar Coaches also support core instruction and social emotional learning in their classrooms. Examples of what support a Scholar Coach might provide are Read-A-Louds, math help, writing assistance, and small group or class-wide phonics interventions as well as participation in the classroom community though classroom meetings.

We are excited to offer the Scholar Coach program at Benjamin Mays and look forward to this partnership with families, students and teachers.

Second grade students will have nightly homework sent home in their take-home folders. Homework will begin the second week of school, and consist of a UFLI assignment and a short math page that corresponds to the lesson they worked on that day.

Scholars’ should also read 1 book, or for around 20 minutes, per night, to increase fluency, vocabulary, and practice good habits. Scholars are welcome to take school library books home to read, and many of the UFLI assignments have mini-stories that scholars can read to help meet this goal. 

The more we read, the more we know, the more we grow!

• Second Grade Compact
• Ahmir Perfect
• Bookmobile
• Information in Support of Progress Reports - 2nd Grade Standards
• Pizza Party Subtraction Game
• Number Line Subtraction Game
• Telling Time Game
• On Time - Telling Time Game
• Number Line Addition Game
• Place Value Ring Toss Game
• Brain Pop Jr.
• Reading
• Anti-Bully links: