• Make appropriate choices when faced with peer pressure
• Say "No" to unhealthy situations (drugs, strangers, inappropriate touch)
• Explain the differences between proper uses of drugs and drug abuse
• Explain the basic harmful effects of smoking
• Explain a basic understanding of vision and hearing (development, function, impairments, aids, and prevention of injury)
• Explain the dangers of touching others' body fluids (blood, saliva, etc.)
• Explain healthy eating habits using the Food Pyramid (including smoking)
• Demonstrate appropriate problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Develop healthy and safe habits

• Identify primary and secondary colors
• Use lines and shapes to draw
• Demonstrate the term horizon line
• Identify foreground and background in art
• Create artwork in a similar style to famous artists (i.e., Rousseau’s Jungles)
• Use art as self-expression
• Create artwork that demonstrates knowledge about other cultures (i.e., African Art)

• Sing alone &/or with other students
• Be exposed to a variety of music from different cultures, time periods, and styles
• Use age appropriate instruments to accompany music
• Learn, read, and demonstrate basic musical notation
• Listening to and describing a variety of musical styles
• Use movement to express many different concepts in music

• Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
• Participate regularly in physical activity
• Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
• Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
• Exhibits responsible personal social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings
• Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction

Reading

• Decode words using phonetic skills
• Decode words using structural analysis skills
• Utilize "before reading" skills to understand a selection
• Monitor and regulate comprehension during reading
• Identify story elements (setting, characters, problems, solutions, main ideas, and sequence of events)
• Evaluate critically what they have learned from reading an informational selection
• Read, compare, and contrast narrative and expository selections

Writing

• Process - write a poem, report, or a titled story (beginning, middle, and end)
• Process - write and send a friendly letter (date, greeting, content-focused body, closing, and name)

Listening

• Critically listen to reading selections to identify main ideas and make character references
• Use the listening position and demonstrate active listening skills to follow directions

Spelling

• Correctly spell a selected list of high frequency use and frequently misspelled words appropriate for second grade
• Correctly spell phonetic lists of words

Research

• Use the dictionary, encyclopedia, and additional reference material to gain information
• "Research" a selected topic using people, places, and books as a sources of information
• Use ABC order to the second letter to locate information from basic resources

Speaking

• Present a book talk incorporating selected speaking skills
• Use courtesy, respect, and consideration of others in communication situations
• Relate orally a personal experience in a clear, concise, and sequential manner
• Role-play independently and cooperatively selections from a variety of prose or poetry using appropriate verbal and non-verbal language

• Count by 2’s, 5’s, & 10’s from any given number
• Makes tallies and gives the total
• Uses <, >, and = correctly
• Finds equivalent names for numbers
• Constructs fact families for + and –
• Understands “What’s My Rules?” tables
• Completes simple frames and arrows diagram
• Identifies place value of 2-didit and 2-didgit numbers
• Shows coins for a given amount
• Knows all addition facts
• Knows all subtraction facts
• Adds and subtracts multiples of 10
• Makes ballpark estimates of exact answers
• Adds three 1-digit numbers mentally
• Measures to the nearest inch and centimeter
• Solves number grid puzzles
• Knows compliments of 10

• Internet data on a pictograph
• Uses a ruler, tape measure and meter/yard stick correctly
• Reads and writes money amounts in decimal notation
• Knows exchange value of U.S. coins
• Uses a calculator to compute money amounts
• Recognizes and sorts objects into equal groups
• Measure in non-standard units
• Uses equivalent coins to show money amounts in different ways
• Knows and express automatically the values of digits in 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers.
• Multiple numbers with 0-5 as a factor
• Tells time to 5 minute intervals
• Uses concept of duration of time
• Uses multi-digit addition strategies
• Uses multi-digit subtraction strategies
• Find the area of rectangles

• Compare and contrast major characteristics of teacher selected holidays
• Retell historical figures' biographies and place events in chronological order
• Create a timeline and narrative about their personal family history
• Describe major historical events in Benzie County History
• Determine interactions between natural environment and human activity in the community/Northwest region, and compare this to other areas
• Interpret and construct maps to include human-made and natural characteristics, a compass rose, and a map key
• Determine relationships between rights and responsibilities of individuals in a democratic society and processes for conflict resolution
• Identify the goods and services provided in their community
• Select a particular good or service (apple/cherry pie) and describe the types of resources necessary to produce and distribute it
• Collaboratively investigate cultural elements and traditions of ethnic groups by analyzing literature and other expressions of culture and present findings to an audience
• Acquire and interpret information from a variety of sources and present that information in maps, graphs, charts, and/or timelines
• State an issue clearly as a question of school privacy, analyze various perspectives, and evaluate possible ways to resolve the issue
• Consider the effects of an individual's actions on other people and act as a responsible member of society