Mississippi: Second Grade and your state's standards

Mississippi's standards by subject

Grade 2 topics your state adds or places differently

• Math: use a calendar fluently to solve simple real-world problems, such as how many weeks are in a year (2.MD.8b).

  Add at home

  Add a 10-minute calendar session twice a week: use a wall calendar to answer questions like 'How many days until Saturday?' and 'How many weeks are in a year?' (52).

• ELA: the grammar standard names cursive, along with printing and keyboarding, as ways of writing (L.2.1).

  Partly covered

  Printing is practiced in the weekly final copies and keyboarding in Week 20. Add 10 minutes of cursive practice 3 times a week from Week 19, starting with the lowercase letters c, a, d and g, then joining them into short words like cat and dad.

• Science: classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and study motion, forces and friction in Grade 2; the Next Generation Science Standards* place forces in Kindergarten and Grade 3.

  Partly covered

  Week 26 sorts animals by body features. Add a 10-minute sort of animal pictures into 'has a backbone' (vertebrates) and 'no backbone' (invertebrates), and a 15-minute test pushing a toy car on smooth and rough floors to see how forces and friction change its motion.

• Science: patterns of the sun, moon and stars are in Grade 2; the Next Generation Science Standards* place them in Grade 1.

  Add at home

  Add a 2-week sky log (5 minutes a night): draw the moon's shape each night and note the stars you see. On one sunny day, mark where the sun is in the morning, at noon and in the late afternoon.

Homeschooling in Mississippi

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