Going into Grade 2

	Going to Grade 2 Concepts and Big Ideas to Work With: home \| primary school home \| summer math
Count the number of objects, counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100,and comparing two numbers using greater than and less than. Use fraction when you cut a sandwich in parts (½, ¼, ¾) Addition and subtraction concepts and the relationship between them need to be reviewed and practiced. Children should be able to master facts up to 13 without counting on fingers by the end of 2nd grade. Model situations that involve addition and subtraction of numbers. Name the coins and its’ value, penny, nickel, dime and quarter that are in a group of change. Give your child opportunities to handle the change from making purchases, have your child collect coins for a week and record the total value amount. Understanding measurement involves; reading a time from a digital or analog clock to the hour and half-hour, identifying the date for the day and naming the days of the week. Provide opportunity to measure with kitchen tools, like spoons, cups, scale and talk about which amount is less and greater than. Use the tape measure and the ruler to measure stuff around the house and outside. Identify shapes sitting in the dentist or doctors’ office, sitting in a restaurant or movie theater. Use the words two dimension and three dimension geometric shapes. Look at food labels or data in newspapers or magazines and analyze data shown on charts, graphs or numbers that are given as information. Look and identify any kind of patterns that are all around. These patterns are in numbers, shapes, design.

Count the number of objects, counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100,and comparing two numbers using greater than and less than. Use fraction when you cut a sandwich in parts (½, ¼, ¾)
Addition and subtraction concepts and the relationship between them need to be reviewed and practiced. Children should be able to master facts up to 13 without counting on fingers by the end of 2nd grade. Model situations that involve addition and subtraction of numbers.
Name the coins and its’ value, penny, nickel, dime and quarter that are in a group of change. Give your child opportunities to handle the change from making purchases, have your child collect coins for a week and record the total value amount.
Understanding measurement involves; reading a time from a digital or analog clock to the hour and half-hour, identifying the date for the day and naming the days of the week. Provide opportunity to measure with kitchen tools, like spoons, cups, scale and talk about which amount is less and greater than. Use the tape measure and the ruler to measure stuff around the house and outside.
Identify shapes sitting in the dentist or doctors’ office, sitting in a restaurant or movie theater. Use the words two dimension and three dimension geometric shapes.
Look at food labels or data in newspapers or magazines and analyze data shown on charts, graphs or numbers that are given as information.
Look and identify any kind of patterns that are all around. These patterns are in numbers, shapes, design.