At Trinity Academy, we incorporate the Christian life-style into all areas of the curriculum. To help students further their understanding about our Father as well as how we should live our lives, students participate in a Religion curriculum developed by Concordia Publishing House (CHP). Students are nurtured in their understanding and living of the Christian faith as they are taught a sequential selection of Old and New Testament Bible stories. Within this context they learn key concepts of faith such as Law and Gospel, confession and repentance, forgiveness and grace.

Second graders participate in daily devotions which include singing and prayer. They also begin to lead others in worship. Through a planned memory program, students learn Scripture verses and prayers.

The second grade reading program continues to develop reading fluency, leading to greater comprehension and enjoyment of reading and the ability to use reading skills and strategies for inquiry and research. The children review phonetic work knowledge and skills. Students explore concepts in science, social studies, literature and the arts. Each week during whole group instruction (Shared Reading) students review and continue developing new reading strategies. A whole group lesson can also be used to introduce new strategies or develop common vocabulary. Guided Reading (Flexible Grouping) is a small group of students who work to progress toward a common goal. Groups can be formed in a variety of ways to work on a variety of specific skills. Groups change and evolve throughout the year. The final component in the second grade reading program is literacy centers. Students choose to work on tasks that interest them. Centers are teacher developed to practice a specific set of skills. Students are expected to try new things, but they may practice in a way that best meets or challenges their needs.

Writing is used as a form of learning and personal communication. The writing process is used to develop the student’s skills in the written word. Sentence structure, parts of speech, punctuation and capitalization are all emphasized. Much of the student’s written work is shared with classmates and displayed in the classroom.

The spelling program consists of words taken from the material in the reading text, high frequency words, and curriculum-linked challenge words. Students practice working with word families, word sorts, and spelling rules both directly and indirectly.

The children practice proper handwriting techniques in their daily work. D’Nealian printing is reviewed weekly. Cursive writing is introduced in the second semester.

The science program offers students a chance to use text and experimentation to better understand the world around them. In science we use a variety of resources to instruct: Foss learning kits, Christian perspective textbooks, and hands-on experiments. The topics taught at this level are landforms; balance & motion; insects; sun, earth, moon; bat ecology and caves; plants; body organs and health.

Student’s mathematical skills are being learned and refined using the Macmillan McGraw-Hill curriculum in second grade. The students begin the year practicing addition and subtraction facts through 20. Numbers and patterns to 1000 are discussed. Graphing, money, time, measurement, geometry and fractions are included. The addition and subtraction of two-and three-digit numbers is emphasized and multiplication and division concepts are introduced. We begin each day with review questions and a story problem. We work together on each lesson to build common vocabulary and understanding. Students finish each day in math challenging themselves with a variety of learning experiences. Concepts are practiced and mastered using games and hands-on activities.

The second grade social studies program helps children understand the working of their community and the world around them. The units in the program are People All Around; Earth, Our Home; A Working World, We the People; Discovering Our Past; People, Places and Holidays. 

Students will continue to explore the elements and artists that demonstrate the learning objectives. Vocabulary takes on more importance. Knowledge of the elements are used in creating a variety of media including drawing, painting, collage, mixed media, print making, sculpture and textiles.

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Students explore various types of musical styles. They learn through listening, echoing, movement, pitch, simple instrument play, rhythm, and tonal exploration. All students are required to participate in the annual Christmas Musical and spring choral concert. Students in these early elementary grades have the option to sing as part of the Trinity Academy Choir.

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Technology competencies include the ability to open, run and close a program from either a disk or a network; demonstrating the correct use of input and output devices (mouse, keyboard, printer); and identifying and defining computer components and basic terminology. Creating a program using a word processing program is required, along with creating a picture using a paint, draw, or graphics software program.

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In second grade, units introduce basic rules of games along with the building of skills previously learned. The progression of skills is a primary focus to prepare students for the ability to participate in activities and games at a higher level. Students will have an introduction to the rules and skills focused around four-square, soccer, floor hockey, basketball, softball, and kickball.

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Learning short Spanish phrases increases knowledge of Spanish vocabulary in 2nd grade. Children will be speaking and spoken to more frequently is Spanish. Students will expand on the basic concepts and will be introduced to additional vocabulary. To aid in reading of the language, students will be introduced to the Spanish alphabet and will learn the letter sounds.

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