S2E3. Students will observe and record changes in their surroundings and infer the causes of the changes.

a. Recognize effects that occur in a specific area caused by weather, plants, animals, and/or people.

S2L1. Students will investigate the life cycles of different living organisms. c. Investigate the life cycle of a plant by growing a plant from a seed and by recording changes over a period of time.

S2CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works. a. Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of the questions by making careful observations and measurements and trying to figure things out.

ELACC2RI4: Determine the meanings of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.

Science ELA Social Studies

SS2H2 The student will describe the Georgia Creek and Cherokee cultures of the past in terms of tools, clothing, homes, ways of making a living, and accomplishments. a. Describe the regions in Georgia where the Creeks and Cherokees lived and how the people used their local resources.

ELACC2W3: Write narratives in which they recount a wellelaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. MCC.2.MD.2 Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen. MCC.2.MD.4 Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.

Spring has Sprung

Math Music Dance
D2CR.1 Demonstrates an understanding of creative and choreographic principles, processes, and structures. f. Explores various approaches to solving a compositional question.

SS2G1 The student will locate major topographical features of Georgia and will describe how these features define Georgias surface. a. Locate all the geographic regions of Georgia: Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau. M2GM.8 Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. b. Describe the relationship between music and disciplines outside the arts.

D2CO.4 Demonstrates an understanding of dance as it relates to other areas of knowledge. b. Explores commonalities of essential concepts shared between dance and other subject areas.

M2GM.10 Moving, alone and with others, to a varied repertoire of music. b. Perform choreographed and non-choreographed movements.