  {"id":9083,"date":"2016-10-20T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-806601-2764940.cloudwaysapps.com\/?page_id=9083"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:37:56","slug":"grade-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.milton.edu\/k8\/lower-school\/academics\/grade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#f8991d&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243; text_font=&#8221;|600|||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;17px&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|600|||||||&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Grade 2<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;3_5,2_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grade 2 students are the senior leaders of the Junior Building at 91Ì½»¨. Having learned extensively about communities in prior years, Grade 2 students now become stewards of their own K\u20132 community. The Grade 2 year is designed to equip students with practical skills to manage their own learning process and social landscape with greater autonomy and agency, which they will need in the upper grades of the lower school. Even as we support students towards independence in these areas, we also continue to emphasize the importance of thinking interdependently to solve academic, social, and community problems. In addition to exploring geometry and data, Grade 2 mathematicians move towards solving sophisticated addition and subtraction problems, thinking critically about efficient strategies, applying their expanding knowledge of place value and our number system, and generalizing about and proving mathematical properties. Thanks to our small class sizes, we can provide individualized learning experiences for each of our students; this is especially true during our phonics and reading classes, where we use research-based, scientific approaches to support each child on their individual reading journey. Grade 2 students are beginning to internalize the fact that rigorous learning often involves play&#8211;that is, tinkering and puzzling, deconstructing and reconstructing, and developing one\u2019s own inquiries to satisfy through investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243;][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.5&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15833 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milton.edu\/k8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/second-SHNZ3694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milton.edu\/k8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/second-SHNZ3694.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.milton.edu\/k8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/second-SHNZ3694-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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