Enduring Understandings	Essential Questions	Sample Instructional Activities/Assessments
Bible	Learn God’s promises. Understand that God’s promises are for us today, too.	What promises has God made to His people? Why did He make these promises? What promises does he make to us?   Why?	Daily Bible lessons Promises project Promises mobile
Reading	Construct meaning and fluency in reading literature.	How can we build on our understandings of reading to understand what we read? How can we become more fluent readers?	Shared readings Read alouds DIBELS tests
Spelling Vocabulary	Use words to strengthen comprehension and meanings.	What are some key words (theme words) used in stories? How can we use stories to help us understand unfamiliar words?	Stoplight vocabulary
Grammar	Introduce the parts of speech. Deepen understanding and use of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.	How do we use the parts of speech to form correct sentences and speech?	Mad libs Group practice
Writing	Learn the writing process; study author’s purpose. Review sentence-writing, and introduce paragraph-writing.	How do we use sentences to form paragraphs? Why do authors write different styles of writing?	“Animal Tracks” booklet Descriptive “shape” writing
Mathematics	Deepen understanding of addition and subtraction, time and money. Introduce and practice fractions and measurements.	What does it mean to add and subtract? How do we use money?   Why do we use money? How do we use clocks?	Workbook sheets Math Soup magazines
Science	Explore the purposes and wonders of God’s creation in the areas of rocks, nutrition, animals, and energy.	How can we use our understanding of rocks, nutrition, animals, and energy to praise our Creator?	AIMS journals
Social Studies	Learn and apply the eight strands of social studies, focusing on the area of peoples (communities) and human-environment interaction.	How do we live in community? How do communities differ? How do God’s people form a Christian community?	“Bonnemaville” 2nd grade mall
Christian Conduct Service	We do our best, “working as unto our Lord.”	Did we do our best for God today?	Redo’s Clean up our classroom and playground