Child+Development+-+Gr.+2

=** Child Development - Grade 2 **=

Web resources:

 * Stages of Development
 * Grade-by-Grade Learning: 2nd Grade
 * 2nd Grade Academics: What to Expect
 * 2nd Grade Social Changes: What to Expect

Physically:

 * Muscle strength is not fully developed: they can not throw basket ball,
 * Hand-eye coordination: weak

Cognitively:

 * Begin to concentrate and reasoning so they can express their opinion
 * May be express lack of confident
 * become story writer because reading is becoming easier in related to phonics and they know how to write sentences with punctuation and capitalization.
 * they can do imagination
 * Math goes up to double digit.

Socially:

 * Don't want to be left alone. Basically they start to care how other people look at them
 * They notice things more, and they can get influenced by surroundings
 * They have more independence so teacher might expect them to have more responsibilities in the classroom