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Grade 2 · Unit 2 · Mi Escuela y Mi Comunidad

Mi Escuela
My School

Beyond the backpack: the whole school building opens up in Spanish, from la biblioteca to el patio at recess.

🎯 Novice Mid (emerging)📚 3 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Name eight school places and objects
  • Say where they are going: Voy a la biblioteca
  • Describe their real classroom in three sentences

Can-Do targets

  • I can name the places in my school.
  • I can say where I am going at school.
  • I can describe my classroom.

Vocabulary scope

la biblioteca, el gimnasio, el patio, la cafetería, la oficina, la pizarra, el escritorio, la computadora, voy a

How this unit builds

Kindergarten Unit 5 named the desk; Grade 2 walks the whole building, adding voy a — the first movement verb.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

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Lesson 1

Los lugares — places in school

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Lesson 2

Voy a — where I’m going

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Lesson 3

Mi salón — describing our room

Cultural connection

Two shifts, one school

In much of Latin America, schools run morning and afternoon shifts — two sets of students share one building. Students compare school days.