Was this normal for second grade?

My oldest daughter recently finished second grade, and talking with some other parent we all were quite disappointed in what was taught and I'm wondering if this is normal for second grade?

For some context, my daughter goes to a large, well-funded, extremely diverse (a little over 40% non-white, kids from over 40 countries, and kids that speak over 80 languages at home), suburban district in the Midwest. This was the first year that the district was using the teaching modules.

Half the day my daughter spent in the reading class, the other half they switched to math and science. Seemed to work well enough. But, what was being taught seemed strange. One unit, which lasted about 2 months, was about dinosaurs. Another long unit was about pollinators. Almost every day she brought up coloring pages they did. Word searches often came home too. Once a week a sheet would come home with words that we were supposed to have her read, but no other homework. No spelling tests.

Was that all normal? We really liked her teachers, and when I spoke with them they didn't seem particularly happy with these new teaching modules. The parents we spoke with all seemed like their kids weren't being challenged and couldn't understand why they constantly doing coloring pages.

Thanks for any insight you may provide.