What's included:
Additional Materials Needed
The following books and materials will be necessary to complete 2nd grade:
- Intermediate Recorder Songbook
- Tuck Me In Tales & Other Stories
- The Book of Cultures
- Ben & Meg
- Old Mother West Wind
- Fables
- Four Fun Friends
- Heart of Learning
- Guide to Teaching the Early Grades
- Crafts for the Early Grades
- Circle Time Songs CD
- Healthy Living from the Start
- 2nd Grade Craft Kit With Recorders: optional kit containing craft items used in the 1st grade curriculum.
- Essentials Craft Kit: optional kit designed to be used alongside our K-3 Essentials Package and includes many of the common craft items you'll need in your homeschool.
2nd Grade Overview:
View a sample of our 2nd grade curriculum here.
The 2nd grade coursebook (includes resource book) provides 36 weekly lessons across all subject areas to guide and support you through the homeschooling year. The curriculum expands on your child’s natural intelligence and growing confidence as a reader and writer.
In language arts reading emerges from writing and observations of animals and nature become the subject of poems writing and stories. The rhythmic nature of rhyming poems becomes a natural and playful means of working with phonetic letter sounds as students develop their independent reading skills.
In social studies students continue to develop their understanding of history geography economics and civics. Fables and folktales provide the backdrop for learning about ancient cultures and universal human themes. Students explore the themes of good citizenship by learning about the lives of inspiring individuals.
In math the second grader’s growing understanding of mathematics and confidence in manipulating numbers leads to work with the multiplication tables and gaining skill with the four processes.
In science students continue to develop their observation skills as they explore the world of animals. Themes such as interdependence natural rhythms and classification provide the foundation for close-up investigations into the plant and animal kingdoms.
Through hands-on and investigative activities in art crafts music and health students engage in explorations of color and craft develop their recorder playing skills and conduct inquiries into topics related to their healthy development.
