Here is our plan for 2nd grade. I am finally beginning to get the hang of using the methods of Charlotte Mason.
BIBLE - we participate in Community Bible Study each week. The twins are in the homeschool group and study the same lesson as I do. They have 5 daily lessons each week which we complete during the day. This year we are studying Mark and Ephesians. Hopalong is in the preschool class which has a seperate lesson but no homework.
Language/Reading- I am going to continue to use Teach Your Child to read in 100 Lessons. This has been a great book for the boys as I can teach both boys who have different learning styles using the same book. Butch is definitly a phonetic reader while Sundance seems to be a balance between phonetic and whole word. We are reading all kinds of easy readers. For Phonics, I use Explode the Code. For Handwriting, I use Handwriting without Tears. For Language, I am using First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind.
Math - I am so excited about this math program. It is called MEP (Mathmatics Enhancement Programme) You can read about it here.
FOr the most part, we follow www.Amblesideonline.com Year 2
History - We will be reading from An Island Story by HE Marshall .This Country of Ours by HE Marshall and A Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer
History Tales - The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge and Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
Geography - Tree in the Trail and Seabird both by Holling C. Holling
Literature - Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim's Progress Book 1 (Christian's Journey) by John Bunyan
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty, selected tales * Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Robin Hood by Howard Pyle along with the poems of Walter De La Mare, Eugene Field , James Whitcome Riley and CHristina Rosetti
Science - This year, instead of The Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess, we are going to read The Seashore Book for Children also by Thornton Burgess. My kids are so interested in the seashore and since we have been there both last summer and this summer, I decided to study this book instead. We may do the animal book next summer. We are also going to learn about all the shells we collected and identify some cool fish.
Additional Reading - This is quite a list and I am going to make it my best effort to complete it this year.
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (some versions say "revised" because P.L. Travers revised chapter 6 herself in 1981 to get rid of some rather nasty racist things.)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (sensitive readers - be aware that the child loses a hand in this story)
Chanticleer and the Fox - Barbara Cooney's is one version
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
After you read Chanticleer and the Fox, you can borrow my copy of the movie Rock-a-Doodle-Doo.
Posted by: elisabeth | September 02, 2007 at 07:35 PM
Year 2 is such a fun year! Our favorite books were Understood Betsy and The Little Duke.
Thanks for letting us look at your plans!
Posted by: Katie | September 03, 2007 at 09:00 AM
If you make it into and through the "Little Peppers", please let me know how you did it. I just about fell asleep within two chapters!
Posted by: Amy | September 04, 2007 at 08:10 PM
Praying you have a wonderful year! We've enjoyed many of the books you listed. You're making memories.
Posted by: Donna-Jean | September 08, 2007 at 08:55 AM