"FROZEN" BIRTHDAY CAKE

Created by Robin Mangum.

ART PROJECT USING PENNIES

Art can be anything!  This picture is made using pennies.

PEOPLE I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT NOTEBOOK

Keeping a notebook of people learned about through reading library books and through history lessons and all.  It's fun to go through the notebook weekly and in so doing it reinforces what has been learned.

TWISTER MATH GAME

Twister math game is not original with me.  Unfortunately, it was just an idea I filed away and don't have the original source.  It can be used for addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.  The answers are taped to the circles.  The child places arms and legs on the answers.  A fun way to review!

FELT AND BUTTONS - Art Project

 

Materials Needed:  Felt, buttons and glue.

GRADE 2 SCHEDULE

 Monday - Thursday Schedule:

1.  Christian song to start the day!  Usually either pick something from YouTube or use a Mary Rice Hopkins CD.  (Click HERE for an alphabetical listing of all Mary's songs.)

2.  Character Qualities: Watch one video from Leadershipforkids.TV .

3.  Math: Bob Jones University Math 2 (We did Saxon Math 2 through most of first grade but then switched to BJU.)

4.  Bible.  Do various things. 

5.  Bible Verse Memorization.  Play fun games and do sequencing activities to learn the verse.  (Some fun games HERE.) 

6.  Spelling:  All About Spelling  (Have also heard Purposeful Design Spelling is good.  May switch to that for Grade 3.)

7.  Our America (Abeka) supplemented by lots of books from the library (some found on my Pinterest board.  Also viewed the Liberty Kids videos on YouTube and watched other YouTube videos such as some shown HERE.  

8.  Handwriting: Zaner-Bloser 2C

9.  Literature.  Did Little Women,  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Swiss Family Robinson (Level 1 from EDCON).  Then A Beka Readers grade 2.

10.  Phonics. (Did not do because our child started reading early with Hooked-on-Phonics.)

11.  Grammar: Shurley English Homeschooling Level 2.

12. Reading Comprehension: Use such books as Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Grades 2-3 and Reading for the Gifted Student Grade 2.

13.  Geography.  Did map skills using various books.  Did a world landmarks study supplemented by Google Earth.

14.  Science.  Read a book daily from our home library or from our public library.  Also various experiments which found online.

15.  Teacher Read-Aloud.  My Pinterest board shows books we read both in Grade 1 and 2.

On Fridays we do free online piano lessons Hoffman Academy, free online typing lessons, art, educational games we have on hand, field trips, etc. 

Button Art

Materials Needed:  Card stock paper, assortment of buttons, crayons, markers and glue.

FUN ART PROJECT USING ALPHABET LETTERS

Use an initial from your name to make an animal.  Fun art project!

WACKY ANIMALS ART PROJECT

Provide colored construction paper, glue and all sorts of add on's  to make wacky animals.

"FIND THE COUNTRY" - GEOGRAPHY FUN

Found a fun container and printed off pictures of famous landmarks we had studied recently.  These were put in the mailbox to be pulled out one at a time and the country found on the map.

DAYS OF CREATION - Art Project

A fun art project is to illustrate each day of creation.

BOOKS TO HELP KIDS LEARN ABOUT MONEY

Three awesome books to help kids learn about money:  DO I NEED IT?  OR DO I WANT IT? -- all about making budget choices by Jennifer S. Larson; CASH, CREDIT CARDS OR CHEKS -- a book about payment methods by Nancy Loewen; and MONEY MADNESS -- a basic introduction to economics by David A. Adler.

TABLE GAMES ARE STILL ALIVE AND WELL!

Table games are still alive and well -- and great to use when homeschooling!  As you can see from the picture, often new or nearly-new games can be found at yard sales and thrift stores inexpensively.  Racko teaches sequencing of numbers.  Numerous other card games can be used for addition, subtraction or even spelling.

CREATE SOMETHING THAT MOVES!

We keep a collage box of all kinds of materials:  buttons, rick-rack, colored toothpicks, yarn, foam pieces, buttons, craft sticks, etc.

Today's assignment: Create something that moves.  Pictured is a horse performing at a circus.  The horse moves by pulling the yarn from the back side.

GOING ON A PROBLEM HUNT - MATH ACTIVITY

Whenever possible, try to make learning fun!  Perhaps one day instead of doing math problems on a sheet of paper,  cut out fun shapes and put the problems on the back of the shapes.  Attach to walls, windows, doors, cabinets.  The child "hunts" for each problem in order, works the problem, gets an okay that it is correct, and then "hunts" for the next problem.

MISSOURI AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS INTERACTIVE MAP

We use a laminated United States map and make it interactive.  For this lesson, the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers were taped onto the map with tape.