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.