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.
