Second Grade Syllabus:
| READING | The Place Called Morning, Open
Court Little House on the Prairie, Wilder The Cabin Faced West, Fritz The Wright Brothers, Reynolds The Whipping Boy, Fleischman The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Lofting Charlotte's Web, White Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl Pinocchio, Collodi King of the Wind, Henry |
| PENMANSHIP | Baker Academy Method Manuscript Palmer Method Handwriting (3), MacMillan |
| SPELLING | Selected
vocabulary from assigned reading. |
| ENGLISH | Language
for Daily Use (3), Harcourt
Brace |
| LOGIC | Building
Thinking Skills, Book 2, Critical
Thinking Books Continuing exercises in basic thinking skills, including figural and verbal exercises in similarities and differences, sequences, classifications and analogies. |
| GEOGRAPHY | Cities
All About, Open
Court Introductory geographical excursion around the world, enriched with representative stories and poems from countries visited to stimulate discussion and further thought. |
| ARITHMETIC | Math
54, Saxon Review of previous arithmetic skills, adding and subtracting with two and three digit numbers, multiplying and dividing, traditional and metric measurement, currency problems, reading temperature, Fahrenheit and Celsius, rounding, estimating distance, line and bar graphs, time, perimeter and area problems, geometric concepts, word problems and parentheses. |
| SCIENCE | HBJ
Science (4), Harcourt
Brace Introduction to the human body, cells to systems, care of the body, basic physical concepts: light, sound, magnetism and electricity. The solar system, rocks and fossils. Animal behavior and adaptions. |
| MUSIC | Choral
singing |
| ART | Baker
Academy's Mastery of Arts |
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
Various
ball handling skills, games, and exercises. President's Challenge Physical Fitness Program |
| REFERENCE | World
Book Encyclopedia Merriam Webster's Intermediate Dictionary |
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