Grade 2:  weeks 13-18

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Medieval History:

Text:  An Island Story

Week 13:  Chp. 25:  Hereward the Wake

                Chp 26:  William the Conqueror's
                             death

     *Supplemental:  Viking Raiders
                                    pp. 10-19

Week 14:  Chp 27:  William the Red

                Chp 28:  Story of the White Ship

      *Supplemental:  Viking Raiders
                                    pp. 20-31

Week 15:  Chp 29:  King Stephen

                Chp 30:  Gilbert & Rohesia

     *Supplemental:  Robin Hood
                             Chp 1-3            

Week 16:  Chp 31:  Thomas a Becket

                Chp 32:  Conquest of Ireland

     *Supplemental:  Robin Hood
                             Chp 4-6               

Week 17:  Chp 33:  Richard Coeur de Lion

                Chp 34:  How Blondel found Richard

     *Supplemental:  Robin Hood
                             Chp 7-10       

Week 18:  Chp 35:  Prince Arthur

               Chp 36:  the Great Charter

            *Supplemental:  Knights & Castles
                             pp. 2-9 

Week 13:  A Bear Called Paddington
               Chps 7-8

                Golden Book of Fairy Tales
               -Green Snake
               -The Tinder Box

Week 14:  Pollyanna
                Chps 1-4

Week 15:  Pollyanna
                Chps 5-8

Week 16:  Pollyanna
                Chps 9-12  

Week 17:  Pollyanna
                Chps 13-16

Week 18:  Pollyanna
                Chps 17-20

Poetry:  Read one or two poems aloud from
             Favorite Poems Old & New daily.

Reading:  at child's own pace *Remember, keep it short & sweet;
                easier, rather than too hard!

Phonics workbook:  approx. 2pp a day

(Language Practice 2:  I suggest starting it in January-- good practice for standardized tests)

First Language Lessons:  Lessons 137-148
    *If you are starting the book in 2nd grade, do lessons 61-90.

     (For second graders who have already done the first grade portion of the book,
        I suggest doing 3 lessons per week.  There will be, however, eight weeks in
        the year when you only need to do 2 lessons per week.  I've scheduled these
        around holiday periods.

       (For second graders who have not done the first portion of the book, I suggest
        doing five lessons per week.  At the end of the year, however, there will still be
        twenty lessons left, perhaps to continue during the summer.)

The Burgess Bird Book:  Read one chapter per week
    (Coming next year:  Jack's Insects by Edmond Selous!)

Nature Walk/outing:  Try to do two outings per week. 
     On at least one of the outings, have your student  focus on one particular group of living things (i.e. mammals, insects, birds, flowers, etc)  Briefly read to yourself one or two lessons about that group in the Handbook of Nature Study and share some interesting fact concerning it with your student at some point during the outing. 

    Have your student record observations in the nature notebook, perhaps including one of the appropriate verses found in the Handbook.

Science Crafts & Topics to cover:

 --coming--