Grade 2:  weeks 25-30

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Medieval History:

Text:  An Island Story

Week 25:  Chp. 49:  Wat Tyler's Rebellion

                Chp 50:  King Richard II

     *Supplemental:  Fine  Print
                             "New Terms" thru
                             "Johann Shares..."

Week 26:  Chp 51:  Battle of Shrewesbury

                Chp 52:  Prince Hal goes to prison

      *Supplemental:  Fine  Print
                             "Making it work" thru
                             "Betrayed" 

Week 27:  Chp 53:  Battle of Agincourt

                Chp 54:  Maid of Orleans

     *Supplemental:  Fav Medieval Tales
                             Finn Maccoul
                             Beowulf
                             The Sword in the Stone 

Week 28:  Chp 55: Red and White Roses

                Chp 56:  Queen Margaret

     *Supplemental:  Fav Medieval Tales
                             Island of the Lost Chil...
                             The Song of Roland
                             The Werewolf

Week 29:  Chp 57:  the Kingmaker

                Chp 58:  King Edward/Richard

     *Supplemental:  Fav Medieval Tales
                             Sir Gawain and the...
                             Robin Hood
                             Chanticleer

Week 30:  Chp 59:  Two princes in the tower

               Chp 60:  a Make-Believe prince

            *Supplemental:  Treasury of Shakesp.
                     (go over one entry/day)
                           

Week 25:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                Chps 16-20           

Week 26:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                Chps 21-25

Week 27:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                Chps 26-30

Week 28:  Lassie
                "I Never Want another Dog" thru
                "The Hiding Place on the Moor"

Week 29:  Lassie
                "Nothing Left but Honesty" thru
                "The Fight for Existence"

Week 30:  Lassie
                "What a Painter Saw" thru
                "Donnell! Never Trust a Dog"

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. 1pp a day, if not already finished

Language Practice 2:  1 or 2 pages daily- schedule in order to
                finish before standardized testing

First Language Lessons:  Lessons 166-182
    *If you are starting the book in 2nd grade, do lessons 121-150.

     (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--