Grade 2:  weeks 7-12

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Medieval History:

Text:  An Island Story

Week 7:  Chp. 13:  Round Table

               Chp 14:  St. Gregory

     *Supplemental:  Sword in the Tree
                             Chp 1-3

Week 8:  Chp 15:  King Alfred- reading

               Chp 16:  King Alfred- cooking

      *Supplemental:  Sword in the Tree
                             Chp  4-6          

Week 9:  Chp 17:  Alfred the Great

               Chp 18:  Ethelred the Unready

     *Supplemental:  Sword in the Tree
                             Chp 7-9            

Week 10:  Chp 19:  Edmund Ironside

               Chp 20:  Canute and the Waves

     *Supplemental:  Sword in the Tree
                             Chp 10-12           

Week 11:  Chp 21:  Edward the Confessor

               Chp 22:  Harold

     *Supplemental:  Sword in the Tree
                             Chp 13-15

Week 12:  Chp 23:  Battle of Stamford Bridge

               Chp 24:  Battle of Hastings

            *Supplemental:  Viking Raiders
                                    pp. 4-9
                 (chronologically, this book is set around the
                  time of King Alfred)
                       

Week 7:  The Big Wave
               pp. 18-end

               Little Lord Fauntleroy -or-
               A Little Princess
               Chps 1-3

Week 8:  Little Lord Fauntleroy -or-
               A Little Princess
               Chps 4-8

Week 9:  Little Lord Fauntleroy -or-
               A Little Princess
               Chps 9-13

Week 10:  Little Lord Fauntleroy
               Chps 14-15
              -or-
               A Little Princess
               Chps 14-19           

Week 11:  A Bear Called Paddington
               Chps 1-3

Week 12:  A Bear Called Paddington
               Chps 4-6

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 119-136
    *If you are starting the book in 2nd grade, do lessons 31-60.

     (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--