Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
This course provides a 191-page printable copywork book to reinforce McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader. Convenient links to relevant copywork pages are provided within reading lesson guides.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
The book at the heart of this course was devised to be used for the first three years of education in conjunction with a series of readers (e.g. McGuffey’s, Treadwell’s). Phonics, associating sounds with letters and blending those sounds into words, provide children with a foundation to decipher novel words. The author of the book evolved this system of teaching phonics in her own schoolroom and used it with great success. This method incorporates four activities: 1) Ear Training, 2) Tongue Training, 3) Eye Training, and 4) Word Building. Keep in mind that the one important thing is to teach each step thoroughly. (Paraphrased from the author.) Letter tiles (A-Z and a-z with multiples of the common letters) are suggested for use in this course, but not required. You may either purchase tiles or make them yourself out of heavy duty paper or cardboard.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides teaching guides with instructions on how to teach each of the 63 lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
The Ray's New Primary Arithmetic textbook covers addition, counting, skip counting, subtraction, multiplication, division, money, and time. Teaching guides accompany all 132 lessons. Using a 10x10 abacus to demonstrate multiplication and division operations may be helpful, although it is not required. Look for one with two colors of beads (5 and 5) on each row. Inexpensive ones can be found online for around $10.00. This course changes the order of certain lessons, expands certain lessons (money and time), and removes antiquated lessons toward the end of the book.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Children expand outward from their homes and communities to continue their study of Geography. Children study the four cardinal directions, the animals, the plants, the people, and the major landforms and divisions of the Earth. Children also draw maps of the world and plot courses across the great oceans. Notebook work accompanies all 54 lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
In American history, second grade students learn about American Indian life, frontier peril and escape, colonial pirate adventures, daring Revolutionary feats, dangerous whaling voyages, scientific exploration, and encounters with wild beasts. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
In world history, second grade students study the earliest development of civilization along the banks of the Nile and the Mediterranean and in the fertile valley of Mesopotamia. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 17 lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Delight in the child-friendly poetry of Lewis Carroll, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Austin, Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Abbie Farwell Brown, and Sara Teasdale. Eat oysters with the walrus and the carpenter, learn about goblins from Little Orphant Annie, visit old Peter Prairie-Dog in Prairie-Dog Town, and maroon yourself with pirates on Dead Man's Chest Island. Children study each poet and their poetry over a five-week period. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, print copywork, and script tracework for all 40 poems.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study artists from around the world. Countries include Japan, India, Persia, China, Egypt, Venezuela, Mexico, Australia, and South Africa. Children study one master artist or country for four weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Second grade music features twenty string, keyboard, and percussion instruments. Selected musical compositions, sound clips, and artwork highlight the featured instruments. Instruments include the violin, the cello, the viola, the piano, the harp, the snare drum, and the xylophone. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany all 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
First year drawing focuses on object drawing, position, direction, and color. Students learn how to capture the relative positions of objects, how to draw objects in perspective, how to capture actions such as running and walking, how to draw in a two-handed rhythm, and how to produce even color washes. Materials required include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Animal nature study integrates classic fiction and non-fiction works by Anna Botsford Comstock, Clara Dillingham Pierson, and Thornton W. Burgess. Children listen to charming animal stories, study the appearance, behavior, and habitats of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, annelids, arachnids, crustaceans, and mollusks, venture outdoors on nature walks, and create a field journal.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Second grade prose features absorbing children's books chosen for their positive life lessons, their vocabulary-building diversity of language, and their inclusion of fast-paced, exotic adventures. The selected books have persisted over decades as true classics. Second grade prose whisks children away to the Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, to the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland, and to the inside of a Dog-Fish in Pinocchio. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
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