My student is in 2nd grade. I also have a Preschooler. I noticed that there was a first grade thread started and thought I would kick off a 2nd grade thread. I was wondering what specific learning objectives you are covering in various subjects, or what overall topics you are on. Vocab, This week we are doing the words: antenna, boulder, balance, cliff, joint, machines, motor, muscle, planet, slope. We use Wordly Wise 3000-A Spelling, we have 5 words this week: with,as , I, his, they. We will have 10 on the test with the other five coming from previous lessons. Math, today, we selected odd numbers from a set, put pictures on order, drew hands on clocks, wrote the measure name next to a picture of a container ie, gallon next to a milk jug. Converted numerical words into numbers, ie, 4 Hundreds 6 tens 5 ones = 400 + 60 + 5 = 465. Two word problems both addition based. Match solids to names, box, sphere etc, and a page of math problems. We are in Horizons 1st book 2 for a bout 3 more weeks then will move to 2-1. Social studies, we are using Kingfisher History as a roadmap and are winging it for now, using various resources like CD-Roms, Cosmeo website for movies and articles, and large coffee table books on Egypt and CHina. Science, we will start Astonomy soon, but are doing unit studies right now. We made sugar crystals, last week, and introduced microscopy. The week before we put an onion in water and watched the roots grow and looked at the stuff swimming in the water under the scope. This week we will plant beans in soil and watch the roots and leaves sprout and learn part names. We will also discuss chlorophyll and photosyntheisis. I hope we can see stomata, under the scope, on the leaves from the bean spoutes. If basic concepts are understood well, we will discuss the location and numbers of stomata on various leave types and note the relationship between this and they location and orientation of the leaves. Art. We have been doing little craft projects, but no formal art yet. We should get to start going to art lessons at the museum soon. If not, I will get started on some projects I have jotted down. Music, last week we made music notes and made a staff on paper then placed the notes on the staff. I then played the song the kids "wrote" on a fisher price xylophone. In the Bible lessons we were covering The kings of the OT and just started the NT today. We are in BJU first grade BIBLe.
Phillip is my 2nd grader. This is what we're doing: Math: Horizons Language: Language Lessons for the Elementary Child History (with his sisters): All American History Science (with his one sister): Great Science Adventures Light and Sound Bible: AWANAS Reading is incorporated in with everything else, and geography is incorportated in with history. You know what, Vantage? I have Wordly Wise 3000 A, too, and I didn't think it might be appropriate for Phillip! I think I'll look at it again with him in mind.... We are also doing "English from the Roots Up" with his two sisters.
I have a 2nd grader... Bible--we are going through the New Testament, and doing some sheets provided by our church Math-0working on number words eleven through twenty. Adding and subtraction through 20. History--the Pilgrims Science--Apologia Zoology 1--we're studying about bats right now Reading--three and four letter words with short and long vowel sounds and long vowel teams (ai, ei, ie, oe, oa, oi, oy), some silent letters (like -igh, ign, kn, gn) Writing--sentence structure (capitalization at the beginning of sentence, punctuation marks), starting nouns and verbs (very general right now)
Today we worked with First Language Lessons and read some stories and talked about them. We worked on some phonics after doing FLL. DD did some copy work from a book and board for handwriting. We just did the first 10 lessons in Math Horizons. She knew it all and was happy she could do it on her own. We are done today. The weather is blah and they are all napping. Tomorrow we will read, do FLL, do a scince thing, finish with our Japan book and put it together. We are going to make some origami (sp) with a friend, and paint our trian for our reading wall, and also USA for our wall. We sang some bible songs and went outside to play since it had stopped raining (for about 10 minutes ) Oh yea we also baked over a dozen cookies and a cake. The kids will decorate the cupcakes and I will make a simple wedding cake design or BS tomorrow. It will be an easy design so DD can help decorate it. I have to make the roses tonight. I do it now but want to be a bum.
I forgot to mention Reading and Phonics. We are using HOrisonz and read 8&9 in the reader. She is really into the Robinson Crusoe story and is volunteering to read to sections aday. She read to Dad to day. Not sure what lesson in the phonics workbook, but around 8 I think. As far as wordly wise 3000A We do not use these words as spelling words, only do them as vocab. I am thinking that depending on how things go with the spelling this year, we might use this years vocab as next years spelling in part. As it is, the spelling words we have in our spelling power book are very simple, but we have huge trouble with sight words and this covers them. Its nice to have a useful but easy portion of the day to separate more challenging ones. For writing we use the activities in the spelling book as well as creative writing activities. I photo copy the writing workbook pages for use as a rough draft. After she free writes the story, we correct spelling, letter formation, grammar etc and she rewrites in the workbook. This has taken the stress off of my little perfectionist.
Aaron is in second grade! Math: He is currently doing singapore. He is doing mulitiplication, some division, carrying and borrowing, fractions, etc. Reading: He is reading the biography of Buffalo Bill. We are also going to read as a class (me and his sister together) Pedro's Journal. He writes stories. Writing: cursive Spelling: I completely forgot to buy a spelling book...cannot believe I am admitting that. LOL. I will purchase one. Until then I am just having him spell the months of the year. Science: Chemistry History: Mystery of History Phonics: Explode the Code Grammer: sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation...etc. Geography: Maps! My kids dig maps. I think that is about it. He is doing awesome. I am thinking of saving money and having him just share his sister's books. LOL. I really am. lol.
Ava, if you don't want to invest in a spelling book, make your own word lists from his reading vocabulary.
I don't mind getting a spelling book..I just forgot about it. However, that is a great idea! I may just go with that. There are vocab lists in the chem book...maybe I can use that a few weeks and the reading a few weeks...hmmm...I can do that with my dd also. Great idea. Oh yea...I forgot spelling for her too... I always hated spelling..lol...maybe that was why I forgot. lol.
Wow- you guys make me feel like a slug, so I thought I'd start writing down what we are doing and maybe it would sound better! lol DS #3 is in second grade. Math- MCM book 3- we skipped book 2 as he is doing so well in this subject. He does 2-3 pages per day. Today he worked on less than/greater than with 3-digit numbers. He finished his CLP Nature Reader #1 today- on to #2. He finished his CLP Meeting New Friends reader today- on to the next set of readers (not sure which yet). I have "Boys and Girls of Colonial Days" that might work through Thanksgiving. Spelling- Building Spelling Success Book 1 Vocab- words of the day with his older brothers, we generally use geog/history words or science vocab. History- he is reading "History for Little Pilgrims" (CLP) out loud to me. It is technically a first-grade book, but he is reading it 95% on his own and then doing the activities in the coloring book. Today he worked on coloring our family tree. (A big deal in our house since he does NOT like to color!) Art- Draw, Write, Now and other arts and crafts Geography- US states with his brothers Science- I LOVE Abeka's science books, except for the 2nd grade one. So I am really going to have to work hard on science with him for hands-on projects, etc. Phonics- CLP book 1- finishing from this spring Lang Arts- McGuffey Readers and MANY games! Social studies- units as we need them. We just did a mini-notebook on careers for Labor Day. And then reading, reading, reading! He loves to read and is working on Henry and Mudge's and Nate the Great's. Plus, he loves the science readers, etc- especially on bugs! Oh, and today we did home ec and he helped me make brownies for dessert! Well, that's not too bad! MT3
momandteacherX3, I felt as you did but once it is written you see how much you really do! lol. I think I may hold off a bit on Mystery of History and do a Columbus unit study. By chance, I have a ton of Columbus stuff. lol. I think it may just be fun. We will see.
my dd is a second grader. W euse the following: math; Miqoun blue grammar:first language lesson science:exploring creation with astronomy history:the story of the world spelling: Steck-vaughn spelling 2 phonic: modern curriculum press B handwriring: Italic C social study:www.edhelper.com
Math- Horizons and Big Math Time Spelling-Zaner-Bloser Spelling Connections and Spellingtime Reading-Readingatoz.com ss- internet sci-internet LA- BJUP Phonics- Saxon HW- A Reason For.. Art- DVD- Drawing Basics With Thomas Kinkaide(sp?) Music- piano and choir until January, then a class.
We fell behind this week. Yikes. It is my fault, as I had to work several days lately. My spouse is not getting any hours and I have to take what comes right now. I am not too concerned as we will go year round and catch up later, it just stinks not to be where I had planned to be, prior to going on vacation. My spouse did some reading with my student, she played learning games on the computer, and watched many history videos on cosmeo. It was funny, my little 3.5 year old came up to my several times over the last few days yacking about this and that that she had learned watching cosmeo. I will have my student do a bit of workbook based work while we are on the road during vacation, and if we do our reading at night before bed that week, we should get caught up. We will get a few science lessons in while camping. In the mean time, I am excited to report, that reading is now considered a somewhat fun activity by my 2nd grader. Ditto writing.
HI Newbie here, I am using mostly Rod and Staff with DD Reading-Stories about God's People Phonics-We will start this next week Spelling-McGuffey's Eclectic Speller-We are only doing 10 words a week. Grammar-Building sentences right now(Capitalize the first word, end with punctuation) Math-We are reviewing last year-adding and subtracting up to 15. Science-Pattern's in Nature Social Studies-Our Father's World. Penmanship- we start this next week Bible- We are using the verses that are part of our church's Sunday School lesson for that week and expounding on them. This is my first year to Homeschool DD and we are both LOVING it! She is so hungry to learn! I have some plans for some unit studies coming up for the holidays. I can't wait!!
I just wrote out my progress notes for my journal, so this is a bit wordy. My daughter is doing mostly second grade work, but is not yet 6 1/2 years old. Math - We are about halfway through Singapore Primary Mathematics Level 1A integrated with Miquon Orange and Red books. Logic - Currently I use Critical Thinking's books: Building Thinking Skills Level 1, MindBenders Level A books, Language Arts Infusion Lesson Book A1, and others. Language Arts - We are using Language Lessons and we are within a few weeks of finishing the first grade part. I am looking to add Elementary Diagramming Worktext, but I have not gotten that yet. Spelling - I have Spelling Power and it is a very good program, but its word lists are not well suited for younger children. I have just begun using words lists based on phonics rules using Phonics Pathways, but I am thinking of switching to Natural Speller, which is designed to do that with Latin and Greek origins too. (Makes sense, because she is going to be learning both Latin and Greek anyway.) Handwriting - We use Italic Handwriting. I had their first two workbooks, but now I use the same font in the Educational Fonts, Inc. software so I can make my own copy work. Reading Aloud - This is were my daughter excels the most. We began 3rd grade Pathway Readers, but it is not really challenging her. I have been thinking it would be okay at this point to start letting her read classics adapted for children like the Great Illustrated Classics books. We just started Little Women yesterday adapted for about 4th grade level, which is where she probably is and it went well. Music - Currently we are past the middle of Alfred's Prep Course Level C. (She began piano at age four.)Art - I have been allowing her own talent to do its thing at this point and observing. I have a few curriculum books as a guideline, but I think I will be doing my own thing mostly, since that is one of my areas of expertise.Languages - She is really doing well with the languages.French - We use Powerglide's Junior Course Level 1, for older elementary to junior high level. We are past the middle of the first one. I just made flash cards of all the words we have covered so far--I really had not realized how many we knew! She is starting to use French words on her own throughout the day. Latin - She is breezing through Latin's Not So Tough Level 2. It only takes about 15 minutes a day to go through the flash cards and do the worksheet. She learned the phonics at the first level with the flashcards, as I really did not see much point in using the workbook. In fact, we probably could have skipped Level 1 altogether as Level 2 reviews all the phonics and then begins to teach some words. Right now she learns one word at a time. Greek - We are just about to begin a curriculum called Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek! Level 1 made by the same people who designed the Latin program we are using. SEE - We translate memorized poems, songs, and scripture to Signed Exact English, which we have used since she was one. I am going to be making flash cards hopefully later this week.History - We just finished with all the volumes of Maxwell's Story of the Bible and we will be beginning a time-line soon. I plan to use an OOP book series called the Picturesque Tale of Progress mostly, which means we will not be using a curriculum, but a living books and narrating/journaling approach. I have other curriculum based resources like Story of the World and Mystery of History and many other reference books, so I am not set on whether I will integrating these other resources or not, but I am planning to incorporate music, art, science, geography, and literature as much as possible as a unit study.Science - We have been just learning from reference and science books, field trips, and some experimentation about whatever caught our interest--my daughter has interest in nearly everything!--but I plan to start on a hands-on type of curriculum based on the six days of creation (integrated with history as much as I can) that I am pulling together from several sources and writing some of it myself.Geography - Currently we are using a workbook called Daily Geography Practice Grade 2 by Evan Moore, but this is not really challenging her. (I knew I was in trouble when she could put together a US puzzle map of individual states before she turned four.) Bible - We have two devotions most days. One at breakfast and one at lunch or dinner.For the morning, were using Maxwell's Story of the Bible (also used as our History), but we finished all those volumes. I have an OOP series with 9 volumes from 1911 called Young Folks Bible Library that starts out for young elementary grades level and progressively gets more challenging to read. It might be a harder adjustment for me (maybe for her, too?) that she reads the morning devotions than it would be for her do read the text. It has become kind of a tradition that I start reading as breakfast is ending. In the afternoon or evening, we use Explorer's Bible Study's Bible Beginnings: And It Was Good! PE - Currently, we do stretching or yoga about three times a week and will be adding weight strengthening (my husband used to be a bodybuilder/trainer) when I get the things cleared out of our workout area by selling them.
Seeking, I would strongly discourage you from SEE, especially when you list it as a "language". If I'm out of line here, feel free to ignore me! But my background is working with the Deaf, and so I tend to have a very strong opinion about SEE. It is NOT a language in any sense of the word, and it has done so much harm to the Deaf community! The idea was that it would encourage reading skills, etc., but that simply is not true!
I appreciate your opinion and I well know that it is not considered a true language. However, my opinion is that what makes a language recognized as a "language" is that it is used and like it or not SEE is being used if only to bridge the translation gap between the deaf and the hearing. I understand the resistance in the ASL community against SEE, but I also understand the benefits of SEE in the classroom for teaching deaf children proper American/English grammar. If we disagree on these matters, then we just do. I did not post my curriculum to promote politics or to have to defend it. Now if you solely oppose that I categorized it under "Languages," then what category would make you feel more comfortable?
SEE has absolutely NO benefit to the Deaf community, even for those that don't "speak" ASL. Instead of bridging the gap, it only serves to confuse Deaf children even more. Having said that, I'm sorry if I offended! As I said originally, if I'm out of line, feel free to ignore me. It doesn't bother me to have you disagree. I've just got a very strong opinion of this on a professional level, and felt I needed to just let you know. Consider it dropped.
First, I only have one child, a random abstract learner. I have found that when her attention wanes or she starts stalling on one subject that I can switch to another and come back the other later or even keep switching back and forth. Although this would have driven me crazy, she learns faster with better retention and there is less time wasted. Regarding the languages, this just seems to be what she is very good at doing. We don't do all of them every day and the curricula I use are not that time demanding. Latin takes no more than 15 minutes, French can take up to 20 minutes, and Greek will be just learning to recognize and write alphabet letter first so it should take about 5 minutes to start. We also play language I spy games when driving somewhere or in a store. I spend about half an hour in prep usually. We do about 5 hours of lessons on our long days, (which include her daily 30 to 60 minutes of piano and music) and the long days are two to three days a week. We do between 2 to 3 hours usually two to three days a week so we have the whole afternoon for a field trip, park, skating, shopping, appointments, whatever. We do lessons year around and take breaks whenever we need to do so, rarely are they planned much ahead. In reality, lessons can include many things I did not list as part of our curriculum/formal lessons.
