This year I am doing individual grade level wrap-up posts instead of all three kids in one. I shared 9th grade here and 5th grade here already. I had big plans of getting them all done and then I didn’t. So I am expanding this post to include highlights from 2nd grade during October, November and December!
Here is the post about the curriculum choices we made for her.
Math
I seriously cannot say enough fabulous things about Teaching Textbooks 3. This is our first time using level 3, so our first kid to begin with TT. The boys use it but they started later. She now works through her lessons on her own and comes to me if she needs help. She is consistently scoring 95-100 so it seems to be working!
She has recently been in the middle of the multiplication section, so I created some fun games for her to work on to aid with memorization.
She also uses the Math Drills app, which I have customized for her. This is to work on being quick with memorize math facts.
Spielgaben is still a fun addition to our math. You can see the latest post by clicking below.
She still does Life of Fred with her daddy about twice a week, I just don’t have any photos!
Grammar
We use First Language Lessons Level 2 & Growing with Grammar 2 simply because I like both of them and neither takes too long. I do not correlate the teaching topics, we just work straight through each book, which provides some review when one book covers something at a different time. This is partly why I like using both books.
We use our Boogie Board a lot for the First Language Lessons now, funny how a new addition like that can bring joy to lessons! Below she was describing Nerds during a lesson on adjectives.
Spelling
All About Spelling Level 2 is a great fit, we do one lesson per week, using the board one day and then writing the words in her notebook the other day. Recently we have started using the Boogie Board for parts of the lessons, she LOVES this.
Geography
I love our Evan-Moor Geography book! She does too! It is the perfect fit for her. You an see our full review as well as a video peek in the book here.
We also practice US states and capitals using our wall map. She puts up a few states a day. We are on our 3rd or 4th time through, I can’t remember! I love this map, and the great review it provides!
SCIENCE
She does Apologia Swimming Creatures with her 5th grade brother and her dad. She is VERY into this as she loves sea creatures.
Daddy is always finding great videos for them to go along with their lessons.
Listen to her tell you about her notes here in this video from Instagram!
History
She also does The Mystery of History with her brother and Dad. She takes the best notes, I love seeing her learn and work!
Bible
We are using our Songs for Saplings Questions with Answers Volume 1 printables which you can see here! She absolutely LOVES these songs and is learning so much.
We are also using Friends and Heroes! We decided to stick with the Family Devotional that we reviewed here. Even though this was written for families, I use it for her and she loves it. It’s a great way to go back through the movies with her. Below you can see one of her recent activities.
Reading
My girl loves to read! See our post all about what we are doing for reading this year! See her ongoing books read list here – I am trying to keep it updated! Currently we are finishing up Little House on the Prairie {3rd in series} aloud together.
Below you can see her most recent stacks of completed books. See all of her completed books for 2nd grade here!
Another series she has enjoyed from the library recently is the Ask Me Why books.
See these books on Amazon below…
Art
We are using Home Art Studio 2nd grade this year. I am aiming to do one project per month. See our post about her recent project, The Blue Dog, here.
All the Rest
She continues Ivy Kids Unit Studies. Our latest was Leaves and now we are into Mrs. McTats and Her House Full of Cats, which she LOVES – we will have a full review on that one coming soon!
She continues to love her swimming lessons and tolerates her weekly gymnastics class. We leave her in it for the purpose of keeping her active and social. She does 30 minutes of swim a week and 1 hour of a homeschool gymnastics class.
Christmas fun has filled our homeschool room the past few weeks of course!
2nd Grade Subjects
- Math Teaching Textbooks 3, Life of Fred, Spielgaben
- Reading See our reading plan here!
- Spelling All About Spelling Level 2
- Grammar First Language Lessons Level 2 & Growing with Grammar 2
- Handwriting Logic of English Cursive Handwriting
- Geography Evan-Moor Beginning Geography
- Science Apologia Swimming Creatures {with Krash, 5th grade}
- Bible Questions with Answers Volume 1, & Friends and Heroes
- Art Home Art Studio 2nd Grade
- History ~ The Mystery of History {with Krash, 5th grade}
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