2nd Grade

Language Arts, Foreign Language: Latin, Science, and History

Language Arts

Reading, Grammar, Spelling, & Vocabulary

• Choose from one of the following:

  • Logic of English Essentials 1-7 Set (for students who HAVE NOT completed the Logic of English Foundations curriculum in K/1st grades)

  • Logic of English Essentials 1-7 After Foundations Set (for students who HAVE completed the Logic of English Foundations curriculum in K/1st grades

• Logic of English Essentials 8-15 Student Workbook

• Logic of English Essentials 8-15 Teacher’s Guide

Cursive

• New American Cursive 1 by Memoria Press

• New American Cursive 2: Quotations from Famous Americans by Memoria Press

Writing

• People and Places in our Community by The Institute of Excellence in Writing

Literature

*Listed in the order they will be read

• Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

• The Milly-Molly- Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lancaster Brisley

• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink

• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

• At-Home Free Read Suggestions:

  • Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

  • Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat

  • The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

  • Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield

  • Farmer Boy (or other books from the Little House series) by Laura Ingall’s Wilder

  • Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

  • Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Foreign Language - Latin

Primary Stage Latin 1

• Song School Latin Book 1 by Amy Rehn (Classical Academic Press) (not approved with some charters)

Science - Ancients Era

Includes discoveries, scientists and related experiments from the ancient era. Core curriculum provided by Peace Hill. All materials are included in the materials fee. “At-Home” nature study supplies can be found on the supplies list.

• 2nd Grade At-Home Living Science Read-Aloud Books: 

  • The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess (free version here)

  • Birds of the Air by Arabella B. Buckley (free audio version here)

  • Trees and Shrubs by Arabella B. Buckley

  • Insect Life by Arabella B. Buckley (free version here)

History - Ancients Era

• Story of the World Volume 1: Ancient Times

• Story of the World Volume 1 Activity Book: Ancient Times

• Historical fiction (read-aloud) books - choose 4: Students will have a fun assignment on a historical fiction book each quarter, so plan ahead. 

  • Tirzah by Lucille Travis

  • Lysis Goes to the Play by Caroline Dale Snedeker

  • Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker

  • A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker

  • I Am the Mummy Heb Nefert by Eve Bunting

  • The Golden Sandal (A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story) by Rebecca Hickox

  • The Coat of Many Colors by Jenny Koralek

  • Gilgamesh the King by Ludmila Zeman

  • The Revenge of Ishtar by Ludmila Zeman

  • The Last Quest of Gilgamesh by Ludmila Zeman

  • One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi

  • Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown

  • Anansi an the Magic Stick by Eric Kimmel

  • Temple Cat by Andrew Clements

  • Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabua

  • Moses: The Long Road to Freedom by Ann Keay Beneduce

  • The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tommy dePaola

  • The Hero and the Minotaur: The Fantastic Adventures of Theseus by Robert Byrd

  • The Trojan Horse by Emily Little

  • The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

  • Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac

  • See You Later, Gladiator by Jon Scieszka

  • Ten Suns: A Chinese Legend by Eric Kimmel

  • Cleopatra: The Queen of Dreams by Haydn Middleton

  • Pompeii…Buried Alive by Edith Kunhardt

  • Celtic Fairy Tales by Neil Philip

    NOTE: If your student is with a charter that will not accept the historical era we are in this year for this grade, consider using your funds to purchase California Studies Weekly - Second Grade for $29.95, a simple, weekly magazine-style curriculum that can be completed at home on the side and will provide weekly options for samples.

See the course descriptions for each grade!