2nd Grade Curriculum — Old-Fashioned Education

For Ages 6 to 9
General American History
40 Week Schedule, PDF

King James Bible

• The King James Version of the Bible

Bible Study

• 40 Missionary Stories
• Mamma’s Bible stories for her little boys and girls  (Alternative Download)
• Sequel to Mamma’s Bible stories (Alternative Download)

Devotions

• Keys for Kids or Kids 4 Truth Devotionals or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic

Choose 1.

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 3
• Ray’s Arithmetic, purchased separately
• Math program of your choice, purchased separately

Science

• Chambers’s Elementary Science Readers

Continue the following science books from last year.

• Among the Forest People
• Among the Night People
• Among the Pond People
• Among the Farm-Yard People
• Among the Meadow People
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

Library Skills

• Learn to use Children’s Dictionaries and other Juvenile reference books

Language Arts

• Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades , pp 65-109
• McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader

Penmanship & Copywork

• Choose according to the child’s ability, interests, and your own family’s values

Spelling

• McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book, lessons 7-25

Literature

• Just So Stories
• Aesop’s Fables or an Illustrated Version
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
  Uncle Wiggily & Friends
• Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures
• Uncle Wiggily’s Travels
• Uncle Wiggily in the Woods
• Sammie and Susie Littletail
• Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
• Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys
  Five Little Peppers Series, To Keep Fast Readers busy
• The Adventures of Joel Pepper
• Five Little Peppers Abroad
• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
• Five Little Peppers Grown Up
• Five Little Peppers Midway

Feminine Alternatives

Dotty Dimple Series

• Little Prudy
• Little Prudy’s Sister Susy
• Little Prudy’s Dotty Dimple
• Dotty Dimple at her Grandmothers
• Dotty’s Beads & Tea
• Dottie Dimple at Play
• Jim, Lucy & All

History

• The Beginner’s American History
• Historic Girls 

Biography & Historical Fiction

• Fifty Famous People or Baldwin Project
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold (PDF) Or Gutenberg Text
• Thirty More Famous Stories Retold (PDF)

Geography

• Highroads of Geography
• The Men Who Found America

Social Studies

• Unit Studies on specific countries of your choice including the Twins’ stories below plus Juvenile Encyclopedias, Library Books, Foreign Cook Books, Maps, Library Video’s & DVD’s.
  Lucy Fitch Perkins Twin Stories
• The Belgian Twins
• The Dutch Twins
• The Eskimo Twins
• The French Twins
• The Japanese Twins
• The Scotch Twins
• The Swiss Twins

Character

• Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear
• The Goop Directory
• More Goops and How Not To Be Them