Welcome to ​Old Fashioned Education's FREE online K-12 curriculum.
Before you begin, please read the introduction and license agreement. ​

Directions: 

1. Gather materials using the Booklist (below) for what to teach.
2. Print the 40-Week Schedule PDF for when to teach it.
3. Order the Grade 2 Teaching Guide (optional) with lesson plans, worksheets, tests, and answer key for how to teach it or plan your own lessons using the FREE Student Weekly Assignment Booklet PDF.

Key:  *Free online   ❶  Our Pick!   ❷ Christianbook

Second Grade
Age 7+
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* and Sequel to Mamma's Bible Stories*​
• Children may use Bible Atlas * by Hurlbut, for reference.

Optional Sunday Reading:

• ​A Child's Book of Saints by William Canton*

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Devotions

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

Arithmetic. Choose 1

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 3*
• Everyday Arithmetic Primer (Second Half)* with Answers*
• Ray's New Primary Arithmetic* and Ray's free video lessons*
• Math program of your choice, purchase separately ❶

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Science

• Enjoying Science Together or

• Chambers’s Elementary Science Reader*

Plus 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*

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​Library Skills

• Go to the library once a week, learn how it all works. If you go on Fridays then you can check out the books you'll need for the following week.

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Language Arts

• Phonics: Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades*, pp. 65-100
• Reading: McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader* ❷ and Book of Cats and Dogs* ❷
• Writing: Handwriting Workbook of your choice^, purchase separately ❶
• Spelling: McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, lessons 5-22 (included in Enjoying Penmanship)
• Grammar: Lessons in the Use of English Book 1, Part 1 (Oral and Written)
• Graded Poetry Readers: First and Second Years*, Copywork 1 to 2 times per week

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If you are using all 3 programs of study, the reading below is optional.
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Literature

• Aesop's Fables*
• Just So Stories* ❶
• Uncle Wiggily Stories*
• Grimm's Fairy Tales*

Plus, enjoy reading as desired:

• The Bobbsey Twins Series* 
• Dottie Dimple*
• Little Prudy*
• 5 Little Peppers Series*
• Andrew Lang's Fairy Books*, continue as desired
• Additional books for free reading below.

History

• The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery*
• 50 Famous People by James Baldwin*

Biography

• 50 Famous Stories Retold* ❶
• 30 More Famous Stories Retold*
• Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire

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Geography & Social Studies

• High Roads in Geography*
• The Men Who Found America by Frederich Winthrop Hutchinson*
• Lucy Fitch Perkins Twin Stories*
• Crayon & Character by James Griswold^
• Goop Directory* & More Goops & How Not To Be Them* by Gellet Burgess
• Library Books about Good Manners
  
  

• Free Reading
• Term 1
• Term 2
• Term 3

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Additional books for free reading.

1. The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
2. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
3. The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
4. Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
5. A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
8. Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
9. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
10. Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
11. Heidi, by Joanna Spyri
12. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers​​

​​Read alouds to enjoy each week (FREE at your local library).

1. Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh
2. The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies *
3. The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdone
4. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
5. The Ant and the Elephant by Bill Peet
6. One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
7. Amos and Boris by William Steig
8. Cinderella by Marcia Brown
9. A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David A. Adler
10. The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Hutchit Bishop & Kurt Wiese
11. Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf *
12. The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

1. Lucy’s Christmas by Donald Hall
2. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski *
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams *
4. The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader
5. The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Chrstian Andersen, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton
6. The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
7. Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda
8. George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz
9. Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet
10. Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent by Bill Peet
11. Emily by Michael Bedard
12. Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine by Evaline Ness

1. Island Boy by Barbara Cooney
2. The Easter Egg by Jan Brett *
3. Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Ted Rand
4. Verdi by Janell Cannon *
5. The Gift of the Tree by Alvin Tresselt *
6. Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton
7. A Visit to William Blake’s Inn by Nancy Willard
8. The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
9. Lucy’s Summer by Donald Hall
10. Oh Say Can You Seed? by Bonnie Worth
11. Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean by Arthur Dorris
12. Watercolor With Me in the Forest by Dana Fox (optional, continue to enjoy through the summer)

Second Grade Syllabus​

​Spend about 60 minutes daily on Program 3: Individual Study for Grade 2.

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
Math ​(20 Minutes)	Math ​(20 Minutes)	Math ​(20 Minutes)	Math ​(20 Minutes)
Science (30 Minutes)	Language Arts ​(30 Minutes)	Science ​(30 Minutes)	Language Arts ​(30 Minutes)
Seatwork (10 Minutes)	Seatwork (10 Minutes)	Seatwork (10 Minutes)	2222222 (10 Minutes)

Plus Program 1: Christian Study and Program 3: Enrichment Study daily.

Have Second Grade questions or comments?  See FAQ's

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Notes
^Consumable books less than 10%