I am a Christian and a wife and mother of three trying to live out God's purpose for my life. Our homeschooling journey was not a typical beginning. My husband and I had attended public school and had planned for our children to attend there as well. My oldest had attended a pre-k program at a Christian school to get him ready. It had been a bumpy start but he finally settled down and got used to it. When time came to tour the elementary school that our son was zoned for (which was known to be the best one in the county) we decided it wasn't for us. I was floored at what they had planned on teaching them in kindergarten and the learning environment was not inviting. We therefore decided to leave him at the private Christian school he was at and that is where he stayed until 3rd grade. By that time my middle child was ready for pre-k and I signed him up that year as well. Things went pretty well for him but my oldest through the years was bored and didn't want to go. He almost always got perfect scores and never studied. I tried talking with the teachers and they said there was nothing they could do until he got into the upper grades just to be happy that he was bright and "didn't need help." I was tired of paying big bucks for my son to sit and not be challenged so that is the year I took the plunge and pulled him out. It has been a learning road and I have spent many hours studying and learning what is best for my children. Everyone has a story and what works for their family. This blog is what has worked for mine. I hope that what I write will help others who are beginning or those who are always looking for things to help deepen their children's learning. Blessings!

Monday, September 2, 2013

Book list for 2nd Grade 2010-11

Studying NT and Rome & Greece & Chemistry, Geology & Weather

 

This list is both during and after school hours. My son loved the Magic Tree House series this year and went through a whole bunch as you can see below :-)

Little House in the Big Woods
Velveteen Rabbit
Pinocchio
Thanksgiving on Thursday
Wise Guy Life Philosophy of Socrates
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
One Winter Night
Cleopatra (Stanley)
Black Ships Before Troy
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Romans (Usborne Beginners)
Ancient Greeks (Usborne Beginners)
Archimedes and the Door to Science
Beric the Briton
 The Bronze Bow
The Pomegranate Seeds
The Trojan Horse
What's Smaller than a Pygmy Shrew
Super Science Concoctions
How to Think Like a Scientist
A True Book:  The Periodic Table
Marie Curie's Search for Radium
Building Blocks of Matter:  Atoms and Molecules, Chemical Reactions, Elements and Compounds, and Mixtures and Solutions
A Drop of Water
How We Use Plastic
Lions at Lunchtime
Clouds (Rockwell)
Sunshine Makes the Seasons (Branley)
It's Cloudy Today
The Common Cold (Landau)
Summer of the Sea Serpent
Pirates Past Noon
Earthquake in the Early Morning
Buffalo Before Breakfast
Dingoes at Dinnertime
Season of the Sandstorms
Civil War on Sunday
Dark Day in the Deep Sea
The Food Pyramid (Taylor-butler)
Eat Right!
Fuel the Body Eating Well (Tourville)
Tonight on the titanic
Carnival at Candlelight
Eve of the Emperor Penguin
Monday with a Mad Genius
The Silver Chair 
Pompeii Buried Alive
Tigers at Twilight
Night of the New Magicians 
The Boxcar Children
Vacation Under the Volcano
The Runaway Racehorse
Winter of the Ice Wizard
Day of the Dragon King
Dragon of the Red Dawn
Revolutionary War on Wednesday
Afternoon on the Amazon
Viking Ships at Sunrise
Sunset of the Sabertooth
Ghost Town at Sundown
The Last Battle
Abraham Lincoln (D'Aulaire)
Freckle Juice
A Thief at the National Zoo
A spy in the White House
Trouble at the Treasury
Midnight on the Moon
Polar Bears Past Bedtime 
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Benjamin Franklin (D'Aulaire)
Third Grade Pet
Henry Huggins


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