2012-2013 2nd/3rd Grade
Morning Routine
Literature
Religion
Science
Catholic Calendar
- Saint of the day
Morning Prayers
Saint Stories*
- Miniature Stories of the Saints
- Once Upon a Time Saints
- More Once Upon a Time Saints
- Around the Year: Once Upon a Time Saints
- Picture Book of Saints
- Saints for Young People for Everyday Volumes 1 and 2 (We have older copies of these books.)
- Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler (online)
Composer Study
Poetry
- A Child’s Garden of Verses
illustrated by Tasha Tudor - A Child’s Garden of Verses illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
- The Child on His Knees by Mary Dixon Thayer
- Other poetry books
Art
- Artistic Pursuits
- Art 1 for Young Catholics
- Various art supplies as needed
French
- Bonjour Les Amis! (All of my children have watched and enjoyed these DVDs over the years.)
- First Fun with French
- First Thousand Words in French
- Various French song CDs from my brother
History
- The Catholic Faith Comes to the Americas
- Maps, Charts, Graphs Level B
- D’Aulaire’s biographies
- The Columbus Story (and other history picture books by Alice Dalgliesh)
Language Arts
Literature
- Aesop’s Fables for Children: Includes a Read-and-Listen CD (Dover Read and Listen) illustrated by Milo Winter (We have an earlier hard cover edition of this book which did not include a CD.)
- A Treasury of Children’s Literature
- Various picture and chapter books from our personal library and the public library
Math
- Flash Cards
- Calculadders MasterPak 1 (addition practice sheets)
- Mathematics 2 for Young Catholics
Music
- Classical Music
- French CDs
- Religious Music CDs
- And more
Religion
- A Year with God
- Bible Stories for Little Children
- Catholic Children’s Treasure Box
- Leading the Little Ones to Mary
- Religion 2 for Young Catholics
- Fr. Lovasik books
- Angel Food for Boys and Girls
- Along the Paths of the Gospel saint books
- St. Catherine’s Gazette (The Wilson family puts together this newsletter each month and CeAnne shares it on her blog.)
Science
- Science 2 for Little Folks
- James Herriot’s Treasury for Children – This title is also available as an audio book, but I suggest staying with the actual book. My children delight in looking at Ruth Brown’s and Peter Barrett’s illustrations
- The Year At Maple Hill Farm
and Our Animal Friends At Maple Hill Farm
- Other story books
- Butterfly Lifecycle (order caterpillars for Lent)
- Nature Notebook (maybe)
- Vegetable Gardening
Field Trip Possibilities
- Beach
- County Fair
- Farm
- Flight Museum
- Mountains
- Science Center
- Zoo
*Please note that while we are all present for our morning routine, the selection of saint stories are added to as the children get older because I have found that my younger children tend to not really listen to some saint stories until they reach a certain age.
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