2nd Grade

The Early Reader’s Bible

64 easy-to-read Bible stories, based on standard school word lists – Colorful illustrations, stimulating questions, and real-life applications to increase children’s understanding of God’s Word – List of 250 basic words used in  school early reader books – List of over 200 new words including Bible vocabulary with fewer than five new words introduced in each story.

My Story 2 – My Country My World

My Story level two continues with a journey around the world, and lays a foundation for understanding state and federal governments, basic economic principles, and more. Four global quests included.

Lays a foundation for God’s love as students learn about his world. Starts with an understanding of the family from the Book of Genesis, Eden, Noah’s family, the Tower of Babel, and beyond. Helps children create a map of their homes and neighborhood so they can better understand a world map. Covers topics and interesting insights like toys and inventions through history, words from around the world, and homes in every shape and size, all while helping children journal their own story.

Language Lessons for a Living Education 2

Developing early reading and narration skills, by the end of the course, students should be able to comfortably write up to three sentences at a time.

This curriculum incorporates picture study, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, observation, poems, psalms, letters, and practical application through creative writing all working towards the mastery of reading and grammar, as well as the mechanics of communication and writing. Equivalent to a second grade level.

Math Lessons for a Living Education

Book 2 follows the adventures of Charlie and Charlotte once they have returned home from their grandparent’s farm. Using the same format as Book 1, Book 2 content teaches addition and subtraction (including carrying & borrowing), numbers to 100, simple fractions, word problems, skip counting, inches/feet, perimeter, dollars/cents, temperature, graphs, pounds/ounces, liquid measure, and a bit about the seasons, geography, and love of family.

Pentime

Pentime Transition reviews manuscript for 35 pages and then jumps into cursive handwriting for the remaining 60 pages of the book, where students learn the strokes for individual cursive letters and practice connecting them.

Adventures in the Physical World – Level 2 (Let’s Talk Science)

Adventures in the Physical World is an early elementary science curriculum designed to instill a love for science and bring the Bible to life. Through hands-on investigations and biblically inspired stories, students will explore and experience God’s fascinating world as they study energy, force, simple machines, matter, astronomy, meteorology, and geology. Their faith will grow as they discover they learn that science supports what they read in the Bible.

Adventures in the Physical World is hands-on fun, easy to prepare for, and it will encourage your student’s curiosity! Second-grade-level students can complete the lessons in approximately 20 minutes. This one-year course is designed to be studied three times a week.

Paint Your Own Solar System Mobile

This Solar System Mobile Wood Craft & Paint Kit is made of real wood, and includes everything you need to create a beautiful work of art! The Solar System Mobile Wood Craft & Paint Kit is the perfect gift for every art-loving kid! It includes 8 wood planets, 1 wood sun, 1 wood hanger, 5 yards of cord, 1 non-toxic glow-in-the-dark paint, 1 non-toxic metallic silver paint, 6 non-toxic acrylic paint tubs, 2 artist-quality paintbrushes, 9 Labels, and 1 instruction sheet.

Steel Bar Magnet – Red/Blue (3″ x 0.5″ x 0.19″) Pair

These bars are useful for student demonstrations, plotting magnetic fields, etc. They are made from magnetic steel strips. Each bar is painted red/blue and stamped with N and S to indicate north and south poles.

• Supplied in pairs with cardboard separator and plated soft iron keepers

Stem Explorations: Gears Building Set

This set includes 140+ parts for a single child or team of 2 children to build 3 unique geared models: a Crank Fan, a Car Window, and an Egg Beater. Once built, a downloadable booklet guides students through 3 hands-on, inquiry-based experiments on each of the models. Students will learn about gear configurations, gear ratios, rotational speed, mechanical advantage, and more!

SET Game

More flexible than attribute blocks! More fun than Venn diagrams! It’s fast-paced. It’s challenging! It’s…fun! There are no turns, no waiting – the quickest to deduce a logical set wins the point. There is no age advantage; your children can beat you if their visual perception is sharper than yours. Even when played alone, the game is a mental challenge. With opponents, the heat is on! MENSA chose this game as a top mind game in 1991 – chosen for originality, intellectual challenge, aesthetics, quality, and longevity (you won’t quickly tire of this game!).

Art with a Purpose

Simple coloring skills, cutting, pasting, and simple perspective drawing.

Abraham Lincoln/D’Aulaire 75th Anniversary Ed

From everyone’s favorite authors-the d’Aulaires- this celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s life is here just in time for the year of his 200th birthday. Recreated with the vivid colors originally intended, this edition was published from the original 1940 printing. Exemplifying Lincoln as the archetypal American hero, this biography follows Honest Abe from his youth in the wilderness of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, to his days practicing law, running for office, and eventually becoming president of the United States.

Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Level 2)

Amelia Bedelia goes to work housekeeping for the Rogers. Mrs. Rogers has left a list of things for her to do. The first item on the list reads: Change the towels in the bathroom. Amelia Bedelia finds the towels, but they are so nice it seems like a shame to change them. But that’s what the list says, so Amelia Bedelia finds some scissors and changes those towels. You can only imagine what she does to draw the curtains, dust the furniture, and dress the chicken!

Bears on Hemlock Mountain / Dalgliesh

When his mother sends him over the mountain on an errand, Jonathan dawdles at his aunt’s house, then crosses the mountain at night – the mountain that people say has no bears.

Billy & Blaze

Billy was a little boy who “loved horses more than anything else in the world.” Imagine how happy he was when he got his very own pony for his birthday! From that day on, Billy was seldom seen without his new friend, Blaze.

Riding through fields and woods, Billy and Blaze learned to trust and understand one another — and to jump over fences and fallen trees with ease. They were a great team, but were they good enough to win the gleaming silver cup at the Mason Horse Show?

This is the first book in the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and gentle understanding between a boy and his horse.

Wind in the Willows (Classic Starts)

Since 1903, the escapades of Mole, his friend Water Rat, shy Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall have delighted children, and adults, too. Follow the winning foursome through the seasons as they sail the river, get lost in the Wild Wood, take off on a merry adventure in Toad’s colorful carriage, and rescue Toad Hall from a band of nasty marauding weasels.

Courage of Sarah Noble

Eight-year-old Sarah must learn to be brave when she accompanies her father to the wilderness of Connecticut to build a house for their family.

First Flight (I Can Read History)

Young Tom Tate experiences flight in a glider built by the Wright brothers.

Frog and Toad are Friends

The five short stories include Frog and Toad and spring, the lost button, the story, swimming, and the letter.

Owl at Home (ICR L2)

Owl is sensible, but he has his moments – like when he tries to let winter come in and warm up by the fire. Kids will love these short, silly stories.

Wagon Wheels

After the Civil War, an African American pioneer family journeys across the great plains in search of a new home.

Hands On Recorder Book with Blue Canto Recorder

A no-frills, step-by-step introduction to the recorder for the beginner. These books feature plenty of illustrations and clearly laid out instructions. The books include plenty of beginner songs arranged by level of difficulty. The Hands-On Recorder book contains forty-six songs. A fingering chart is included in the back of each book and a Canto (Soprano) Recorder.