Grammar School: Second grade lesson plan

Language

- spelling workout 10-15 minutes daily

- begin cursive penmanship

- 30 minutes daily reading or making notebook page

- first language lessons 20 minutes daily

- 10 minutes daily on memory work

- 30 to 60 minutes daily for fun reading

Writing

- simple letters to relatives and friends twice a week

- write from dictation 3 days a week 10-20 minutes

Mathematics

-math lesson (learning a concept or doing a drill) 30-40 minutes daily

History

- study medieval-early Renaissance times (400-1600). 60 minutes 3 days a week.

- read biographies and easy history books to the child; ask child to tell you what you've just read

- make notebook pages together for the history notebook

- great men and women to cover:

Saint Augustine

Attila the Hun

King Arthur

Mohammed

Charlemagne

Alfred the Great

Leif Ericsson

Edward the Confessor

Genghis Khan

Dante Alighieri

Geoffrey Chaucer

Jan van Eyck

Johannes Gutenberg

Christopher Columbus

Leonardo da Vinci

Amerigo Vespucci

Nicolaus Copernicus

Michelangelo

Ferdinand Magellan

Martin Luther

Raphael

Nostradamus

John Calvin

Hernando Cortes

Tycho Brahe

Walter Raleigh

William Shakespeare

Galileo Galilei

Science

-study basic earth science and astronomy. 60 minutes 2 days a week.

Religion

- learn about world religions through the study of history.

- learn the basics of the family's faith for 10 to 15 minutes a day as part of family time.

Art

- 1 hour per week doing picture study, reading art books, or an art project

Music

- at least 1 hour per week listening to classical music

- continue piano lessons, practicing 20-30 minutes daily

These guidelines are taken from The Well Trained Mind