Year 2 Curriculum

Year 2 Ambleside

Language Arts

Sequential Spelling/Writing Skills Book

HISTORY

History Timeline

http://www.learningthroughhistory.com/Store/CategoryTimelines.html

History Odyssey Pandia Press Middle Ages Level 1

History/History Tales/Biography

A Child’s History of the World by Hillyer

An Island Story HE Marshall

This Country of Ours HE Marshall

The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge

Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley

Spanish- Visual Link DVDs/ Library Books/Vocabulary Notebook

Chemistry R.E.A.L.  2/week

Right Start Math Level C

 

ART

Art-Drawing Class at Kitsap Art 1/week

Artist Study (AO Rotation) Current Term Monet

Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist

   1. Terrace at St. Adresse, 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   2.
Women in the Garden, 1866, Musee d’Orsay, Paris
   3.
Jean Monet on His Hobby Horse, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

4. Woman with a Parasol: Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.   

5. Tulip Fields in Holland, 1886, Musee d’Orsay, Paris
   6.
The Waterlily Pond, 1899, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

MUSIC
Piano-Dr. Bowling 1/week & daily practice

Composer Study-Current Term

 Maurice Ravel (1915) (Impressionist)
Listening selections for this term:
    Daphne et Chloe – selections
    Bolero
    Mother Goose Suite
    Pavane pour une infante dufunte
    Piano Concerto in D for left hand
    Rhapsody espagnole

POETRY

Walter De La Mare-Term 1

 Eugene Field & James Whitcomb Riley-Term 2 

Christina Rosetti-Term 3

NATURE STUDY-Journal 1/week

Burgess Animal Book for Children-Journal Each Animal

LITERATURE

Tales from Shakespeare-Charles and Mary Lamb

Pilgrim’s Progress

 Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fischer

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham(AUDIO)

Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (AUDIO)

Heidi by Joanna Spyri

A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Five Little Peppers and How they Grew by Margaret Stanley

Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales

Pied Piper of Hamelin-Robert Browning

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Mary Poppinsby P.L. Travers

Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Along Came a Dog by Meindert De Jong

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

Stuff to look up!

UU’s 7 principles

Daily Grams 2/3 – 2pgs wkly by Wanda Phillips
Math stories-A Cache of Jewels by Ruth Heller

How we Learned the Earth is Round by Patricia Lauber

Adventures in Art: by David Quine (his prints are expensive and it may be cheaper to find your
Own, but his commentary is very good. I would buy just the book Adv. In Art)

The King’s Commissioners by Aileen Friedman
The 512 Ants on Sullivan Street by Carol Losi

 Music and Moments with the Masters selections

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