Halfway through 2nd Grade

Joel also finished up week 18 at the beginning of February and mom is still catching up on record keeping. 😉

Joel has a devotional book called The Ology that we are enjoying as well as a bible memory assignment each week. We also do family devotions together to kick off our morning most of the time.

In history/social studies, we have a book called Around the World with Kate and Mack which we read about a culture without a bible in their language each week. We also add to our timeline on Fridays. We have The Usborne Book of World History and Child’s History of the World as our history spines this year.

For Read Alouds we read Ways to Grow Love, Greek Myths, and Happy Times in Noisy Village. We have National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry for our weekly poetry selections.

Reading / LA has a cursive assignment, weekly spelling test, grammar sheets with Explode the Code 5, and vocabulary practice with Wordly Wise A, and a weekly creative assignment.

Joel reads well to himself. He continued with The Beginner’s Bible as school reading and then read for additional time in the Magic Tree House series.

Joel’s Science B has fun books. He finished What is the World Made Of , and Usborne Lift-the-Flap Periodic Table, and Marie Curie’s Search for Radium. He has been doing experiments in Discover and Do 1st Grade with Ginny, and reading selections from See How It’s Made each week.

Joel is on track with Horizons Math 2.

Extras this unit were drum lessons and typing practice. Joel plays at Connections and is still a participant in all our day camps and crafts at the church. He does his school and chores as quickly as possible so he can go play. He got to attend all of Hannah and Ben’s sporting events and we’ll hopefully find something active for him to do soon. We had one trip to visit Gram this unit.