2nd
(This information taken from The Home School Manual by Theodore E. Wade, Jr. and Others)

SOCIAL STUDIES

● Holidays and festivals
● Patriotic celebrations
● Communities in other lands: past and present
● Family and family history
● Families around the world
● Neighborhoods
● Community services and helpers
● Shelters, stores, and food
● Citizenship and social responsibility
● Interdependence of people
● Basic geography: oceans, continents
● Map skills

SCIENCE

● Useful and harmful animals
● Life cycle
● Birds and insects in winter
● Animal babies
● Animal defense of themselves and their young
● Plant and animal food
● Dinosaurs and other extinct animals
● Food chain
● Plant reproduction and growth
● Habitats and homes
● Weather and its effects on our earth
● Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants
● Climate
● Water cycle
● Air and atmosphere
● Magnets and forces
● Gravity
● Earth and sky
● Sun, moon, and planets
● Simple constellations
● Exploring space

LANGUAGE ARTS

● Reading silently for specific purposes
● Dramatizations and interpretation or oral reading
● Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
● Story development: beginning, middle, end
● Simple book reviews
● Listening skills
● Organizing ideas and impressions
● Alphabetizing through second letter
● Using dictionary guide words
● Vocabulary development
● Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
● Methods of word attack
● Ways to study spelling
● Simple punctuation and capitalization
● Refining manuscript handwriting
● Writing independently in manuscript form
● Brief and simple letters and journals
● Narration, description, letters, poetry
● Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents and index

HEALTH AND SAFETY

● Personal cleanliness
● Dental hygiene
● Basic food groups
● Communicable diseases
● Preventive measures against disease
● Neighborhood safety

MATHEMATICS

● Counting, reading, and writing to 1,000
● Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 10's
● Ordinal numbers to 10
● Zero as a place holder
● Using sets and number facts
● Addition and subtraction facts to 20
● Basic multiplication and division facts
● Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations
● Multiplication properties of 0 and 1
● Place value through 100's
 ● Fractions in daily life
● Decimal numeration system
● Basic concept of ratio
● Geometry puzzles and activities
● Estimation
● Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length,volume, shape, temperature
● Telling time and using the calendar
● Handling money (coins)
● Problem solving
● Charts and graphs

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