What your second grader needs to know: fundamentals of a good second-grade education

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE : Reading, writing, and your second grader (a note to parents ; suggested resources for parents and children

Literature

Poetry

Stories

American tall tales

Myths from Ancient Greece

Learning about language

Familiar phrases

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY : World history and geography

Early Asian civilizations

Modern Japan

Ancient Greek civilization

American history and geography

The Constitution

The War of 1812

Westward expansion

The Civil War

Immigration and citizenship

Civil rights (fighting for a cause)

geography of the Americas

Suggested resources

VISUAL ARTS

MUSIC : Many kinds of music

Meet some great composers

Families of instrumetns (A closer look)

Some songs for second grade

Suggested resources

MATHEMATICS : Working with numbers to 100

Working with numbers to 1,000

Money

Word problems

Measurement

Geometry

Multiplication

SCIENCE : Life cycles

The water cycle

The human body

Insects everywhere!

Magnetism

Simple machines

Suggested resources.