2012-2013 2nd/3rd Grade

Morning Routine

Catholic Calendar 

• Saint of the day

Morning Prayers 

• Child's Treasury of Daily Prayers

Saint Stories* 

• Miniature Stories of the Saints
• Once Upon a Time Saints
• More Once Upon a Time Saints
• Around the Year: Once Upon a Time Saints
  
• Picture Book of Saints
• Saints for Young People for Everyday Volumes 1 and 2 (We have older copies of these books.)
• Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler (online)

Composer Study 

• Classical Kids: Collection
• Music Masters
• Opal Wheeler's Books

Poetry 

• A Child's Garden of Verses illustrated by Tasha Tudor
• A Child's Garden of Verses illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
• The Child on His Knees by Mary Dixon Thayer
• Other poetry books

Art

• Artistic Pursuits
• Art 1 for Young Catholics
• Various art supplies as needed

French

• Bonjour Les Amis! (All of my children have watched and enjoyed these DVDs over the years.)
• First Fun with French
• First Thousand Words in French
• Various French song CDs from my brother

History

• The Catholic Faith Comes to the Americas
• Maps, Charts, Graphs Level B
• D'Aulaire's biographies
• The Columbus Story (and other history picture books by Alice Dalgliesh)

Language Arts

• 2nd Grade Faith and Freedom Readers
• Handwriting 3 for Young Catholics
• Phonics 2 for Young Catholics
• English 2 for Young Catholics
• Spelling 2 for Young Catholics
• Journal Pages with Draw the Day

Literature

• Aesop's Fables for Children: Includes a Read-and-Listen CD (Dover Read and Listen) illustrated by Milo Winter (We have an earlier hard cover edition of this book which did not include a CD.)
• A Treasury of Children's Literature
• Various picture and chapter books from our personal library and the public library

Math

• Flash Cards
• Calculadders MasterPak 1 (addition practice sheets)
• Mathematics 2 for Young Catholics

Music

• Classical Music
• French CDs
• Religious Music CDs
• And more

Religion

• A Year with God
• Bible Stories for Little Children
• Catholic Children's Treasure Box
• Leading the Little Ones to Mary
• Religion 2 for Young Catholics
• Fr. Lovasik books
• Angel Food for Boys and Girls
• Along the Paths of the Gospel saint books
• St. Catherine's Gazette (The Wilson family puts together this newsletter each month and CeAnne shares it on her blog.)

Science

• Science 2 for Little Folks
• James Herriot's Treasury for Children - This title is also available as an audio book, but I suggest staying with the actual book. My children delight in looking at Ruth Brown's and Peter Barrett's illustrations
• The Year At Maple Hill Farm and Our Animal Friends At Maple Hill Farm
• Other story books
• Butterfly Lifecycle (order caterpillars for Lent)
• Nature Notebook (maybe)
• Vegetable Gardening

Field Trip Possibilities

• Beach
• County Fair
• Farm
• Flight Museum
• Mountains
• Science Center
• Zoo

*Please note that while we are all present for our morning routine, the selection of saint stories are added to  as the children get older because I have found that my younger children tend to not really listen to some saint stories until they reach a certain age.