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The Core Knowledge Series
Edited by ED Hirsch, Jr.
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What Your Second Grader Needs To Know
Paperback
Retail Price $12.99
Our Price $11.00
Are you blessed with a second grader? By now, your little one is getting bigger and is probably reading fairly well (if not, don't worry, with patience and a lot of phonics it will happen). Open your child's world up to some of the great literature, music, art and much more that he is aching to learn. Curl up in a big easy chair and take turns reading What Your Second Grader Needs To Know.
Below is a condensed Table of Contents. I hope it will give you an idea of what is in store for you.
- Language and Literature
- Reading, Writing, and your Second Grader
- Literature
- Poetry
- Bed In Summer
- Bee! I'm Expecting You!
- Harriet Tubman
- Lincoln
- Who Has Seen The Wind?
- There Was An Old Man With A Beard
- and much more
- Stories
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- A Christmas Carol
- How the Camel Got His Hump
- How Wendy Met Peter Pan
- and much more
- American Tall Tales
- Paul Bunyan
- Pecos Bill
- John Henry
- Myths from Ancient Greece
- Prometheus Brings Fire, Pandora Brings Woe
- Oedipus and the Sphinx
- Arachne and the Weaver
- Demeter an Persephone
- and much more
- Learning About Language
- Sentences
- Nouns Name a Person, Place, or Thing
- Verbs: Action Words
- Adjectives Describe Things
- and much more
- Familiar Sayings
- Back to the drawing board.
- Cold Feet.
- Easier said than done.
- Keep your fingers crossed.
- Where there's a will there's a way.
- and much more
- History and Geography
- World History and Geography
- A quick Geography Review
- Settle Down
- Civilizations in Asia
- Civilization Along the Ganges
- Hinduism
- Buddha: The Enlightened One
- China: Great Rivers and a Great Wall
- Let's Visit Japan
- Ancient Greece
- Birthplace of the Olympics
- Routh, Tough Sparta
- Marathon
- Thermopylae
- Alexander the Great
- and Much More
- American History and Geography
- A Quick Look Back
- Our Constitution
- Democracy: A Big Challenge
- James Madison: Father of the Constitution
- The War of 1812
- Another War Already?
- Dolley Madison: A Brave Woman
- Oh, Say, Can You See...
- The Battle After the War
- Westward Ho!
- The Call of the West
- Wagons West
- Women's Work
- The Oregon Trail
- and Much More
- The Civil War
- Fighting Against Each Other
- Stop Slavery or Let It Spread?
- Abraham Lincoln: A Man for the Union
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- and Much More
- A Nation of Immigrants
- I Pluribus Unum
- Why Did Immigrants Come to America?
- A Land of Opportunity?
- Becoming a Citizen
- Civil Rights: Liberty and Justic For All
- All Men Are Created Equal
- Susan B Anthony
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Equality Regardless of Color
- and much more
- Geography of the Americas
- The United States Today
- Central America and teh Caribbean
- South America
- Visual Arts
- Taking a Line for a Walk
- Lines and Movement
- Looking at Sculptures
- Looking at Landscapes
- Architecture: The Art of Designing Buildings
- and much more
- Music
- Patriotic Music
- Folk Music
- Classical Music
- Meet Some Great Composers
- Families of Instruments
- and much more
- Some Songs for Second Grade
- Clementine
- Old Dan Tucker
- Home on the Range
- Goodbye, Old Paint
- Buffalo Gals
- Casey Jones
- Mathematics
- Working with Numbers to 100
- Wroking with Numbers to 1,000
- Money
- Word Problems
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Multiplication
- Science
- The Cycle of Life and the Seasons
- The Water Cycle
- Insects
- The Human Body
- Magnetism
- Simple Machines
- Stories About Scientists
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Florence Nightingale
- Daniel Hale Williams
- Elijah McCoy
 
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