2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Elevate Your Child’s Learning with Regent Studies' Online 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Regent Studies offers a comprehensive online 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum designed to provide a strong foundation for your child’s academic success. The 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum focuses on holistic development, incorporating activities that promote cognitive, social, and emotional growth. This online program ensures that your child receives a high-quality education from the comfort of your home. For more details and to enroll, visit Regent Studies 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum.
Why Choose Regent Studies' 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum?
Choosing Regent Studies for your child’s 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum offers numerous benefits. This program is crafted to deliver a flexible, engaging, and nurturing learning environment that meets the unique needs of young learners.
- Expert Educators: Learn from experienced teachers who specialize in early childhood education.
- Flexible Learning: Access online classes that fit into your family’s schedule.
- Comprehensive Curriculum: Cover all key areas of early childhood development, ensuring a well-rounded education for your child.
Key Features of the 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Regent Studies' 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum is designed to provide a robust and enriching educational experience for young learners. Here’s what you can expect:
Holistic Development
- Cognitive Skills: Engage in activities that develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and early literacy and numeracy skills.
- Social and Emotional Growth: Foster social skills and emotional intelligence through interactive and collaborative activities.
Interactive and Engaging Activities
- Live Sessions: Participate in live, interactive sessions that make learning fun and engaging.
- Creative Play: Encourage creativity and imagination with activities such as arts and crafts, music, and storytelling.
Comprehensive Resources
- Digital Library: Access a wealth of online resources, including e-books, videos, and interactive tools tailored for young learners.
- Study Materials: Utilize high-quality study materials that support your child’s learning and development.
Parental Involvement
- Guidance for Parents: Receive support and guidance on how to facilitate your child’s learning at home.
- Progress Reports: Stay informed about your child’s progress with regular updates and assessments.
Benefits of Enrolling in the 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum
The 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum at Regent Studies offers numerous advantages that make it an excellent investment in your child’s early education.
Flexibility and Convenience
- Study Anywhere: Learn from the comfort of your home or any location with internet access.
- Self-Paced Learning: Allow your child to progress at their own speed, ensuring a comfortable and effective learning experience.
Enhanced Learning Experience
- Interactive Technology: Engage with interactive tools and resources that make learning more effective and enjoyable.
- Expert Guidance: Benefit from the expertise and guidance of experienced early childhood educators.
Preparation for Future Learning
- Academic Foundation: Build a strong academic foundation that prepares your child for future schooling.
- Lifelong Learning Skills: Develop skills and habits that foster a love for learning and curiosity.
Maximizing Your Child’s Learning Potential
To get the most out of Regent Studies’ 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum, consider the following tips:
- Set Clear Goals: Determine what you want to achieve from the curriculum and set specific, measurable goals for your child.
- Stay Engaged: Actively participate in all activities and discussions to enhance your child’s learning experience.
- Regular Practice: Dedicate time each day to practice and reinforce what your child has learned.
Testimonials and Success Stories
Many parents have successfully supported their child’s early education through Regent Studies’ Grade 2 Curriculum. Here are a few testimonials:
- Emily from the USA: “The 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum at Regent Studies has transformed my child’s learning experience. The flexibility of online learning allowed us to integrate education seamlessly into our daily routine.”
- Raj from India: “The personalized feedback and engaging activities were incredibly helpful. My child looks forward to each session and has shown remarkable progress.”
Conclusion: Give Your Child a Strong Start with Regent Studies’ 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Regent Studies’ 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum provides a comprehensive, flexible, and effective way to enhance your child’s early education. With expert instructors, interactive sessions, and a supportive learning environment, your child is well-equipped to succeed.
For additional resources and tips on early childhood education, visit National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Start your child’s educational journey today with Regent Studies’ 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum. Enroll now and take the first step towards providing a nurturing and enriching learning experience for your child.
Reading - Word Reading
Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent
- + 1. Read accurately by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far, especially recognising alternative sounds for graphemes
- + 2. Read accurately words of two or more syllables that contain the same graphemes as above
Reading Comprehension
- + 1. Listen to, discuss and express views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
- + 2. Discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related
- + 3. Become increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
- + Worksheets
- + Videos
- + Quizzes
- + 4. Be introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
- + 5. Recognise simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry
Goldilocks and the three bears traditional tales differentiated reading comprehension activity
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Writing – Transcription
- + 1. Spell by segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
- + 2. Spell by learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones
- + 3. Spell by learning to spell common exception words
Writing - Transcription: Handwriting
- + 1. Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another
- + 2. Start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined
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Writing – Composition
- + 1. Writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
- + 2. Writing about real events
- + 3. Writing poetry
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Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
- + 1. Learn how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly (see English Appendix 2), including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular)
- + 2. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command
+ ASSESSMENT: 1st Term
Number and place value
- + 1. Number formation
- + 2. Counting
- + 3. Read, write and represent number
- + 4. Ordinal number
- + 5. Subitising
- + 6. Odd and even number
- + 7. Identify 1 more and 1 less
- + 8. Compare and order number
- + 9. Problem solving
+ Calculation
+ Times tables
+ ASSESSMENT: 1st Term
Plants
- + 1. Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants
- + 2. Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy
Animals, Including Humans
- + 1. Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adult
- + 2. Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survivals
- + 3. Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
+ ASSESSMENT: 1st Term
Using and Applying
- + 1. Pointillism
- + 2. Cubism Castle
- + 3. Perfect Presentations
- + 4. Retrieve, Edit and Present
- + 5. Scratch Castle
- + 6. Scratch Skills
+ Computer Art
+ Online Safety
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+ Preparing for Turtle Logo
- + Worksheets
- + Videos
- + Quizzes
- + Assessments
PlanIt Computing Preparing for Turtle Logo Lesson 1 Moving Forward and Making Turns Lesson Pack
+ ASSESSMENT: 1st Term
Reading - Word Reading
Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent
- + 1. Read accurately words of two or more syllables that contain the same graphemes as above
- + 2. Read words containing common suffixes
- + 3. Read further common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word
Reading Comprehension
- + 1. Discuss and clarify the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary
- + 2. Discuss their favourite words and phrases
- + 3. Continue to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear
- + 4. Draw on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
- + 5. Make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
Writing – Transcription
- + 1. Spell by learning to spell more words with contracted forms
- + 2. Spell by learning the possessive apostrophe (singular) [for example, the girl’s book]
- + 3. Spell by distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones
Writing - Transcription: Handwriting
- + 1. Start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined
- + 2. Write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters
Writing – Composition
- + 1. Writing for different purposes
- + 2. Consider what they are going to write before beginning by planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
- + 3. Consider what they are going to write before beginning by writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
- + 1. Learn how to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
- + Worksheets
- + Videos
- + Quizzes
- + 2. Learn how to use the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
- + 3. Learn how to use subordination and co-ordination
Expanded noun phrases worksheet to support the teaching of lila and the secret of rain activity sheet
+ ASSESSMENT: 2nd Term
Number - Multiplication and Division
- + 1. Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers
- + 2. Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication, division and equals signs
- + 3. Show that multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order and division of one number by another cannot
- + 4. Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts.
Number – Fractions
- + 1. Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity
- + 2. Write simple fractions and recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and ½
Measurement
- + 1. Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction; mass; temperature; capacity to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
- + 2. Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and=
- + 3. Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value
- + 4. Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money
- + 5. Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change
- + 6. Compare and sequence intervals of time
- + 7. Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times
- + 8. Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day
+ ASSESSMENT: 2nd Term
Living Things and their Habitats
- + Explore and compare the differences between things that are living dead, and things that have never been alive
- + 2. Identify that most living
- + 3. Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including humans
- + 4. Describe how animals obtain their food from plants
Uses of everday matertials
- + 1. Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials
- + 2. Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
+ ASSESSMENT: 2nd Term
Presentation Skills
- + 1. Folders
- + 2. What is a presentation?
- + 3. New Slide, Slide Layout
- + 4. Add and Format and Image
- + 5. Reorder Slides and Present
- + 6. Search and Printing
- + 7. Scratch Skills
+ Presentation Skills
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+ Software and Hardware Requirements Overview
+ ASSESSMENT: 2nd Term
Reading - Word Reading
Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent
- + 1. Read most words quickly and accurately, without overt sounding and blending, when they have been frequently encountered
- + 2. Read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation
Reading Comprehension
- + 1. Check that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading
- + 2. Answering and Asking Questions - Year 2 Reading Comprehension
- + 3. Predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
- + 4. Participate in discussion about books, poems and other works that are read to them and those that they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say
- + 5. Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves
Writing – Transcription
- + 1. Add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
- + 2. Apply spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English Appendix 1
- + 3. Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far
Writing - Transcription: Handwriting
- + 1. (Repeat) Write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters
- + 2. Use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters
Writing – Composition
- + 1. Consider what they are going to write before beginning by encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence
- + 2. Make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing
- + 3. Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear
Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
- + 1. Learn how to use grammar for year 2 in English Appendix 2
- + 2. Learn how to use some features of written Standard English
- + 3. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing
+ ASSESSMENT: 3rd Term
Geometry - Properties of Shape
- + 1. Identify and describe the properties of 2D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line
- + 2. Identify and describe the properties of 3D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces
- + 3. Identify 2D shapes on the surface of 3D shapes
- + 4. Compare and sort common 2D and 3D shapes and everyday objects.
Geometry - Position and Direction
- + 1. Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences
- + 2. Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise)
Statistics
- + 1. Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables
- + 2. Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity
- + 3. Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.
+ ASSESSMENT: 3rd Term
+ The Environment
+ ASSESSMENT: 3rd Term
Using the Internet
- 1. For Kids
- + I can search the internet to find results suitable for children
- + I can search for information safely online
- 2. Links
- 3. Taking Photos for Our Blog
- 4. Blogging
- 5. Comments
