What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

Category: Science
Sub Category: School Science K-12
Product Code:

$21.00 each

Publisher:
Delta Publishing
ISBN: 9780385318433

Since the Core Knowledge series was introduced, hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from these books' effective and user-friendly knowledge-based curriculum. Researchers at the Core Knowledge Foundation constantly refine and update the curriculum based on feedback they receive from parents and teachers across the country. This new, revised edition ofWhat Your Second Grader Needs to Knowreflects the fruit of that research and features a complete redesign with thirty-two pages of color illustrations.

  • Description

"What will your child be expected to learn in the second grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American second graders. Favorite poems—old and new, from “Caterpillars” to Gwendolyn Brooks’s prizewinning “Rudolph Is Tired of the City” Literature—from around the world, with African folktales, American tall tales, European fairy tales, and classic myths from ancient Greece Learning about language—the basic building blocks of written English, all explained with a touch of humor and common sense World and American history and geography—visit Japan, explore ancient Greece, travel the Underground Railroad with Harriet Tubman Visual arts—with activities and full-color illustrations of masterworks by El Greco, Van Gogh, Matisse, and others Music—basic theory, great composers, instruments, and fun-to-sing songs such as “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” and “Do-Re-Mi” Math—challenging lessons ranging from telling time to doing fractions, numbers to 100, and a first look at geometry Science—the cycle of life and the seasons, levers and magnets, the wonder of the human body, and more, with lots of hands-on activities and stories about famous scientists"

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