The Whole Year: 2nd Grade

2nd grade, the whole year, on one shelf. Second grade is the year reading stops being the lesson and becomes the tool. The workbooks on this shelf are the floor; the Boxcar Children box and the Magic Tree House box are the year, and a second grader who reads forty of those books has done more than second grade. About two hundred and fifty dollars for the workbooks and the books, and you own every page.

How to use it: Math twenty minutes, reading and writing twenty, science and social studies twice a week. Then one chapter book a week, read alone, and told back to you at lunch. That is narration and it is the whole of second-grade language arts if you let it be. The Magic School Bus picture books are the science lesson; the workbook pages are the practice.

Two more things: the custom full grade is where we build this same year around your actual child instead of a grade level, and the $49 map is the first step of that. Not sure this is the right shelf? Five questions will tell you.