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Nonreligious 2020 Second-Grade Curriculum Kit
This year you will love helping your child improve his reading, math, and thinking skills. He will study the five core science disciplines, learn about the Middle Ages, and build 40 rugged STEM models. With creative art, engaging logic games, and exploration of geography and culture around the world, this year will be a year packed with happy memories for both of you!
We asked parents who used our Nonreligious Second-Grade Kit how long their student spent on "school." Nearly all of them estimated that they spent 2-3 hours a day on their kit, for 4-5 days a week. That variation is likely to be impacted by how in-depth you take your child's studies, what your child's learning approach is, how distractible he is, and much more. You’ll be able to plan yours to work best for you with your access to the online Timberdoodle Scheduler, included with your kit. Make sure you allow yourself and your child some time to find your own rhythm!
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2020 Nonreligious 2nd Grade Handbook + Scheduler
We wanted our curriculum handbook to be extremely simple, easy to use, and promote independent study as early as possible. Our guides are designed to get you up and running - today - without being overwhelming, boring, or confusing.
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All About Reading Level 3 Full-Color Edition Deluxe Set
In Level 3 of All About Reading, students will advance to new heights in their reading abilities. Hands-on activities continue to provide a tactile way to review and learn words, while 25 exciting decodable stories help increase comprehension.
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Daily 6-Trait Writing Grade 2
Develop students' writing skills in each of the six traits with 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons.
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Spelling You See - Level C
Spelling You See will help your child become a confident, successful speller, naturally and at his own speed. Each Spelling You See lesson is colorful, short, to the point, and fun!
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Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness
Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness. Children will be enthralled to read the day-by-day account of how a 12-year-old Boy Scout from a New York City suburb survived cold, hunger, bears, a tumble into an icy river, and hallucinations.
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Word Fun
Written in a whimsical and conversational manner, Word Fun is a gentle introduction to the eight most significant parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions.
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Math-U-See Beta
If you are looking for a manipulative-based curriculum that ensures your children will be able to fully understand each mathematical concept before moving on to another one, you have found it in Math-u-See.
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TENZI Game
Simple, fast, fun, and purposeful, Tenzi is a perfect addition to your child's curriculum. Tenzi requires fast hands, the ability to make accurate calculations, and the gift of laughter.
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TENZI Card Deck
Simple, fast, fun, and purposeful, Tenzi is a perfect addition to your child's curriculum. With 77 Ways to Play Tenzi you will find a number of creative ways to make this dice game interesting.
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Building Thinking Skills Book 1
This comprehensive, straightforward program develops four basic analytical skills (similarities/differences, sequences, classification, and analogies) through both figural and verbal problems. The exercises are clear, with sample completed activities so that the student can see exactly what to do.
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Squirrels Go Nuts Smart Game
Your child may begin trying to solve the Squirrels Go Nuts challenges by moving the pieces randomly, but he will soon discover the logic behind the game. With easy and more difficult challenges, Squirrels Go Nuts is a fun, attractive, logic building game for the entire family.
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Q-bitz Solo
Q bitz Solo is a fast paced visual dexterity game played in three rounds, each requiring a different set of visual and cerebral skills. Q bitz is produced by MindWare, award-winning creator and manufacturer of brainy toys for kids.
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GridBlock
GridBlock is simple enough that a 4-year-old can understand, while also possessing enough depth that parents, even grandparents, find challenging and engaging. The rules are super simple – pieces of the same color MUST touch, and pieces of the same shape must NOT. Whoever places the most pieces wins the game!
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The Story of the World Volume 2
The Story of the World Volume 2, The Middle Ages (400 - 1600) - This easy-to-implement history curriculum tells world history in a compelling, fun, way.
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The Story of the World Volume 2 Activity Book
The Story of the World Volume 2 Activity Book, Use this alongside the Story of the World text to flesh out the stories and history that your children are learning. A complete history curriculum when combined with the textbook.
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The Story of the World Volume 2 Audio Book
The Story of the World Volume 2 Audio Book, This spirited reading of the second in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of the middle ages.
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Famous Figures of the Middle Ages & Renaissance
If you have a child who dreads reading but loves art and drama, the Famous Figures series is the perfect history supplement for her.
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UGears 4Kids Knight on Horseback
UGears 4Kids Knight on Horseback is ready for your child's personalization. Remove the pieces from the board and color with whatever you like, then use the colorful pictorial manual to assemble the model without glue or special tools. It is made of high-quality wood and develops spatial thinking and fine motor skills.
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Skill Sharpeners Geography - Grade 2
Skill Sharpeners Geography lets your child explore his world while learning key map skills and geography concepts with little fuss on your part. It takes your child beyond just the basics of geography and includes a smattering of histories and cultures within our world.
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This Is the World: A Global Treasury
After charming children and adults for more than 50 years with his wry commentary and his whimsical paintings, an abridged compilation of M. Sasek's most popular children's travel books has recently been reissued under the title This is the World.
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Building Blocks of Science 2
Exploring the Building Blocks of Science is a year-long graded program covering all five core disciplines each year. It's based on an upward-spiral teaching method where disciplines are repeatedly visited and built upon.
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Lab Kit for Building Blocks of Science 2
The Lab Kit for Exploring the Building Blocks of Science Book 2 contains over 30 items that are uncommon household items. This handy kit has virtually all of the more unusual household stocked items in just the quantities you’ll need to complete your experiments.
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Fischertechnik Advanced Universal 4 with Engineer
From the company that has become world-renowned for its engineering components comes the new entry-level construction kit Fischertechnik Advanced Universal 4. If your family is looking for a hands-on way to introduce your child to an overview of mechanical construction, then here it is.
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Wile E. Coyote Physical Science Genius, 4-Book Set
Wile E. Coyote Physical Science - Your child will learn basic physics while guffawing over the ill-thought-through misadventures of Wile E.'s labors to get hold of Road Runner.
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Me: A Compendium
Me: A Compendium is a humorously illustrated, library-worthy hardback book that your child fills with drawings and words that reveal his likes and dislikes, and what exactly makes him tick.
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Natural World Workshop
Using highly pigmented, yet easy-to-work-with gouache paint, Natural World Workshop by Djeco is a step above the traditional children's paint-by-numbers sets. Following the full-color picture instruction book, young artists are clearly shown how to complete these original pictures of nature.
This item is temporarily backordered from the publisher and will ship separately from your kit. We hope to have it back in stock to begin shipping October 2020.
Step-By-Step Drawing Book
Step-By-Step Drawing Book instructions are easy to follow, so children of all ages can effortlessly master the simple drawing skills required to depict a range of animals and objects.
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Deep in the Jungle Sticker Mosaic Kit
With the Deep in the Jungle Mosaic Kit, your child can create striking images by following the color codes precisely and sticking on the stunning self-adhesive jewels and squares of metallic foam. Conversely, he can depart from the norm and plan his own eye-catching design.
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Mad Mattr Craftsman
Mad Mattr Builder Pack Mad Mattr, an amazingly moldable, stretchable, dough-like compound, can be shaped into countless brilliantly colored creations. Now you can take your Mad Mattr to the next level by creating Lego™-like building blocks that actually lock together.
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Test Prep: Grade 2
The Test Prep series offers students the essential groundwork needed to prepare for standardized tests. Based on subject areas covered by most state standardized tests, these colorful, inviting workbooks provide a good sampling of all the skills required of each grade level.
Learn MoreWhen the pandemic hit we had to transition to homeschooling and I had no time to prepare for it. I have no background in teaching so we weren't sure what to do!
Fortunately the curriculum kit comes with books for the parents as well as the students that guides how a parent should teach. There's a scheduler that helps you plan our you days/weeks/year. This kit really takes you by the hand and guides you through what could be an overwhelming task.
Can't recommend it enough!
As a first time homeschooler this year, I was so thankful to have stumbled upon Timberdoodle! I knew right away that this was the right choice for us (and when I read another reviewer say that they cried tears of joy when their kit arrived 🙌🏻). Such a weight off to have everything curated so well! And to have the handbook and scheduler, these tools have been so helpful and made me feel like I could actually do this!! Loving this year of homeschool! Thank you so much!!!
This is my third year homeschooling and second year using Timberdoodle, and now with a second grader and a preschooler this curriculum has been such a lifesaver. My son loves all of the hands on activities and is really excelling. I highly recommend Timberdoodle!
First-time homeschoolers. I liked the idea of everything I needed coming together and I felt like the videos describing the products made it sound like this could be child-led some of the time. I have found the kit to have everything we need, however, I feel it is very much teacher-led. For second grade, there is just too much to keep track of without us managing it most of the time. I do think my daughter needs more advanced math and reading curriculums than what comes in the standard kit. Since we are new, I didn't know exactly how to go about customizing. I was so excited about the online scheduler, but I find it tedious, especially when we need to edit from the original plan. I've spent hours trying to get accurate checklists to print out - could just be my inexperience with it. All in all, the curriculum did come with everything we need. We are just supplementing with more advanced math and reading since it really was a lower level than what she needs. I feel like that was a little wasted, but now I know. I am thankful for all the games in the kit. They break up the "work".
Sarah,
Thank you for your review! We truly appreciate hearing about your experience with our curriculum kit! I am so sorry for the confusion on customizing, that would have been so frustrating, but I am glad you have worked it out.
I did want to respond about the curriculum being able to be child-led, and hopefully, this helps.
It is perfectly normal to take a while to settle into a new routine. That you have to oversee a lot of the curriculum right now is ok! But once you have gotten your feet wet with what homeschooling looks like in your family, it could be an excellent time to sit down and make some goals for how you would like the rest of the year to go. Maybe even break it down to how the next couple of weeks or month goes.
You could start by generating two schedules (just a checklist written out or using our scheduler), one for you to manage and one for your daughter to manage, or instead highlight the topics on your main schedule that you want her to do. If your daughter's schedule includes only everything she can currently work on independently MOST of the time, only needing your assistance occasionally, that would be a great place to start.
Then we would suggest setting up a reward system for what works for you both. Maybe a movie on Friday night, family game night, a new book from the library, one-on-one time with mom, baking together, etc. Whatever would motivate and reward your daughter and be sustainable for you. When we were growing up (Timberdoodle prodigy here), our reward was a family video night on Friday. Those that got their school done got to watch; those that didn't were in their rooms finishing up their school lists.
Then give your daughter her list to work on during the times you want her to be independent. Depending on where she is in her ability to self-direct, you may need to start with assisting her to self-directing. So, 'here is your list, pick two things off it and do them, then come talk to me,' or, 'Let's read the directions/watch the instruction/read the chapter together, and then you need to complete this activity,' etc. By slowly increasing the expectations and her responsibilities, she should begin to become self-directed.
I hope this helps! Please feel free to contact me directly at hope@timberdoodle.com if you have any further questions or need more specific ideas.
--Hope for the Timberdoodle team
I love the video section to get a good feel of the reasons behind what curriculum they send. I enjoy the scheduler app, the amazing flexibility their schedule provides, and all the teacher resources that are available. This is a company we will stand behind for the long haul!
We started with the Second grade elite curriculum. It has come with everything we needed to open and begin! It took a week or two to settle into the routine, but it’s so nice that it’s all included! It definitely takes out the guesswork out of the lesson plans!
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