Second Grade

some friends recently hosted a "store party" where the kids bought and sold items using leaves (idea found here). LMS had a blast and is already planning what she'll make to bring next year

We started second grade the day after we got home from our road trip. With the little guy on his way sometime in September we didn't have time to lose. I want to make sure we have as much down time as we need, so that meant no dawdling around when it came time to start the school year. I love the flexibility of our year-round schedule!

As I've mentioned before, we're using the curriculum suggestions from A Well-Trained Mind. There's not a lot of changes from first to second grade, so we're pretty much covering the same subjects as last year:

Reading, writing, spelling, grammar, math, science, history/geography, music, art, Japanese, and religion.

Extra-curricular activities include weekly park outings, violin lessons (though they've been on hold for the summer because LMS' teacher moved out of state and I'm looking for another one), soccer in the fall and spring, the Irish sampler class she did last year, and two new ones: Irish dance and a weekly nature class in the fall.

LMS may or may not do ice skating and/or skiing this winter- it really depends on how we all settle in with the baby. She might do a nature class in the spring as well, but the spring location isn't as convenient as the fall location, so we'll have to wait and see on that one.

The local schools start this week. When do/did your kids start school?