2nd Grade Book 1 Continuing Numbers with Spunky

Counting Numbers With Spunky has been written especially for the one-room school. As such, it is excellent for a family homeschooling with multiple children or for those who need their children to work very independently. This series of books is similar in design to the Pathway Books and Climbing to Good English. It is a very straight-forward, practical approach with lots of real-life applications.

Most lessons have three pages, A, B, and C. The lesson numbers appear in the barn symbol on the upper left-hand corner of each page; thus: 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, etc. If a new skill is introduced it will nearly always appear on A. Very rarely it will appear on B, but never on C (which is extra drill). There are 170 lessons divided between the two books for Grade 2.

If the child has successfully worked through the first-grade program "Learning Numbers with Spunky" he will welcome his familiar friend Spunky the Donkey, and the work on this familiar ground should be quite easy for him. But even if a child has not had the Spunky Books in first grade, he should still be able to do the second grad work in these books because we carefully review all first grade work before introducing anything new. Reviewing the previously learned material prepares the foundation which was laid for further building.

Skills Taught in Book 1
• Addition Families 1 and 2
• Pennies
• Addition Family 3
• Dimes and Counting by 10's
• Addition Family 4
• Telling Time on the hour
• Addition Family 5
• Counting by 2's, even numbers
• Counting dimes and pennies, mixed
• Counting by 2's, odd numbers
• Addition Family 6
• Story problems in addition
• Counting and writing dollars
• Place value: ones, tens, hundreds
• Addition Family 7
• Counting and writing ten dollars
• Introducing the whole number and its parts
• Telling time on the half hour
• Writing fact sentences (new approach to story problems)
• Adding two digit numbers
• Nickels and counting by 5's
• Five dollar bills
• Column addition with three digits
• Adding by endings
• Subtracting two-digit numbers
• The whole number 8 (addition and subtraction)
• Working with one half
• Telling time in five-minute intervals
• The circle and square
• Adding three-digit numbers
• The whole number 9 (addition and subtraction)
• Triangles
• Subtraction by endings
• The whole number 10 (addition and subtraction)
• Quarters and counting by 25's
• Place value: Thousands
• Rectangles
• Half dollars and counting by 50's
• Eleven (addition and subtraction)
• Counting half dollars and dimes, mixed
• Reading thermometers
• Counting quarters and dimes
• Addition with Carrying
• Feet and inches
• Twelve (addition and subtraction)
• Counting with quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies
• Greater than(>), Less than (<), equals (=)
• Counting half dollars and other coins
• Thirteen (addition and subtraction)
• Counting dollar bills and coins

Numerous methods of drilling number value and counting are not included in this list of new skills. This includes counting backward and forward, skip counting in various ways, exercises in number rotation, value in before, after, greater, less, and place value. Numbers are practiced into the thousands; also ordinals and number words.

All coins pictured are American. Metric is taught beginning in the third grade.