2nd Grade Book 2 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 2
• Telling time to the minute
• Subtraction with borrowing
• Fourteen (addition and subtraction)
• Mixed computation (adding and subtracting)
• Working with one fourth
• Fifteen (addition and subtraction)
• Days of the week
• Sixteen (addition and subtraction)
• Months and days
• Counting by 3's
• Seventeen (addition and subtraction)
• Using digits to write dates
• Addition with carrying in two places
• Eighteen (addition and subtraction)
• Multiplying by two
• Working with one third
• Dividing by two
• Multiplying and dividing by ten
• Setting the time
• Roman numerals
• Pounds and ounces
• Multiplying and dividing by five

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.