Second Grade
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
—Margaret Mead
Sharpening Learning Skills
Like waking from a dream, the second grader’s alertness and observation skills are sharpening, and the curriculum supports them in this period of discovering others and the world around them. In the Main Lesson, they learn about goodness and its opposite, overcoming hardship, and perseverance through fables and legend stories of extraordinary human beings who developed their capacities in exceptional ways to add great value to the world—lessons which magnify and clarify the second grader’s experience with the burgeoning binaries of their being. As with all grades in the Waldorf curriculum, the Subjects scaffold the Main Lesson for an all-encompassing approach to learning.
Main Lesson Block
- Fables, folklore, saints and hero stories
- Nature Study
- Number Patterns, four operations
- Poetry
- Speech
Subject Classes
Music
Pentatonic Flute
Folk Songs
Practical and Fine Arts
Form drawing
Beeswax modeling
Watercolor painting
Drama
Crotchet
Movement/Spacial Dynamics™
- Large muscle activities –precision movement
- Developing directionality
- Folk Dancing
- Eurythmy (2 six-week blocks)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
- Spanish: oral learning through poetry, stories, songs, crafts and games
- Mandarin
Download the comprehensive Second Grade Curriculum.
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