Second Grade
updated February 28, 2019

Morning Verse for Lower Grades

Waldorf Today Gallery of Main Lesson Book Pages - Elementary School
Beautiful and inspiring

Overview of Childhood Characteristics - includes the four temperaments
article by David Mitchell

Gallery of Chalkboard Drawings in the Waldorf Classroom grades 1 - 8

BLACKBOARD SKETCHING book By FREDERICK WHITNEY (1908)
available online for free - with step by step directions and illustrations

How To Create, Tell, and Recall a Story

Main Lesson Book pages shared by Christopherus Homeschool Resources

Waldorf Inspirations Gallery (grades 1-8)

browse through my collection of Pinterest Boards with samples of chalkboard drawings and main lesson book pages for many blocks

*NEW* Waldorf Science Newsletter - issues available in PDF format for FREE

page 13 of Vol.1 has a Science Curriculum in the Waldorf School Grades 1-8 overview / one page handout, page 14 has the same for High School Grades 9-12

Summary of Math Skills for Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
A Grades 1 through 8 Math Curriculum Overview (PDF)
Word Problems in Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
written by Jamie York

What's Taught?
The Waldorf School Curriculum - Grade 2 by Eugene Schwartz

Block Rotations Grades 1 - 8 (PDF)
written by Jamie York

see also
• How to Bind a Main Lesson Book
• Movement for Childhood - WONDERFUL site!
• Basic Sculptural Modeling: Developing the Will By Working with Pure Forms in the First Three Grades
  by Hella Loewe
  available FREE as a download at the link above - courtesy of the Waldorf Online Library
• Capital and Lowercase Letters and how to form them
  one page image, great to print and put by a salt tray for penmanship practice
• Numbers and how to form them
  one page image, great to print and put by a salt tray for penmanship practice
• Misc. Additional Resources
• Summer Reading Lists
  from the San Francisco Waldorf School
• "Mango Math" lesson
  lovely blog post and overview of Waldorf homeschooling - The Wonder of Childhood
• Grade 2 posts - Schooling from the Heart
• String Games by Arvind Gupta (PDF)
• Mathe-Magics main lesson block
  blog post
• Circle Template for the Mathe-Magics block
  blog post
• Clocks & Calendars can also be done as its own block (in fact, Jamie York suggests this as a second grade math topic). If that's the case, I recommend the resources at the bottom of my third grade Measurement page.
• Writing Mechanics: For a great book to introduce the comma, try Orange Pear Apple Bear
  

  A colleague at the Waldorf School of St. Louis told me she wrote sentences on sentence strips and gave the children uncooked macaroni and they had to figure out where to glue the commas on. Fun!

• Suggested Course of Study for Second Grade by Waldorf Curriculum
• FREE Resources - Arts & Handwork
  Switzerite, Rhoda's blog
• how to clean block beeswax crayons blog post from Celebrate the Rhythm of Life
  I use Sweet Orange essential oil and a soft cloth -- and children love this job!


Stockmar Beeswax Block Crayons - 8 Assorted Waldorf Colors in Tin


Aura Cacia Essential Oil, Brightening Sweet Orange - 2 fl. oz.




• Notes on Second Grade Grammar blog entry - Rhoda
• Saint Patrick's lessons blog entry - Melisa Nielson

• Learning to Crochet - journaling page by Waldorf Curriculum
• Books for Second Grade from the Baldwin Project
• Samples from the Second Grade Curriculum by Live Education!

  Animal Study and Language Skills from Teaching Fables

  Some Fables from Lessing from A Collection of Fables

  Lessons in Modeling from The Golden Legends

  Owl and Moon from Drawing Simple Animal Forms

  The Main Lesson Book from Teaching Native American Legends

  Using Nature Stories to Teach Form Drawing from Nature Stories for the Second Year

  Rumi and the Caged Bird from A Collection of Golden Legends

• Live Education! recommends the following books to supplement the 2nd grade curriculum:

  Beasts and Saints by Helen Waddell
  

  Fables and Fairy Tales by Leo Tolstoy

• Extending Indigenous Cultures Throughout The American Waldorf Curriculum
• Waldorf Teacher Resources grade 2 - AMAZING collection of free lesson plans (called "gems")
  Form Drawing
  Music
  Movement
  Math
  Language
  Main Lesson Pages
  Saints
  Fables
  Stories
  Circle
  Verses
  Painting
  Class Play
  Parent Information
  Blackboard Drawings
  Remedial
  Curriculum Overview




• Saints block:
  Gmeyner, Elisabeth and Joyce Russell. ed. The Key of the Kingdom: A Book of Stories and Poems for Children.
  St Peter
  St Kevin
  St Francis
  St George
  St Columba
  St Patrick
  St Nicholas
  St Christopher
  St Bridget
• Brother Francis: The Life of Francis Assisi
  by Jakob Streit
  available FREE as a download at the link above - courtesy of the Waldorf Online Library
• A Collection of Saint Stories



• Martinmas

Class Plays

• List of Pedagogical Plays by Arthus M. Pittis
  useful for homeschool groups or Waldorf schools - contact him to purchase scripts

The following is exclusive content:

• Seasons in Poetry:
  Language Arts Unit (Winter)

  View the Complete Booklist
  Download Unit (username Waldorf - password Waldorf)

• Saints Unit (Winter)
  Note: This block is meant to be taught in December. Please be aware that this block is written for families who celebrate Christmas; however, it can easily be modified.
• my Pinterest board for the Saints
• Column Algorithms (Spring)

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