Students learn one spelling lesson per week from Spelling and Poetry. This also acquaints the students with a variey of good poetry through classroom recitation and memorization. The poems have been selected because of their beauty of language, aesthetic appeal, literary greatness, or character-building qualities. Second Grade Reading, phonics, and arithmetic are the subjects of the greatest emphasis in the second grade curriculum. Creative writing instruction is included in Phonics and Penmanship Curriculums.
Cursive writing is taught and reviewed .
Third Grade Students read as a class twice a day. Phonics is thoroughly reviewed in the first 25 lessons and then phonics concepts are applied to reading all year. Speed and comprehension will also start to be emphasized. Students learn the basics of capitalization, punctuation, forming plurals, noun and verb usage. They will also keep a journal and learn to write book reports.