Spanish

About this course

The language taught here is Spanish, and second grade is the year it starts behaving like a real language course rather than a set of word lists. New vocabulary covers clothing, school supplies, action verbs, seasons, fruits and vegetables, transportation, community helpers, and feelings. The conversation unit gives your student useful, specific exchanges: saying how old you are with Tengo ___ anos, describing your house room by room, asking how much something costs, telling a doctor Me duele, talking about the weather, and saying what you like with Me gusta and Me gustan. The grammar unit is the real advance. It works through noun and article gender, noun-adjective agreement in gender and number, and then all three verb families in the present tense, dropping -ar, -er, and -ir and adding the right ending, along with negation, the question words, possessives, and numbers from twenty to one hundred.

Reading and writing each get a full unit. Your student reads two-syllable words, then whole sentences, then a Spanish version of the fable La Tortuga y la Liebre, Bible verses, song lyrics, a poem, a page from a Spanish picture book, and a short dialogue. The writing unit asks for original sentences using conjugated verbs, a description of family and home, a short story with a beginning, middle, and end, a greeting card, a copied Bible verse, a written prayer in Spanish, and a paragraph about favorite foods. A culture unit covers the twenty-one Spanish-speaking countries, Indigenous civilizations before the Spanish arrived, Navidad and Semana Santa, regional food, music, the strength of the church in Latin America, and missionaries such as Bartolome de las Casas. Dia de los Muertos is included and is handled from a Christian angle, using 1 Thessalonians 4 to talk about grieving with hope; the lesson asks your family to discuss it together.

There are 72 lessons in 8 units of 9, and units 7 and 8 repeat units 1 and 2 exactly, so the distinct material is 54 lessons and the last two units serve as review. Each lesson runs about 15 minutes and has three parts: a teaching paragraph with English meanings beside the Spanish, a KJV verse applied to the day's material, and a written activity. Every lesson closes with a ten-question quiz that grades itself. There is no audio and no recording anywhere in this course, so pronunciation is whatever you read aloud together, and the reading and speaking activities assume someone is close by to listen. It expects your student to arrive able to read and write simple English and to know the first-grade Spanish basics, since the very first lesson opens by reviewing them.

What the course covers

• Vocabulary: clothing, school supplies, seasons, produce, transportation, jobs, feelings
• Conversations about age, family, home, shopping, health, and weather
• Expressing preferences with me gusta and me gustan
• Noun gender, articles, and noun-adjective agreement
• Present-tense conjugation of -ar, -er, and -ir verbs
• Negation, question words, possessives, and numbers to 100
• Reading Spanish sentences, fables, poems, songs, and dialogue
• Writing sentences, a short story, a greeting card, and a prayer in Spanish
• The Spanish-speaking countries and Indigenous civilizations of Latin America
• Navidad, Semana Santa, Latin American food and music, and missions history

What your student will be able to do

• Conjugate regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs in the present tense
• Make adjectives agree with their nouns in gender and number
• Ask and answer questions about age, home, price, weather, and health
• Say what you like and dislike, and make any sentence negative
• Read a short Spanish story or verse aloud and explain what it says
• Write a paragraph in Spanish about your family, home, or day

Scope and sequence

All 8 units of Spanish for Grade 2, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 72 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 72 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.