2nd Grade
A year-long Bible course through the kings and prophets, Samuel to Malachi, runs beside the academic subjects, each story told back and a verse learned by heart. All four subjects of a 2nd grade year: Learning to Read finishes the phonics journey through long vowels and multisyllable words, Grade 2 Mathematics teaches number, shape and measure with pictures before symbols, and the K-2 science and social studies courses run hands-on, explorations and expeditions a parent leads, with Clara checking in out loud after each week.
The Bible course
Judges, kings and prophets in a year, ending on the promise the Old Testament is leaning toward. Each week you read a short passage aloud from the King James, tell it back in the plain words printed under it, learn one verse, ask three questions, and do one thing. At seven the doing starts to include a pencil: copying the verse, writing a sentence, making a list. Twenty to thirty minutes, three times a week.
4 units, 36 lessons
A first lesson
Everybody did what they wanted
Read, retell and talk about “Everybody did what they wanted” (Judges 2:6-19), and say Judges 21:25 (part) by heart.
Open the whole course and try a lesson, no account needed →King James throughout. Where Christian traditions differ, the course names the positions rather than choosing for your family. On origins it teaches six-day creation, and whether evolution is taught alongside it is your choice at signup. How our Christian curriculum approaches Scripture, science and denominational differences →
Five days from the opening week of the academic courses (Bible's own first week is above), taken from the lessons themselves rather than written to sound good.
The week starts with a check on tens and ones: you count out a pile of objects, a few dozen buttons or blocks work, bundling every ten into a group, until your child can say '3 tens and 4 ones is thirty-four' and mean it. No new teaching yet, just finding out what's already solid.
Day two is about the bundle itself: thirteen loose objects, ten of them tied or grouped into a single 'ten,' with the leftover three named separately, so '1 ten and 3 ones is thirteen' stops being a memorized phrase and starts being something your child can see.
Naming two-digit numbers from the bundles: two ten-groups and five loose ones become twenty-five, spoken and then written, with a second example, four tens and one, to prove it wasn't a fluke. Outside that day, science runs its own experiment: two identical objects, one in direct sun and one in deep shade, left for an hour, then compared by touch to find out which one the sun actually warmed.
The big jump: ten separate ten-bundles get gathered into one hundred, counted by tens up to a hundred while your child counts along and watches the bundles physically become a bigger thing. Then it's their turn to build a few of their own out of blocks.
By the end of the week your child is building real three-digit numbers, placing one hundred block, two ten-bundles and three ones to make 123, then doing it alone for a number like 212. Social studies wraps its own week the same way, looking back: a photo or memory of your child as a baby next to a picture of them now, naming what changed, size, teeth, words, skills, all of it, and what stayed the same.
At 2nd grade, most subjects run through a parent, not around one. Here is exactly what Clara does, what falls to you, and what your child does alone, course by course.
| Subject | Clara's role | Parent's role | Child's independent work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bible (Kings, Prophets and a Promise) | Not part of this course. | Reads the passage aloud from the King James (and lets your child read one verse of it), retells it in plain words, says the verse together, asks the three questions, and does one thing. At seven, that starts to include a pencil: copying the verse, writing a sentence, making a list. 20 to 30 minutes, three times a week. | Reads one verse aloud, retells the passage, learns the verse, answers the questions, and does the activity, now sometimes with writing. |
| Phonics (Learning to Read) | Teaches each sound aloud and runs the blending games on screen, finishing the course through long vowels and multisyllable words. | Stays close by so answers get said out loud before they’re tapped. | Says the answer out loud, then taps it. |
| Mathematics (Number, Shape, and Measure) | Presents the same-day check and a second, delayed check about a week later. | Works a hands-on example first, with blocks, coins, a ruler and a paper clock, before your child tries it alone, and keeps that small kit on hand all year. | Works problems alone after the parent’s example, then does the same-day check and the delayed check about a week later. |
| Science (Science Explorations) | Runs a five-minute spoken check-in after the activity. | Gathers the listed materials and leads the week’s scripted exploration. | Does the hands-on exploration with a parent, then answers Clara’s check-in by tapping. |
| Social studies (My World) | Runs a five-minute spoken check-in after the activity. | Leads the week’s family story, walk, map, or other listed activity. | Does the activity with a parent, then answers Clara’s check-in. |
Time-wise: Bible runs 20 to 30 minutes, three days a week, with your child starting to write some of what they used to only say aloud; phonics is about 15 minutes most days; math runs anywhere from 10 to 50 minutes depending on the unit; and science and social studies each run two or three shorter sessions a week.
Judges, kings and prophets in a year, ending on the promise the Old Testament is leaning toward. Each week you read a short passage aloud from the King James, tell it back in the plain words printed under it, learn one verse, ask three questions, and do one thing. At seven the doing starts to include a pencil: copying the verse, writing a sentence, making a list. Twenty to thirty minutes, three times a week.
This teaches reading the way the research says reading works: sounds first, taught explicitly, in a careful order. Schools call it systematic synthetic phonics. Clara teaches each sound out loud and plays the blending games with your child that a good reception teacher would. Your child then shows they can read by tapping the right printed word. The question is spoken aloud; the answer words never are, because reading them is the whole point. Every word your child is asked to read uses only sounds already taught. We check that mechanically when the course is built, so it is a promise rather than a hope.
A full second-grade math year built for one adult and one child at a kitchen table. Your child moves from understanding what the digits in a number like 347 mean, to adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with regrouping, to meeting multiplication before it has a name in the form of equal rows and columns. Then it goes outward: measuring with a ruler, telling time to five minutes, counting coins, naming shapes by their sides and corners, splitting a pizza fairly into thirds. Every idea arrives first as something they can hold, blocks or coins or paper shapes or a ruler, before it becomes a written number sentence. By June your child can read an unlabelled word problem and work out for themselves which kind of math it is asking for.
You run one small hands-on exploration a week from a script, and we tell you what to grab, what to say, and what to listen for. Clara then checks in with your child on screen for five minutes, out loud. The learning happens at the sink and on the sidewalk with you next to them. The app's job is to keep the record of it.
You run one small activity a week from a script, and we tell you what to grab, what to say, and what to listen for. Clara checks in with your child on screen for five minutes, out loud. By June you own a shelf of things your child actually made: a story book they authored, a family constitution, working maps, and a sealed time capsule.
Every course above is published in full, every unit, every module, every objective, and each course page opens a complete lesson you can work through without an account. When you are ready, the trial is free for 30 days, then $29 a month for the whole family.
Every question is read aloud and answered by tapping, the choices are numbers, pictures, or models on screen. Clara can also describe what’s on the screen and ask your child to pick, so a child who can’t yet read fluently can still do real math.
Yes. Reading, math, science and social studies are all live, reading and math on screen with spoken questions and tapped answers, science and social studies as parent-led hands-on courses with short spoken check-ins.