2ND GRADE RECAP || CURRICULUM REVIEW || Ambleside Online Year 2 || Full Book List || 2025-2026

In this video, I'm sharing our full experience with Ambleside Online Year 2 (2nd grade), as well as everything we used for second grade -- every book we read / worked on (or dropped), what we skipped, and what I would do differently. If you're considering Ambleside Online for your homeschool, this is an honest look at what a full year actually felt like -- not just the curriculum, but the rhythm, the challenges, and the beauty of it. I'll walk you through: Our complete Year 2 book list Favorites vc books that didn't land How it worked for a real 7-8 year old What I'd change going forward I did not mention in this video our riches: Hymns and Folks songs, as well as composer and artist studies, but we follow AO schedule for these as well. I mentioned them on my last video where I talked about how we get everything done. You can watch that video by clicking here:    • How I Get Everything Done *2026*  | Year, ...   I also didn't mention in this video that, starting in Term 2, we went back to outsourcing Science on Outschool - Marine Biology. Timetable (Chapters): 00:00 Introduction 01:06 Explaining the video 02:01 Core Subjects: LA 05:00 Core Subjects: Math 06:00 What we changed: Financial Literacy 06:52 What we changed: Critical thinking books 08:38 Outsourced: Philosophy 09:20 Ambleside Online Overview 10:10 Ambleside Online Term 1 16:15 Ambleside Online Term 2 18:14 Ambleside Online Term 3 23:00 Ambleside Online Free Reads Year 2 30:00 How I handle Free Reads