1st Grade Activities: Week 21
Monday
1. Science/Nature: "What is an aardvark? Do aardvarks eat ants like anteaters?"; watch How to Begin Birdwatching (video); practice use of binoculars; review bird identification playing cards (Garden Birds Playing Cards, Heritage) and chart of birds local to our area; review drawings and pages in the book: Keeping a Nature Journal (Clare Walker Leslie, Charles E. Roth).
2. Telling Time: hours and quarter hours.
3. Math: play with manipulatives: 100 flats; review: 1 is 100, 2 are 200, 3 are 300, 4 are 400.
4. Spanish: watch video in Spanish: All Dogs Go to Heaven 2.
5. Music: watch Wee Sing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion (video); sing made-up songs.
6. Reading: Whose Hat Is It? Please, Wind? Puppies.
7. Assisted Reading: Sometimes I Wish; Jeepers Creepers.
8. Read Aloud: My Best Shoes; Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper's House; Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car; Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis; Crocodile and Hen; Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Tuesday
1. Art: attend Discovering Great Artists class; present book created last week following class project; learn about Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) and make a still art collage; present to the class; draw and paint a cat.
2. Reading: Polar Babies, Susan Ring.
3. Read Aloud: If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Laura Numeroff;
The Wind Blew, Pat Hutchins.
4. Computer: send IM message to Dad; look at how some secret codes work in book: The Secret Code Book.
5. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Wednesday
1. Art: draw a dog from A Kids's Guide to Drawing: How to Draw Dogs.
2. Phonics: watch Read Between the Lions phonics videos.
3. Reading: Hot Dog, Nora Gaydos;
A Trunk for Buck, Nora Gaydos.
4. Read Aloud: If I Ran the Circus, Dr. Seuss
5. Music: watch Wee Sing Musical Mansion (children's songs).
Thursday
1. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
2. Reading: *The Lunch Bunch, Margo Finch (assisted);
Biscuit Finds the Christmas Tree (handmade book).
3. Read Aloud: *That's What Friends Are For, Florence Parry Heide
4. Science/Nature: watch video about bears.
5. Art: outdoor chalk mural of the dream world from Sharkboy and Lavagirl video; draw Lavagirl.
6. P.E.: play with dogs.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read short bios. on several saints: Paul, Timothy, Titus; read Gospel of the day.
2. Cooking: read, follow, improvise recipe for milkshake; measure liquids.
3. Art: draw butterflies; watch Basic Cartooning video (Mike Artell), draw a caterpillar. Video includes an explanation and demonstration of animation.
4. Language: watch video Clifford's Fun With Opposites: "The Pet Show"
5. Science/Nature: watch The Magic School Bus: Ready, Set, Dough (Chemistry -- It's A Piece of Cake) and The Magic School Bus: Butterflies! videos; peruse a book about paper: how it is manufactured, uses, properties.
6. History/Geography: read Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt, Joanna Cole
7. Reading: The Hungry Billy Goat, Rita Milios (assisted);
Do Donkeys Dance? Melanie Walsh (assisted).
8. Read Aloud: Arthur's Prize Reader, Lillian Hoban.
9. Music: sing made-up songs.
*best picks
1. Science/Nature: "What is an aardvark? Do aardvarks eat ants like anteaters?"; watch How to Begin Birdwatching (video); practice use of binoculars; review bird identification playing cards (Garden Birds Playing Cards, Heritage) and chart of birds local to our area; review drawings and pages in the book: Keeping a Nature Journal (Clare Walker Leslie, Charles E. Roth).
2. Telling Time: hours and quarter hours.
3. Math: play with manipulatives: 100 flats; review: 1 is 100, 2 are 200, 3 are 300, 4 are 400.
4. Spanish: watch video in Spanish: All Dogs Go to Heaven 2.
5. Music: watch Wee Sing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion (video); sing made-up songs.
6. Reading: Whose Hat Is It? Please, Wind? Puppies.
7. Assisted Reading: Sometimes I Wish; Jeepers Creepers.
8. Read Aloud: My Best Shoes; Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper's House; Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car; Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis; Crocodile and Hen; Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Tuesday
1. Art: attend Discovering Great Artists class; present book created last week following class project; learn about Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) and make a still art collage; present to the class; draw and paint a cat.
2. Reading: Polar Babies, Susan Ring.
3. Read Aloud: If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Laura Numeroff;
The Wind Blew, Pat Hutchins.
4. Computer: send IM message to Dad; look at how some secret codes work in book: The Secret Code Book.
5. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Wednesday
1. Art: draw a dog from A Kids's Guide to Drawing: How to Draw Dogs.
2. Phonics: watch Read Between the Lions phonics videos.
3. Reading: Hot Dog, Nora Gaydos;
A Trunk for Buck, Nora Gaydos.
4. Read Aloud: If I Ran the Circus, Dr. Seuss
5. Music: watch Wee Sing Musical Mansion (children's songs).
Thursday
1. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
2. Reading: *The Lunch Bunch, Margo Finch (assisted);
Biscuit Finds the Christmas Tree (handmade book).
3. Read Aloud: *That's What Friends Are For, Florence Parry Heide
4. Science/Nature: watch video about bears.
5. Art: outdoor chalk mural of the dream world from Sharkboy and Lavagirl video; draw Lavagirl.
6. P.E.: play with dogs.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read short bios. on several saints: Paul, Timothy, Titus; read Gospel of the day.
2. Cooking: read, follow, improvise recipe for milkshake; measure liquids.
3. Art: draw butterflies; watch Basic Cartooning video (Mike Artell), draw a caterpillar. Video includes an explanation and demonstration of animation.
4. Language: watch video Clifford's Fun With Opposites: "The Pet Show"
5. Science/Nature: watch The Magic School Bus: Ready, Set, Dough (Chemistry -- It's A Piece of Cake) and The Magic School Bus: Butterflies! videos; peruse a book about paper: how it is manufactured, uses, properties.
6. History/Geography: read Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt, Joanna Cole
7. Reading: The Hungry Billy Goat, Rita Milios (assisted);
Do Donkeys Dance? Melanie Walsh (assisted).
8. Read Aloud: Arthur's Prize Reader, Lillian Hoban.
9. Music: sing made-up songs.
*best picks
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