1st Grade Activities: Week 25
Monday
(Presidents' Day holiday)
Tuesday
1. Science/Nature: The Magic School Bus Gets Planted: Helping a Tiny Sprout Grow Tall (video).
2. History: look at interactive portrait: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/portrait/index.html: George Washington stands before you in a full-length portrait by Gilbert Stuart (1796).
3. P.E.: skipping, dancing, run and play at park.
4. Art: attend Discovering Great Artists class: study works of Claude Monet (1840-1926); make a Value Scale out of various shades from one color of clay (mix with white to produce variations in shade); paint water using various shades of color; draw, cut out, and paste water lillies on the water; draw a Japanese-style bridge over pond; present works to parents at home.
5. Handwriting: label drawings.
6. Music: attend a Music Together class: singing, dancing, play instruments.
7. Read Aloud: Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs;
The Hat, Jan Brett.
Wednesday
1. Phonics: do three pages of Tanglewood's Really Reading! (short vowel review).
2. Reading: Here Comes Silent e!, Anna Jane Hays;
Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, Syd Hoff.
3. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
4. Handwriting: practice lowercase letters: r, n, d, w.
5. Art: draw an American flag, valentines, comic strips, game cards.
6. Math: 5 rows of 10 are 50 stars (for American flag).
7. Music: sing made-up songs.
8. Read Aloud: The Starlight Princess and Other Princess Stories, Annie Dalton.
9. Drama: act out teaching, presenting and attending art class.
Thursday
1. Art: draw lots of cartoon polar bears; draw sweets for a picnic modeled after food in Voyage of the Dawn Treader; make twist-tie mouse, beagles; help draw and color a beagle; draw Rocko (a boxer dog).
2. Handwriting: letter a sign: POLAR BEAR LIBRARY.
3. Reading: Go, Dog. Go!, P.D. Eastman.
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Polycarp; read Bible readings of the day.
5. Telling Time: review the hours on the clock, and concepts of hour hand and minute hand.
6. Music: sing made-up songs.
7. P.E.: run and play at the park.
8. Read Aloud: Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saints of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Music: sing Winnie the Pooh songs.
3. Art: draw Piglet, Eyore, Eyore's daughter and wife, Pooh, bees, hive, honey, and honey pot from Winnie the Pooh: Imagine That, Christopher Robin (video).
4. Handwriting: write HUNNY. Try to copyfit on the honey pot.
5. Reading: read titles of videos from the library.
6. Science/Nature: observe, draw fish in tank, hermit crab; birdwatching: observe and draw crows and smaller bird.
7. P.E.: run and skip, monkey bars.
8. Library: independently request and order materials from the children's librarian.
(Presidents' Day holiday)
Tuesday
1. Science/Nature: The Magic School Bus Gets Planted: Helping a Tiny Sprout Grow Tall (video).
2. History: look at interactive portrait: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/portrait/index.html: George Washington stands before you in a full-length portrait by Gilbert Stuart (1796).
3. P.E.: skipping, dancing, run and play at park.
4. Art: attend Discovering Great Artists class: study works of Claude Monet (1840-1926); make a Value Scale out of various shades from one color of clay (mix with white to produce variations in shade); paint water using various shades of color; draw, cut out, and paste water lillies on the water; draw a Japanese-style bridge over pond; present works to parents at home.
5. Handwriting: label drawings.
6. Music: attend a Music Together class: singing, dancing, play instruments.
7. Read Aloud: Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs;
The Hat, Jan Brett.
Wednesday
1. Phonics: do three pages of Tanglewood's Really Reading! (short vowel review).
2. Reading: Here Comes Silent e!, Anna Jane Hays;
Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, Syd Hoff.
3. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
4. Handwriting: practice lowercase letters: r, n, d, w.
5. Art: draw an American flag, valentines, comic strips, game cards.
6. Math: 5 rows of 10 are 50 stars (for American flag).
7. Music: sing made-up songs.
8. Read Aloud: The Starlight Princess and Other Princess Stories, Annie Dalton.
9. Drama: act out teaching, presenting and attending art class.
Thursday
1. Art: draw lots of cartoon polar bears; draw sweets for a picnic modeled after food in Voyage of the Dawn Treader; make twist-tie mouse, beagles; help draw and color a beagle; draw Rocko (a boxer dog).
2. Handwriting: letter a sign: POLAR BEAR LIBRARY.
3. Reading: Go, Dog. Go!, P.D. Eastman.
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Polycarp; read Bible readings of the day.
5. Telling Time: review the hours on the clock, and concepts of hour hand and minute hand.
6. Music: sing made-up songs.
7. P.E.: run and play at the park.
8. Read Aloud: Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saints of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Music: sing Winnie the Pooh songs.
3. Art: draw Piglet, Eyore, Eyore's daughter and wife, Pooh, bees, hive, honey, and honey pot from Winnie the Pooh: Imagine That, Christopher Robin (video).
4. Handwriting: write HUNNY. Try to copyfit on the honey pot.
5. Reading: read titles of videos from the library.
6. Science/Nature: observe, draw fish in tank, hermit crab; birdwatching: observe and draw crows and smaller bird.
7. P.E.: run and skip, monkey bars.
8. Library: independently request and order materials from the children's librarian.
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