Wednesday, April 12, 2006

1st Grade Activities: Week 31

Monday
1. Math: 5+4=9, 6+2=8, 0+15=15, 10+7=17, 10+8=18, 5+2=7, 5+1=6, 0+100=100, 4+3=7.
2. Art: Art Center Family Day: make a dolphin (clay) in a habitat (paper).
3. Science/Nature: read about dolphins and look at pictures online:
http://tinyurl.com/nsgfa
http://tinyurl.com/psrgs
http://tinyurl.com/m7fks
http://tinyurl.com/rw4bz
4. Music: singing; attend choir rehearsal.
6. Read Aloud: Benjy's Boat Trip, Margaret Bloy Graham.
7. Dictionary: look up the meaning of the word mobile (n.); find a place to hang up butterflies to function as a mobile.
8. Art/Handwriting: fill in a missing letter, draw, and label: GOAT, BOAT, DOG, PIG, CAT, BED, CALIFORNIA.
9. Relgion: attend a requiem Mass in Latin.

Tuesday
1. Art: study A Child's Book of Art: Discover Great Paintings again; draw another scene of monkeys in the jungle; make snail and other clay characters; make a habitat for the snail out of a cardboard box; make a rabbit mask.
2. Computer: type chat msg. to dad asking for 5 envelopes.
3. Handwriting: write names of family members on 5 cards to send to them.
4. Foreign Language: Braille -- after reading book; do online word puzzles; decode Braille characters and unscramble word to answer question; found and wrote the Braille letters for her name.
5. Read Aloud: Where Robins Fly, Anita Holmes;
Redwoods Are the Tallest Trees in the World, David A. Adler;
County Fair, Raymond Bial.

Wednesday
1. Music: listen to children's songs: On My Way to Sunday School (hymns).
2. Read Aloud: read from English Fairy Tales.
3. Computer: chat online with dad; learn to copy and paste text.
4. Spanish: story time at the library.
5. P.E.: park time.
6. Handwriting: copy fancy writing: NARNIA from cover of DVD.

Thursday
1. Art/Science: plan, make, and decorate a paper airplane from The Paper Airplane Book (Seymour Simon); practice flying it, modifying design, observing changes in flight.
2. Science/Nature: read Death Valley: A Day in the Desert, Nancy Smiler Levinson;
Switch On, Switch Off: a Let's-Read-and-find-Out Science Book, Melvin Berger, discussing magnets, coils, generators, circuits, lightbulbs, outlets, plugs, prongs, switches; watch Bill Nye, Science Guy: Dinosaurs, and Wild Animals videos.
3. Reading: What Have I Got?, Mike McClintock.
4. Music: sing about the paper airplane: Little Bird.
5. Read Aloud: Petook: An Easter Story, Caryll Houselander.
6. Art: make clay creations (people and animals); make mouse costume.
7. Drama: pretend to be a mouse.

Friday
1. Art: make 6 paper airplanes, come up with list of names, name the planes; make a paper butterfly with twist-tie antennae; cut and put together paper strips to make a paper chain to hang the butterflies on.
2. Science/Technology: fly paper airplanes.
3. Choreograph a dance: a different ballet step around each object laid out on the floor.
4. P.E. dance around objects in living room.
5. Music: Sing made-up songs.
6. Civics: discuss taxes and where our tax dollar goes: fire dept., police, roads, bridges, schools, libraries, etc.
7. P.E.: play T-Ball game.
8. Foreign Language: learn Braille online: http://www.afb.org/braillebug/Games.asp ,
decode the Braille letters for: panda, lion, koala, crocodile, parrot, rhinoceros, gecko, raccoon, cheetah, hyena, ostrich, gorilla.
9. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day.