1st Grade Activities: Week 34
Monday
1. Drama: perform in homeschool recital.
2. Read Aloud: A Child's Book of Art: Discover Great Paintings; Albert's Thanksgiving, Leslie Tryon; Thesaurus Rex, Laya Steinberg;
Maurice Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, Brian Wildsmith.
3. Art: draw monkeys in the jungle scene from Great Paintings; handprint art on steamed glass; make a paper turkey from the book Albert's Thanksgiving.
4. Reading: the Our Father from handwritten text;
Animal Sounds, Aurelius Battaglia;
What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees, Nancy Tafuri.
5. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
6. History/Folktale: Imani's Music, Sheron Williams (Summary: Imani, an African grasshopper, brings music to the new world when he travels aboard a slave ship.)
Tuesday
1. Read Aloud: D is for Dragon Dance, Ying Chang Compestine;
In My Heart, Molly Bang; several fairy tales from A Child's Book of Stories: Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales from Around the World.
2. Science: read Me and My Shadow, Arthur Dorros.
3. Handwriting: write phone number legibly so that a notebook could be returned if lost again.
4: Reading: read Baby Blues comic strip from the Sunday paper (13 panels with text).
Wednesday
1. Phonics: watch Between the Lions: Three Goats, No Waiting; The Ram in the Pepper Patch (videos).
2. Art: draw separate parts of an elephant to make a puppet with moveable head and legs; make a Twiddlebug from twist ties, and a cardboard box house.
3. Math: measure four equal lengths of string (for puppet).
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
5. Reading: Puppy, Steve Shott.
6. Read Aloud: The Twiddlebugs' Dream House, Pat Tornborg.
7. Music: listen to Mozart Horn Concertos (CD).
8. Library trip.
Thursday
1. Spelling: spell words with short vowels and consonant blends using letter cubes (blue for consonants, red for vowels, green for consonant blends).
2. Art: make a colored wire lamb, a large wire person with clay feet and hands, a colorful clay fish, cat, dog, rock, snakes, playing pieces for a game, make the game board to go with the playing pieces (hand-drawn on cardboard).
3. Phonics: Explode the Code 2: pgs. 1-2 (consonant blends with l); Between the Lions: The Lost Rock.
4. Reading: My Friend Goes Left, Barbara Gregorich;
Using Magnets, Margie Burton;
I Can Breathe Underwater, Pat Malone.
5. Read Aloud: Elizabeti's Doll, Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (then make a "rock doll"); several fairy tales from Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang.
6. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Zita; read Bible readings for today.
Friday
1. Homeschool meeting; present projects and artwork.
2. Library day.
3. P.E.: run, skip, climb trees.
4. Arts and Crafts: draw a fish in aquarium; make a fishing pole and pretend to catch fish.
5. Read Aloud: fairy tales from Celtic Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs.
6. Reading: signs, book and video titles.
1. Drama: perform in homeschool recital.
2. Read Aloud: A Child's Book of Art: Discover Great Paintings; Albert's Thanksgiving, Leslie Tryon; Thesaurus Rex, Laya Steinberg;
Maurice Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, Brian Wildsmith.
3. Art: draw monkeys in the jungle scene from Great Paintings; handprint art on steamed glass; make a paper turkey from the book Albert's Thanksgiving.
4. Reading: the Our Father from handwritten text;
Animal Sounds, Aurelius Battaglia;
What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees, Nancy Tafuri.
5. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
6. History/Folktale: Imani's Music, Sheron Williams (Summary: Imani, an African grasshopper, brings music to the new world when he travels aboard a slave ship.)
Tuesday
1. Read Aloud: D is for Dragon Dance, Ying Chang Compestine;
In My Heart, Molly Bang; several fairy tales from A Child's Book of Stories: Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales from Around the World.
2. Science: read Me and My Shadow, Arthur Dorros.
3. Handwriting: write phone number legibly so that a notebook could be returned if lost again.
4: Reading: read Baby Blues comic strip from the Sunday paper (13 panels with text).
Wednesday
1. Phonics: watch Between the Lions: Three Goats, No Waiting; The Ram in the Pepper Patch (videos).
2. Art: draw separate parts of an elephant to make a puppet with moveable head and legs; make a Twiddlebug from twist ties, and a cardboard box house.
3. Math: measure four equal lengths of string (for puppet).
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
5. Reading: Puppy, Steve Shott.
6. Read Aloud: The Twiddlebugs' Dream House, Pat Tornborg.
7. Music: listen to Mozart Horn Concertos (CD).
8. Library trip.
Thursday
1. Spelling: spell words with short vowels and consonant blends using letter cubes (blue for consonants, red for vowels, green for consonant blends).
2. Art: make a colored wire lamb, a large wire person with clay feet and hands, a colorful clay fish, cat, dog, rock, snakes, playing pieces for a game, make the game board to go with the playing pieces (hand-drawn on cardboard).
3. Phonics: Explode the Code 2: pgs. 1-2 (consonant blends with l); Between the Lions: The Lost Rock.
4. Reading: My Friend Goes Left, Barbara Gregorich;
Using Magnets, Margie Burton;
I Can Breathe Underwater, Pat Malone.
5. Read Aloud: Elizabeti's Doll, Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (then make a "rock doll"); several fairy tales from Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang.
6. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Zita; read Bible readings for today.
Friday
1. Homeschool meeting; present projects and artwork.
2. Library day.
3. P.E.: run, skip, climb trees.
4. Arts and Crafts: draw a fish in aquarium; make a fishing pole and pretend to catch fish.
5. Read Aloud: fairy tales from Celtic Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs.
6. Reading: signs, book and video titles.
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