1st Grade Activities: Week 35
Monday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Joseph; read Bible readings for today.
2. Art: rubber stamp art; make clay caterpillars, eggs, babies, flower; make 2 bead necklaces.
3. Music: sing the Our Father.
4. History: watch Great Moments in History: A Visit with Betsy Ross (video).
5. Science: handle and observe caterpillars and pill bugs; draw them.
6. Telling Time: 2:56 (on digital, then analog clock), 3:00, 4:00.
7. Math: make cubes from clay: discuss the differences between a cube and a square, how many sides each has, that a square is flat (2 dimensional), a cube is 3 dimensional.
8. Reading: In a People House, Theo. LeSieg.
9. Science/Nature: visit and learn about three newborn goats and two young pigs at the 4-H farm.
Tuesday
1. Spelling: sun, ant, bug with red and blue tactile letters.
2. Science/Nature: make a model incubator with plastic eggs to hatch baby chicks; magnetism: test magnet with knife, nails and paperclips.
3. Art: clay work: make a bowl of soup with peas, spaghetti, ham, and a glass of punch for Wirey (a model wire man); make chicks for the incubator, a flower, Piglet, a goat.
4. Music: attend the musical: Ruddygore, Gilbert and Sullivan; sing This Old Man.
5. Reading: Big Fat Hen, Keith Baker;
Five Little Chicks, Nancy Tafuri.
6. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Athanasius; read Bible readings for today.
7. Math: solve equations: 5+4, 4+5, 10+2.
8. Drama: pretend to be a veterinarian; make thorn, bandaids, etc.
Wednesday
1. Art: decorate a paper kite; make a cell phone, fairy, ant, 2 pigeons, Casper the ghost, Monkey King and lady monkey friend out of clay; look at Mary Cassatt's paintings online:
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/cassatt/cassatt.html
We studied her work in art class last session. (Thank you to the ladies at
http://4real.thenetsmith.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4146
for the links).
2. Phonics: watch Between the Lions: Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains (video).
3. Music: write musical compositions of pretend notes; make a wire "banjo" and pretend to play compositions.
4. Reading: Bravo, Kazam!, Amy Ehrlich;
Green Grass, Joy Cowley;
My Little Sister, Philippa Werry;
The Clown, Karen Anderson;
There Is a Planet, Gavin Bishop;
Trucks, Rebel Williams;
Snappy Little Bugs, Claire Nielson and Dug Steer.
5. Read Aloud: Safe, Warm, and Snug, Stephen R. Swinburne; fairy tales;
The Clown of God, Tomie dePaola.
6. Handwriting: make a business card with phone numbers on it.
7. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saints of the day; read Bible readings for today.
8. Spanish: story time at the library.
9. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Thursday
1. Spanish: watch Stuart Little video in Spanish.
2. Phonics: Explode the Code 2: pgs. 3-4.
3. Art: lots of clay creations: ladder, pillow, blanket, cat dish, cat, butter dish, shelf, lamp, glass, plate with toast, books, curtain rods, Stuart Little, 4 ducks, pen, snake, squirrel, bag of oatmeal, bowl of oatmeal, sled.
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
5. Read Aloud: Mickey Mouse Adventures 2, Darko Macan, Andreas Pihl, Francesco Artibani.
6. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
Friday
1. Art: clay and wire mesh creations: fish in a fishbowl, ruby in a box, 2 "feelers for the blind and the seeable with horses on them so they can guess what kind of animal", scoops of ice cream (4 kinds: rainbow, chickseed, crazy icecream, egg ice cream), baby bottle, baby rattle, baby Pebbles from Flinstones.
2. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today; read and discuss Faith and Life 1: Our Heavenly Father, chapters 4, 5, 6.
3. Drama: play store.
4. Phonics/Spelling: Explode the Code 2: pgs. 5-8 (bl, cl, fl, gl); form clay letters, then make them into a sign: BLACK BEAUTY.
5. Read Aloud: Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
6. P.E.: T-ball game.
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Joseph; read Bible readings for today.
2. Art: rubber stamp art; make clay caterpillars, eggs, babies, flower; make 2 bead necklaces.
3. Music: sing the Our Father.
4. History: watch Great Moments in History: A Visit with Betsy Ross (video).
5. Science: handle and observe caterpillars and pill bugs; draw them.
6. Telling Time: 2:56 (on digital, then analog clock), 3:00, 4:00.
7. Math: make cubes from clay: discuss the differences between a cube and a square, how many sides each has, that a square is flat (2 dimensional), a cube is 3 dimensional.
8. Reading: In a People House, Theo. LeSieg.
9. Science/Nature: visit and learn about three newborn goats and two young pigs at the 4-H farm.
Tuesday
1. Spelling: sun, ant, bug with red and blue tactile letters.
2. Science/Nature: make a model incubator with plastic eggs to hatch baby chicks; magnetism: test magnet with knife, nails and paperclips.
3. Art: clay work: make a bowl of soup with peas, spaghetti, ham, and a glass of punch for Wirey (a model wire man); make chicks for the incubator, a flower, Piglet, a goat.
4. Music: attend the musical: Ruddygore, Gilbert and Sullivan; sing This Old Man.
5. Reading: Big Fat Hen, Keith Baker;
Five Little Chicks, Nancy Tafuri.
6. Religion: pray; read short bio. of St. Athanasius; read Bible readings for today.
7. Math: solve equations: 5+4, 4+5, 10+2.
8. Drama: pretend to be a veterinarian; make thorn, bandaids, etc.
Wednesday
1. Art: decorate a paper kite; make a cell phone, fairy, ant, 2 pigeons, Casper the ghost, Monkey King and lady monkey friend out of clay; look at Mary Cassatt's paintings online:
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/cassatt/cassatt.html
We studied her work in art class last session. (Thank you to the ladies at
http://4real.thenetsmith.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4146
for the links).
2. Phonics: watch Between the Lions: Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains (video).
3. Music: write musical compositions of pretend notes; make a wire "banjo" and pretend to play compositions.
4. Reading: Bravo, Kazam!, Amy Ehrlich;
Green Grass, Joy Cowley;
My Little Sister, Philippa Werry;
The Clown, Karen Anderson;
There Is a Planet, Gavin Bishop;
Trucks, Rebel Williams;
Snappy Little Bugs, Claire Nielson and Dug Steer.
5. Read Aloud: Safe, Warm, and Snug, Stephen R. Swinburne; fairy tales;
The Clown of God, Tomie dePaola.
6. Handwriting: make a business card with phone numbers on it.
7. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saints of the day; read Bible readings for today.
8. Spanish: story time at the library.
9. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Thursday
1. Spanish: watch Stuart Little video in Spanish.
2. Phonics: Explode the Code 2: pgs. 3-4.
3. Art: lots of clay creations: ladder, pillow, blanket, cat dish, cat, butter dish, shelf, lamp, glass, plate with toast, books, curtain rods, Stuart Little, 4 ducks, pen, snake, squirrel, bag of oatmeal, bowl of oatmeal, sled.
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
5. Read Aloud: Mickey Mouse Adventures 2, Darko Macan, Andreas Pihl, Francesco Artibani.
6. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
Friday
1. Art: clay and wire mesh creations: fish in a fishbowl, ruby in a box, 2 "feelers for the blind and the seeable with horses on them so they can guess what kind of animal", scoops of ice cream (4 kinds: rainbow, chickseed, crazy icecream, egg ice cream), baby bottle, baby rattle, baby Pebbles from Flinstones.
2. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today; read and discuss Faith and Life 1: Our Heavenly Father, chapters 4, 5, 6.
3. Drama: play store.
4. Phonics/Spelling: Explode the Code 2: pgs. 5-8 (bl, cl, fl, gl); form clay letters, then make them into a sign: BLACK BEAUTY.
5. Read Aloud: Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
6. P.E.: T-ball game.
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