1st Grade Activities: Week 36
Monday
1. Phonics/Spelling: Explode the Code 2, pgs. 9, 31, 35; make words ending in un and og with letter cubes.
2. Art: make erasers out of eraser clay: great white shark, goldfish, funny eraser guy, daddy snake; make Twiddle Bug family out of wire and clay; make a garden (flowers and cabbages) for the Twiddle Bug family.
3. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
4. P.E.: run and play at the park.
5. Math: count backwards from 13 to 1.
6. Read Aloud: Stuart Little, E.B. White.
7. Science/Nature: collect flowers, petals, leaves, rocks.
Tuesday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Math: oral: 2x2=4, 3x4=12; identify 10 random numbers from flash cards between 1-100 (some of them teens); watch demonstration: add 100 squares up to 1000; add two 100 squares, then add ten 10 bars up to 300; telling time: current time to quarter hour.
3. Art: clay creations: pie, cherries, blueberries, doughnuts, syrup bottle and syrup, wash basin, 2 small dogs, bone, Jolly (pet fish), Piglet, Tigger.
4. Phonics/Spelling: Explode the Code 2, pgs. 10, 11, 13 (read and make words with sk, sl, pl).
5. Read Aloud: The Berenstain Bears and the Bully, Stan and Jan Berenstain;
Baseball Ballerina, Kathryn Cristaldi.
6. Reading: 28 book titles from the back of the Berenstain Bears book.
7. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Wednesday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Reading: Baseball Ballerina, Kathryn Cristaldi (Step into Reading, step 3).
3. Read Aloud: Blackberries in the Dark, Mavis Jukes;
Spot's Bedtime Storybook, Eric Hill.
4. Art: clay creations: food: ice cream, cocoa, toast, buns; "little bird, dolly bird, more birds, bread for the bird, clam, books, dam to wash dishes in, swimming pool".
5. Spanish: story time at the library.
6. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Thursday
1. Art: make a "fly" for fly fishing modeled after one in the book: Blackberries in the Dark; draw flower arrangement, palm tree, musical notes, horses, church and man; make clay creations:
2. Handwriting: trace the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet; take notes while attending a reception for a college professor; write first and last name.
3. Vocabulary: look up the word iridescent (from the description of the fishing flies): producing an array of rainbow-like colors.
4. Music: sing Christmas songs, learn the words; attend choir rehearsal.
5. Assisted Reading: Read Me a Story, Rosemary Wells.
6. Science/Nature: watch Secrets of the Bay: A Celebration of San Francisco Bay's Hidden Wildlife (video); observe and draw caterpillars.
7. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
Friday
1. Science/Nature: build small models of T-Rex and Velociraptor dinosaur skeletons from a snap together kit; learn a little about them from accompanying book.
2. Math: write the numbers 1-6 for a list.
3. Music: watch Sound of Music video.
4. Art: make a "bottle" (box) by cutting and taping 6 rectangles together; label it VIKNENE BONE JUICE, a "medicine" for the dinosaurs' bones; dictate a list for directions for the medicine: 1. Buy, 2. Go home, 3. Roll the juice, 4. Pinch off a tiny bit and put the rest in the bottle, 5. Take a teaspoon, 6. Bone better. Read and follow the directions. The "juice" is made from modeling clay.
Draw cats chasing butterflies, Santa and sleigh.
Clay creations: Maria (from Sound of Music).
5. Creative Writing: dictate a story about a cat chasing butterflies.
6. History: watch Modern Marvels: Gothic Cathedrals, the History Channel.
1. Phonics/Spelling: Explode the Code 2, pgs. 9, 31, 35; make words ending in un and og with letter cubes.
2. Art: make erasers out of eraser clay: great white shark, goldfish, funny eraser guy, daddy snake; make Twiddle Bug family out of wire and clay; make a garden (flowers and cabbages) for the Twiddle Bug family.
3. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
4. P.E.: run and play at the park.
5. Math: count backwards from 13 to 1.
6. Read Aloud: Stuart Little, E.B. White.
7. Science/Nature: collect flowers, petals, leaves, rocks.
Tuesday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Math: oral: 2x2=4, 3x4=12; identify 10 random numbers from flash cards between 1-100 (some of them teens); watch demonstration: add 100 squares up to 1000; add two 100 squares, then add ten 10 bars up to 300; telling time: current time to quarter hour.
3. Art: clay creations: pie, cherries, blueberries, doughnuts, syrup bottle and syrup, wash basin, 2 small dogs, bone, Jolly (pet fish), Piglet, Tigger.
4. Phonics/Spelling: Explode the Code 2, pgs. 10, 11, 13 (read and make words with sk, sl, pl).
5. Read Aloud: The Berenstain Bears and the Bully, Stan and Jan Berenstain;
Baseball Ballerina, Kathryn Cristaldi.
6. Reading: 28 book titles from the back of the Berenstain Bears book.
7. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Wednesday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Reading: Baseball Ballerina, Kathryn Cristaldi (Step into Reading, step 3).
3. Read Aloud: Blackberries in the Dark, Mavis Jukes;
Spot's Bedtime Storybook, Eric Hill.
4. Art: clay creations: food: ice cream, cocoa, toast, buns; "little bird, dolly bird, more birds, bread for the bird, clam, books, dam to wash dishes in, swimming pool".
5. Spanish: story time at the library.
6. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Thursday
1. Art: make a "fly" for fly fishing modeled after one in the book: Blackberries in the Dark; draw flower arrangement, palm tree, musical notes, horses, church and man; make clay creations:
2. Handwriting: trace the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet; take notes while attending a reception for a college professor; write first and last name.
3. Vocabulary: look up the word iridescent (from the description of the fishing flies): producing an array of rainbow-like colors.
4. Music: sing Christmas songs, learn the words; attend choir rehearsal.
5. Assisted Reading: Read Me a Story, Rosemary Wells.
6. Science/Nature: watch Secrets of the Bay: A Celebration of San Francisco Bay's Hidden Wildlife (video); observe and draw caterpillars.
7. Religion: pray; read short bio. of saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
Friday
1. Science/Nature: build small models of T-Rex and Velociraptor dinosaur skeletons from a snap together kit; learn a little about them from accompanying book.
2. Math: write the numbers 1-6 for a list.
3. Music: watch Sound of Music video.
4. Art: make a "bottle" (box) by cutting and taping 6 rectangles together; label it VIKNENE BONE JUICE, a "medicine" for the dinosaurs' bones; dictate a list for directions for the medicine: 1. Buy, 2. Go home, 3. Roll the juice, 4. Pinch off a tiny bit and put the rest in the bottle, 5. Take a teaspoon, 6. Bone better. Read and follow the directions. The "juice" is made from modeling clay.
Draw cats chasing butterflies, Santa and sleigh.
Clay creations: Maria (from Sound of Music).
5. Creative Writing: dictate a story about a cat chasing butterflies.
6. History: watch Modern Marvels: Gothic Cathedrals, the History Channel.
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