1st Grade Activities: Week 38
Monday
1. Reading: The School Play, Rosemary Wells;
Doris's Dinosaur, Rosemary Wells;
Pie Rats Ahoy!, Richard Scarry.
2. Read Aloud: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle;
Nurse Matilda, Christianna Brand.
3. Art: make a large Nurse Matilda figure out of a lamp; draw dogs, landscape, bird, angel.
4. Science/Nature: observe seedlings in garden that she helped plant and water.
5. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
Tuesday
1. Religion: attend Mass.
2. Handwriting: write: THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. THERE IS NOTHING I SHALL WANT in a booklet.
3. Art: make Mass booklet with: cross, dove, Mary, Jesus.
4. P.E.: run and play with friends.
Wednesday
1. Geography: look at and read the names of various places on the globe: Alaska, Australia, China, Canada, America, Spain, Algeria; locate where we live on the globe; feel the mountains on the part where we live (America): Rocky Mountains -- notice that they span two countries, notice the Sierra Nevada mountains; feel the high Himalayas too.
2. Read Aloud: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
3. Reading: Push or Pull?, John Parker;
People Build Dams, Trent Johnson.
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
5. Art: clay creations: "a climbing post where you grab an apple; actually, there is no apple, a clay fish that can swim in the river, a little clay dog, a target, a bow and some arrows, books, hearts, a little bird tucked under a blanket and a mat for it to lay on, a cave, with a rock and some treasure."
6. Spanish: story time at library.
7. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saints of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Science/Nature: color and paste planets on solar system chart (labeled in Spanish).
3. Art: draw abstract sunsets (felt pen and oil pastels); clay creations.
4. Read Aloud: Lucille, Arnold Lobel;
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam, Huynh Quang Nhuong.
5. Geography: read Maps and Globes, Ray Broekel.
6. Music: sing made up songs; attend choir rehearsal.
7. Reading: Olivia Counts, Ian Falconer.
8. Math: measurement: connect 3 long wires of different colors, then use this "measuring tape" to measure people and things: "You are 2 tall." "You are 2-1/2 tall."
Friday
1. Math: "How much is a thousand?" Watch demonstration of 10 hundred squares laid out in a row, then stacked into a cube; the cube is 10 units wide, 10 units high, 10 units deep (10x10x10=1000 [10 cubed]); sort and stack coins in order to count them; review value of each coin: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar.
2. Science/Nature: astronomy discussion: "Why don't we see the stars during the day?" "Do stars move?" "Is the airplane next to the star?" "Is a star a ball of fire?" Name a constellation. Make a booklet with planets and stars on the cover and two pages with constellations.
3. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
4. Art: draw Lowly worm; rubber stamp and fingerprint art; paintings: frogs and fish in water; construction: a stick to rest on shoulders with 2 buckets to carry things.
5. Reading: Pie Rats Ahoy!, Richard Scarry;
Dr. Seuss's ABC;
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss (read the whole book fluently even though we have not read it much or recently).
6. Phonics: in context of reading: qu=kw, ph=f, gh is silent in midnight; make words (short vowels and blends) with alphabet cubes.
7. Music: sing the tune Joy to the World; sing Daisy, Daisy.
1. Reading: The School Play, Rosemary Wells;
Doris's Dinosaur, Rosemary Wells;
Pie Rats Ahoy!, Richard Scarry.
2. Read Aloud: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle;
Nurse Matilda, Christianna Brand.
3. Art: make a large Nurse Matilda figure out of a lamp; draw dogs, landscape, bird, angel.
4. Science/Nature: observe seedlings in garden that she helped plant and water.
5. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
Tuesday
1. Religion: attend Mass.
2. Handwriting: write: THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. THERE IS NOTHING I SHALL WANT in a booklet.
3. Art: make Mass booklet with: cross, dove, Mary, Jesus.
4. P.E.: run and play with friends.
Wednesday
1. Geography: look at and read the names of various places on the globe: Alaska, Australia, China, Canada, America, Spain, Algeria; locate where we live on the globe; feel the mountains on the part where we live (America): Rocky Mountains -- notice that they span two countries, notice the Sierra Nevada mountains; feel the high Himalayas too.
2. Read Aloud: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
3. Reading: Push or Pull?, John Parker;
People Build Dams, Trent Johnson.
4. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
5. Art: clay creations: "a climbing post where you grab an apple; actually, there is no apple, a clay fish that can swim in the river, a little clay dog, a target, a bow and some arrows, books, hearts, a little bird tucked under a blanket and a mat for it to lay on, a cave, with a rock and some treasure."
6. Spanish: story time at library.
7. P.E.: run and play at the park.
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saints of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Science/Nature: color and paste planets on solar system chart (labeled in Spanish).
3. Art: draw abstract sunsets (felt pen and oil pastels); clay creations.
4. Read Aloud: Lucille, Arnold Lobel;
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam, Huynh Quang Nhuong.
5. Geography: read Maps and Globes, Ray Broekel.
6. Music: sing made up songs; attend choir rehearsal.
7. Reading: Olivia Counts, Ian Falconer.
8. Math: measurement: connect 3 long wires of different colors, then use this "measuring tape" to measure people and things: "You are 2 tall." "You are 2-1/2 tall."
Friday
1. Math: "How much is a thousand?" Watch demonstration of 10 hundred squares laid out in a row, then stacked into a cube; the cube is 10 units wide, 10 units high, 10 units deep (10x10x10=1000 [10 cubed]); sort and stack coins in order to count them; review value of each coin: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar.
2. Science/Nature: astronomy discussion: "Why don't we see the stars during the day?" "Do stars move?" "Is the airplane next to the star?" "Is a star a ball of fire?" Name a constellation. Make a booklet with planets and stars on the cover and two pages with constellations.
3. Religion: pray; read short bio. of the saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
4. Art: draw Lowly worm; rubber stamp and fingerprint art; paintings: frogs and fish in water; construction: a stick to rest on shoulders with 2 buckets to carry things.
5. Reading: Pie Rats Ahoy!, Richard Scarry;
Dr. Seuss's ABC;
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss (read the whole book fluently even though we have not read it much or recently).
6. Phonics: in context of reading: qu=kw, ph=f, gh is silent in midnight; make words (short vowels and blends) with alphabet cubes.
7. Music: sing the tune Joy to the World; sing Daisy, Daisy.
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