2nd Grade Activities: Week 4
Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Geography: locate Ireland on the globe, show distance traveled from Ireland to America when relatives made the journey in the 1800s. Identify Africa and America on the globe: "You'd have to travel pretty far to get there -- across the ocean -- the North Atlantic Ocean."
3. Math: make some money out of modeling clay; get out some play money too: "Mom, please help me count my money." First she read off the amounts; we wrote each amount in vertical columns, and added the columns. Then we recalculated the total by sorting the bills by denomination first and adding the sums of each type of bill and coin. Mom explained that this was how she counted the money when working as a cashier. Explanation of what the decimal point means. Watch a video about addition.
Play ice cream shop using the play money; dictate a menu of ice cream and candy flavors; read the menu.
4. Art: make money and ice cream cones out of modeling clay.
5. Science/Nature: make chicks out of modeling clay; read news article about space shuttle launch and mission (Atlantis); read that it successfully docked with the international space station.
6. Read Aloud: Super Cluck, Jane and Robert O'Connor;
Magic Tree House #26, Good Morning Gorillas.
7. Reading: some of display text from Good Morning Gorillas; read the book titles of the other Magic Tree House books: Day of the Dragon King, Viking Ships at Sunrise, Tigers at Twilight, Earthquake in Early Morning, Summer of the Sea Serpent.
8. Phonics: work in Explode the Code 2: short vowels and consonant blends; spell some words with alphabet blocks (vowel, consonant, and consonant blend blocks).
Tuesday
1. Religion: prayer and read about the saint of the day.
2. Music: do exercises in Rabbit-Man's Music Book (theory): to recognize note shapes and the staff; sing made-up songs; listen to Suzuki Recorder School (Soprano vol. I) music CD.
3. Geography: look at maps of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; demonstration: use city index and grid on the map to locate a town.
4. Science/Nature: more about dinosaurs: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Dinosaurs: Those Big Boneheads! and Magic School Bus videos; attend composting workshop.
5. Language Arts: match uppercase and lowercase letters; write the capital letter next to each lowercase letter of the alphabet (workbook).
6. Math: math questions: "Can you go a million miles in one day?" "Can't you go around the world in eight days?"
7. P.E.: soccer practice.
Wednesday
1. Religion: pray, attend Mass.
2. Geography: locate the countries China, Australia, America.
3. Science/Nature: review compost workshop materials and observe worms; read about what to feed the worms; try feeding them various foods.
4. Math: make up addition and word problems to solve; watch the demonstrations of how to solve them.
5. Spanish: story time at library.
6. P.E.: park time.
Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayers.
2. Science/Nature: watch nature videos: See How They Grow: Insects and Spiders, and Jungle Animals; draw insects; observe and draw fish in large aquarium.
3. Homeschool meeting.
4. Library time.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about saint of the day; catechism: read and discuss Faith and Life 1: chaps. 7-11: Noah, Abraham, Moses, prophets, John the Baptist, Annunciation, Nativity, visit of the Three Kings.
2. Directions: follow diagrams to build a Lincoln Log structure.
3. Language Arts: phonics and reading in Explode the Code: consonant blends and short vowels.
4. Math: make up 13 addition and subtraction word problems to solve; watch the demonstrations of how to solve them.
5. Science/Nature: read about worms and rolypolies.
6. P.E.: soccer practice.
7. Reading: I Kissed the Baby, Mary Murphy.
8. Read Aloud: Magic Tree House #27, Thanksgiving on Thursday.
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Geography: locate Ireland on the globe, show distance traveled from Ireland to America when relatives made the journey in the 1800s. Identify Africa and America on the globe: "You'd have to travel pretty far to get there -- across the ocean -- the North Atlantic Ocean."
3. Math: make some money out of modeling clay; get out some play money too: "Mom, please help me count my money." First she read off the amounts; we wrote each amount in vertical columns, and added the columns. Then we recalculated the total by sorting the bills by denomination first and adding the sums of each type of bill and coin. Mom explained that this was how she counted the money when working as a cashier. Explanation of what the decimal point means. Watch a video about addition.
Play ice cream shop using the play money; dictate a menu of ice cream and candy flavors; read the menu.
4. Art: make money and ice cream cones out of modeling clay.
5. Science/Nature: make chicks out of modeling clay; read news article about space shuttle launch and mission (Atlantis); read that it successfully docked with the international space station.
6. Read Aloud: Super Cluck, Jane and Robert O'Connor;
Magic Tree House #26, Good Morning Gorillas.
7. Reading: some of display text from Good Morning Gorillas; read the book titles of the other Magic Tree House books: Day of the Dragon King, Viking Ships at Sunrise, Tigers at Twilight, Earthquake in Early Morning, Summer of the Sea Serpent.
8. Phonics: work in Explode the Code 2: short vowels and consonant blends; spell some words with alphabet blocks (vowel, consonant, and consonant blend blocks).
Tuesday
1. Religion: prayer and read about the saint of the day.
2. Music: do exercises in Rabbit-Man's Music Book (theory): to recognize note shapes and the staff; sing made-up songs; listen to Suzuki Recorder School (Soprano vol. I) music CD.
3. Geography: look at maps of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; demonstration: use city index and grid on the map to locate a town.
4. Science/Nature: more about dinosaurs: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Dinosaurs: Those Big Boneheads! and Magic School Bus videos; attend composting workshop.
5. Language Arts: match uppercase and lowercase letters; write the capital letter next to each lowercase letter of the alphabet (workbook).
6. Math: math questions: "Can you go a million miles in one day?" "Can't you go around the world in eight days?"
7. P.E.: soccer practice.
Wednesday
1. Religion: pray, attend Mass.
2. Geography: locate the countries China, Australia, America.
3. Science/Nature: review compost workshop materials and observe worms; read about what to feed the worms; try feeding them various foods.
4. Math: make up addition and word problems to solve; watch the demonstrations of how to solve them.
5. Spanish: story time at library.
6. P.E.: park time.
Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayers.
2. Science/Nature: watch nature videos: See How They Grow: Insects and Spiders, and Jungle Animals; draw insects; observe and draw fish in large aquarium.
3. Homeschool meeting.
4. Library time.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about saint of the day; catechism: read and discuss Faith and Life 1: chaps. 7-11: Noah, Abraham, Moses, prophets, John the Baptist, Annunciation, Nativity, visit of the Three Kings.
2. Directions: follow diagrams to build a Lincoln Log structure.
3. Language Arts: phonics and reading in Explode the Code: consonant blends and short vowels.
4. Math: make up 13 addition and subtraction word problems to solve; watch the demonstrations of how to solve them.
5. Science/Nature: read about worms and rolypolies.
6. P.E.: soccer practice.
7. Reading: I Kissed the Baby, Mary Murphy.
8. Read Aloud: Magic Tree House #27, Thanksgiving on Thursday.
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