2nd Grade Activities: Week 6
Monday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read Bible readings for the day; read: The Ten Commandments: I Obey God, Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D.; attend Mass.
2. Phonics: Explode the Code: short vowels and consonant blends st, sw, tw; long vowel sounds.
3. Math: Miquon: demonstrate and write simple addition problems; add different numbers to get the sum of 7; simple subtraction problems; watch demonstration of halves with Cuisenaire rods: give answers from 4 to 12; watch demonstrations of simple multiplication problems; measure toys using 1-centimeter cubes; calculate change from lunch: $5.02 - $3.02; telling time: hour and half hour.
4. Art: draw and construct Halloween decorations: Jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, spider and web; construct buildings and towers with Cuisenaire rods, Lincoln Logs.
5. Science/Nature: collect, feed, observe garden snail; watch National Geographic: Really Wild Animals: Deep Sea Dive (DVD); watch Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants (video).
6. Read Aloud: Magic Tree House: Christmas in Camelot.
7. Handwriting: write names of 13 Pokemon characters when making a book of drawings; write numbers in math problems and phone numbers.
8. Reading: Christmas in the Manger, Nola Buck.
9. P.E.: park time.
Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about saints of the day.
2. Math: Miquon pages: addition and subtraction problems; make up problems.
3. Phonics: watch Between the Lions: Step by Step (video); Explode the Code: read and spell with consonant blends and short vowels; spell words with vowel, consonant, consonant blend, and word family blocks.
4. Art: make animals and other items out of modeling clay; construct a "computer" with 100 board for the screen and Cuisenaire rods for the keyboard (show how it is used to calculate math problems).
5. P.E.: soccer practice.
Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: calculate area of rectangles in centimeters using Cuisenaire rods (counting); look at corresponding multiplication problems; make up 14 word problems (orally) for Mom to solve. Example: "Jill has 10,000 cats; John has 20,000 dogs; Jill and John have 20,000 hamsters (half each); Jill has 2,000 birds; John has 2,000 birds. How many altogether?" Observe the solutions being demonstrated.
3. Sign Language: sign L-O-V-E; and various signs for animals.
4. Spanish: story time at the library.
5. P.E.: park time.
6. Art: clay creations.
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read about saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Read Aloud: Tillie and Mert, Ida Luttrell; Clara and the Bookwagon, Nancy Smiler Levinson.
3. Math: which set is larger (1 problem); measure lengths of lines and objects in centimeters (using ruler): 2 pages; addition: add from 10 + 1 up to 10 + 10 (out of order -- notice pattern); count by 2s, 4s, 6s, 8s using a number line.
4. Phonics/Spelling: workbook: initial consonant blends, short vowels, final consonant blends: distinguish blends, read and spell words.
5. Art and History: watch Sister Wendy's Story of Painting: Early Art (video); read about early Settler life: the lifestyle and crafts of early artisans: Early Artisans, Bobbie, Kalman; twist-tie and clay creations.
6. Reading: some entries in children's picture dictionary; some words in read aloud books.
7. Computer: practice keyboard and text manipulation skills.
8. Science/Nature: watch Growing up Wild: Amazing Baby Animals video: about kittens and large cats, monkeys, insects, elephants, hippos, rhinos, seals, otters, frogs, ducks.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about saints of the day.
2. Math: lay out many different Cuisenaire rod combinations adding up to 10; write addition equations to represent each; learn about fractions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 2/3, 3/3; count all the base ten materials (matching each 100 with a 100-square while doing so), total: 1979; simple addition problems; make and decorate a 100-square with lentils laid out on 10 craft sticks; skip counting: 2s, 5s, 10s, 100s; discuss odd and even; make a counting device with craft sticks, pipe cleaners, and beads.
3. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon, chap. 1.
4. Art: draw the black stallion from Bandit's Moon.
5. Narration: tell what happened in chapter 1 of Bandit's Moon.
6. Music: count and sing along with songs in Progressive Keyboard 1, Method for Young Beginners, Andrew Scott; review note values: quarter note, half note, dotted half note, quarter rest; introduce the locations of notes (in C-B groups) on the keyboard starting with middle-C (the white keys).
7. P.E.: soccer.
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read Bible readings for the day; read: The Ten Commandments: I Obey God, Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D.; attend Mass.
2. Phonics: Explode the Code: short vowels and consonant blends st, sw, tw; long vowel sounds.
3. Math: Miquon: demonstrate and write simple addition problems; add different numbers to get the sum of 7; simple subtraction problems; watch demonstration of halves with Cuisenaire rods: give answers from 4 to 12; watch demonstrations of simple multiplication problems; measure toys using 1-centimeter cubes; calculate change from lunch: $5.02 - $3.02; telling time: hour and half hour.
4. Art: draw and construct Halloween decorations: Jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, spider and web; construct buildings and towers with Cuisenaire rods, Lincoln Logs.
5. Science/Nature: collect, feed, observe garden snail; watch National Geographic: Really Wild Animals: Deep Sea Dive (DVD); watch Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants (video).
6. Read Aloud: Magic Tree House: Christmas in Camelot.
7. Handwriting: write names of 13 Pokemon characters when making a book of drawings; write numbers in math problems and phone numbers.
8. Reading: Christmas in the Manger, Nola Buck.
9. P.E.: park time.
Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about saints of the day.
2. Math: Miquon pages: addition and subtraction problems; make up problems.
3. Phonics: watch Between the Lions: Step by Step (video); Explode the Code: read and spell with consonant blends and short vowels; spell words with vowel, consonant, consonant blend, and word family blocks.
4. Art: make animals and other items out of modeling clay; construct a "computer" with 100 board for the screen and Cuisenaire rods for the keyboard (show how it is used to calculate math problems).
5. P.E.: soccer practice.
Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: calculate area of rectangles in centimeters using Cuisenaire rods (counting); look at corresponding multiplication problems; make up 14 word problems (orally) for Mom to solve. Example: "Jill has 10,000 cats; John has 20,000 dogs; Jill and John have 20,000 hamsters (half each); Jill has 2,000 birds; John has 2,000 birds. How many altogether?" Observe the solutions being demonstrated.
3. Sign Language: sign L-O-V-E; and various signs for animals.
4. Spanish: story time at the library.
5. P.E.: park time.
6. Art: clay creations.
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read about saint of the day; read Bible readings for today.
2. Read Aloud: Tillie and Mert, Ida Luttrell; Clara and the Bookwagon, Nancy Smiler Levinson.
3. Math: which set is larger (1 problem); measure lengths of lines and objects in centimeters (using ruler): 2 pages; addition: add from 10 + 1 up to 10 + 10 (out of order -- notice pattern); count by 2s, 4s, 6s, 8s using a number line.
4. Phonics/Spelling: workbook: initial consonant blends, short vowels, final consonant blends: distinguish blends, read and spell words.
5. Art and History: watch Sister Wendy's Story of Painting: Early Art (video); read about early Settler life: the lifestyle and crafts of early artisans: Early Artisans, Bobbie, Kalman; twist-tie and clay creations.
6. Reading: some entries in children's picture dictionary; some words in read aloud books.
7. Computer: practice keyboard and text manipulation skills.
8. Science/Nature: watch Growing up Wild: Amazing Baby Animals video: about kittens and large cats, monkeys, insects, elephants, hippos, rhinos, seals, otters, frogs, ducks.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about saints of the day.
2. Math: lay out many different Cuisenaire rod combinations adding up to 10; write addition equations to represent each; learn about fractions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 2/3, 3/3; count all the base ten materials (matching each 100 with a 100-square while doing so), total: 1979; simple addition problems; make and decorate a 100-square with lentils laid out on 10 craft sticks; skip counting: 2s, 5s, 10s, 100s; discuss odd and even; make a counting device with craft sticks, pipe cleaners, and beads.
3. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon, chap. 1.
4. Art: draw the black stallion from Bandit's Moon.
5. Narration: tell what happened in chapter 1 of Bandit's Moon.
6. Music: count and sing along with songs in Progressive Keyboard 1, Method for Young Beginners, Andrew Scott; review note values: quarter note, half note, dotted half note, quarter rest; introduce the locations of notes (in C-B groups) on the keyboard starting with middle-C (the white keys).
7. P.E.: soccer.
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