2nd Grade Activities: Week 7
Monday
1. Religion: pray; read about guardian angels; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Math: count by 10s to 100; make up cards with each of these numbers on them; work with fractions: Miquon; count coins; come up with more math equations to equal 10 based on Cuisenaire rod work.
3. Reading: one Reader Rabbit story; read and solve problems in Scholastic Success With Tests: Reading Workbook.
4. Science/Nature: watch Eyewitness Rock and Mineral video. Make different sized "rocks and gems" from modeling clay; ask "What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?"
5. Art: modeling clay creations; paintings to go with Bandit's Moon for art class.
6. Phonics: reading and phonics at Starfall website.
7. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon, Sid Fleischman; Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner.
Tuesday
1. Religion; pray; read about the saint of the day; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Telling Time: show on a clock and write answers to: What time do you finish dinner? What time do you take a bath? What time do you go to bed? (Kumon)
3. Narration: summarize four chapters from Bandit's Moon.
4. Art: draw and paint scenes from Bandit's Moon; attend art class; learn about portrait painting in early California; look at California indian masks; create a colorful mask in a similar style.
5. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon; Ottie Slockett, Ida Luttrell;
Old Turtle's Soccer Team, Leonard Kessler.
6. Reading: some words in read alouds and instructions on worksheets.
7. P.E.: park time.
Wednesday
1. Religion: pray; read about St. Francis of Assisi; read Bible readings for the day; Mass attendance.
2. Math: demonstrations: odd numbers to 100, even numbers to 100 on 100 board; also add 1, subtract 1 with various numbers; add 2, subtract 2 with various numbers; add 5, add 10. Demonstrate multiplication with Cuisenaire rods: 1x3, 2x3, 3x3, 4x3, 5x3, then division with same rods. Do a fractions page in Miquon red book.
3. Handwriting: several pages of words in Kumon: My Book of Writing Words: Learning about Consonants and Vowels.
4. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon;
When Martha's Away, Bruce Ingman;
Emile, Kurt Futterer.
5. Art: draw picture from Bandit's Moon.
6. Narration: summarize Bandit's Moon, chaps. 10 to 16.
7. Reading: The Chick and the Duckling, Mirra Ginsburg.
8. Spanish: story time at the library.
9. P.E.: park time.
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Math: work with 100 board: odd and even, skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s; more work with fractions and several pages of odd and even items/numbers (Miquon).
3. Language Arts: read and follow written directions, and story comprehension (sample LA test book).
4. Read Aloud: finish Bandit's Moon.
5. Narration: summarize Bandit's Moon, chaps. 17 and 18.
6. History: read about the California Gold Rush in: The Settlement of California, George Sanderlin and The California Gold Rush, Tom Ito.
7. Art: draw and color two more pictures to go with Bandit's Moon; drawings for a book: Cats and Dogs.
8. Science/Nature: read Oh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants, Bonnie Worth.
9. Reading: Chuckle with Huckle And Other Funny Easy-to-Read Stories, Jane E. Gerver.
10. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about Saint Bruno and Blessed Marie Rose Durocher; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Music: work in Rabbit Man's Music Book 1: learn about treble and bass clefs, notes on lines and spaces, quarter, half, eighth, sixteenth, and whole notes.
3. Chinese: learn to read and draw some chinese characters, including numbers 1 to 12 from Long is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children, Peggy Goldstein.
4. Math: make up several addition problems for Mom to solve; telling time: hour, half hour, quarter hour; count Cuisenaire rods.
5. Reading: read a postcard from a friend visiting Hawaii.
6. Geography: locate China, Italy, Hawaii on the globe.
7. Art: clay creations.
8. P.E.: soccer.
1. Religion: pray; read about guardian angels; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Math: count by 10s to 100; make up cards with each of these numbers on them; work with fractions: Miquon; count coins; come up with more math equations to equal 10 based on Cuisenaire rod work.
3. Reading: one Reader Rabbit story; read and solve problems in Scholastic Success With Tests: Reading Workbook.
4. Science/Nature: watch Eyewitness Rock and Mineral video. Make different sized "rocks and gems" from modeling clay; ask "What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?"
5. Art: modeling clay creations; paintings to go with Bandit's Moon for art class.
6. Phonics: reading and phonics at Starfall website.
7. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon, Sid Fleischman; Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner.
Tuesday
1. Religion; pray; read about the saint of the day; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Telling Time: show on a clock and write answers to: What time do you finish dinner? What time do you take a bath? What time do you go to bed? (Kumon)
3. Narration: summarize four chapters from Bandit's Moon.
4. Art: draw and paint scenes from Bandit's Moon; attend art class; learn about portrait painting in early California; look at California indian masks; create a colorful mask in a similar style.
5. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon; Ottie Slockett, Ida Luttrell;
Old Turtle's Soccer Team, Leonard Kessler.
6. Reading: some words in read alouds and instructions on worksheets.
7. P.E.: park time.
Wednesday
1. Religion: pray; read about St. Francis of Assisi; read Bible readings for the day; Mass attendance.
2. Math: demonstrations: odd numbers to 100, even numbers to 100 on 100 board; also add 1, subtract 1 with various numbers; add 2, subtract 2 with various numbers; add 5, add 10. Demonstrate multiplication with Cuisenaire rods: 1x3, 2x3, 3x3, 4x3, 5x3, then division with same rods. Do a fractions page in Miquon red book.
3. Handwriting: several pages of words in Kumon: My Book of Writing Words: Learning about Consonants and Vowels.
4. Read Aloud: Bandit's Moon;
When Martha's Away, Bruce Ingman;
Emile, Kurt Futterer.
5. Art: draw picture from Bandit's Moon.
6. Narration: summarize Bandit's Moon, chaps. 10 to 16.
7. Reading: The Chick and the Duckling, Mirra Ginsburg.
8. Spanish: story time at the library.
9. P.E.: park time.
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Math: work with 100 board: odd and even, skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s; more work with fractions and several pages of odd and even items/numbers (Miquon).
3. Language Arts: read and follow written directions, and story comprehension (sample LA test book).
4. Read Aloud: finish Bandit's Moon.
5. Narration: summarize Bandit's Moon, chaps. 17 and 18.
6. History: read about the California Gold Rush in: The Settlement of California, George Sanderlin and The California Gold Rush, Tom Ito.
7. Art: draw and color two more pictures to go with Bandit's Moon; drawings for a book: Cats and Dogs.
8. Science/Nature: read Oh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants, Bonnie Worth.
9. Reading: Chuckle with Huckle And Other Funny Easy-to-Read Stories, Jane E. Gerver.
10. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about Saint Bruno and Blessed Marie Rose Durocher; read Bible readings for the day.
2. Music: work in Rabbit Man's Music Book 1: learn about treble and bass clefs, notes on lines and spaces, quarter, half, eighth, sixteenth, and whole notes.
3. Chinese: learn to read and draw some chinese characters, including numbers 1 to 12 from Long is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children, Peggy Goldstein.
4. Math: make up several addition problems for Mom to solve; telling time: hour, half hour, quarter hour; count Cuisenaire rods.
5. Reading: read a postcard from a friend visiting Hawaii.
6. Geography: locate China, Italy, Hawaii on the globe.
7. Art: clay creations.
8. P.E.: soccer.
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