2nd Grade Activities: Week 10
Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: 100 board: roll dice. First one to 100 wins. 100 board: use like battleship game board, guessing opponent's location. Basketball scorecard: 2 teams. Calculate spread between scores, exchanging 10 bars for unit cubes as necessary to calculate (2-digit subtraction), also look at the written version of the equations with borrowing indicated; count by 20s.
3. Language Arts: Explode the Code 2: short vowel words with consonant blend endings; write words on flash cards with consonants in blue and vowels in red for spelling vocabulary.
4. Art: art class: sketch a scene in pencil on canvas in prep. for acrylic painting; twist tie and clay creations; sew a stuffed horse: tie a knot, thread a needle, stitch all around the felt horse (running stitch), fill with wool stuffing, check off step by step directions on the pattern; make a paper scarecrow.
5. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Rustlers, Edna Walker Chandler.
Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about St. John Capistrano and St. Anthony Claret; read Bible readings for the day; read chapters 1 and 2 of Faith and Life, Grade 2: Our Heavenly Father, and The Blessed Trinity.
2. Language Arts: read "What Letters Are" from The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering, Goudy; read and distinguish final consonant blends: ft, lt, nt (Explode the Code 2); review spelling words on flash cards.
3. Math: make up and solve seven subtraction problems using base ten materials: calculate the difference between the scores of 2 basketball teams, exchange ten bars for units as necessary.
4. Read Aloud: read from Cowboy Sam, and Cowboy Sam and Freddy, Chandler.
5. Science: watch Get Scientific videos about recycling, ice fishing, the farm, sign language, science camp, ski jumping, ice skating, kayaking, cycling, and space camp. Do an experiment to find out whether items sink or float.
6. Handwriting: make a list of items that floated and items that sank.
Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Handwriting: watch the printing of all the lowercase letters on a chalkboard, and also all the lowercase letters written in cursive; write numbers to answer math problems.
3. Math: money problems: calculate the total for each row of nickels, single digit addition problems with sums greater than 10, color a house using a number/color key (chosen by which digits were in the tens and ones places) (Learn on the Go Addition and Subtraction workbook).
4. Language Arts: read and distinguish words ending in lf, lp, nd, nk (Explode the Code); read flashcards made from words studied in Explode the Code book; identify complete vs. incomplete sentences (Macmillan English Skills Practice Book); begin narrative writing exercise.
5. Read Aloud: Cowboy Sam and the Rustlers, Chandler.
6. Science/Nature: watch Eyewitness videos: Weather and Survival.
7. Sign Language: watch the video, Say It by Signing: Conversing in American Sign Language, Dr. Elaine Costello.
8. Art: make a flamingo from modeling clay; draw a squirrel in a garden scene (abstract style).
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read and answer questions from the chapter, "God the Creator", Jesus Our Life (Faith and Life 2).
2. Math: simple addition with sums over 10 (demonstrate the concept of regrouping to make 10); two digit subtraction with base ten materials (exchanging 10s for 10 ones as necessary).
3. Language Arts: spell words with short vowels and consonant blends; spell CVC words with tactile letters; make short sentences; make a book of sentences.
4. History: watch The Renaissance (Just the Facts Learning Series video).
5. Science/Nature: observe and draw squirrels and scenery.
6. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
7. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Rodeo, Chandler.
8. Art: make ghost and bat Halloween decorations from a craft book.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read and discuss the chapter, "God Made Us", Faith and Life 2.
2. Science/Nature: observe and draw more squirrels and scenery (the come right up to the screen door).
3. Music: theory review: staff has 5 lines and 4 spaces, treble and bass cleffs, notes on lines and spaces, high notes, low notes, SATB parts, whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes (Rabbit Man's Music Books 1 and 2); write some notes on the staff (a pretend song for the squirrels); color the rabbits :) ; look at some homemade flash cards.
4. Spanish: color and learn words in Spanish alphabet coloring book; listen to names of the letters of the Spanish alphabet on Help Me 2 Learn Spanish DVD*.
5. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Rodeo, Chandler.
6. Sign Language: review sign language alphabet.
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: 100 board: roll dice. First one to 100 wins. 100 board: use like battleship game board, guessing opponent's location. Basketball scorecard: 2 teams. Calculate spread between scores, exchanging 10 bars for unit cubes as necessary to calculate (2-digit subtraction), also look at the written version of the equations with borrowing indicated; count by 20s.
3. Language Arts: Explode the Code 2: short vowel words with consonant blend endings; write words on flash cards with consonants in blue and vowels in red for spelling vocabulary.
4. Art: art class: sketch a scene in pencil on canvas in prep. for acrylic painting; twist tie and clay creations; sew a stuffed horse: tie a knot, thread a needle, stitch all around the felt horse (running stitch), fill with wool stuffing, check off step by step directions on the pattern; make a paper scarecrow.
5. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Rustlers, Edna Walker Chandler.
Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about St. John Capistrano and St. Anthony Claret; read Bible readings for the day; read chapters 1 and 2 of Faith and Life, Grade 2: Our Heavenly Father, and The Blessed Trinity.
2. Language Arts: read "What Letters Are" from The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering, Goudy; read and distinguish final consonant blends: ft, lt, nt (Explode the Code 2); review spelling words on flash cards.
3. Math: make up and solve seven subtraction problems using base ten materials: calculate the difference between the scores of 2 basketball teams, exchange ten bars for units as necessary.
4. Read Aloud: read from Cowboy Sam, and Cowboy Sam and Freddy, Chandler.
5. Science: watch Get Scientific videos about recycling, ice fishing, the farm, sign language, science camp, ski jumping, ice skating, kayaking, cycling, and space camp. Do an experiment to find out whether items sink or float.
6. Handwriting: make a list of items that floated and items that sank.
Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Handwriting: watch the printing of all the lowercase letters on a chalkboard, and also all the lowercase letters written in cursive; write numbers to answer math problems.
3. Math: money problems: calculate the total for each row of nickels, single digit addition problems with sums greater than 10, color a house using a number/color key (chosen by which digits were in the tens and ones places) (Learn on the Go Addition and Subtraction workbook).
4. Language Arts: read and distinguish words ending in lf, lp, nd, nk (Explode the Code); read flashcards made from words studied in Explode the Code book; identify complete vs. incomplete sentences (Macmillan English Skills Practice Book); begin narrative writing exercise.
5. Read Aloud: Cowboy Sam and the Rustlers, Chandler.
6. Science/Nature: watch Eyewitness videos: Weather and Survival.
7. Sign Language: watch the video, Say It by Signing: Conversing in American Sign Language, Dr. Elaine Costello.
8. Art: make a flamingo from modeling clay; draw a squirrel in a garden scene (abstract style).
Thursday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read and answer questions from the chapter, "God the Creator", Jesus Our Life (Faith and Life 2).
2. Math: simple addition with sums over 10 (demonstrate the concept of regrouping to make 10); two digit subtraction with base ten materials (exchanging 10s for 10 ones as necessary).
3. Language Arts: spell words with short vowels and consonant blends; spell CVC words with tactile letters; make short sentences; make a book of sentences.
4. History: watch The Renaissance (Just the Facts Learning Series video).
5. Science/Nature: observe and draw squirrels and scenery.
6. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
7. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Rodeo, Chandler.
8. Art: make ghost and bat Halloween decorations from a craft book.
Friday
1. Religion: pray; read about the saint of the day; read and discuss the chapter, "God Made Us", Faith and Life 2.
2. Science/Nature: observe and draw more squirrels and scenery (the come right up to the screen door).
3. Music: theory review: staff has 5 lines and 4 spaces, treble and bass cleffs, notes on lines and spaces, high notes, low notes, SATB parts, whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes (Rabbit Man's Music Books 1 and 2); write some notes on the staff (a pretend song for the squirrels); color the rabbits :) ; look at some homemade flash cards.
4. Spanish: color and learn words in Spanish alphabet coloring book; listen to names of the letters of the Spanish alphabet on Help Me 2 Learn Spanish DVD*.
5. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Rodeo, Chandler.
6. Sign Language: review sign language alphabet.
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