2nd Grade Activities: Week 11
Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Math: solve story problems involving shapes, skip counting, counting equal groups, place value, two-digit addition, measuring in non-standard units, and telling time to the hour (Houghton Mifflin Mathematics, grade 2); count to 100 following a 100 chart; review the fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 with fraction circles and squares.
3. Language Arts: reading, phonics, spelling: words with final lf, lp, nd, nk, and initial and final consonant blend review (Explode the Code 2).
4. Music: learn the notes C, D, E, F, and G on the keyboard; learn the note values of quarter and half notes, and play some simple songs in 4/4 time with mom (Progressive Keyboard, book 1).
5. Art: acrylic painting class; make a rabbit from modeling clay; illustrate a story book about squirrels.
6. Handwriting: write the numbers 1-20 to number the pages of a book.
7. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Indians, Chandler.
Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Language Arts: reading, phonics, spelling: short vowels and consonant blends in Explode the Code 2.
3. Math: subtraction with the help of a number line; write numbers in reverse order according to a pattern (skip counting) (Miquon); dot-to-dot pictures up to 100 (Kumon: My Book of Number Games 1-150).
4. Science/Nature: watch Eyewitness Weather video.
5. Handwriting: practice some of lowercase letters: a, c, h, m, y, etc. (Kumon books).
6. Read Aloud: finish Cowboy Sam and the Indians, Chandler.
7. Art: decorate a Halloween bag with ghost, bat, cat, etc. drawings.
Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about saints of the day, Mass attendance.
2. Language Arts: read action (verb) cards and perform the actions (jump, skip, etc.); also review spelling of the past tense and -ing form of each verb (discussing doubling of some consonants, and removing silent e before adding ing, where applicable).
3. Math: solve addition and money problems; and "How many seconds are there in a day, Mom?" (watch demonstration of how to solve the problem).
4. Art: create a shipwreck scene; make a paper duck puppet.
5. Spanish: story time at the library.
6. P.E.: park time; run and splash in puddles.
7. Music: listen to Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O quam gloriosum.
Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Language Arts: review the vowel sounds in Latin, and the short and long vowel sounds in English, looking at a sample word for each sound.
3. Read Aloud: from The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America, Herge; and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain.
4. Math: make a colored stair of Cuisenaire rods from 1 to 35; count the stairs; count backwards from 35 to 1; do single digit subtraction equations (Learn on the Go workbook); watch demonstration of subtraction on a number line.
5. Art: drawings in a book.
Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Read Aloud: finish The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America, Herge.
3. Music: theory: review 4/4 time signature and note values of whole, half, quarter, eighth notes in 4/4 time. Draw staves and measure bars. Write two songs in the key of C with notes from middle C to high G, using whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth notes, and a quarter rest. Mom played the songs on the keyboard. Review where middle C is and where the other Cs are located on the keyboard. Play a song with one note (middle C). Play one with Mom with 2 notes (C and D) (Keyboard Method for Young Beginners 1). Noodle around on the keyboard.
4. Spanish: do activities on Help Me 2 Learn Spanish 1a DVD: weather, colors, numbers, days of the week.
5. Science/Nature: watch Really Wild Animals: Deep Sea Dive, National Geographic DVD.
6. Art: draw panda, monkeys, bananas, penguins; make Thanksgiving decorations.
7. P.E.: soccer.
[Since music can help reinforce math concepts, and studying foreign languages can help with English vocabulary, spelling and grammar, one day a week we will try replacing Math with music theory and practice, and Language Arts with foreign language study.]
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Math: solve story problems involving shapes, skip counting, counting equal groups, place value, two-digit addition, measuring in non-standard units, and telling time to the hour (Houghton Mifflin Mathematics, grade 2); count to 100 following a 100 chart; review the fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 with fraction circles and squares.
3. Language Arts: reading, phonics, spelling: words with final lf, lp, nd, nk, and initial and final consonant blend review (Explode the Code 2).
4. Music: learn the notes C, D, E, F, and G on the keyboard; learn the note values of quarter and half notes, and play some simple songs in 4/4 time with mom (Progressive Keyboard, book 1).
5. Art: acrylic painting class; make a rabbit from modeling clay; illustrate a story book about squirrels.
6. Handwriting: write the numbers 1-20 to number the pages of a book.
7. Read Aloud: from Cowboy Sam and the Indians, Chandler.
Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Language Arts: reading, phonics, spelling: short vowels and consonant blends in Explode the Code 2.
3. Math: subtraction with the help of a number line; write numbers in reverse order according to a pattern (skip counting) (Miquon); dot-to-dot pictures up to 100 (Kumon: My Book of Number Games 1-150).
4. Science/Nature: watch Eyewitness Weather video.
5. Handwriting: practice some of lowercase letters: a, c, h, m, y, etc. (Kumon books).
6. Read Aloud: finish Cowboy Sam and the Indians, Chandler.
7. Art: decorate a Halloween bag with ghost, bat, cat, etc. drawings.
Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about saints of the day, Mass attendance.
2. Language Arts: read action (verb) cards and perform the actions (jump, skip, etc.); also review spelling of the past tense and -ing form of each verb (discussing doubling of some consonants, and removing silent e before adding ing, where applicable).
3. Math: solve addition and money problems; and "How many seconds are there in a day, Mom?" (watch demonstration of how to solve the problem).
4. Art: create a shipwreck scene; make a paper duck puppet.
5. Spanish: story time at the library.
6. P.E.: park time; run and splash in puddles.
7. Music: listen to Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O quam gloriosum.
Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Language Arts: review the vowel sounds in Latin, and the short and long vowel sounds in English, looking at a sample word for each sound.
3. Read Aloud: from The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America, Herge; and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain.
4. Math: make a colored stair of Cuisenaire rods from 1 to 35; count the stairs; count backwards from 35 to 1; do single digit subtraction equations (Learn on the Go workbook); watch demonstration of subtraction on a number line.
5. Art: drawings in a book.
Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Read Aloud: finish The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America, Herge.
3. Music: theory: review 4/4 time signature and note values of whole, half, quarter, eighth notes in 4/4 time. Draw staves and measure bars. Write two songs in the key of C with notes from middle C to high G, using whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth notes, and a quarter rest. Mom played the songs on the keyboard. Review where middle C is and where the other Cs are located on the keyboard. Play a song with one note (middle C). Play one with Mom with 2 notes (C and D) (Keyboard Method for Young Beginners 1). Noodle around on the keyboard.
4. Spanish: do activities on Help Me 2 Learn Spanish 1a DVD: weather, colors, numbers, days of the week.
5. Science/Nature: watch Really Wild Animals: Deep Sea Dive, National Geographic DVD.
6. Art: draw panda, monkeys, bananas, penguins; make Thanksgiving decorations.
7. P.E.: soccer.
[Since music can help reinforce math concepts, and studying foreign languages can help with English vocabulary, spelling and grammar, one day a week we will try replacing Math with music theory and practice, and Language Arts with foreign language study.]
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