Friday, November 17, 2006

2nd Grade Activities: Week 13

Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day; read and discuss "Becoming a Child of God", Faith and Life 2.
2. Math: simple addition and money problems.
3. Reading: read Monopoly board and cards.
4. Handwriting: practice letter formation of some uppercase and lowercase letters by repetition, filling a blank page.
5. Art: make small paper dolls in primary colors for math manipulatives; sort by color.
6. Music: listen to Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 12 "Choral", Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
7. Read Aloud: from The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey, Louise Borden.

Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Language Arts: learn two Greek root words and two Latin root words from English from the Roots Up, Joegil K. Lundquist.
3. Art: draw five favorite animals; make Pokemon cards; color green and red borders for Greek and Latin root cards.
4. Science/Technology: use chat tool to converse with Dad.
5. Writing: make sign for a play store; write notes to Dad.

Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; Girls' group.
2. Art: make a weaving on simple loom; paper panther at Spanish story time.
3. Library time.
3. P.E.: park time.
4. Read Aloud: from The Journey That Saved Curious George, Louise Borden.

Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about Saint Catherine Laboure, and the virtue of obedience (handout from Girls' group).
2. Math: math facts flash cards (addition and subtraction to 12); some workbook pages -- color by number, dot-to-dot, fill in missing numbers in sequence, write the previous number, write the next number.
3. History: read and discuss Introduction, the first nomads and farmers, and the story of Romulus and Remus from The Story of the World 1, Susan Wise Bauer.
4. Art: make another weaving (hot pad).
5. Library: meet a children's author, Susan Elya: listen to stories and participate in a puppet show.
6. Science/Technology: IM with Daddy and cousins.
7. Cooking: grate cheese and help make bean burritos.

Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: simple addition and subtraction problems; write numbers that are one more, one less, and in between numbers shown.
3. Language Arts: correct sentences with errors; fill in missing letters at the beginning, middle, or end of short words; identify words to go with pictures (Scholastic Success With Tests reading workbook).
4. Reading: Silly Mummy, Silly Daddy, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick; Monopoly board and cards.
5. Music: theory review: recognizes whole notes, half notes, quarter notes. the number of lines and spaces on a staff, middle C, colored the bunnies :) (Rabbit Man's Music Books 1-2).
6. Read Aloud: from The Journey That Saved Curious George, Louise Borden, and The Adventures of Buffalo Bill, Col. William F. Cody.
7. Science/Technology: IM with Dad.
8. P.E.: soccer.