Wednesday, November 22, 2006

2nd Grade Activities: Week 14

Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day.
2. Reading/Spelling: IM with Dad and cousins.
3. Math: matching and addition games; "What is 24 + 24? What is 24 + 24 + 24? What is 24 + 24 + 24 + 24? What is 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24?" "5 days (120 hrs). That's how long adults take to make up their minds about something." :)
4. Phonics: long vowel words with silent e, Explode the Code 3.
5. Read Aloud: The Adventures of Tintin: The Broken Ear, Herge; The Journey That Saved Curious George, Borden.
6. Reading: words in read-alouds, signs, book titles, environment; one page from Black Beauty.
7. Art: make a weaving; make a paper plate lion mask.

Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Reading/Spelling: online games of homophones and word families; IM with Dad; read some dialogue in Tintin.
3. Math: put non-consecutive numbers in order from highest to lowest and lowest to highest; figure out which object (out of 3 objects) being weighed on scales in a diagram is the largest and which is the smallest; ask what 3 + 3 + 3 is because the Tintin series contains 3 stories per volume and we have ordered 3 volumes (how many stories will that be?)
4. Phonics: read, spell, and write words with a long vowel and silent e (Explode the Code); make sentences from magnetic words.
5. Art: art and California history class: present artwork to the class; discuss tattoos of the Mojave indians; study a clay doll of a mother and child made by the Mojave people in the early 20th century; make a clay coil pot and a clay doll; make and play a native American stick game.
6. Handwriting: copy information about the Mojave doll artwork into art notebook; write answers to Explode the Code worksheet.
7. Read Aloud: The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island, Herge.
8. P.E.: park time.

Happy Thanksgiving!