Saturday, December 16, 2006

2nd Grade Activities: Week 17



Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Reading: signs; posters at the library; Dog's Colorful Day: A Messy Story about Colors and Counting, Emma Dodd;
3. Read Aloud: Leo Cockroach . . . Toy Tester, Kevin O'Malley;
Mrs. Greenberg's Messy Hanukkah, Linda Glaser.
4. Art: make a pop-up greeting card (inspired by a craft book); make drawings of phoenix, cat, dog, peacock; practice writing some Chinese characters.
5. Computer: arrange decorations in Christmas scenes; save to files:
http://www.growley.com/cmas/index.html
6. Math: Little Animals website: simple addition; write numbers in sequence counting by 2s; solve a word problem.
7. Language Arts: Little Animals website: rhyming words; answer questions about words and sentences containing sh, br and cr consonant blends (Explode the Code 3).
8. Music: listen to Mediterranean folk music radio station:
http://www.live365.com/stations/mediterranean_folk

Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Language Arts: read signs; read text on a Christmas website; reading on Little Animals website.
3. Homeschool meeting: present art and other projects.
4. Library time.
5. Music/Dance: watch The Tales of Beatrix Potter, by England's Royal Ballet Company, Anchor Bay DVD; listen to Mediterranean folk music.

Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: do word problems from Flip Over Math: Addition and Subtraction (Learning Resources) with connecting people (counted by 2s to count 26 children in one of the problems).
Flip Over Math.
3. Reading/Phonics: do exercises with ai and ay in Explode the Code 3.
4. History: read from Sacagawea: Guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Hal Marcovitz; draw a paper doll, food, and other items to go with it.
5. Science/Nature: read about and draw prairie animals: the pronghorn, prairie dog, jackrabbit, meadowlark, bison, rattlesnake, coyote, and prairie chicken; look at locations of animals on a North American map; from the book Prairie Animals, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
6. Handwriting: make a list of prairie animals.
7. Spanish: story time at the library.
8. P.E.: park time.

Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: more Flip Over Math word problems: addition and subtraction with connecting people; number of the day: how many ways can you make 14?; "10 tens are 100."; count the rows and columns of a wall of tiles in order to calculate the total.
3. Phonics: do exercises with words beginning with sh and wh (Explode the Code 3).
4. Handwriting: explore Montessori sandpaper letters and numbers.
5. Music: attend choir rehearsal -- listen to music of Tomas Luis de Victoria, Missa O magnum mysterium and
William Byrd, Mass for Four Voices.

Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer; attend Mass.
2. Math: word problems using quarters and dimes (Flip over Math); how many ways can you make the number 15: 10+5, 14+1, 16-1.
3. Phonics: do exercises with words beginning with sh and wh (Explode the Code 3).
4. P.E.: park time.
5. Art: draw a dove representing the Holy Spirit.
6. Read Aloud: The Adventures of Tintin: Land of Black Gold, Herge.

Monday, December 11, 2006

2nd Grade Activities: Week 16



Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read Gospel and Psalm of the day.
2. Math: connect the dots activity 1 to 80; solve addition problems:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/numbers/ch1.shtml
3. Art: color Jesse tree ornaments for Advent; color and paste Christmas tree ornaments on a paper tree; color St. Nicholas ornaments.
4. Science/Nature: observe ants, spider, birds, fish.
5. Technology: computer text and photo manipulation; select and add text and photos to blog.
6. Phonics/Spelling: activities in Explode the Code 3: reading and spelling words with sh and long vowel sounds; some reading activities at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac

Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about the saint of the day; read "Preparing for Our Savior" (Faith and Life 2).
2. Math: solve addition problems; write answers to word problems about ordering things sequentially from right or left .
3. Phonics/Spelling: exercises with sh, ck, ing (Explode the Code 3).
4. Art: attend art and California history class; present drawing to the class; learn about landscape painting; paint a landscape with acrylics; paint the coil pot, clay doll, and ornaments created in the last class; draw pet fish in his fish bowl.
5. Handwriting: write 1-word answers to math problems.

Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read about St. Nicholas.
2. Reading/Spelling: IM with Dad; read three paragraphs about baby Koko:
http://www.koko.org/kidsclub/babykoko/index.html
read some online books and do some rhyming exercises on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/menu.shtml
3. Science/Nature: watch Popular Mechanics: Super Sea Creatures and Awesome Ocean Adventures DVD.
4. Spanish: story time at the library.
5. P.E.: play at the park.

Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: solve word problems about sequential order and adding tens and ones to compare amounts (Primary Mathematics: Intensive Practice 1A).
3. Reading/Writing/Spelling: write answers to exercises with sh consonant blend (Explode the Code).
4. Music: attend choir rehearsal.

Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer; Mass attendance.
2. Math: play Math Blaster (simple addition and subtraction problems).
3. Language Arts: read and spell for instant messaging; read captions on family photos (flickr.com) and add comments (reading and spelling, keyboarding).
4. Art: color Christmas coloring pages and hang them up at home.
5. P.E.: flamenco dance class.
6. Music: attend choir rehearsal and performance.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

2nd Grade Activities: Week 15



Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read and discuss "Obeying God Our Father", "God Gives Us His Laws": Faith and Life 2; read the story of Noah from the Bible.
2. Math: simple addition and subtraction; add and subtract multiples of 10.
3. Phonics/Spelling/Reading: practice reading and spelling words with long vowels ending with silent e, consonant blends, short vowels; computer IM chat; read Sunday comics, signs, video and book covers, directions in workbooks.
4. Art: make several paper crafts from: The Jumbo Book of Paper Crafts, Amanda Lewis.
5. Science/Nature: observe snails and ants; read about the pronghorn and the prairie dog from Treasury of American Wildlife: Prairie Animals, Encyclopaedia Britannica; read in the news about the Russian cosmonaut hitting a golf ball into orbit from the International Space Station.
6. History: read Abraham Lincoln's 1863 proclamation that a national day of thanksgiving to God be observed:
http://www.classicallibrary.org/lincoln/thanksgiving.htm
and one paragraph bio.: http://www.classicallibrary.org/lincoln/index.htm .
Reference: the Project Gutenberg files:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14721/14721-h/14721-h.htm#68
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, by Abraham Lincoln, Edited by Merwin Roe.
7. Read Aloud:

Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Creative Writing: write and illustrate a story for children, called Little Duck.
3. Reading/Spelling/Typing: IM with Dad and cousins; read her own book: Little Duck.
4. Science/Nature: observe ants.
5. Math: solve word problems about sequential order and relative measurement.
6. P.E.: park time.
7. Art: coloring pages.

Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Reading/Spelling/Typing: IM with Dad and relatives.
3. Math: solve simple addition word problems; measure items in non-standard units; compare sizes of items.
4. Phonics/Spelling: practice reading and spelling words with long vowels ending with silent e, consonant blends (Explode the Code 3).
5. Spanish: story time at the library.
6. P.E.: park time.
7. Read Aloud: from The Adventures of Tintin: The Seven Crystal Balls, Herge.

Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Reading/Spelling/Typing: IM with Dad.
3. Math: play addition games on Math Blaster DVD; Math questions: "Mom, what do five fives make?" "What do 3 fives make?"; "How much is 5 times 100?" "How about 5 times 90", etc. all the way down to 20; play Concentration-type memory games with Chinese numbers, and with Roman numerals:
http://www.numbernut.com/basic/activities/index.shtml
4. Music: attend choir rehearsal.
5. Art: draw animals.
6. Handwriting: practice writing numbers.

Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer; read "I Choose to Love God" (Faith and Life 2); attend Mass.
2. Music: read children's picture book bio. of Johann Sebastian Bach: Sebastian: A Book About Bach, Jeanette Winter; review various note values, the notes middle C, D, E, and basic musical notation; write a piece of music using three notes; listen to music of Bach on internet radio:
http://www.platforma.pl/bach/eng/index.phtml
3. P.E.: attend Flamenco class.
4. Science/Nature: observe ants and fish.
5. Art: draw animals.
6. Handwriting: practice writing some upper and lowercase letters and some numbers.
7. Read Aloud: from Tintin: The Prisoners of the Sun.