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.