2nd Grade Activities: Week 18

Monday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: solve story problems in Flip Over Math; watch video about money and saving.
3. Art: draw animals from the video: Animals in the Bible.
4. Read Aloud: The Adventures of Tintin: The Shooting Star, Herge.
5. Reading: a story from McGuffey reader 2.

Tuesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Language Arts: read and write a little Morse code.
3. Art: art and California history class: build a model of Mission Santa Barbara.
4. P.E.: outside play.
5. Music: listen to acappella Christmas music:
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6. Math: do 31 mazes (Kumon: Amazing Mazes).

Wednesday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Math: connect and color dot-to-dot Christmas tree, (numbers to 50).
3. Spanish: story time at the library.
4. Science/Nature: read some of The Home Planet, ed. Kevin W. Kelley, and look at the photographs of various parts of the earth from space.
The Association of Space Explorers
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5. Art: color the scene after solving a maze puzzle.
6. Language Arts: work on Morse code:
Morse code translator
7. P.E.: park time

Thursday
1. Religion: daily prayer.
2. Science/Nature: care of fish; bury fish; observe baby tooth under a magnifying glass.
3. Reading: Back Pack Books: This Little Cow; This Little Pig; This Little Lamb; This Little Hen.
4. Math: listen to explanation for use of odd/even numbers in book pagination.
5. Music: listen to acappella Christmas music.
6. Handwriting: write letters (words) and both arabic and roman numerals.
7. Art: draw betta fish; color unfinished wooden nutcrackers with Sharpie markers.

Friday
1. Religion: daily prayer; Mass attendance.
2. Music: listen to Christmas choral music.
3. Reading: read Christmas song lyrics to sing carols.
4. Art: drawing and coloring: make a book; make and wrap Christmas presents.
5. Math: money story problems, addition, subtraction, and multiplication with nickels, dimes, and pennies (Flip Over Math).