2nd Grade Activities: Week 19
RELIGION: daily prayer; study Good Shepherd Catholic Catechism in preparation for 1st Communion; attend Mass.
MATH: budgeting with a $20 gift card, deciding and calculating what craft supplies to purchase with it; Flip Over Math: addition, subtraction, and multiplication exercises including addition with nickels and dimes; online games: addition, subtraction, sequential numbers. Look at Montessori bead material for multiplication, and make large numbers with the thousand, hundred, tens, and unit cards.
PHONICS: work in Explode the Code 3 with the consonant blends th, wh, ch, tch, ng, ck, and long vowel words with silent e; watch Fran Allison's Easy Phonics video:
WRITING: write a book: Book 1 of Sentences for Kids.
READING: read Book 1 of Sentences for Kids. Read signs, book and video covers, text on blogs and websites, comic books and comic strips.
READING/SPELLING: IM with Dad; send him Chinese characters cut and pasted from an internet translation site:
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/ime.html
Choose and add words to a Rolodex spelling list. Reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books.
HANDWRITING: write one-word answers in Explode the Code workbook and Catechism book; make a list of relatives to send notes to.
SCIENCE/NATURE: look for kids' news sites; find an article about a fish trained to play soccer :)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2006/02/trainfish.html
Observe two betta fish; make fish from modeling clay; watch Popular Mechanics for Kids: Gators & Dragons and Other Wild Beasts.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Japanese: copy Japanese characters from a video. Chinese: Listen to the CD Sing 'n Learn Chinese while following along in the book; copy the Chinese characters for mango, starfruits, pear, biscuits, ice cream, and fish from flash cards. Spanish: attend Spanish story time; watch cartoons in Spanish; look up words from Spanish newspaper [which came as packing material in a purse] to find the newspaper's website and look for items of interest to kids.
ART: color an unfinished birdhouse with Sharpie pens; draw cartoon characters; make cartoon characters and a bird from modeling clay; make a sports banner and posters for bedroom wall.
MUSIC: attend choir rehearsals and Chant Masses; listen to classical and contemporary music; read some music during Mass.
P.E.: attend softball team meeting and softball practices; park time.
READ ALOUD: The Adventures of Tintin: Desitnation Moon, and Explorers on the Moon, Herge; read from The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss.
MATH: budgeting with a $20 gift card, deciding and calculating what craft supplies to purchase with it; Flip Over Math: addition, subtraction, and multiplication exercises including addition with nickels and dimes; online games: addition, subtraction, sequential numbers. Look at Montessori bead material for multiplication, and make large numbers with the thousand, hundred, tens, and unit cards.
PHONICS: work in Explode the Code 3 with the consonant blends th, wh, ch, tch, ng, ck, and long vowel words with silent e; watch Fran Allison's Easy Phonics video:
WRITING: write a book: Book 1 of Sentences for Kids.
READING: read Book 1 of Sentences for Kids. Read signs, book and video covers, text on blogs and websites, comic books and comic strips.
READING/SPELLING: IM with Dad; send him Chinese characters cut and pasted from an internet translation site:
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/ime.html
Choose and add words to a Rolodex spelling list. Reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books.
HANDWRITING: write one-word answers in Explode the Code workbook and Catechism book; make a list of relatives to send notes to.
SCIENCE/NATURE: look for kids' news sites; find an article about a fish trained to play soccer :)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2006/02/trainfish.html
Observe two betta fish; make fish from modeling clay; watch Popular Mechanics for Kids: Gators & Dragons and Other Wild Beasts.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Japanese: copy Japanese characters from a video. Chinese: Listen to the CD Sing 'n Learn Chinese while following along in the book; copy the Chinese characters for mango, starfruits, pear, biscuits, ice cream, and fish from flash cards. Spanish: attend Spanish story time; watch cartoons in Spanish; look up words from Spanish newspaper [which came as packing material in a purse] to find the newspaper's website and look for items of interest to kids.
ART: color an unfinished birdhouse with Sharpie pens; draw cartoon characters; make cartoon characters and a bird from modeling clay; make a sports banner and posters for bedroom wall.
MUSIC: attend choir rehearsals and Chant Masses; listen to classical and contemporary music; read some music during Mass.
P.E.: attend softball team meeting and softball practices; park time.
READ ALOUD: The Adventures of Tintin: Desitnation Moon, and Explorers on the Moon, Herge; read from The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss.
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