2nd Grade Activities: Week 22
RELIGION: daily prayer; study Good Shepherd Catholic Catechism in preparation for 1st Communion; attend Mass.
MATH: do problems in the book: Can You Count in Greek: Exploring Ancient Number Systems (Judy and Kathy Leimbach): tally, Egyptian: read and write numbers in each; solve 13 word problems from Techniques of Problem Solving: Problem Deck A: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and money problems; use Montessori place value cards to make large numbers (up to the hundred millions).
PHONICS: work in Explode the Code 3: review the sounds of long e, a, and o in vowel diagraphs: ee, ea, ai, ay, oa, ow; watch Between the Lions: Bug Beard and Pigs Aplenty.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books; read some comics, pages from children's dictionary, websites, book and video titles, signs; IM with relatives.
HANDWRITING: write one-word answers in Explode the Code workbook and Catechism book; do two handwriting worksheets.
SCIENCE/NATURE: distinguish between several different types of birds; rescue ants from the spiders and start an ant farm; write a one-page report about the ant farm; visit academy of sciences: observe penguins, tidepool creatures, fish. Nature videos: Eyewitness Videos: Elephant, Arctic and Antarctic, Amphibian. Care of pet fish, composting worms, garden snails.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: counting in Spanish.
ART: color in Catechism workbook; draw mascot and make a poster for the Fighting Irish (Notre Dame); draw ants in tunnels in an ant hill.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; read along and sing some music during Mass; sing Angels We Have Heard on High and Found a Peanut.
P.E.: attend softball practices; park time.
READ ALOUD: Zack's Alligator, Shirley Mozelle;
Buzby, Julia Hoban;
The Lighthouse Children, Syd Hoff;
No Fighting, No Biting!, Else Homelund Minarik;
Come Down Now, Flying Cow!, Timothy Roland;
Bessie's Bed, Terry Webb Harshman.
HISTORY: read from The Story of the World I: The Old Kingdom of Egypt: Making Mummies and Egyptian Pyramids.
Explore the Pyramid and the Sphinx online:
NOVA Online/Pyramids—The Inside Story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/khufuunflo.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/sphinx.html
Read The Boston Coffee Party, Doreen Rappaport (historical fiction).
CULTURAL STUDIES: watch the video: Children's Stories from Africa 2: music, dance, and African fables, Nandi Nyembe.
MATH: do problems in the book: Can You Count in Greek: Exploring Ancient Number Systems (Judy and Kathy Leimbach): tally, Egyptian: read and write numbers in each; solve 13 word problems from Techniques of Problem Solving: Problem Deck A: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and money problems; use Montessori place value cards to make large numbers (up to the hundred millions).
PHONICS: work in Explode the Code 3: review the sounds of long e, a, and o in vowel diagraphs: ee, ea, ai, ay, oa, ow; watch Between the Lions: Bug Beard and Pigs Aplenty.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books; read some comics, pages from children's dictionary, websites, book and video titles, signs; IM with relatives.
HANDWRITING: write one-word answers in Explode the Code workbook and Catechism book; do two handwriting worksheets.
SCIENCE/NATURE: distinguish between several different types of birds; rescue ants from the spiders and start an ant farm; write a one-page report about the ant farm; visit academy of sciences: observe penguins, tidepool creatures, fish. Nature videos: Eyewitness Videos: Elephant, Arctic and Antarctic, Amphibian. Care of pet fish, composting worms, garden snails.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: counting in Spanish.
ART: color in Catechism workbook; draw mascot and make a poster for the Fighting Irish (Notre Dame); draw ants in tunnels in an ant hill.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; read along and sing some music during Mass; sing Angels We Have Heard on High and Found a Peanut.
P.E.: attend softball practices; park time.
READ ALOUD: Zack's Alligator, Shirley Mozelle;
Buzby, Julia Hoban;
The Lighthouse Children, Syd Hoff;
No Fighting, No Biting!, Else Homelund Minarik;
Come Down Now, Flying Cow!, Timothy Roland;
Bessie's Bed, Terry Webb Harshman.
HISTORY: read from The Story of the World I: The Old Kingdom of Egypt: Making Mummies and Egyptian Pyramids.
Explore the Pyramid and the Sphinx online:
NOVA Online/Pyramids—The Inside Story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/khufuunflo.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/sphinx.html
Read The Boston Coffee Party, Doreen Rappaport (historical fiction).
CULTURAL STUDIES: watch the video: Children's Stories from Africa 2: music, dance, and African fables, Nandi Nyembe.
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