2nd Grade Activities: Week 24
RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; read about several saints in Catholic Cardlinks: Patron Saints.
MATH: 2-digit subtraction and compare numbers on workbook pages; count and write total, draw correct number of items: Miquon Orange book; Solve 15 word problems from Techniques of Problem Solving A involving 2-digit subtraction, counting by 2s and 3s, comparing quantities, time and money, calculating distance (addition), measuring, adding more than 2 quantities, subtracting more than 2 quantities, simple multiplication, addition to 3 digits.
PHONICS: work in Explode the Code 4: add endings such as -ful, -ing, -est, -ed, -ness to words to make new words; read and answer questions with compound words and other 2-syllable words.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books; read some comics, websites, book and video titles, signs; IM with relatives. Review some punctuation: comma and apostrophe from Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynn Truss; play online spelling games.
READING: read word problems for math; read and questions in phnoics workbook. Emergent readers: Our Earth, Lisa Trumbauer;
Our Heroes, Brenda Parkes; Play Ball!, David Martin; Where We Live, Brenda Parkes; read text on websites, IM, and all around her.
HANDWRITING: write greetings on valentines; label diagrams and artwork.
SCIENCE/NATURE: observation and care of fish and ants; watch Eyewitness videos: Prehistoric Life, Planets, Jungle, Cat, Survival; read Leaf Man, Lois Ehlert; watch video again about Koko and other gorillas learning sign language; do some virtual science activities on Big Science Comics CD-Rom, Theatrix Interactive.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: attend Spanish story time and Mandarin Chinese classes. Practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; learn about the traditions of Chinese New Year; look at native costumes and taste Chinese treats.
ART: make valentines; draw and color; sketch and color fruit; computer art: draw and label parts of a dog.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; read along and sing some music (Gregorian chant) during Mass; sing made-up songs.
P.E.: softball practice; park time.
READ ALOUD: The Adventures of Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald.
HISTORY: read from The Story of the World I: Sumeria: King Sargon (2334 B.C.), The Jewish People: God Speaks to Abraham. Also read the story of the call of Abraham in the Bible.
MATH: 2-digit subtraction and compare numbers on workbook pages; count and write total, draw correct number of items: Miquon Orange book; Solve 15 word problems from Techniques of Problem Solving A involving 2-digit subtraction, counting by 2s and 3s, comparing quantities, time and money, calculating distance (addition), measuring, adding more than 2 quantities, subtracting more than 2 quantities, simple multiplication, addition to 3 digits.
PHONICS: work in Explode the Code 4: add endings such as -ful, -ing, -est, -ed, -ness to words to make new words; read and answer questions with compound words and other 2-syllable words.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books; read some comics, websites, book and video titles, signs; IM with relatives. Review some punctuation: comma and apostrophe from Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynn Truss; play online spelling games.
READING: read word problems for math; read and questions in phnoics workbook. Emergent readers: Our Earth, Lisa Trumbauer;
Our Heroes, Brenda Parkes; Play Ball!, David Martin; Where We Live, Brenda Parkes; read text on websites, IM, and all around her.
HANDWRITING: write greetings on valentines; label diagrams and artwork.
SCIENCE/NATURE: observation and care of fish and ants; watch Eyewitness videos: Prehistoric Life, Planets, Jungle, Cat, Survival; read Leaf Man, Lois Ehlert; watch video again about Koko and other gorillas learning sign language; do some virtual science activities on Big Science Comics CD-Rom, Theatrix Interactive.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: attend Spanish story time and Mandarin Chinese classes. Practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; learn about the traditions of Chinese New Year; look at native costumes and taste Chinese treats.
ART: make valentines; draw and color; sketch and color fruit; computer art: draw and label parts of a dog.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; read along and sing some music (Gregorian chant) during Mass; sing made-up songs.
P.E.: softball practice; park time.
READ ALOUD: The Adventures of Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald.
HISTORY: read from The Story of the World I: Sumeria: King Sargon (2334 B.C.), The Jewish People: God Speaks to Abraham. Also read the story of the call of Abraham in the Bible.
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