2nd Grade Activities: Week 25

RELIGION: daily prayer; study basic prayers and First Communion and Confession questions in preparation for 1st Communion; attend Mass, receive ashes and discuss Lent and Ash Wednesday.

MATH: solve word problems from Techniques of Problem Solving A involving simple addition and subtraction.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and spell 2-syllable words ending in -ful, -ing, -est, -ed, -ness.

READING/SPELLING: reading in Catechism, Phonics, and Math books; read some comics, websites, book and video titles, signs; IM with relatives.

READING: read some text Science magazine mentioned below; science workbook; picture book: So Many Bunnies, a Bedtime abc and Counting Book, Rick Walton.
Early readers: Pokémon Junior: Night in the haunted tower; Pokémon Junior: Meowth, the Big Mouth. A Pony for a Princess, Andrea Posner-Sanchez. Comic book: The Amazing Spider-Man #1, Marvel Comics reprint of 1962 edition.

HANDWRITING: one page of handwriting patterns from Italic handwriting Series B, Getty & Dubay.

SCIENCE/NATURE: observation and care of fish and ants; watch Eyewitness videos: Bird; Pond & River; Volcano. Peruse Feb 2007 issue of Scholastic: Super Science kids' magazine. Do Big Science Comics virtual science experiments involving non-standard weights and measures; collect rocks and leaves; finish ant tunnel drawings; workbook pages about care of pets; peruse New Enclyclopedia of the Cat.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: attend Spanish story time and Mandarin Chinese classes. Practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; learn more about the traditions of Chinese New Year. Meet Chinese author Ying Chang Compestine: some of her books are: The Story of Noodles, D is for Dragon Dance, The Story of Paper, The Real Story of Stone Soup, The Story of Kites, The Runaway Rice Cake, The Story of Chopsticks, Secrets of Fat-Free Chinese Cooking.

ART: Discoveries in Art class: study of lines (observation) and finding the edges (contours) of objects; trace edges of objects in black marker and fill in with bright colors.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; read along and sing some music during Mass;

COMPUTER SKILLS: learn about and run some UNIX commands; set up and fill in a calendar on the computer; set up an iTunes playlist of favorite songs and stations.

P.E.: softball practice; park time.

READ ALOUD: Our Old House, Susan Vizurraga;
D is for Dragon Dance, Ying Chang Compestine;
Owl at Home, Arnold Lobel.