2nd Grade Activities: Week 27
RELIGION: daily prayer; review questions, answers, and prayers in preparation for 1st Confession and 1st Communion; attend Mass; play kids' online activities at EWTN Catholic television network:
http://www.ewtn.com/ewtnkids/home.asp
MATH: raisin (and Joe's O's) math: come up with and solve 32 subtraction problems; look at the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in a book by this name, by Lynn Curlee, which compares the sizes of the various monuments with modern ones (pp. 34-35) and estimate how many children (at 4ft.), moms (at 5.5ft), dads (at 6ft.) it would take to reach the height of the Great Pyramid (500 ft.).
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words, and words ending in -ful, -ing, -est, -ed, or -ness; watch Between the Lions: Quest, Quest, Quest (video).
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics, Math, and Catechism study; read some signs, comics, websites, early readers, and picture books; IM with Dad.
READING: Legs, Miriam Frost;
The ABC Doghouse, Peter Lippman.
CREATIVE WRITING: begin a comic book with Dudley Do Right, Nell, and Dahlila Do Right of the Mounties.
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish and ants; Start Up Science workbook exercises: living vs. non-living things; creatures and their habitats; the stages of growth of some animals and plants; how seeds are spread; classify some animals into cats, dogs, rodents; learn specific names for various male and female animals and their young.
Watch lots of Nature videos [flu week]: See How They Grow: Forest Animals; Mother Nature Tales of Discovery: Penguins In Paradise; Amazing Animals: Animal Pets, Animal Survivors, Endangered Animals; Bug City: Ants; Eyewitness videos: Pond & River, Bear.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: Chinese: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; attend Chinese New Year Parade; Spanish: watch a Spanish Scooby-Doo video.
ART: Draw dragons, lions, firecrackers, drummer and acrobat from the Chinese New Year parade.
Read about several great artists: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), Marc Chagall (1889-1985), Paul Klee (1879-1940), in The Story Behind the Painting: Unforgettable Stories about the World's Greatest Painters and Their Masterpieces, Leo Rosten.
Make a short movie about a fish on a Philippine reef from the site:
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/amazingreef/
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing children's songs; watch This Land Is Your Land, The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie (folk music, video).
P.E.: softball game; park time.
READ ALOUD: Betsy - Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace;
Baby Baboon, Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway;
Creatures of the Night, Stephen Brooks;
Whales Passing, Eve Bunting;
Lucille, Arnold Lobel;
Old Turtle's Soccer Team, Leonard Kessler.
HISTORY: Read from The Story of the World I: Ancient India and Ancient China; learn about Chinese pictograms, silk, bronze, rice farming, early trade, and the importance of civilizations developing around a river.
Look at the Greek alphabet and Egyptian hieroglyphics in The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs: The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Carol Donoughue.
Watch Eyewitness: Flight [Nature's and Man's]; do some online activities exploring some of Leonardo Da Vinci's creative ideas:
http://www.universalleonardo.org/activities.php
GEOGRAPHY: locate the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates Rivers on map and globe; locate India and China, the Indus, Yellow, and Yangtze Rivers.
http://www.ewtn.com/ewtnkids/home.asp
MATH: raisin (and Joe's O's) math: come up with and solve 32 subtraction problems; look at the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in a book by this name, by Lynn Curlee, which compares the sizes of the various monuments with modern ones (pp. 34-35) and estimate how many children (at 4ft.), moms (at 5.5ft), dads (at 6ft.) it would take to reach the height of the Great Pyramid (500 ft.).
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words, and words ending in -ful, -ing, -est, -ed, or -ness; watch Between the Lions: Quest, Quest, Quest (video).
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics, Math, and Catechism study; read some signs, comics, websites, early readers, and picture books; IM with Dad.
READING: Legs, Miriam Frost;
The ABC Doghouse, Peter Lippman.
CREATIVE WRITING: begin a comic book with Dudley Do Right, Nell, and Dahlila Do Right of the Mounties.
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish and ants; Start Up Science workbook exercises: living vs. non-living things; creatures and their habitats; the stages of growth of some animals and plants; how seeds are spread; classify some animals into cats, dogs, rodents; learn specific names for various male and female animals and their young.
Watch lots of Nature videos [flu week]: See How They Grow: Forest Animals; Mother Nature Tales of Discovery: Penguins In Paradise; Amazing Animals: Animal Pets, Animal Survivors, Endangered Animals; Bug City: Ants; Eyewitness videos: Pond & River, Bear.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: Chinese: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; attend Chinese New Year Parade; Spanish: watch a Spanish Scooby-Doo video.
ART: Draw dragons, lions, firecrackers, drummer and acrobat from the Chinese New Year parade.
Read about several great artists: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), Marc Chagall (1889-1985), Paul Klee (1879-1940), in The Story Behind the Painting: Unforgettable Stories about the World's Greatest Painters and Their Masterpieces, Leo Rosten.
Make a short movie about a fish on a Philippine reef from the site:
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/amazingreef/
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing children's songs; watch This Land Is Your Land, The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie (folk music, video).
P.E.: softball game; park time.
READ ALOUD: Betsy - Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace;
Baby Baboon, Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway;
Creatures of the Night, Stephen Brooks;
Whales Passing, Eve Bunting;
Lucille, Arnold Lobel;
Old Turtle's Soccer Team, Leonard Kessler.
HISTORY: Read from The Story of the World I: Ancient India and Ancient China; learn about Chinese pictograms, silk, bronze, rice farming, early trade, and the importance of civilizations developing around a river.
Look at the Greek alphabet and Egyptian hieroglyphics in The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs: The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Carol Donoughue.
Watch Eyewitness: Flight [Nature's and Man's]; do some online activities exploring some of Leonardo Da Vinci's creative ideas:
http://www.universalleonardo.org/activities.php
GEOGRAPHY: locate the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates Rivers on map and globe; locate India and China, the Indus, Yellow, and Yangtze Rivers.
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