2nd Grade Activities: Week 28
RELIGION: daily prayer; review questions, answers, and prayers in preparation for 1st Confession; attend class and 1st Confession; attend Mass.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics, Math, and Catechism study; read some signs, comics, websites, early readers, and picture books; IM with Dad.
READING: Busy Dinah Dinosaur, B.G. Hennessy;
Silly Ruby, Catherine Friend;
Carl's Birthday, Alexandra Day.
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish and ants.
Watch Nature videos:
Do Pigs Scratch Their Backs? And Other Questions on the Farm, Farm Discovery Center video;
Eyewitness videos: Insect, Desert, Cat, Shell.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: Chinese: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; Attend Chinese class; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; attend Spanish story time.
Watch video: Stories from the Asian Tradition: Tikki Tikki Tembo, The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks.
ART: attend great artists class; study Da Vinci and some of his methods of analysis and drawing; draw and color; arrange and paste paper owl.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing children's songs; sing made-up song and dance; follow some musical notes while the choir sings.
P.E.: softball game; park time.
READ ALOUD: Betsy - Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace;
Days of the Blackbird: A Tale of Northern Italy, Tomie dePaola;
Jamie O'Rourke and the Pooka, Tomie dePaola;
First Day, Joan Rankin.
HISTORY: Read from The Story of the World I: about Ancient Africa, including some African stories; the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, and some of the Pharaohs, including Amenhotep IV (a monotheist), and King Tut; the story of Moses and the Israelites leaving Egypt; Phoenician Traders, the cities of Tyre and Carthage, Phoenician glass-blowing.
Read a little about the history and famous voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, the first circumnavigation of the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
and some of the related incidents and places.
Read Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Anderson.
GEOGRAPHY: locate Egypt, Africa, and the Sahara Desert on the globe; find the approximate location of Nubia, Canaan, and the Red Sea; locate places on Magellan's route on the globe; note locations of Carthage, Tyre, Mediterranean Sea on a map; sing a made-up geography song about places she could name.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics, Math, and Catechism study; read some signs, comics, websites, early readers, and picture books; IM with Dad.
READING: Busy Dinah Dinosaur, B.G. Hennessy;
Silly Ruby, Catherine Friend;
Carl's Birthday, Alexandra Day.
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish and ants.
Watch Nature videos:
Do Pigs Scratch Their Backs? And Other Questions on the Farm, Farm Discovery Center video;
Eyewitness videos: Insect, Desert, Cat, Shell.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE/CULTURE: Chinese: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; Attend Chinese class; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; attend Spanish story time.
Watch video: Stories from the Asian Tradition: Tikki Tikki Tembo, The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks.
ART: attend great artists class; study Da Vinci and some of his methods of analysis and drawing; draw and color; arrange and paste paper owl.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing children's songs; sing made-up song and dance; follow some musical notes while the choir sings.
P.E.: softball game; park time.
READ ALOUD: Betsy - Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace;
Days of the Blackbird: A Tale of Northern Italy, Tomie dePaola;
Jamie O'Rourke and the Pooka, Tomie dePaola;
First Day, Joan Rankin.
HISTORY: Read from The Story of the World I: about Ancient Africa, including some African stories; the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, and some of the Pharaohs, including Amenhotep IV (a monotheist), and King Tut; the story of Moses and the Israelites leaving Egypt; Phoenician Traders, the cities of Tyre and Carthage, Phoenician glass-blowing.
Read a little about the history and famous voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, the first circumnavigation of the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
and some of the related incidents and places.
Read Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Anderson.
GEOGRAPHY: locate Egypt, Africa, and the Sahara Desert on the globe; find the approximate location of Nubia, Canaan, and the Red Sea; locate places on Magellan's route on the globe; note locations of Carthage, Tyre, Mediterranean Sea on a map; sing a made-up geography song about places she could name.
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