2nd Grade Activities: Week 30
RELIGION: daily prayer; prayers in preparation for 1st Communion; attend Mass.
MATH: one and 2-digit addition and subtraction; compare 2 numbers, choose >, <, or = for each; more addition with 1 and 2-digit numbers.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words; learn about open (cv) and closed (cvc) syllables; learn some rules for breaking syllables.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics, and Math study; read signs, comics, websites, early readers, picture books, and chapter books; IM with Dad.
READING: some chapters from Betsy - Tacy and Tib;
My Brother, Ant, Betsy Byars;
National Geographic: Little Kids magazine: Panda Grows Up;
Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery, David A. Adler;
A Tiger Cub Grows Up, Joan Hewett.
HANDWRITING: practice a page of upper case and lower case H's and also a page of A's in Modern Manuscript:
http://www.janbrett.com/coloring_alphabet/alphabet_coloring_tracers_main.htm
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants, and worms;
explore Eyewitness Books: Whale: Discover the world of marine mammals -- from whales and dolphins to seals and walruses.
Watch National Geographic: SuperCroc, a 40-foot ancient crocodile, whose fossil remains were found in the Sahara; and Really Wild Animals: Wonders Down Under: animals of Australia, and Monkey Business and Other Family Fun; Eyewitness videos: Seashore, Sight, Trees, Insect.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; attend Spanish story time; watch cartoons in Spanish.
ART: attend great artists class; look at pictures of Auguste Rodin's sculptures; make clay sculptures: horse and porcupine; mix clay of primary colors to make new colors; make tiny toy food for twist-tie dolls out of modeling clay; draw, color, make twist-tie and clay creations; make a paper wolf mask.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing made-up songs; follow some music at Mass.
P.E.: softball game; park time; play at the dog park.
READ ALOUD: The Tale of Thomas Mead, Pat Hutchins;
Teeny Tiny, Jill Bennett;
Mrs. Brice's Mice, Syd Hoff;
Lionel at School, Stephen Krensky;
Rub-a-Dub-Dub, What's in the Tub, mary Blocksma.
HISTORY: Read from The Story of the World I: Early people of the Americas: Nazca, Olmecs, Ancient tribes of North America; Rome: conquerors, builders, government, gods, gladiators, wars; India: people of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, the castes, Siddhartha and Buddhism.
GEOGRAPHY: locate the various places we read about in The Story of the World and nature videos on map/globe; explore our neighborhood and other places with Google Earth.
MATH: one and 2-digit addition and subtraction; compare 2 numbers, choose >, <, or = for each; more addition with 1 and 2-digit numbers.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words; learn about open (cv) and closed (cvc) syllables; learn some rules for breaking syllables.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics, and Math study; read signs, comics, websites, early readers, picture books, and chapter books; IM with Dad.
READING: some chapters from Betsy - Tacy and Tib;
My Brother, Ant, Betsy Byars;
National Geographic: Little Kids magazine: Panda Grows Up;
Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery, David A. Adler;
A Tiger Cub Grows Up, Joan Hewett.
HANDWRITING: practice a page of upper case and lower case H's and also a page of A's in Modern Manuscript:
http://www.janbrett.com/coloring_alphabet/alphabet_coloring_tracers_main.htm
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants, and worms;
explore Eyewitness Books: Whale: Discover the world of marine mammals -- from whales and dolphins to seals and walruses.
Watch National Geographic: SuperCroc, a 40-foot ancient crocodile, whose fossil remains were found in the Sahara; and Really Wild Animals: Wonders Down Under: animals of Australia, and Monkey Business and Other Family Fun; Eyewitness videos: Seashore, Sight, Trees, Insect.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; attend Spanish story time; watch cartoons in Spanish.
ART: attend great artists class; look at pictures of Auguste Rodin's sculptures; make clay sculptures: horse and porcupine; mix clay of primary colors to make new colors; make tiny toy food for twist-tie dolls out of modeling clay; draw, color, make twist-tie and clay creations; make a paper wolf mask.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing made-up songs; follow some music at Mass.
P.E.: softball game; park time; play at the dog park.
READ ALOUD: The Tale of Thomas Mead, Pat Hutchins;
Teeny Tiny, Jill Bennett;
Mrs. Brice's Mice, Syd Hoff;
Lionel at School, Stephen Krensky;
Rub-a-Dub-Dub, What's in the Tub, mary Blocksma.
HISTORY: Read from The Story of the World I: Early people of the Americas: Nazca, Olmecs, Ancient tribes of North America; Rome: conquerors, builders, government, gods, gladiators, wars; India: people of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, the castes, Siddhartha and Buddhism.
GEOGRAPHY: locate the various places we read about in The Story of the World and nature videos on map/globe; explore our neighborhood and other places with Google Earth.
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