2nd Grade Activities: Week 32
RELIGION: daily prayer; review questions, prayers, 10 Commandments, and attend class in preparation for 1st Communion; attend Mass.
MATH: 1- and 2-digit addition and subtraction, word problems; purchase items with a gift card: do simple addition to keep within budget; take standardized test; do exercises in Kumon: My Book of Telling Time: Lerning about Minutes.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words; learn rules about breaking 2-syllable words.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics and Math study; read signs, comics, websites, books; IM and email with Dad.
READING/COMPREHENSION: take standardized test; online reading: A Apple Pie, Kate Greenaway.
HANDWRITING: write items on a grocery list; write titles and number pages of homemade books.
CREATIVE WRITING: make another book about Super Squirrel.
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants, caterpillars; study a gopher snake; collect leaves, rocks, flowers, petals; watch Eyewitness: Mammal video.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters and phrases; sing Chinese songs. Attend Spanish story time.
ART: learn about 3-dimensional shapes and sculpture, create clay sculptures: cat; dog; and birds, eggs, baby birds in a nest -- in discovery in art class; make miniature food out of modeling clay -- carrots, tomatoes, brussel sprouts, pumpkins -- for a miniature garden for little Easter bunnies.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing made-up songs.
P.E.: park time; softball; play with dogs at the dog park.
READ ALOUD: folk tales, fairy tales, and fables from A Child's Book of Stories: Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales from Around the World, Children's Classics, Random House; finish The Cobble Street Cousins: In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen, Cynthia Rylant.
MATH: 1- and 2-digit addition and subtraction, word problems; purchase items with a gift card: do simple addition to keep within budget; take standardized test; do exercises in Kumon: My Book of Telling Time: Lerning about Minutes.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and answer questions containing two and three-syllable words; learn rules about breaking 2-syllable words.
READING/SPELLING: reading in Phonics and Math study; read signs, comics, websites, books; IM and email with Dad.
READING/COMPREHENSION: take standardized test; online reading: A Apple Pie, Kate Greenaway.
HANDWRITING: write items on a grocery list; write titles and number pages of homemade books.
CREATIVE WRITING: make another book about Super Squirrel.
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants, caterpillars; study a gopher snake; collect leaves, rocks, flowers, petals; watch Eyewitness: Mammal video.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters and phrases; sing Chinese songs. Attend Spanish story time.
ART: learn about 3-dimensional shapes and sculpture, create clay sculptures: cat; dog; and birds, eggs, baby birds in a nest -- in discovery in art class; make miniature food out of modeling clay -- carrots, tomatoes, brussel sprouts, pumpkins -- for a miniature garden for little Easter bunnies.
MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing made-up songs.
P.E.: park time; softball; play with dogs at the dog park.
READ ALOUD: folk tales, fairy tales, and fables from A Child's Book of Stories: Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales from Around the World, Children's Classics, Random House; finish The Cobble Street Cousins: In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen, Cynthia Rylant.
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