2nd Grade Activities: Week 33
RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass.
MATH: solve 14 simple addition problems online:
http://www.kidsnumbers.com/addition_regular.php
Solve 2- to 4-digit addition and subtraction problems; simple multiplication; solve and illustrate word problems; a few mental math problems, such as 6+7, 13+13; work on regrouping 10s. Watch Reading Rainbow: How Much is a Million video.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and identify 2-syllable words; learn where to break 2-syllable words ending in -le, and where to break those with vc/cv. Watch Between the Lions videos: Out in Outer Space, Too Cool, Hay Day. Spell some words orally; make word families with online spelling/phonics tool:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
READING: reading in Phonics and Math study; read signs, comics, websites, books; IM and email with relatives; retell a fable about the sun and the wind; look up items in tables of contents and dictionaries.
HANDWRITING: writing in math and phonics exercises; write items on a grocery list; write titles and number pages of homemade book; write titles on art compositions; compose a cardboard headstone for some little pets that died;
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants; draw a lot of animals; ; look for familiar animals in the picture guide: The Nature of California: An Introduction to Common Plants and Animals and Natural Attractions, James Kavanagh.
Watch nature videos: Eyewitness: Butterfly and Moth, Fish; Mother Nature Tales of Discovery: Castaways of Galapagos; Animal Safari: A Learning Journey, vol. 1: Wild World Habitats; Reading Rainbow: Bugs; Kids Explore America's National Parks.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; make a book with drawings of various fruits with the accompanying Chinese characters and Pinyin pronunciations; make another book with parts of the head; attend Spanish story time: learn about opposites; learn about GSL (gorilla sign language) in the video: A Conversation with Koko.
ART: attend great artists class: study Auguste Renoir's paintings and make an impressionistic painting of a floral boquet in a vase; coloring and pasting; butterfly coloring projects; make scenes with flower and animal stickers; draw a dolphin, a cat with kittens, elephant, mice and other animals from the video Eyewitness: Mammal.
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;
The Brass Ring, Nancy Tafuri;
If I Were a Lion, Sarah Weeks;
Smiley Shark, Ruth Galloway;
Rabbit Pirates: A Tale of the Spinach Main, Judy Cox;
Chicago and the Cat, Robin Michal Koontz;
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Iza Trapani;
GEOGRAPHY: look at an Atlas to follow the ocean-to-river route salmon travel to get to Salmon, Idaho.
MATH: solve 14 simple addition problems online:
http://www.kidsnumbers.com/addition_regular.php
Solve 2- to 4-digit addition and subtraction problems; simple multiplication; solve and illustrate word problems; a few mental math problems, such as 6+7, 13+13; work on regrouping 10s. Watch Reading Rainbow: How Much is a Million video.
PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and identify 2-syllable words; learn where to break 2-syllable words ending in -le, and where to break those with vc/cv. Watch Between the Lions videos: Out in Outer Space, Too Cool, Hay Day. Spell some words orally; make word families with online spelling/phonics tool:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
READING: reading in Phonics and Math study; read signs, comics, websites, books; IM and email with relatives; retell a fable about the sun and the wind; look up items in tables of contents and dictionaries.
HANDWRITING: writing in math and phonics exercises; write items on a grocery list; write titles and number pages of homemade book; write titles on art compositions; compose a cardboard headstone for some little pets that died;
SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants; draw a lot of animals; ; look for familiar animals in the picture guide: The Nature of California: An Introduction to Common Plants and Animals and Natural Attractions, James Kavanagh.
Watch nature videos: Eyewitness: Butterfly and Moth, Fish; Mother Nature Tales of Discovery: Castaways of Galapagos; Animal Safari: A Learning Journey, vol. 1: Wild World Habitats; Reading Rainbow: Bugs; Kids Explore America's National Parks.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; make a book with drawings of various fruits with the accompanying Chinese characters and Pinyin pronunciations; make another book with parts of the head; attend Spanish story time: learn about opposites; learn about GSL (gorilla sign language) in the video: A Conversation with Koko.
ART: attend great artists class: study Auguste Renoir's paintings and make an impressionistic painting of a floral boquet in a vase; coloring and pasting; butterfly coloring projects; make scenes with flower and animal stickers; draw a dolphin, a cat with kittens, elephant, mice and other animals from the video Eyewitness: Mammal.
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;
The Brass Ring, Nancy Tafuri;
If I Were a Lion, Sarah Weeks;
Smiley Shark, Ruth Galloway;
Rabbit Pirates: A Tale of the Spinach Main, Judy Cox;
Chicago and the Cat, Robin Michal Koontz;
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Iza Trapani;
GEOGRAPHY: look at an Atlas to follow the ocean-to-river route salmon travel to get to Salmon, Idaho.
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