Friday, May 18, 2007

2nd Grade Activities: Week 35

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; receive 1st Holy Communion.

MATH: review minutes in an hour for telling time; show times on the Judy Clock; draw a clock showing what time someone might get out of school; oral math, including counting to 100 by 5s and simple addition and subtraction.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 4: read and identify 2- and 3-syllable words; learn where to break 2-syllable words; begin Explode the Code 5.

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS: reading in Phonics, Language Arts, and Math study; read signs, comics, websites; IM and email with relatives; make up a story about how the turtle got his shell; do reading and grammar exercises, including punctuation, forming plurals, and correct form of the verb to be, in Second Grade Language workbook; use "invisible ink" to write a note.

HANDWRITING: writing in math, language arts, and phonics exercises; write items on grocery lists; writing practice in Kumon lowercase letters workbook.

SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants, snail, banana slug; answer questions in banana slug quiz:
http://www.crd.bc.ca/parks/kids.htm#
Water experiments: centrifugal force, etc.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; recite poem and song, and answer questions in front of the class; attend Spanish story time; watch videos in Spanish.

ART: make banana slugs and other characters out of modeling clay; attend great artists class: learn about Paul Gauguin's use of bright, non-standard colors in his landscapes; create a landscape using blue, red, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, peach; draw people and animals.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; make up songs and poems.

P.E.: park time; softball game; play with dogs at the dog park.

HISTORY: read an article about Queen Elizabeth II visiting the White House