Thursday, May 24, 2007

2nd Grade Activities: Week 37

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; read about some saints in Saints of the Americas Coloring Book, Anne Joan Flanagan, FSP.

MATH: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with orange sections, 1/2s, 1/4s, 1/8s; imagine 16ths and 32nds; telling time; oral math including skip counting; solve online word problems:
http://www.getsmarter.org/flash/math34/index.cfm
http://www.getsmarter.org/games/images/jumpin.htm

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5: read and solve exercises with qu words.

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS: reading in Phonics and Language Arts study; read signs, comics, websites; IM with relatives; workbook exercises: alphabetical order and story order.

READING: Partial book: The Sesame Street Treasury: Starring the Number 2 and the Letter B; On My Way with Sesame Street: My ABC's;
The Sesame Street Library: Featuring the Number 15;
Science Works: A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of Water, Jacqui Bailey.

Whole book: The Sesame Street Pet Show, Emily Perl Kingsley;
Mulan II: Lesson Number One, and A Hero's Journey;
Numbears: A Counting Book, Kathleen Hague;
Learn Shapes and Colors with the Munch Bunch, Giles Reed;
The Berenstain Bears and the Bully, Stan & Jan Berenstain;
Curious George Makes Pancakes, Margret & H.A. Rey;
Chester's Way, Kevin Henkes;
Lovable Lyle, Bernard Waber

HANDWRITING: writing in language arts, Chinese, and phonics exercises; make lists.

SCIENCE/NATURE: Observation and care of fish, ants, snail, banana slug; watch Eyewitness: Ape video; study books about dinosaurs:
DK Eye Wonder: Dinosaur;
Read-and-Find-Out Science: Dinosaur Babies;
Dinosaur World: Long-necked Dinosaurs, Robin Birch;
Dinosaurs Big and Small, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld;

Answer questions in online science quiz:
http://www.getsmarter.org/flash/science34/index.cfm

Ask questions to research:
"What color are a blue jay's eggs?"
http://www.hope.edu/academic/biology/naturepreserve/Birds/Cyacri.htm

"What happens when a kangaroo has 2 babies? Is she able to carry and take care of both of them?"
Pictures of Kangaroo mom with twin joeys:
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/26/eng20070426_369990.html

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: review Pinyin tones and pronunciation; practice speaking and writing Chinese characters; answer questions orally; Spanish: read Colors/Los colores, Clare Beaton; attend Spanish story time.

READ ALOUD:
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster;
In a People House, Theo. LeSieg;
All About Animals: Lions, Sarah Albee;

ART: make family of indian children (2 baby girls and 2 baby boys, a boy, girl, and big big sister) and their things (4 pacifiers, 4 rattles, 1 blanket, some dough, a paper, and a pen, and some tobacco, tobacco pipe, gun, bird, sword, and boxes of stuff) out of modeling clay; make mama kangaroo and babies from modeling clay; make 2 small blue jays in a nest; color and assemble two small "sun windsocks" (paper, cardboard and crepe paper).

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing made-up songs.

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