Week of January 31-February 6

Bible Study, Handwriting

Continued reading aloud from Matthew, a chapter a day. Faith memorized and copied a verse each day.

Reading

The Wind in the Willows, by Grahame.

Spelling

Grade 2 Spelling Skills Lesson 16 Words with Long e

Page 74 Say and Listen, Think and Sort.

Page 75 Word groups and Synonyms.

Page 76 Proofreading.

Page 77 Capital Letters.

Test.

Writing, Spelling, Art, Computer Skills

Faith wrote a poem called The Ball. She illustrated it. Learned about "rough drafts" and "final drafts". Scanned in the artwork and then she typed the poem again on the page, editing her spelling and punctuation. Then she printed out the final work, with plans to make a book of poems.

Reading, Writing
Grade 2 Reading for the Gifted Student

Page 73 About an Ant's Body (short answer)

Page 74 The Princess and the Pea (mad libs)

Page 75 What's the Matter? (multiple choice)

Math
Math-U-See Beta, Lesson 14 Measuring inches and a foot

Systematic Review 14D

Systematic Review 14E

Systematic Review 14F

Music
Bastien Piano for the Young Beginner Primer A.
Pages 1-14. Review of songs.

Bastien Theory & Technic for the Young Beginner Primer A.
Pages 13-16. Bar Lines. Practiced quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes. Introduced 6 exercises to complete twice a day.

Week of March 1-7

History, Reading, Writing
Studied ancient Egypt this week. Checked out various books from the library on this subject.

Faith read Mummies in the Morning, Magic Tree House, by Osbourne. She answered reading comprehension questions each day covering 3 chapters at a time.

Art, History
Faith drew a picture of the Sphinx in the desert using colored pencil.

Ponder the Picture: Colored a printout of items from ancient Egypt, then answered questions about the drawing.

Art, History
Studied Cubism this week. Pablo Picasso. Explored famous artists from this movement and their artwork using the internet. Faith painted a still life of a flower pot using cubist techniques. She also drew a man's face and a wine glass using graphite.

Math
Time review worksheet.
Addition and subtraction review worksheets.
Fraction review worksheet.
Money review worksheet.

Physical Education
Played on the park with friends. Gymnastics on Friday for one hour.

Bible Study, Writing, Reading
Family Bible study daily. Faith copied her verse of the day on her own paper.

Week of October 26 - November 1

Science, Writing, Reading
Studying Magents this week.
Experiment 1: Asked Faith to look at each item I show her and say whether she thought it would be attracted to the magnet. We listed the items on a chalkboard under Attracted/Magnetic or Not Attracted/Not Magnetic. Then, she tested each item. She used two separate colored sheets of paper to list the items in each group as she tested them. She also wrote what it was made of (penny--metal, jar--glass, twig--wood). Then we discussed the results.

Experiment 2: Discovered that magnets attract through other objects, but only up to a certain thickness. We tested it with paper, a shirt, our finger, a pillow, a 2x4 wood beam.

Experiment 3: Making a magnet. Building your own compass. Discussed north and south poles of magnets and also the earth. Reviewed properties of magnets: north attracts south, etc. Rubbed the magnet on a straight pin in a single direction to magnetize the pin. Placed the pin on the sticky side of a foam craft sticker and floated it on water in a bowl. Observed that the two ends of the pin point toward North and South even when turned. Observed that the pin reacted to magnets from much farther away than usual.

Experiment 4: Learned that magnetic attraction can pass along from one pin to another, but only for a certain number of pins before the attraction becomes too weak. Used a magnet to collect pins end to end. Were able to pick up only 6.

Read Magnets, by Parker.

Art
Made magnet paintings. Taped a piece of paper over a plastic bin lid (propped up on two jars). Then, dipped different objects in paint, placed them on the paper, and used the magnet underneath to drag the object/paint around.

Reading
Don't Let the Peas Touch and Other Stories, by Blumenthal.
Jack and the Dreamsack, by Anholt.
D.W.'s Library Card, by Brown.
Arthur's TV Trouble, by Brown.
Daisy Comes Home, by Jan Brett.
Faith read Troll Country, by Marshall.
Faith read Edward G. and the Beautiful Pink Hairbow, by Arnold.
Faith read TinkerBell, A Fairy Tale, by Jordan.

Writing, Reading
Each day, Faith has been writing 3 thank you cards to the people who gave her gifts for her birthday.

Phonics Workbook: Consonants: Read the words below, then match each with a rhyming word that begins with j, k, or l from the box.

Bible Study
Discussed a verse each day and Faith copied it on to her own paper.

Computer Skills
Faith received a new Webkins toy for her birthday and has been excited about caring for it on the website.

Math
Worksheet: Time. "Half-Past-the-Hour" Read the clock and write the time two ways.
Worksheet: Time. Show half past four different ways (clock hands, writing "half past", writing the number words out, writing it like a digital clock).
Worksheet: Time. Hour and half hour.
Worksheet: Time. Earlier or later.

Reading, Writing
Worked on three pages a day in her Phonics workbook.

Physical Education
Played at the park on Monday and Friday.
Went to Gymnastics on Friday.

Reading, Bible Study, Writing
This morning's Bible study was Mark 8:34-38 and Mark 9:33-35. The key verse was verse 35, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." Faith wrote this.

Reading, Bible Study, Social Studies
Evening Bible story: "A Widow's Son is Raised to Life," (Luke 7:11-17) from Egermeier's Bible Story Book. Then we discussed funerals from that time period and other types of funeral ceremonies. We watched videos of other culture's funeral processions (China, Bali, India, America)

Physical Education
Played at the park with friends.

Reading
Chapters 10-13 of The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat, by Idle.

Math
Worksheet: Addition and Subtraction mixed problems
Worksheet: Money. What is the price of each toy? Count the dimes, nickels and pennies to find out.

Reading, Writing
Learned the difference between an asking sentence and a telling sentence. Punctuation and Capitalization.
Worksheet: Mark under the letter to show where the capital letter goes. Then put a period at the end of the sentence. Write a telling sentence.

Art
Painting time.

Computer Skills
Played on Webkins. Faith is currently earning and saving her "money" to purchase an outdoor umbrella table. :)

Writing, Reading, Math, Art
Worked on Faith's My Book About Me book. Counted her steps to the first tree from the front door. Counted her steps to the mailbox (300!) and answered questions in writing about her likes, dislikes, personality, what she wants to be when she grows up. She drew a picture of a bird and colored it in.

Physical Education
Exercised using the Wii Fit.

Music
Watched videos online of some of the songs from The Sound of Music and sang along with them.

Reading, Computer Skills
Faith read an online book here:
http://users.nac.net/ronzalme/Toby/index.html
called What Did Toby See? by Ron Zalme

Faith read Emily Elizabeth Goes To School, Clifford's Big Dig, and Where Is Emily Elizabeth? online here:
http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/read/roadtoreading/index.htm

She also played the Make a Word phonics game on that website.

Physical Education
Exercised and played at the park this morning with friends.
First day of Gymnastics "Beginner One" course this afternoon.

Reading
The House Gobbaleen, by Alexander.
A Chick Called Saturday, by Dunbar.
Faith read Nate the Great and the Lost List, by Sharmat.

Science, Computer Skills
We sat together and looked for videos of different kinds of animals on the internet to see how they interact and what sounds they really make (as opposed to the sounds people make when imitating an animal).

Bible Study, Reading
"Barnabas and Saul at Antioch" Acts 11:19-30; 12:24-25 from Egermeier's Bible Story Book.

Physical Education
Exercised & played at the playground with friends this morning.

Life Skills
Went to the library, colored a picture and checked out books & movies.

Art
Colored pencil drawings. Faith selected one that both of us worked on to paste on to the cover of this week's workbook that I made for her.

Math
Spacial perception. Shapes. Worksheet: circle the shapes that are the same (cone/party hat/megaphone).

Math, Computer Skills
Played on www.pbskids.org
Used a website to click and paste the numbers on a clock in the correct places.

Reading, Art, Writing
Worksheet: Circle the words that end with the same ending sound you hear in "sock". Then color them in the picture.
Worksheet: Color the words orange that begin with the same beginning sound in "shell". Color the words yellow that end with the same ending sound in fish. Color all of the other words blue. Write what you see in the picture.

Reading
Jonathan Park and the Secret of the Hidden Cave, by Roy. Finished the book.
Fancy Nancy, by O'Connor.
Faith read The Sweet Smell of Christmas, by Scarry.
Faith read What Grandmas Do Best, by Numeroff.

Learning about the letter U this week. I created a homemade workbook for Faith out of several pages of worksheets pulled from different books.

Science, Computer Skills, Bible Study
We went to the radio station 91.1 this morning for a short tour. Faith got to create a recording of herself as she recited a scripture verse. She then got to see how it was edited on the computer and prepared for broadcast. Her audio clip was played on the airwaves after we left!

Servanthood
Faith came with me this morning to the church to help prepare the flowers to be given out on Mother's Day. She help separate cards, punch holes, and learned how to tie them with ribbon to the flowers.

Art
Faith drew a picture of herself on the cover of the workbook.

U coloring page. Color each letter according to the instructions to reveal a picture of an umbrella.

Writing, Reading
Worksheet: Practice writing the letter U and u on the lines provided.
Worksheet: Circle the letter that stands for the beginning sound of each picture. (u & q)
Worksheet: Read each sentence. Circle the word that completes the sentence. Write the word on the line. (mule, use, cute, cube, tune, June)

Reading
Faith did her first Wordsearch today. It was part of her workbook.

Reading
Faith read What Grandmas Do Best, by Numeroff.
Faith read A Pony For a Princess, by Posner-Sanchez.
Zara's Hats, by Meisel.

Math
Worksheets: (2) pages of addition practice sheets (numbers 1-19)

Art
More painting with primary colors.

Computer Skills
Played on http://www.noggin.com/ .

Science
Saw a large bird in our neighborhood and wanted to know what it was. We began researching on the internet together to see if we could find out. We know it is some kind of hawk. Further research is necessary.

Life Skills, Art
Faith helped frost and decorate a birthday cake in memory of her sister, Annika.

Math
Worksheets: Counting objects and writing the number. Skip counting (counting by twos). Fill in the missing number. Counting objects and finding the total by making tally marks on a chart.

Art, History, Math
Made popsicle stick puzzles today. Lined up the sticks and taped the back with a strip of masking tape. Wrote a number on each stick in order (1-15). On the other side, Faith colored a picture of the Mayflower, then removed the strip of tape. Makes a puzzle that can be put together from the picture side or by numerical order.

Art
Then, Faith decided her puzzle needed a box to keep it in, so we made a box out of popsicle sticks, wide strips of fabric, leather, and metal buttons for decoration.

Computer Skills
Played on http://www.pbskids.org/ today.

Reading, Writing
Worksheet: Circle the items that begin with the /t/ sound.
Worksheet: Read the words in the box, then write each one next to the correct picture. Also, write your own "T" word and draw a picture of it.
Letter T maze.
Worksheet: Practice writing upper and lower case T.

Math (Time)
Did chalkboard clocks and practicing telling time again today. (see yesterday)

Art, Writing
Creative writing. Faith drew pictures and words on the chalk board as she described a "pirate" story to me. Then I did one for Faith.

Reading
Read Sione's Talo, by Nelisi
Faith read Herman the Helper, by Kraus

Computers
Played on http://www.noggin.com/ today.

Physical Education
Went to Marjorie Turnbull Park. Played with friends.

Reading
Faith read My "f" Sound Box, by Moncure
Read Mr. McMouse, by Lionni

Computers
Faith played on http://www.noggin.com/

Science
Replaced the water in our Coleus cuttings project. Inspected for root growth. Arranged plants in their containers.

Played with friends this morning.

Reading, Science
Read The X-ray Picture of Your Body, by Watts

Art, Writing, Science, Reading
Created a book about My Five Senses. Faith cut out sentences and filled in the missing word, "I _____ with my eyes." Then she glued them to each page and drew a picture of the corresponding body part. Then she shared the book with her daddy.

Math, Writing, Computers
Computer Game, numerical order, recognizing numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/mend.shtml
Writing numbers with daddy
Played on http://www.pbskids.org/

Bible Study, Reading
Read the story of Jacob and Laban from Egermeier's Bible Story Book

Reading, Science, Geography
Read Boas, Pythons, and Anacondas, by Ethan. Looked on the globe to see where they live in the world. Discussed the "equator" and warmth, and how seasons are opposite on opposite sides of the equator.

Art
Spiral Snake Craft: Drew spirals on green construction paper, glued google eyes and decorated the spirals and then cut them out to make coiled snakes to hang with string. They slowly spin when hung under a fan.

Snake color by letter worksheet.

Math
snake dot-to-dot

Computers, Math, Art
Played on http://www.noggin.com/ . (dot-to-dot, coloring, making a video sequence, etc.)

Reading
Faith read About Pets, by McKay
Read My "S" Sound Box, by Moncure

Physical Education
Went to play with friends this afternoon.

Played with friends at church this morning.

Reading, Science, Bible Study
Faith read pages 8-9 of Frog and Toad Together by Lobel
Read All About Rattlesnakes by Arnosky
Read selections from Egermeier's Bible Story Book
Picture book, Tuesday, by Wiesner

Art
Faith drew pictures of rattlesnakes using new mediums, oil pastels and pastel pencils

Writing, Reading
Took turns reading and writing words on the driveway with sidewalk chalk

Computer Skills
Played by herself on http://www.noggin.com/

Physical Education
Morning playtime with friends.

Reading, Social Studies
Read Mexico in Pictures by Hamilton

Computers, Math
Played online adding game and Noggin.com

Art, History
Studied Mayan writing system
Colored Mayan symbols/words

Writing, Time
Worksheets: Writing The Letter P& Q; Reading the "O'clock"