Silver Creek Academy Home School: MFW 2nd Grade

BIBLE:

This week our studies in the bible were about birds. We had a discussion about God creating the birds on the 5th day and read scriptures in Genesis 8:6-19, Isaiah 40:28-31, Matthew 3:13-17, and Matthew 6:19-27.

SPELLING: This was a big week in Spelling. It was a review of the last five weeks of spelling lessons. We worked hard this week reviewing all 60 words and studying them for a test.

ENGLISH: We worked through some lessons in our Language Arts book. We talked about when to use was/were. He had nine sentences to read and decide which word went in the blank. He also had 7 questions to answer in regards to 4 statements that were made. Such as, 1. Tom was throwing snowballs. Question: How many boys were mentioned in the first sentence....We also read an excerpt about farmers and wheat. Another lesson was talking about shade trees, different types, and writing down the various types of trees. This was a long lesson and lots of writing.

HISTORY/STATE STUDY: This week we began our study of the states. We talked about Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Georgia. This is a quick study of the states as MFW will bring them back to the students in a more in-depth year when they are a little older. For each state Caleb has a coloring page. He colors the state bird and the state flower using an ID card that came with the curriculum. He also finds their flag sticker on the sheet and applies it to his coloring page. While he is coloring, I read to him some highlights about the state. He also writes on his coloring page the two-letter abbreviation for the state and the state capital.

I also found some extra pages to go along with this study. So, additionally, as we study each state, he cuts out some graphics and places them on a two page sheet. Sort of like a cut-n-paste sheet. The state name, the seal, the flag, the US map showing where that state is on the map, state bird, state flower, and the license plate are all graphics. He cuts them out and glues them down in the right spots. He hates using glue, so most of the time he cuts them all out and I glue stick them down. He then writes the states nickname, the capital (again), the state motto, and then a fun fact about the state. When we're having a great day, he also fills in what the bordering states are.

History Activity: Making of the Liberty Bell

When we talked about Pennsylvania, one of the things Caleb learned was that the Liberty Bell was there. So, we made our own small version. The paper strip says, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."

Read-A-Loud: We don't have an assigned read-a-loud this week, since we finished Sarah Whitcher's Story early. So, we just focused on our book basket reading....... --->

Book Basket Reading:

Detective Dinosaur Undercover, James Skofield
Mittens (I Can Read), Lola M. Schaefer
The Magic School Bus, At the Waterworks, Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen
Ready for PUmpkins, Kate Duke
Mice on Ice, Rebecca Emberley & Ed E.
Two Little Monkeys, Mem Fox
Cock-a-doodle-doo, Creak, Pop-pop, Moo, Jim Aylesworth
The Great Sheep Shenanigans, Peter Bently & Mei Matsuoka
Big Birthday, Kate Hosford
Very Special Friends, Jane Chapman
A Picture Book of George Washington, David A. Adler

The Very Lonely Firefly, Eric Carle
Homer, Elisha Cooper

MATH: We worked through about 10 pages in our SM book. Some days, math is just math. :)

SCIENCE: We discussed birds in this subject also, reading from our Birds, Nests, and Eggs book. Caleb really seems to enjoy the study of birds. He learned things like birds are warm-blooded, have very good eye-sight and very good hearing. The activity this week was the make a pair of binoculars out of toilet paper tubes. Caleb has an awesome pair of real binoculars that he received as a gift from his Uncle Harold and Aunt Brenda. I didn't see any reason to make a pair when he had those to use. So, he used them to look outside and try to spot the birds.

MUSIC: This weeks music lesson consisted of listening to Yankee Doodle; Yankee Doodle Dandy CD again. He still thinks music is silly. I'm waiting for the day he really enjoy something. A mom can only hope, right?

HEALTH: This week in our health and manners book we had a twenty question review over the first 9 lessons. He did great as we talked over the questions and matched up possible answers.

Just because: Big brother Randy gave mom the teacher a small water fountain. He thought it would be a fun thing to have going as we do school. I really can't remember if I already mentioned this in on here. If I did, I'm sorry. If not, well, here's a picture!