Circle Time
Pledge of Allegiance
You’re a Grand Old Flag
Saint Martin from Autumn Songs by Jodie Mesler
Over the River and
through the Woods
November
The loud winds are calling,
The ripe nuts are falling,
The squirrel now gathers his store.
The bears homeward creeping
Will soon all be sleeping
So snugly till winter is o’er.
Spanish
This month we will be focusing on Peru. November 3rd is the celebration of Cuencan Independence Day.
Here is the outline of the story I'll tell. this is just an outline. Embellish, get into it, but this just helps me remember the words and how we'll learn them. I don't know how to add accents and markings like that when I type, so I apologize in advance.
Ernesto wakes up and says Buenos dias to his animals. Perro,
gato, pez. Then he opens the window (abre la ventana) and asks Que tiempo hace
hoy? Have children tell the weather in Spanish. Today Ernesto is visiting his
friend Daniela. She is from Peru and her family is celebrating Independence Day
for their home city of Cuenca. When Ernesto gets to Daniela’s casa, her mama
was still in la cocina cooking up a storm. Her padre was in el bano, getting
ready, and her hermano was in his dormitorio, reading un libro. Daniela and
Ernesto decide to ir a caminar (go on a walk). They walk through the bosque
(forest) behind Daniela’s casa. There are many arboles (trees) and their hojas
(leaves) are falling to the ground. (Review some color words here. Rojo,
anaranjado, marron, Amarillo). While they are walking they see many pajaritos
(little birds) and even a buho (owl). So they sing, El Cucu.
When they get back to Daniela’s casa, her mama has just
finished making tortitas de Manteca (shortbread cookies.) So Daniela and
Ernesto play a hand clapping game.
Tortitas de Manteca.
Before Ernesto leaves he makes sure to say gracias to
Daniela and her familia.
Music
Recorder lessons 5 and 6 in Living Music From the Heart volume 2 by Jodie Mesler
Handwork
Jane will be knitting a scarf to give as a gift that uses the pattern k2, p2.
Science
We're learning about Sea Otters this month to go along with our main lesson. I have some books (fiction and nonfiction) and our aquarium has a great otter exhibit that we'll visit.
Spelling
k12reader.com lists for grade 2. Weeks 9-11.
Main Lesson
Week 1 - Two Thornton Burgess stories about Buster Bear and Joe Otter. One day on parts of speech (nouns and verbs).
Week 2 - Story of St. Martin. Retell and summarize with nouns and verbs highlighted, write out a St. Martin verse for practice
Week 3 - More Buster Bear and Joe Otter stories, one day on parts of speech and another verse for writing practice.
Week 4 - Mostly break for Thanksgiving, but hopefully some Math lessons/practice. We'll see.
All Main Lessons are accompanied by an art lesson, either painting, block crayon drawing, or beeswax modeling.
Service
Week 1 - None, because of Halloween on Monday throwing off our groove.
Week 2 - Tie a blanket and give it away.
Week 3 - Donate to the Food Bank
Week 4 - none
On Celebrating Martinmas
During the week of Martinmas, we'll be making these wet felted lanterns. I would also like to have some friends over to make lanterns with tissue paper and mason jars, eat a yummy fall stew, and go on a lantern walk after dark. To do this, you just light your lantern, go outside and walk around your neighborhood and sing songs about fall and the coming winter, darkness and light. This is also probably when we'll tie blankets to give away.
A chapter book written by a dear friend about a classroom full of quirky students with a hilarious narrator who relates their adventures to classic fables. I'm trying to convince her to self publish it. It's wonderful. :)
I know this is a different St. Martin, but it looked really good. :)