Last updated 10:45 p.m. ET on 16 May 1998.

Number Three Son (Nathan - "Second Grade")

1997-98 Course of Study

LITERACY

Writing (may be dictated):

Journals
Penpals, email
newsletter
web page
book logs
essays, reports, correspondence, poems, etc.

Reading:

Continue learning mechanics of reading by himself
Encounter literature through books read to him
Discussing books we have read

Other:

Word games and puzzles
Magnetic poetry, graffiti board

SOCIAL SCIENCES

U.S. history
Current events
Geography

MATHEMATICS

A wide variety of math activities using manipulatives such as Geoboards, 100s board, counters, Cuisenaire rods, fraction circles and squares
Money activities
Time, area, volume, length, temperature
Fractions

SCIENCE

Animals
Ecology/recycling/conservation
Usborne science activities: magnets, weather, your body, air, plants, lights and mirrors, batteries, water, in the kitchen

LIFE SKILLS

Household responsibility
Cooking
Biking, swimming, walking, skating
Sports Club
Cub Scouts

CREATIVE ARTS

Piano
Art classes
Singing with family and choral group
Listening to wide variety of music
Arts/crafts activities at home
Museum trips, etc.

JEWISH STUDIES

Jewish practice and symbols
Hebrew language
Scripture
Jewish history

UNIT STUDIES

Baseball
King Arthur
Nutrition
Shtetl life
Gettysburg
Weather
Mythology
Explorers-westward expansion
Trip to Illinois
Mysteries/Detection
Kaleidoscopes

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