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    Week 2, Thursday: Solve real-world problems by counting · Explain how one character's response to an event

    Day 9 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will solve real-world problems by counting and bundling groups of ten (2.NBT.A.1a, 2.NBT.A.2).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 9 + 7 = ? Facts to 20
    2. In 217, what is the value of the 7? Week 1
    3. How many tens and ones are in 95? Grade 1

    Standards Addressed

    2.NBT.A.12.NBT.A.1a2.NBT.A.2

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Count by tens on the hundreds chart from 10 to 100, touching each number. Then cover the numbers 40 and 80 with beans and ask the student to say the covered numbers while counting.

    printed hundreds chartdried beans
    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Pose this problem: 'A bakery packs muffins in boxes of 10. The baker made 100 muffins. How many boxes does she need?' Use craft-stick bundles as boxes and act it out to find 10 boxes. Then ask, 'What if she made 70 muffins? What if she had 10 boxes and 3 loose muffins?'

    bundles of 10 craft sticksdried beans
    15 min

    Practice

    Give three problems to solve with beans and cups: 'Eggs come 10 to a carton. Grandpa has 6 cartons and 4 loose eggs. How many eggs?' (64), 'Pencils come 10 to a box. You need 100 pencils. How many boxes?' (10), and 'A jar has 9 cups of 10 beans. How many more beans make 100?' (10). Student draws a picture and writes the number for each.

    dried beanssmall cupspaperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask the student to invent one 'groups of ten' problem from around the house (socks, crayons, blocks) and say the answer out loud.

    Materials Needed

    printed hundreds chartdried beanssmall cupsbundles of 10 craft stickspaperpencil

    Related Resources

    Math Worksheets (Weeks 1-4)Math Answer Key (Weeks 1-8)

    English Language Arts

    Explain how one character's response to an event affects another character, using a sentence frame with text evidence (RL.2.3, W.2.8).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Which question asks about a story's characters: 'Who?' or 'When?' Week 1
    2. Change one letter in 'pig' to make 'pin'. Which letter changed? Grade 1
    3. Write the contraction for 'do not'. Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RL.2.3RL.2.1W.2.3+3 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Read-Aloud

    Read 'The Letter' from Frog and Toad Are Friends. Stop when Toad says it is his sad time of day and ask, 'What does Frog do about Toad's sadness?' At the end ask why waiting for four days felt happy instead of sad.

    Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Teach the sentence frame 'When ___ happened, ___ (did) ___ because he felt ___.' Model it: 'When Toad said no mail ever came, Frog ran home and wrote a letter because he felt sorry for his friend.' Write it on a strip to keep in the writing folder.

    Sentence strip or paper stripMarker
    15 min

    Guided Reading

    Your child rereads 'The Story' or 'A Swim' aloud and completes the sentence frame for Toad in writing. Check that the event, the action, and the feeling each come from the text.

    Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold LobelSentence frame stripPaperPencil
    15 min

    Writing Workshop

    Draft the ending of the small-moment story and add how the writer felt at the very end. Read the whole draft aloud to you; your child circles one place where a feeling is shown by an action.

    Writing folderLined paperPencil
    10 min

    Phonics

    Teach the rule: ay usually comes at the end of a word or syllable, ai in the middle. Dictate: pay, wait, jail, hay, sail, stray, faint, delay, plain, today. Your child writes each, then checks against the rule and fixes any misspellings.

    Whiteboard or paperPencil

    Materials Needed

    Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold LobelSentence strip or paper stripMarkerPaperPencilWriting folderLined paperWhiteboard or paper

    Related Resources

    ELA Worksheets (Weeks 1-4)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 1-8)

    Social Studies

    Students will identify rules at home and laws in the community and create a poster explaining one law and its purpose (D2.Civ.3.K-2, D2.Civ.12.K-2).

    This week's reading: Why Do We Have Laws?

    Standards Addressed

    D2.Civ.3.K-2D2.Civ.12.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Review and Extend

    Reread the Quick Write from Tuesday. Then take a 'rule walk' around your home: find three rules (shoes off at the door, wash hands before eating, bedtime). Ask, 'Who made this rule? Who does it keep safe or happy?' Then name three laws you follow outside the home (buckle your seat belt, cross at the crosswalk, do not litter) and ask the same questions.

    15 min

    Project Work: Our Law Poster

    On a sheet of paper, your child chooses one real law (seat belts, crosswalks, litter, bike helmets) and makes a poster with three parts: a drawing of the law, the words 'The law says...', and 'This law keeps us safe because...'. Adult writes the sentence frames; child fills them in.

    large papercrayons or markers
    5 min

    Share Progress

    Your child presents the poster to a family member in three sentences and answers one question from the listener. Hang the poster where it can be seen all week.

    Materials Needed

    Tuesday's Quick Writelarge papercrayons or markers

    Related Resources

    Social Studies Worksheets (Weeks 1-4)Social Studies Answer Key (Weeks 1-4)

    Today's Practice

    One page for your child for each lesson. Answers are for grown-ups.

    Math practice · Week 2 · Thursday

    I can solve problems with groups of ten.

    Look: 3 cartons and 8 eggs

    1. Eggs come 10 in a carton. Count the cartons by 10s: 10, 20, 30.
    2. Count on the 8 loose eggs: 31, 32, 33 ... 38.
    3. 3 tens and 8 ones = 38 eggs.

    Draw a picture. Write the number.

    1. Crayons come 10 in a box. Maya has 5 boxes and 7 loose crayons. How many crayons?
    2. Omar has 60 cookies. He puts 10 on each tray. How many trays does he fill?
    3. A box holds 10 marbles. Lena has 7 full boxes. How many more marbles does she need to make 100?
    4. Socks come in bags of 10. Dad has 4 bags. How many socks?
    5. Ali has 3 bundles of ten and 12 loose sticks. How many sticks in all?

    Challenge

    • Write your own groups-of-ten problem. Solve it.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 2 · Thursday

    I can tell why a character did something and spell ai and ay words.

    Look: ____ because ____

    1. Read: Pia saw her little brother cry. She gave him her ball.
    2. Pia gave him the ball because she felt bad for him.
    3. Her action made her brother smile.

    Jay and the Snail

    Jay saw a snail on the path. It was stuck in the rain. Jay felt bad for it. He lifted the snail and set it on a leaf. Then Jay's sister, Gail, saw the snail on the leaf. She was glad. She gave Jay a hug.

    Use the story.

    1. When Jay saw the stuck snail, he ____ because he felt ____.
    2. How did Jay's action make Gail feel?

    Write ai or ay to finish each word.

    1. cl__
    2. tr__l
    3. s__
    4. br__n
    5. Where does ay usually go?at the startat the end

    Challenge

    • Write one sentence with an ai word and an ay word.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 2 · Thursday

    I can explain one law and how it keeps us safe.

    Rule walk. Find rules at home and laws outside.

    Rule or lawWhere?Who does it keep safe or happy?
    1. Name a rule at home.
    2. Name a law in the community.

    Plan your law poster.

    1. The law says ____.
    2. This law keeps us safe because ____.
    3. Draw the law.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky