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    Week 3, Thursday: Apply place value to solve riddles · Retell A Chair for My Mother in order

    Day 14 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will apply place value to solve riddles and real-world problems with three-digit numbers (2.NBT.A.1).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 4 + 8 = ? Facts to 20
    2. How many tens make 100? Week 2
    3. In 187, what is the value of the 1? Week 1

    Standards Addressed

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

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Number riddle: 'I have 4 hundreds, 2 tens, and 8 ones. Who am I?' (428). 'I have 7 ones, 3 hundreds, and 0 tens.' (307). 'I have 6 tens, 1 hundred, and 5 ones.' (165). Student builds or draws each to check.

    100-bean bags or paper flatsbundles of 10 craft sticksdried beans
    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Pose: 'A school library has 3 shelves of 100 books, 5 boxes of 10 books, and 6 books on the cart. How many books?' Act it out with bags, bundles, and beans, then write 356. Then: 'The librarian adds 4 more boxes of 10. How many books now?' (396).

    100-bean bags or paper flatsbundles of 10 craft sticksdried beanspaperpencil
    15 min

    Practice

    Student solves three problems with a drawing and a number: 'A farmer has 2 crates of 100 apples, 7 bags of 10, and 4 loose apples' (274); 'A jar has 5 bags of 100 beads and 3 loose beads' (503); 'A parking lot has 6 rows of 100 spots and 1 row of 10' (610). Then student writes one riddle for you to solve.

    paperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask, 'If I told you a number has 9 tens, could it be 190? Could it be 910? How do you know?'

    Materials Needed

    100-bean bags or paper flatsbundles of 10 craft sticksdried beanspaperpencil

    Related Resources

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

    English Language Arts

    Retell A Chair for My Mother in order using transition words, and decode two-syllable words built from vowel teams (RL.2.5, RF.2.3c).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Fill in the vowel team: r__n (it falls from clouds). Week 2
    2. Which word has a short a sound: cake or cat? Grade 1
    3. What is the plural of 'foot'? Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RL.2.5RL.2.2RF.2.3c+3 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading

    Reread the ending of A Chair for My Mother, from the full jar to the family sitting in the chair. Read the last two pages together in unison, then ask, 'Why does the author end with everyone in the chair and not with buying it?'

    A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Model a full retell of the book in six sentences using in the beginning, then, next, after that, finally, and in the end. Your child retells it back to you, touching each part of the story map as they go.

    Monday's story mapTransition word strip
    15 min

    Guided Reading

    Your child reads a new just-right book and retells it to you using the transition words. Listen for a clear beginning, at least two middle events, and an ending.

    Library books at your child's levelTransition word strip
    15 min

    Writing Workshop

    Edit the small-moment story: read it aloud pointing at each word, check for a capital at the start and a period or question mark at the end of every sentence, and circle three words to check on the word wall. Then begin copying the final version neatly onto clean paper.

    Writing folderClean paperPencilWord wall
    10 min

    Phonics

    Decode two-syllable words by finding the vowel teams. Read and clap: rainbow, sailboat, seaweed, mailbox, oatmeal, raincoat, pillow, follow, elbow, shadow, below, teapot. Your child draws a line between the syllables and circles each vowel team.

    Index cardsMarkerPencil

    Materials Needed

    A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. WilliamsMonday's story mapTransition word stripLibrary books at your child's levelWriting folderClean paperPencilWord wallIndex cardsMarker

    Related Resources

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

    Social Studies

    Students will explain how a chosen community helper solves problems for people and create a thank-you card for a real helper (D2.Civ.2.K-2, D2.Civ.6.K-2).

    Standards Addressed

    D2.Civ.2.K-2D2.Civ.6.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Review and Extend

    Shuffle Tuesday's helper cards and have your child sort them again, this time by 'Where do they work?' (outside, in a building, on the road). Then ask, 'What problem does a garbage collector solve? What problem does a librarian solve?' Explain that some helpers work for the town (firefighters, garbage collectors, librarians) and the whole community pays for their work together through taxes.

    15 min

    Project Work: Thank-You Card

    Your child picks one helper they can actually reach this week (the mail carrier, a librarian, a crossing guard, a neighbor who is a nurse). Fold paper into a card, draw the helper at work on the front, and write inside: 'Thank you for ____. Our community needs you because ____.'

    papercrayons or markersenvelope (optional)
    5 min

    Share Progress

    Your child reads the card aloud and you plan together when to deliver it (in the mailbox for the carrier, at the library desk, at the corner). Deliver it this week if you can.

    Materials Needed

    Tuesday's helper cardspapercrayons or markersenvelope (optional)

    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 3 · Thursday

    I can solve place value riddles and problems.

    Look: I have 6 ones, 2 hundreds and 0 tens

    1. Put each part in its place: 2 hundreds, 0 tens, 6 ones.
    2. 0 tens means you write 0 in the tens place.
    3. The number is 206.

    Solve each riddle.

    1. I have 5 hundreds, 3 tens and 9 ones. Who am I?
    2. I have 2 ones, 8 hundreds and 0 tens. Who am I?
    3. I have 4 tens, 7 ones and 3 hundreds. Who am I?

    Draw a picture. Write the number.

    1. A store has 4 boxes of 100 pencils, 6 packs of 10 pencils and 2 loose pencils. How many pencils?
    2. The store gets 3 more packs of 10 pencils. How many pencils now?
    3. Jamal has 7 bags of 100 beads and 5 loose beads. How many beads?
    4. A farm has 3 rows of 100 corn plants and 8 rows of 10. How many plants?

    Challenge

    • Could a number with 9 tens be 910? Why or why not?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 3 · Thursday

    I can retell a story in order and read two-syllable words.

    Look: mailbox → mail|box

    1. Find the two parts: mail and box.
    2. Circle the vowel team: ai in mail.
    3. Read each part, then the whole word: mailbox.

    Retell the story you read this week. Use the words in dark print.

    1. In the beginning, ____
    2. Then, ____
    3. Finally, ____

    Draw a line between the two parts. Circle each vowel team.

    1. raindrop
    2. roadway
    3. peanut
    4. sheepdog

    Challenge

    • Which word tells about the last event: then, next or finally?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 3 · Thursday

    I can tell how community helpers solve problems.

    What problem does each helper solve?

    1. garbage collector
    2. crossing guard
    3. librarian
    4. Who pays for town helpers like firefighters and librarians?

    Plan a thank-you card for a real helper.

    1. Thank you for ____.
    2. Our community needs you because ____.
    3. Draw the helper at work.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky