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    Week 3, Friday: Show that each digit in a three-digit number · Show understanding of story structure

    Day 15 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will show that each digit in a three-digit number represents hundreds, tens, or ones (2.NBT.A.1).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 17 − 9 = ? Facts to 20
    2. How many tens make 30? Week 2
    3. What is 10 more than 38? What is 10 less? Grade 1

    Standards Addressed

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

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Speed round with digit cards: flip three cards (for example 6, 1, 9), student reads the number and says what each digit is worth. Do 5 rounds.

    index cards with digits 0 to 9
    15 min

    Review

    Student builds 100 from 10 bundles (last week) and then 100 more to make 200, showing that 2 hundreds = 20 tens. Then student explains 348 with bags, bundles, and beans in their own words while you listen for 'hundreds', 'tens', and 'ones'.

    bundles of 10 craft sticks100-bean bags or paper flatsdried beans
    15 min

    Weekly Assessment

    On paper, student (1) draws quick pictures for 253, 470, and 806, (2) writes the value of the underlined digit in 6_1_4 (tens digit, 10), 3_9_2 (hundreds digit, 300), and 78_5_ (ones digit, 5), and (3) answers 'Is the 7 in 275 worth more or less than the 7 in 721? Explain.'

    paperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Reflect: 'Which was easier, building with beans or drawing quick pictures?' Preview: 'Next week we will count by 5s, 10s, and 100s to move around these big numbers fast.'

    Materials Needed

    index cards with digits 0 to 9bundles of 10 craft sticks100-bean bags or paper flatsdried beanspaperpencil

    Assessment

    Show that the digits in each place represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones

    Related Resources

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

    English Language Arts

    Show understanding of story structure by mapping a story's beginning, middle, and end, and publish a small-moment narrative (RL.2.5, W.2.3).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Fill in the vowel team: pl__ (to have fun). Week 2
    2. What vowel sound do you hear in 'bed'? Grade 1
    3. Add the comma: May 5 2027 Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RL.2.5RL.2.2W.2.3+3 more

    Activities

    10 min

    Reading Celebration

    Bring out a jar and drop in a coin for every book read since Week 1, naming each title. Compare Toad's feelings last week with the girl's feelings when the jar filled up: 'Which character waited longer? Which one was happier at the end?'

    A jarCoinsBook list from Weeks 1 to 3
    15 min

    Reading Assessment

    Your child draws and labels a three-box story map for Fireflies! or A Chair for My Mother from memory, writing one sentence under each box. Check that the middle names the problem and the end tells how it turned out.

    Paper folded into three boxesPencilCrayons
    15 min

    Publishing and Author's Chair

    Finish the clean copy, add a title and a cover picture, and staple it into a book. Your child reads the finished small-moment story from the Author's Chair; listeners name the beginning, middle, and end they heard.

    Writing folderClean paperStaplerCrayonsA special chair
    10 min

    Phonics Check

    Dictate ten words and score them: boat, snow, road, grow, soap, yellow, float, window, rainbow, sailboat. Note any missed pattern to revisit Monday.

    PaperPencil
    15 min

    Independent Reading

    Fifteen quiet minutes with a self-chosen book. Afterward your child tells you where the middle of their book started.

    Library books at your child's level

    Materials Needed

    A jarCoinsBook list from Weeks 1 to 3Paper folded into three boxesPencilCrayonsWriting folderClean paperStaplerA special chairPaperLibrary books at your child's level

    Assessment

    Three-box story map with one sentence per part for a story read this week; published small-moment narrative with a beginning, at least two ordered middle events, and an ending; phonics check of 10 oa, ow, and two-syllable words.

    Related Resources

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

    Science

    Students will conclude that heating and cooling change matter between solid and liquid and make frozen paint art to show it (2-PS1-4).

    This week's reading: Hot and Cold Change Things

    Standards Addressed

    2-PS1-4

    Activities

    10 min

    Drawing Conclusions

    Take out the ice cube tray from Wednesday. Ask, 'The water from Monday's ice is solid again. What did that?' Your child draws a circle diagram: an ice cube, an arrow labeled heat pointing to a puddle, and an arrow labeled cold pointing back to the ice cube.

    15 min

    Art Connection: Frozen Paint

    The night before, freeze water tinted with food coloring in an ice cube tray with a popsicle stick or toothpick in each cube. Today your child paints on thick paper with the colored ice cubes as they melt, watching the solid turn to liquid on the page. Talk about which colors melted fastest in warm hands.

    ice cube trayfood coloringpopsicle sticks or toothpicksthick papertray to catch drips
    5 min

    Week Reflection

    Ask, 'Last week we sorted things by properties. This week we saw a property change. Can something be solid and liquid at different times?' Record the answer and one thing your child wants to test next week.

    Materials Needed

    Wednesday's ice cube traycolored ice cubes (prepared the night before)thick papertraypaper and pencil

    Related Resources

    Science Worksheets (Weeks 1-4)Science 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 · Friday

    I can show what I learned this week.

    Get ready! Solve each one.

    1. Count by 100s: 100, 200, ____, ____, 500
    2. How many tens make 300?
    3. Write >, < or =: 418 ____ 481
    4. Write 297 in expanded form.
    5. Which is more, 3 hundreds or 29 tens?3 hundreds29 tens

    Challenge

    • What number is 1 more than 399?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 3 · Friday

    I can get my story ready to share.

    Get ready! Fix each sentence. Add a capital letter and an end mark.

    1. the goat ate oats
    2. we rode in a boat
    3. Which word is a transition word?thenboatsad

    Split each word into two parts.

    1. rowboat
    2. payday
    3. Write a title for your small moment story.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Science practice · Week 3 · Friday

    I can show how heating and cooling change water.

    Draw the circle: an ice cube, an arrow labeled heat to a puddle, and an arrow labeled cold back to the ice cube.

    1. My heat and cold circle
    2. What turned the water back into ice?

    Paint with colored ice cubes. Then answer.

    1. Which color melted fastest in your warm hands?
    2. Can something be solid and liquid at different times? Give an example.

    You need: colored ice cubes with a craft stick in each (frozen the night before), thick paper

    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky