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    Week 5, Wednesday: Represent the same number in four ways: standard · Compare how two illustrators show a snowy setting

    Day 23 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will represent the same number in four ways: standard, expanded, word, and picture (2.NBT.A.3).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 8 + 6 = ? Facts to 20
    2. Skip-count by 10s: 450, 460, ___, ___ Week 4
    3. How many tens make 90? Week 2

    Standards Addressed

    2.NBT.A.32.NBT.A.1

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Matching game: on 12 index cards write 245, 400 + 50 + 2, two hundred forty-five, and quick pictures (squares, lines, dots) for 245, 452, 524, and their expanded and word forms. Shuffle and have the student match all three cards for each number.

    index cardsmarker
    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Fold paper into four boxes labeled Standard, Expanded, Words, Picture. Fill in the four boxes together for 368: 368; 300 + 60 + 8; three hundred sixty-eight; 3 squares, 6 lines, 8 dots. Then do 750 and notice the empty ones box in the picture.

    papermarker
    15 min

    Practice

    Student makes four-box pages for 193, 526, 480, and 607. For the last one, you write only the word form 'nine hundred fourteen' and the student fills in the other three boxes.

    paperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask, 'Which form is fastest to write? Which form best shows what the number is made of?'

    Materials Needed

    index cardsmarkerpaperpencil

    Related Resources

    Math Worksheets (Weeks 5-8)Math Answer Key (Weeks 1-8)

    English Language Arts

    Compare how two illustrators show a snowy setting and a character's actions, and answer a question with picture evidence (RL.2.7).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Add a silent e: hop becomes ___. Week 4
    2. Fill in the vowel team: r__d (to look at words). Week 2
    3. What is the past tense of 'run'? Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RL.2.7RL.2.1RL.2.3+2 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Read-Aloud

    Read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Pause at the page where Peter makes tracks and ask what the picture shows him doing with his feet; pause again at the snowball in his pocket and ask what your child predicts.

    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Put Owl Moon and The Snowy Day side by side on snowy pages. Ask: 'How does each illustrator show cold? Which pictures are calm and which are playful? How do the colors help?' Record two differences on the chart.

    Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John SchoenherrThe Snowy Day by Ezra Jack KeatsMonday's chartMarkers
    15 min

    Guided Reading

    Your child rereads The Snowy Day and answers three questions using only the pictures first, then the words: 'What did Peter do with the stick? What did the big boys do? What happened to the snowball?' Support: point to the page and ask 'What do you see?' before asking the question. Stretch: your child writes one question of their own that the pictures answer.

    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack KeatsPaperPencil
    15 min

    Writing Workshop

    Write a text-evidence response to 'What happened to the snowball, and how did Peter feel?' Your child uses the frame and includes the picture of Peter's sad face and the words about the empty pocket.

    Writing folderLined paperPencilThe Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
    10 min

    Phonics

    Introduce the prefix pre-, meaning before. Read and write: preheat, preschool, pretest, preview, prepay, pregame, precook, preset, prewash, prefix. Discuss: 'If you preheat the oven, when do you turn it on?'

    Index cardsMarker

    Materials Needed

    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack KeatsOwl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John SchoenherrMonday's chartMarkersPaperPencilWriting folderLined paperIndex cards

    Related Resources

    ELA Worksheets (Weeks 5-8)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 1-8)

    Science

    Students will test materials for a different purpose, keeping rain out, and compare which material best fits that job (2-PS1-2).

    This week's reading: Which Material Is Best?

    Standards Addressed

    2-PS1-2

    Activities

    5 min

    Review

    Ask, 'Monday's winner soaked up water. Would that be a good material for an umbrella?' Guide your child to see that the best material depends on the job. Today's job: keep a paper person dry.

    20 min

    Deeper Investigation: Build a Tiny Umbrella

    Draw a small person on four index cards. Cover each with a different 'umbrella': a square of wax paper, foil, a plastic bag, and a paper towel, held over the card by a cup. Your child sprinkles 10 drops of water on each umbrella, then lifts it and checks whether the paper person is dry, damp or wet. Record results and rank the materials from best to worst for an umbrella.

    4 index cardswax paperfoilplastic bagpaper towel4 cupsspoon or dropperwaterpaper and pencil
    5 min

    Data Discussion

    Make a two-row chart: Best for a Spill and Best for an Umbrella. Ask, 'Why is the paper towel at the top of one row and the bottom of the other?' and write the answer as 'Different jobs need different properties.'

    Materials Needed

    4 index cardswax paperfoilplastic bagpaper towel4 cupsspoon or dropperwaterMonday's chartpaper and pencil

    Related Resources

    Science Worksheets (Weeks 5-8)Science Answer Key (Weeks 5-8)

    Today's Practice

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

    Math practice · Week 5 · Wednesday

    I can show a number four ways.

    Look: 438

    1. Standard: 438. Expanded: 400 + 30 + 8.
    2. Words: four hundred thirty-eight.
    3. Picture: 4 squares, 3 sticks, 8 dots.

    Show each number in expanded form, in words and with a picture.

    1. 274
    2. 530
    3. 816

    Read the words. Fill in the other three ways.

    1. three hundred sixty-nine

    Challenge

    • In the picture for 530, why are there no dots?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 5 · Wednesday

    I can answer a question with picture evidence. I can read words with pre-.

    Look: precook → pre|cook

    1. Find the prefix. Draw a line: pre|cook.
    2. pre- means before.
    3. precook means cook before.

    Think about the story you read today, The Snowy Day.

    1. What did Peter put in his pocket?
    2. What happened to it?
    3. How did Peter feel? What in the picture shows it?

    Pre- means before. Draw a line between pre and the base word. Then write what it means.

    1. preheat
    2. prepay
    3. preview
    4. pretest

    Challenge

    • If you preheat the oven, when do you turn it on?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Science practice · Week 5 · Wednesday

    I can test which material keeps water out best.

    Sprinkle 10 drops of water on each umbrella. Lift it. Is the paper person dry, damp or wet?

    Umbrella materialDry, damp or wet?
    1. Which material made the best umbrella?
    2. Which material made the worst umbrella?

    Think about it.

    1. The paper towel was best for a spill but worst for an umbrella. Why?

    You need: wax paper, foil, a plastic bag, a paper towel, 4 index cards, a cup, water

    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky