Students demonstrate fluency adding and subtracting within 100 and explain one strategy in writing (2.NBT.B.5, 2.NBT.B.9).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Strategy sort: write 'make a ten,' 'number line,' 'unbundle,' and 'compensation' on four index cards. Read problems aloud (39 + 44, 72 - 35, 58 + 29, 46 + 27) and your child points to the strategy they would pick and says one sentence why.
Review Mini-Lesson
Work two problems side by side two ways: 67 + 25 with straw bundles and with an open number line (92). Then 84 - 39 by unbundling and by compensation (84 - 40 = 44, plus 1 = 45). Ask, 'Did both ways give the same answer? Why does that have to be true?'
Weekly Assessment
Give 20 problems: 10 addition (24 + 35, 48 + 26, 57 + 38, 19 + 64, 36 + 47, 62 + 29, 45 + 45, 73 + 18, 29 + 51, 66 + 27) and 10 subtraction (58 - 23, 72 - 46, 90 - 37, 65 - 28, 81 - 54, 47 - 19, 100 - 63, 76 - 38, 53 - 25, 94 - 67). Straws and hundreds chart allowed. Then your child writes 2 to 3 sentences explaining how they solved one problem.
Wrap-Up
Check answers together (59, 74, 95, 83, 83, 91, 90, 91, 80, 93; 35, 26, 53, 37, 27, 28, 37, 38, 28, 27). Circle any problem to revisit Monday, and read the index card from Tuesday to see if their favorite strategy changed.
Assessment
Solve 20 problems within 100 using strategies; explain one strategy in writing
Students demonstrate asking and answering questions about a nonfiction passage and share an informational introduction with facts (RI.2.1, W.2.2).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Reading Celebration
Ask your child to share the most surprising fact from this week's two books and to explain which question it answered. Look back at Monday's 'Before Reading' chart and count how many questions got checked off.
Reading Response or Assessment
Have your child read the two-page spread in 'From Seed to Plant' about how seeds travel (wind, water, animals) independently. Then answer five written questions: Who or what carries seeds? What do some seeds have that helps them catch the wind? Where can seeds land? Why do seeds need to travel away from the parent plant? How does an animal help a seed move? Score for accuracy and for pointing back to the page.
Publishing and Author's Chair
Your child copies the finished introduction and two facts onto a clean sheet, adds a title and a labeled drawing, and reads it aloud from a special chair. You respond with one question the piece made you wonder about, which becomes next week's writing seed.
Phonics Check
Dictate ten words and have your child write them, then say what each suffix means: helpful, careless, quickly, kindness, useful, fearless, softly, darkness, cheerful, restless. Mark any word that needs review next Monday.
Independent Reading
Your child reads a self-chosen book, fiction or nonfiction, for 15 minutes and uses one sticky note to mark a place where they asked a question. Chat for one minute at the end about whether it got answered.
Assessment
Read the seed-travel spread from From Seed to Plant and answer five who, what, where, when, why, how questions in writing with text evidence; phonics check on ten suffix words (-ful, -less, -ly, -ness).
Students use evidence from the seed bags to conclude that plants need water to sprout and light to grow green and strong (2-LS2-1).
Drawing Conclusions
Lay out all four bags and measure any sprouts with a ruler. Fill in Friday's row of the chart. Guide the claim: 'Beans with water sprouted. Beans without water did not.' Note that bag B may have sprouted too, since seeds use stored food first, and say that light matters more once the plant has leaves; the soil cups will show this next week.
Art Connection: Label a Seedling
Your child draws the biggest sprout twice its real size and labels the seed coat, root, and shoot. Read 'From Seed to Plant' by Gail Gibbons and add any parts the book names that the drawing is missing.
Week Reflection
Ask, 'Last week we sorted materials by properties. What property changed in the bean seeds this week?' Your child writes one sentence answering the question of the week.
Assessment
Child states the claim that seeds need water to sprout and supports it with the results from at least two bags.
One page for your child for each lesson. Answers are for grown-ups.
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Get ready: I can find 10 more, 10 less and friendly numbers.
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ELA practice · Week 7 · Friday
Get ready: I can write the start of an informational piece.
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Science practice · Week 7 · Friday
I can use evidence to tell what seeds need to sprout.
You need: the four seed bags, a ruler
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