Quarter 1 · Detailed day-by-day lesson plans · Days 36–40
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Week 8 stretches addition to four two-digit addends with friendly grouping. In ELA, children identify a main topic and use facts to develop informational writing.
Add your family's ages together and look for friendly tens.
Index cards with numbers, nonfiction book, informational draft
Adding Up to Four Two-Digit Numbers
Addition & Subtraction Within 100 · 2.NBT.B.5
Assessment: Add 3–4 two-digit numbers; show grouping strategies
Identifying the Main Topic of a Text
Phonics: Irregularly spelled words
Writing: Use facts and definitions to develop points
Plants, Animals & Habitats
2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1, K-2-ETS1-2
Students add three two-digit numbers by looking for pairs that make a ten or a friendly number (2.NBT.B.6).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Revisit any circled problems from last Friday's assessment. Then play 'find the ten': say three one-digit numbers (7, 5, 3) and your child names the pair that makes ten and the total (7 + 3 = 10, plus 5 = 15). Try 6, 8, 2 and 4, 9, 6 and 5, 5, 8.
Mini-Lesson
Write 23 + 47 + 15 vertically. Point to the ones column: 3, 7, 5. Say, '3 and 7 make a ten, then 5 more is 15.' Write the 5, carry the ten to the tens column as one straw bundle, and add 2 + 4 + 1 + 1 = 8 tens: 85. Repeat with 36 + 28 + 14 (6 + 4 makes ten, total 78), building tens with straws each time.
Practice
Your child solves 12 + 38 + 25, 41 + 19 + 27, 33 + 33 + 17, and 26 + 54 + 15, circling the pair of ones that makes a ten before adding (answers 75, 87, 83, 95). Build the third problem with straws to prove it.
Wrap-Up
Ask, 'Does it matter which two numbers you add first?' Test it together on 12 + 38 + 25 by adding 12 + 25 first, then 38 (still 75).
Students identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph nonfiction text and begin developing informational points with facts (RI.2.2, W.2.2).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Read-Aloud
Say, 'Last week you asked questions about seeds and ants. This week we figure out what a whole book is mostly about.' Read 'What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?' by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, letting your child guess each animal before turning the page. At the end ask, 'If you had to say in one sentence what this book is about, what would you say?'
Mini-Lesson
Draw a table with one wide top (the main topic) and four legs (details). Explain that the main topic is what the whole book is mostly about, and details are the smaller facts that hold it up. Fill the top with 'Animals use body parts in special ways' and let your child supply four legs from the book (a chameleon's eyes, a skunk's tail, a platypus's nose, a mole's feet).
Guided Reading
Reread the 'nose' section together. Your child covers the answer page and reads only the question page, then says the main topic of just that section ('Different noses do different jobs'). Repeat with the 'ears' section. Write each section topic on a sticky note and stick it on the page.
Writing Workshop
Return to last week's informational piece. Say, 'A fact tells something true; a definition tells what a word means.' Your child adds one definition sentence to the piece ('A whisker is a long stiff hair on a cat's face.') and underlines the word being defined.
Word Study
Introduce the Dolch second-grade list as 'words we need to know by heart because sounding out does not always work.' Practice with flashcards: always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold. Have your child read each card, then trace the tricky part with a finger (the 'au' in because, the 'ee' in been) and write it once.
Students identify the parts of a plant and explain how the stem carries water to the leaves (2-LS2-1, 2-LS4-1).
Science Question of the Week
Check the two soil cups from last week and compare: the window cup should be green and taller, the cupboard cup pale and leggy. Say, 'Plants have parts that do jobs. This week's question: What are the parts of plants and animals, and what does each part do?'
Investigation: Celery Straws
Put half a cup of water in a clear glass and stir in 10 drops of red or blue food coloring. Stand a fresh celery stalk with leaves in the glass and predict where the color will go. While waiting, pull a full plant (a weed from outside, or a green onion from the grocery store) and have your child find and name roots, stem, leaves.
Wrap-Up
Your child draws the green onion and labels roots, stem, leaves, then writes one job for each part: roots drink, stem carries, leaves catch light.
Read it aloud first while your child follows along. Then read it together, and let your child read the parts they can. Talk about the words in the word box.
Look at a globe. Most of it is blue. The blue parts are oceans. The other parts are land.
The biggest pieces of land are called continents. There are seven continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. Asia is the largest. Australia is the smallest. The United States is in North America.
Earth has five oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic and the Southern Ocean. The Pacific is the biggest and the deepest.
Oceans are salt water, and they cover most of our planet. Many animals live in them, from tiny shrimp to giant blue whales.
Antarctica is covered in ice. No one lives there all year, but scientists visit, and penguins make it their home. Find your continent on a globe. Which ocean is closest to you?
Math
Second Grade · Week 8 · Friday · secondgrade.com
Math
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 9. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Write each missed problem on a card. Circle numbers that make a ten or are easy to add, add those first, then add the rest. |
| Only a few right | Do the catch-up activity "Add in Steps" daily this week. Limit problems to three numbers until they feel easy. |
ELA
Frogs have strong back legs. They use them to jump far. A frog catches bugs with its long, sticky tongue. Frogs can live in water and on land.
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ELA
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 9. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Give 3 short paragraphs a title together; the title is the main topic. Practice 10 tricky-word cards daily until each is quick. |
| Only a few right | Keep a tricky-word ring with 5 words and add one new word a day. For each book you read aloud, ask, "What was it mostly about?" |
Science
Second Grade · Week 8 · Friday · secondgrade.com
Science
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 9. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Take apart a flower or a carrot plant together and name each part and its job. |
| Only a few right | Play a matching game: plant or animal part cards matched to what they do (roots take in water; wings help birds fly). |
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Social Studies
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 9. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Play "Point to it": name a continent or ocean and your child points to it on a globe or map. Start with the one you live on. |
| Only a few right | Reread "Seven Continents, Five Oceans" together and label a blank world map with 3 continents and 2 oceans. |
Health · Food, Water and Energy · All Specials
Health · Week 8
I can sort foods into food groups.
You need: grocery flyers or food pictures (optional)
Second Grade · Week 8 · secondgrade.com
Math
Finding partners makes adding many numbers easier
ELA
The main topic is what a text is mostly about
Science
Plant and animal parts each have a job
Try it (10 min): Grab three or four small handfuls of beans or pasta. Count each pile, then add them all. Look for two piles that make a ten or a friendly number.
Talk about it: Which piles did you add first? Why?
Try it (10 min): Read a short article or page of a true book. Together, say in one sentence what it is mostly about.
Talk about it: Which details helped you know the main topic?
Try it (10 min): Look at a fruit or vegetable from the kitchen, like celery, carrot or broccoli. Decide which plant part it is: root, stem, leaf or flower.
Talk about it: What job did that part do for the plant?
Try it (10 min): Look at a globe, a map or a map app together. Find your continent and the ocean closest to you. Then spin or scroll and find one more continent.
Talk about it: Which continent would you like to visit? What ocean would you cross?
We did blank of 4 activities.
Second Grade · Week 8 · secondgrade.com
