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Week 8, Wednesday: Practice adding three and four two-digit numbers · Compare the main topics of two nonfiction texts

Day 38 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students practice adding three and four two-digit numbers with column addition and check with grouping (2.NBT.B.6).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

6 + 6 = ? Facts to 20
48 + 28 = ? Week 7
Write 692 in expanded form. Week 5

12
76
600 + 90 + 2

Standards Addressed

2.NBT.B.6 2.NBT.B.5

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Bean count: scoop three small handfuls of beans onto three index cards. Your child counts each pile (write the numbers, for example 14, 21, 17), then adds all three (52). Recount all the beans in one pile to check.

dried beansindex cardspencil

15 min

Mini-Lesson

Model a tricky column problem: 29 + 38 + 17. Ones: 9 + 8 + 7 = 24, write 4, carry 2 tens (draw two small sticks above the tens column). Tens: 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 8. Answer 84. Emphasize that the carried number can be 2 or even 3 when adding many numbers. Do 46 + 37 + 28 + 19 together (130).

paperpencil

15 min

Practice

Your child solves 6 column problems: 15 + 27 + 38, 42 + 29 + 13, 56 + 17 + 19, 11 + 22 + 33 + 44, 25 + 35 + 18 + 12, 39 + 28 + 17 + 26 (answers 80, 84, 92, 110, 90, 110). They solve each a second way by grouping and compare answers.

paperpencil

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask, 'Which problem had the biggest carry?' (39 + 28 + 17 + 26, ones sum 30). Have your child explain what the carried 3 stands for (3 tens).

Materials Needed

dried beansindex cardspencilpaper

Related Resources

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

English Language Arts

Students compare the main topics of two nonfiction texts about animal body parts and develop informational writing with facts and definitions (RI.2.2, W.2.2).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Name two question words you can ask about a nonfiction book. Week 7
Add a prefix to make a word that means 'not locked'. Week 5
What is the past tense of 'run'? Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RI.2.2 W.2.2 RF.2.3f +1 more

Activities

15 min

Shared Reading

Read 'Feathers: Not Just for Flying' by Melissa Stewart, reading both the large text and the smaller notebook-style captions. Stop after the first four feather jobs and ask, 'What is the main topic so far?' Guide your child to 'Feathers do many jobs besides flying.'

Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart

10 min

Mini-Lesson

Put both books side by side. Say, 'Both books are about animal body parts, but each has its own main topic.' Write two circles on chart paper, 'Tails, eyes, noses do jobs' and 'Feathers do jobs,' and one shared idea in the middle: 'Body parts help animals survive.' Connect this to science this week, where you are looking at plant and animal structures.

chart papermarkerWhat Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin PageFeathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart

15 min

Independent Reading

Your child reads a self-chosen nonfiction book for 12 minutes, then writes 'This book is mostly about ______' on a sticky note and names two details that prove it. Support: Read the first two pages together and stop to name the topic before your child continues alone. Stretch: Write the main topic of two different pages and tell how they connect to the whole book.

library nonfiction booksticky notespencil

15 min

Writing Workshop

Your child writes a second paragraph about a feather job from today's book ('Some feathers keep birds warm.'), including one fact and one definition. Model the definition frame 'A ______ is ______' on the board first, then let your child choose a word such as 'down' or 'preen' to define.

writing notebookpencilFeathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart

10 min

Word Study

Add ten more Dolch words: off, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these. Have your child write each word in a sentence about a bird ('Birds sleep in their nests.') for three of the words, then read all thirty cards so far as fast as they can while you time it.

index cardsmarkerwriting notebookpencilkitchen timer

Materials Needed

Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa StewartWhat Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Pagechart papermarkerlibrary nonfiction booksticky noteswriting notebookpencilindex cardskitchen timer

Related Resources

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

Science

Students compare animal body structures, such as beaks and feet, and explain how each structure helps the animal get food (2-LS4-1).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1 2-LS2-1

Activities

5 min

Review

Cut the celery stalk across and look for colored dots in the stem; snap a leaf and find colored veins. Say, 'The stem has tiny tubes, like straws, that carry water up to the leaves.' Add 'tubes' to yesterday's drawing.

colored celerytable knife

20 min

Deeper Investigation: Beak Tools

Set out four 'foods' in bowls: dry rice (seeds), gummy worms or cooked spaghetti (worms), marbles or grapes in water (fish), and a cup with a few raisins at the bottom (nectar). Set out four 'beaks': tweezers, a spoon, a clothespin, and a straw. Your child tests each beak on each food for 30 seconds and tallies how many pieces it picked up, then decides which beak is best for each food. Support: Test only two beaks on two foods. Stretch: Match each beak to a real bird using 'What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?' by Steve Jenkins.

dry ricecooked spaghettigrapesraisins4 bowlstweezersspoonclothespinstrawWhat Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkinstimer

5 min

Data Discussion

Read the tally chart together. Ask, 'Which beak got the most rice? Which got the worm? Why does the shape matter?' Write the sentence 'A ______ beak is good for ______' twice.

notebookpencil

Materials Needed

colored celerytable knifedry ricecooked spaghettigrapesraisins4 bowlstweezersspoonclothespinstrawWhat Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkinstimernotebookpencil

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 8 · Wednesday

I can add in columns and carry more than one ten.

Look: 37 + 29 + 16

Ones: 7 + 9 + 6 = 22. Write 2. Carry 2 tens.
Tens: 3 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 8 tens.
37 + 29 + 16 = 82.

Add in columns. Show your carry marks.

18 + 26 + 37 = ____
47 + 25 + 19 = ____
34 + 28 + 16 + 13 = ____
29 + 36 + 18 + 27 = ____

Challenge

In the last problem, what does the carried number stand for?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 8 · Wednesday

I can compare the main topics of two texts.

Look: two topics, one big idea

Text A tells how fish use fins.
Text B tells how fish use gills.
Big idea: fish body parts help them live in water.

Two Short Texts

Text A: Feathers help birds in many ways. Soft feathers keep birds warm. Bright feathers help birds find a mate. Text B: Bird beaks help birds eat. A sharp beak can tear meat. A thin beak can drink nectar from a flower.

Write the main topic of each text.

Text A is mostly about ____.
Text B is mostly about ____.
What big idea do both texts share?

Use each tricky word in a sentence about birds.

their
these
sleep

Challenge

Write a definition: Down is ____.

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 8 · Wednesday

I can test how beak shape helps a bird get food.

Try each beak on each food for 30 seconds. Make a tally mark for each piece you pick up.

Beak	Rice	Worms	Grapes in water	Raisins in a cup

Which beak got the most rice?
A ____ beak is good for ____.

Look at the celery stem.

Where did the color go?
Why does beak shape matter?

You need: tweezers, a spoon, a clothespin, a straw, dry rice, cooked spaghetti or gummy worms, grapes in a bowl of water, a cup with a few raisins, the celery from Monday

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky