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    Week 8, Thursday: Apply multi-addend addition to solve real-world · State the main topic of a text

    Day 39 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students apply multi-addend addition to solve real-world problems about totals from several groups (2.NBT.B.6, 2.OA.A.1).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 8 + 4 = ? Facts to 20
    2. 57 + 33 = ? Week 7
    3. Write <, > or =: 908 ___ 982 Week 6

    Standards Addressed

    2.NBT.B.62.OA.A.1

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Mental grouping challenge: say 30 + 45 + 20, 15 + 65 + 10, 12 + 8 + 50 + 20 and your child answers without paper (95, 90, 90). Ask each time which numbers they paired first.

    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Read aloud: 'At the farm stand, Sam sold 24 peaches on Monday, 36 on Tuesday, 18 on Wednesday, and 22 on Thursday. How many peaches did Sam sell?' Draw four bars end to end labeled 24, 36, 18, 22. Group 24 + 36 = 60 and 18 + 22 = 40, total 100. Then ask a follow-up: 'If Sam started with 100 peaches, how many are left?' (0).

    paperpencil
    15 min

    Practice

    Your child solves three story problems with a drawing and equation: 'Three shelves hold 27, 35, and 28 books, how many books?' (90); 'A class collected cans: 19, 31, 26, 14, how many cans?' (90); 'Four kids jumped rope 45, 15, 22, 18 times, how many jumps?' (100). Support: give the first two numbers already added. Stretch: ask how many more cans would make 100.

    paperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Have your child pick something in your house that comes in several groups (pantry cans, crayons in boxes, coins in a jar) and estimate then add the groups.

    Materials Needed

    paperpencil

    Related Resources

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

    English Language Arts

    Students state the main topic of a text and of individual paragraphs in their own words and organize facts and definitions into a clear informational paragraph (RI.2.2, W.2.2).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Add -ful or -less to 'use' to mean 'no use'. Week 7
    2. How can a picture help you understand a story? Week 5
    3. Write the contraction for 'do not'. Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

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

    Activities

    15 min

    Read-Aloud

    Reread the ending of 'What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?' and the last spread of 'Feathers.' Play 'Title Maker': cover each book's title and have your child invent a new title that tells the main topic (for example, 'Amazing Animal Parts'). Compare with the real title and decide which is clearer.

    What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin PageFeathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewartsticky notes
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Teach the difference between topic (one or two words, 'feathers') and main idea sentence ('Feathers help birds in many ways'). Write three short paragraphs' topics from this week's books in a column and have your child say a main idea sentence for each.

    chart papermarker
    15 min

    Guided Reading

    Write four short paragraphs on index cards yourself (three sentences each, about a bee, a frog, a cactus, and an owl, drawn from what you have read this week). Mix them up, and your child reads each and writes a main topic label on top. Then your child chooses one and lists its details as table legs.

    index cardsmarkerwriting notebookpencil
    15 min

    Writing Workshop

    Your child rereads both animal paragraphs and adds one describing word (adjective) to each fact ('a long, stiff hair,' 'soft down feathers'). Then check that each paragraph has a topic sentence, two facts, and one definition, using a checklist you write on a sticky note.

    writing notebookpencilsticky notes
    10 min

    Word Study

    Add the final Dolch group: those, upon, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your. Sort all the cards from this week into 'I can spell it' and 'still practicing' piles and have your child rainbow-write the practicing words with three colored pencils.

    index cardsmarkercolored pencilswriting notebook

    Materials Needed

    What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin PageFeathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewartsticky noteschart papermarkerindex cardswriting notebookpencilcolored pencils

    Related Resources

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

    Social Studies

    Students build a labeled world map and describe where the continents and oceans sit in relation to each other using direction words (D2.Geo.1.K-2, D2.Geo.2.K-2).

    This week's reading: Seven Continents, Five Oceans

    Standards Addressed

    D2.Geo.1.K-2D2.Geo.2.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Review and Extend

    Play 'Continent Quiz': name a continent and your child touches it on the paper plate map within five seconds. Then reverse roles. Add the equator with a red line across the middle and say, 'Places near this line are warmest.'

    paper plate map from Tuesdayred crayon
    15 min

    Project Work: Big Wall Map

    Tape two sheets of paper together and have your child draw the continents larger, using the plate map as a guide. Add a compass rose from last week, a title 'Our World,' and a key with green for land and blue for water. Write the continent names in pencil and the oceans in blue.

    2 large sheets of papertapepencilcrayonsprinted world map
    5 min

    Share Progress

    Ask, 'Which continent is south of North America? Which ocean is east of Africa?' Your child answers by pointing and speaking in full sentences.

    wall map

    Materials Needed

    paper plate map from Tuesdayred crayon2 large sheets of papertapepencilcrayonsprinted world map

    Related Resources

    Social Studies Worksheets (Weeks 5-8)Social Studies 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 · Thursday

    I can solve word problems with three or four numbers.

    Look: bags of 23, 17 and 34 apples

    1. Draw 3 bars: 23, 17, 34. Look for a ten: 3 + 7 = 10.
    2. 23 + 17 = 40
    3. 40 + 34 = 74 apples.

    Draw bars. Write an equation. Solve.

    1. Three shelves hold 32, 25 and 18 jars. How many jars in all?
    2. Mei's class got 26 cans on Monday, 34 on Tuesday and 28 on Wednesday. How many cans?
    3. Four kids jumped rope 45, 15, 12 and 28 times. How many jumps in all?

    Challenge

    • How many more cans would Mei's class need to make 100?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 8 · Thursday

    I can tell the topic and the main idea.

    Look: topic and main idea

    1. Read: Frogs have long legs. They jump far. They swim fast.
    2. Topic (one or two words): frogs
    3. Main idea (a sentence): Frogs have strong legs for jumping and swimming.

    Read each short text. Write the topic in one or two words.

    1. Bees fly from flower to flower. They drink nectar. They make honey.
    2. A cactus lives in the desert. It stores water in its stem. Sharp spines keep animals away.
    3. Owls hunt at night. They have big eyes. They fly without a sound.

    Now write a main idea sentence.

    1. Pick one text above. Write a main idea sentence about it.
    2. Circle the right spelling: whitch, whichwhitchwhich
    3. Circle the right spelling: wuld, wouldwuldwould
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 8 · Thursday

    I can use direction words to tell where continents and oceans are.

    Use a world map. Write the answer.

    1. Which continent is south of North America?
    2. Which ocean is east of Africa?
    3. Which ocean is between North America and Europe?
    4. Which ocean is west of South America?
    5. Which continent is at the South Pole?

    Think about the equator.

    1. Places near the equator are usually ____.warmicy
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky