Students add three or four two-digit numbers accurately and show a grouping strategy (2.NBT.B.6).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Partner hunt: lay out index cards 13, 27, 45, 55, 38, 62, 19, 41. Your child finds pairs that make 100 (45 + 55, 38 + 62) and pairs that make 40 or 60 (13 + 27, 19 + 41). Add all eight for a grand total (300).
Review Mini-Lesson
Review the two tools of the week on 28 + 34 + 16 + 22: grouping (28 + 22 = 50, 34 + 16 = 50, total 100) and column addition with carrying (ones 20, write 0 carry 2; tens 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 10, answer 100). Ask your child which they will use on the assessment and why.
Weekly Assessment
Give 8 problems: 23 + 45 + 17, 36 + 24 + 29, 58 + 12 + 15, 41 + 19 + 27, 14 + 26 + 33 + 17, 25 + 35 + 21 + 19, 32 + 18 + 46 + 4, 47 + 13 + 29 + 11. Your child shows the pair they grouped first (arc or circle) or the carry marks in the column for each.
Wrap-Up
Check together (85, 89, 85, 87, 90, 100, 100, 100). Ask, 'How is adding four numbers like adding two numbers from last week? How is it different?'
Assessment
Add 3–4 two-digit numbers; show grouping strategies
Students identify the main topic of a text and its paragraphs on an assessment and publish an informational paragraph with facts and definitions (RI.2.2, W.2.2).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Reading Celebration
Your child chooses the favorite animal body part from the week and teaches it to a stuffed animal or family member in three sentences, starting with the main topic. Remind them that last week's skill, asking questions, helped them find these facts.
Reading Response or Assessment
Your child reads the two back-matter paragraphs about the platypus and the mole in 'What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?' independently. In writing, they name the main topic of each paragraph, list two details from each, and write one sentence telling the main topic of the whole book.
Publishing and Author's Chair
Your child chooses the stronger of the two animal paragraphs, copies it neatly, adds a title and a labeled diagram of the body part, and reads it from the Author's Chair. The audience says the main topic back in their own words to check that the writing was clear.
Phonics Check
Dictate ten high-frequency words from this week and have your child write them: because, their, would, which, does, gave, those, write, always, been. Then flash the full 42-card set and record how many were read correctly in one minute.
Independent Reading
Your child reads a self-chosen book for 15 minutes and at the end tells you the main topic of the whole book (nonfiction) or what the story is mostly about (fiction) in one sentence.
Assessment
Read two back-matter paragraphs and identify the main topic of each paragraph and of the whole book with supporting details; phonics check on ten Dolch second-grade high-frequency words plus a one-minute timed read of the 42-word set.
Students conclude that plant and animal parts have specific jobs that help the organism survive and design an imaginary animal with parts suited to a food (2-LS4-1).
Drawing Conclusions
Make a T-chart with the headings Plant Part and Animal Part. Under each, your child lists the part and its job: roots take in water, leaves catch light, beak grabs food, feet grip branches. Ask, 'What would happen to the celery if it had no stem?'
Art Connection: Design-an-Animal
Announce one food, for example 'seeds hidden inside pine cones.' Your child invents an animal with a beak or mouth, feet, and body cover that suit that food and its home, draws it in color, and labels three parts with their jobs.
Week Reflection
Compare the two bean cups one last time and ask, 'Which plant part shows the biggest difference between the light cup and the dark cup?' Your child writes one sentence about the week's question.
Assessment
Child names three plant parts and two animal structures and states the job of each in a sentence or labeled drawing.
One page for your child for each lesson. Answers are for grown-ups.
Math practice · Week 8 · Friday
Get ready: I can add, subtract and compare.
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ELA practice · Week 8 · Friday
Get ready: I can build a paragraph with facts and a definition.
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Science practice · Week 8 · Friday
I can tell how plant and animal parts help them live.
| Plant part and its job | Animal part and its job |
|---|---|
You need: crayons or colored pencils
Second Grade · Week 8 · Friday · secondgrade.com