Quarter 1 · Detailed day-by-day lesson plans · Days 41–45
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Week 9 closes Quarter 1 with addition and subtraction within 1000 using models. Readers use headings, captions, and bold words to locate information quickly.
Read a nonfiction kids' magazine together and point out text features.
Base-ten blocks, kids' science magazine, sticky notes
Add and Subtract Within 1000 Using Models
Addition & Subtraction Within 100 · 2.NBT.B.5
Assessment: Use base-ten blocks and drawings to solve addition/subtraction within 1000
Using Text Features to Locate Information
Phonics: Multisyllabic word decoding
Writing: Narrative writing
Plants, Animals & Habitats
2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1, K-2-ETS1-2
Students add three-digit numbers within 1000 using base-ten drawings and regrouping ones into tens (2.NBT.B.7).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Spiral from last week: 25 + 35 + 40 mentally (100). Then review base-ten drawing conventions: a large square for 100, a stick for 10, a dot for 1. Your child draws 236 (2 squares, 3 sticks, 6 dots) and 405 (4 squares, 0 sticks, 5 dots).
Mini-Lesson
Write 247 + 136. Draw both numbers in base-ten pictures. Combine: 3 squares, 7 sticks, 13 dots. Circle 10 dots and redraw them as a new stick, saying, 'Ten ones regroup into one ten.' Now 3 squares, 8 sticks, 3 dots: 383. Repeat with 328 + 245 (573), letting your child do the regrouping circle.
Practice
Your child draws and solves 156 + 227, 419 + 348, 263 + 519, and 335 + 428 (answers 383, 767, 782, 763). Each drawing must show the circled ten dots turning into a stick.
Wrap-Up
Ask, 'How is regrouping dots into a stick like bundling straws?' Have your child hold up a straw bundle to explain.
Students use headings, captions, and bold print to locate information in a nonfiction reader and begin a narrative about a sequence of events (RI.2.5, W.2.3).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Read-Aloud
Say, 'Last week you found what a book is mostly about. This week we learn the tools authors give us to find facts fast.' Read the first half of 'Sharks' from the National Geographic Kids Readers series by Anne Schreiber. Each time you meet a heading, a caption, or a bold word, stop and name it out loud, and have your child tally each kind on a scrap of paper.
Mini-Lesson
Make a 'Text Features Toolbox' chart with a drawing and job for each: heading (tells what a section is about), caption (explains a picture), bold word (an important word to learn), photo (shows what it really looks like). Have your child find one example of each in the book and mark it with a sticky flag.
Guided Reading
Play 'Feature Finder': say a fact you want ('How many teeth can a shark grow in its life?') and your child decides which feature will get there fastest (a heading, a caption, a bold word) before searching. Do five rounds and talk about which feature helped most each time.
Writing Workshop
Introduce this week's narrative writing: a true story about something that happened to your child in order. Brainstorm three small moments (losing a tooth, a trip to the pool, planting the bean seeds in science) on a list and circle one. Your child draws three boxes labeled First, Next, Last and sketches each part.
Phonics
Teach closed syllables: when a vowel is followed by a consonant, it is usually short. Write these two-syllable words and have your child draw a line between the two middle consonants, then read each part: rabbit, napkin, basket, magnet, picnic, sunset, cactus, muffin, kitten, dentist. Clap the syllables of each word.
Students describe what a habitat provides (food, water, shelter, space) and compare living things found in two outdoor spots (2-LS4-1).
Science Question of the Week
Say, 'Last week we saw that a beak matches its food. A habitat is the place that gives an animal its food, water, shelter, and space. Our question: Do different places have different living things?' Post the question on the wall.
Investigation: Two-Square-Foot Survey
Make a square of string about the size of a bath towel and lay it on grass or dirt; lay a second square on a paved or gravel area. Your child spends 5 minutes at each square counting every living thing seen: ants, worms, grass blades, weeds, spiders, birds overhead. Tally each kind on a two-column chart labeled Grass Square and Hard Square.
Wrap-Up
Ask, 'Which square had more kinds of living things? What did that square have that the other did not?' Your child writes the totals in the notebook.
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.
A habitat is the place where a plant or animal lives. It has the food, water and shelter that living things need.
A desert gets very little rain. Camels, lizards and cactus plants live there. A cactus stores water in its thick stem.
A rain forest gets rain almost every day. Monkeys swing in the tall trees, and frogs hide in the wet leaves.
The Arctic is cold and snowy. Polar bears have thick fur and a layer of fat to stay warm.
Each animal fits its habitat. A polar bear would be much too hot in a desert!
Picture caption: A polar bear rests on the ice. Its thick fur keeps it warm.
Math
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Math
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 10. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Redo the missed problems with blocks first, then draw quick pictures (squares for hundreds, lines for tens, dots for ones), then write the numbers. |
| Only a few right | Do the catch-up activity "Blocks Before Numbers" for 3 days, and keep Week 10 problems within 500 at first. |
ELA
A frog starts as an egg. The egg hatches into a tadpole. A tadpole lives in water and has a tail.
A tadpole swims in a pond.
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ELA
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 10. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Use this week's passage: find each heading, the caption and the bold word, and say what each one tells you. Split 6 words together: bas-ket, nap-kin, rab-bit. |
| Only a few right | Look at text features in a library nonfiction book every day. Clap and split 3 two-syllable words a day. |
Science
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Science
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 10. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Pick one habitat (pond, forest, desert). Your child lists 3 plants and 3 animals that live there and says why they fit. |
| Only a few right | Reread "A Home for Every Animal" together and sort animal pictures into desert, rain forest and Arctic. |
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Social Studies
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 10. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Build landforms with play dough or sand (mountain, valley, island) and name each one. |
| Only a few right | Look at pictures of landforms together and sort them into land and water, then match each to its name. |
Art · Color Theory & Texture · All Specials
Art · Week 9
I can mix primary colors to make secondary colors.
You need: crayons with the paper peeled off, paint if you have it, a leaf, coin or sneaker
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Math
Adding and taking away big numbers with drawings
ELA
Tools that help me find facts fast
Science
Habitats: homes for plants and animals
Try it (10 min): Play "Build and Add": each person writes a three-digit number. Draw both with squares, sticks and dots, then add. Did you need to trade 10 ones for a ten?
Talk about it: How did you know you needed to trade?
Try it (10 min): Read a nonfiction magazine or library book together. Hunt for a heading, a caption and a bold word. Who can find each one first?
Talk about it: Which text feature helped you find a fact the fastest?
Try it (10 min): Look out a window or walk outside. Pick one animal you see (a bird, a squirrel, an ant). Find its food, water and shelter.
Talk about it: What would happen if its habitat lost its water?
Try it (10 min): Look at a map or globe. Find a mountain, a river and a lake. Which is closest to where you live?
Talk about it: Would you rather live near a mountain or a lake? Why?
We did blank of 4 activities.
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