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    Week 11, Wednesday: Practice explaining regrouping in three-digit · Compare how photographs with captions and drawings

    Day 53 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students practice explaining regrouping in three-digit addition and subtraction using drawings and written sentences (2.NBT.B.9, 2.NBT.B.7).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 12 − 5 = ? Facts to 20
    2. What is 100 less than 390? Week 10
    3. 32 + 13 + 31 = ? Week 8

    Standards Addressed

    2.NBT.B.92.NBT.B.7

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    True or false, explain why: 40 + 30 = 70 (true, 4 tens and 3 tens is 7 tens); 58 + 6 = 54 (false, adding makes the number bigger); 100 - 10 = 90 (true, 10 tens minus 1 ten is 9 tens); 25 + 25 = 40 (false, it is 50).

    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Solve 476 + 258 with a base-ten drawing (734). At the regrouping step say, 'I have 14 dots. Ten dots is the same amount as one stick, so I trade. The total does not change, only the picture.' Then 523 - 167 (356): 'I cannot take 7 dots from 3, so I open a stick into 10 dots. Still 523, just arranged differently.' Write both explanations as short sentences under the drawings.

    paperpencil
    15 min

    Practice

    Your child solves 389 + 245 (634) and 612 - 348 (264) with drawings, then writes a two-sentence caption for each regrouping step. Support: provide sentence starters 'I traded ___ for ___ because...' and 'The number stayed the same because...'. Stretch: explain why 612 - 348 needs two unbundlings before writing the answer.

    paperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Read one of your child's captions aloud and ask, 'Would a friend understand this without seeing your drawing?' Revise one word together if needed.

    Materials Needed

    paperpencil

    Related Resources

    Math Worksheets (Weeks 9-12)Math Answer Key (Weeks 9-12)

    English Language Arts

    Students compare how photographs with captions and drawings with labels each support a text, and draft a second All About section (RI.2.7, W.2.2, W.2.8).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. What is the root word in 'replanted'? Week 10
    2. Read these tricky words: friend, again, people, every. Week 8
    3. What is the plural of 'box'? Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RI.2.7W.2.2W.2.8+1 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading

    Read 'Weather' from the National Geographic Kids Readers series by Kristin Baird Rattini. Stop on the pages with the biggest photos (a tornado, lightning, a snowstorm) and ask, 'What does this photo show that the words could not?' Then read the caption and ask what it adds to the photo.

    National Geographic Kids Readers: Weather by Kristin Baird Rattini
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Put 'The Honey Makers' (drawings with labels) beside 'Weather' (photographs with captions). Ask which is better for showing the inside of a hive and which is better for showing what a real storm looks like. Add 'photo,' 'caption,' 'drawing,' and 'label' to the images chart with one job each.

    chart papermarkerThe Honey Makers by Gail GibbonsNational Geographic Kids Readers: Weather by Kristin Baird Rattini
    15 min

    Independent Reading

    Your child reads a self-chosen nonfiction book for 12 minutes and chooses the single most helpful image, then writes a sticky note: 'This picture helped me understand ______ because ______.'

    library nonfiction booksticky notespencil
    15 min

    Writing Workshop

    Your child drafts the second section of the All About book from the notes under its heading, then plans an image for each section: a labeled drawing for a body part or a step-by-step strip for a process. Sketch the plan lightly in pencil on the section page.

    folderplain paperpencil
    10 min

    Word Study

    Read weather words for speed and then for expression: cloud, storm, thunder, lightning, tornado, breeze, freezing, forecast, temperature, snowflake. Your child reads a 'Weather' page aloud once in a whisper and once like a TV weather reporter, and you point out how the exclamation points and question marks change the voice.

    index cardsmarkerNational Geographic Kids Readers: Weather by Kristin Baird Rattini

    Materials Needed

    National Geographic Kids Readers: Weather by Kristin Baird RattiniThe Honey Makers by Gail Gibbonschart papermarkerlibrary nonfiction booksticky notespencilfolderplain paperindex cards

    Related Resources

    ELA Worksheets (Weeks 9-12)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 9-12)

    Science

    Students model how a bee moves pollen between flowers and begin designing a hand pollinator tool (2-LS2-2, K-2-ETS1-2).

    This week's reading: From Flower to Seed

    Standards Addressed

    2-LS2-2K-2-ETS1-2

    Activities

    5 min

    Review

    Look at the taped stamen in the notebook. Ask, 'How does pollen get from this flower to a different flower? It cannot walk.' Read the bee and hummingbird pages of 'Flowers Are Calling' by Rita Gray.

    notebookFlowers Are Calling by Rita Gray
    20 min

    Deeper Investigation: Be the Bee

    Make two paper flowers from cupcake liners and put a spoonful of cornmeal or cheese-puff dust in the center of Flower 1 and nothing in Flower 2. Your child dips a cotton ball 'bee' into Flower 1, then visits Flower 2, and checks how much 'pollen' arrived. Then the engineering problem: 'Design a tool that picks up more pollen than the plain cotton ball.' Your child sketches two ideas using pipe cleaners, a pom-pom, tape, a paintbrush, or a sock, and picks one to build.

    2 cupcake linerscornmealcotton ballspipe cleanerspom-pomspaintbrushtapepaperpencil
    5 min

    Data Discussion

    Ask, 'Where did the pollen stick on the bee? Why do real bees have fuzzy bodies?' Your child writes the design goal: 'My pollinator must carry a lot of pollen from one flower to another.'

    notebookpencil

    Materials Needed

    notebookFlowers Are Calling by Rita Gray2 cupcake linerscornmealcotton ballspipe cleanerspom-pomspaintbrushtapepaperpencil

    Related Resources

    Science Worksheets (Weeks 9-12)Science Answer Key (Weeks 9-12)

    Today's Practice

    One page for your child for each lesson. Answers are for grown-ups.

    Math practice · Week 11 · Wednesday

    I can explain each trade in my drawing.

    Look: 268 + 457

    1. Ones: 8 + 7 = 15. I trade 10 dots for 1 stick. The amount is the same.
    2. Tens: 6 + 5 + 1 = 12. I trade 10 sticks for 1 square.
    3. Answer: 7 hundreds, 2 tens, 5 ones = 725.

    Draw and solve. Then explain your trade.

    1. 347 + 286 = ____
    2. I traded ____ for ____ because ________.
    3. 731 − 458 = ____
    4. The number stayed the same when I opened a ten because ________.

    Challenge

    • Why does 731 − 458 need two trades?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 11 · Wednesday

    I can choose the best picture and read with expression.

    Look: read with expression

    1. A ! means say it with feeling: Watch out!
    2. A ? means your voice goes up: Are you okay?
    3. A . means a calm stop.

    Storm Coming!

    Look at the sky! Dark clouds are rolling in. Do you hear that? It is thunder. The wind is blowing hard. Run inside, fast!

    Which picture would help most? Circle one.

    1. To show what a real tornado looks likea photo with a captiona drawing with labels
    2. To show the tunnels inside an ant nesta photo with a captiona drawing with labels
    3. To show the parts of a flowera photo with a captiona drawing with labels

    Use the page above.

    1. Circle the question.
    2. Underline two sentences that should sound excited.
    3. Read it once in a whisper. Then read it like a weather reporter.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Science practice · Week 11 · Wednesday

    I can show how a bee moves pollen and plan a tool.

    Be the bee. Dip the cotton ball in Flower 1, then visit Flower 2.

    1. How much pollen got to Flower 2?nonea littlea lot
    2. Why do real bees have fuzzy bodies?

    Draw two ideas for a tool that picks up more pollen than the cotton ball. Star the one you will build.

    1. My two ideas
    2. My pollinator must carry ________ from one flower to another.

    You need: 2 cupcake liners, cornmeal, a cotton ball, pipe cleaners, a pom-pom, tape or a paintbrush

    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky