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    Week 22, Thursday: Apply number lines to solve length word problems · Read dialogue with expression and use adjectives

    Day 109 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will apply number lines to solve length word problems and to show distances between two points (2.MD.B.6, 2.MD.B.5).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 13 − 8 = ? Facts to 20
    2. A red ribbon is 50 feet. A blue ribbon is 17 feet. How much longer is the red ribbon? Week 21
    3. About how long is a pencil: 7 inches or 7 feet? Week 20

    Standards Addressed

    2.MD.B.62.MD.B.5

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Draw a number line from 0 to 60 marked by tens. Your child places 25 and 47, then hops from 25 to 47 to find the distance between them (5 to 30, 10 to 40, 7 to 47, so 22). Ask: 'What subtraction does that match?' (47 - 25 = 22).

    paperpencilruler
    15 min

    Mini-Lesson: The Story on the Line

    Read: 'A frog sits at 18 inches on a measuring tape. It jumps 26 inches forward. Where does it land?' Draw a number line, start at 18, hop 20 to 38 and 6 to 44, write 18 + 26 = 44 inches. Then read: 'A snail is at 52 centimeters and crawls back 35 centimeters. Where is it now?' Hop back 30 to 22 and 5 to 17.

    paperpencilruler
    15 min

    Practice: Tape Measure Stories

    Stretch a tape measure across the floor and act out three problems with a toy car before drawing each on a number line. 1: 'The car starts at 12 inches and rolls 29 inches. Where does it stop?' (41). 2: 'The car is at 70 inches and rolls back 33 inches. Where is it?' (37). 3: 'A marble at 24 inches and a block at 61 inches. How far apart are they?' (37).

    tape measuretoy carmarbleblockpaperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Your child writes one number line story of their own using the tape measure and solves it. Ask: 'Which is easier for you, the bar drawing from last week or the number line?'

    math journalpencil

    Materials Needed

    tape measuretoy carmarbleblockpaperpencilrulermath journal

    Related Resources

    Math Worksheets (Weeks 21-24)Math Answer Key (Weeks 21-24)

    English Language Arts

    Students will read dialogue with expression and use adjectives and adverbs correctly in a retelling (RF.2.4b, L.2.1e).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Fill in was or were: The birds ___ singing. Week 21
    2. What should you do when a sentence you read does not make sense? Week 20
    3. Write the contraction for 'do not'. Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RF.2.4bL.2.1eRL.2.2+1 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading

    Read Chapter 2 of 'Charlotte's Web,' 'Wilbur.' Your child reads Fern's lines and you read the narrator. Afterward, retell the chapter with the five fingers and ask, 'How does Fern feel about Wilbur? Which sentences show it?'

    Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson: Reading Like the Character

    Point to a line with an exclamation point and one with a question mark in Chapter 2. Read each flat, then with expression, and ask your child to copy the expressive one. Say: 'The punctuation and the words like whispered or shouted tell you how to read.'

    Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
    15 min

    Independent Reading

    Your child reads their leveled story for 12 minutes and marks one line of dialogue with a sticky note. They read it to you two ways and you guess which one matches the punctuation.

    leveled storybooksticky notes
    15 min

    Writing Workshop: Retelling Chapter 1 and 2 with Details

    Your child writes a five-sentence retelling of the first two chapters of 'Charlotte's Web.' Require two adjectives, one adverb, and one reflexive pronoun, each underlined. Read it aloud together and check that every underlined word is doing its job.

    paperpencilfive-finger card
    10 min

    Word Study: Dialogue Tag Words

    Write 'whispered, shouted, asked, cried, sighed, called, exclaimed, murmured.' Your child reads each word and then says 'Come here, Wilbur' in the voice the word describes. Dictate the sentence 'Fern whispered to her friend' and check 'whispered' and 'friend.'

    paperpencil

    Materials Needed

    Charlotte's Web by E. B. Whiteleveled storybooksticky notesfive-finger cardpaperpencil

    Related Resources

    ELA Worksheets (Weeks 21-24)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 21-24)

    Social Studies

    Students will compare a day in the life of a Wampanoag child and an English settler child in 1620s Massachusetts (D2.His.2.K-2, D2.His.14.K-2).

    This week's reading: Two Peoples at Plymouth

    Standards Addressed

    D2.His.2.K-2D2.His.14.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Review and Extend

    Read 'Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times' by Kate Waters (or 'Sarah Morton's Day' by the same author, and share the other tomorrow if you have both). Ask: 'What chores did the child do? What did they eat? What did they learn from grown-ups?' Explain that the Wampanoag had lived in that place for thousands of years before the English arrived.

    Tapenum's Day or Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters (library)
    15 min

    Project Work: A Day in 1627 Comparison Chart

    Make a three-column chart: Wampanoag child / English settler child / Me. Fill in rows for food, clothing, work, and play using the book and what your child knows; leave a question mark where you do not know and look it up together in the book's photo notes. Ask: 'What did the two children in 1627 have in common with each other and with you?'

    paperrulerpencilcrayons
    5 min

    Share Progress

    Your child reads one row of the chart aloud and tells which child's day they would find hardest and why.

    completed chart

    Materials Needed

    Tapenum's Day or Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters (library)paperrulerpencilcrayons

    Related Resources

    Social Studies Worksheets (Weeks 21-24)Social Studies Answer Key (Weeks 21-24)

    Today's Practice

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

    Math practice · Week 22 · Thursday

    I can use a number line to solve length problems.

    Look: 23 + 18 on a number line

    1. A toy car is at 23 inches. It rolls 18 inches. Start at 23.
    2. Hop 10 to 33. Hop 8 to 41.
    3. 23 + 18 = 41. The car stops at 41 inches.

    Draw a number line. Show the hops. Write the answer.

    1. A frog sits at 16 inches on a tape. It jumps 27 inches forward. Where does it land?
    2. A beetle is at 64 cm. It crawls back 28 cm. Where is it now?
    3. A button is at 19 inches. A coin is at 57 inches. How far apart are they?
    4. How far is it from 35 to 62?

    Challenge

    • Write your own number line story with a tape measure. Solve it.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 22 · Thursday

    I can read talking parts with expression.

    Look: Read it like the character

    1. "Stop the ball!" yelled Dad.
    2. The ! and the word yelled tell you to read it loud.
    3. A ? makes your voice go up: "Are you okay?"

    The Puppy

    "Look!" shouted Sam. "A puppy is in the yard!" "Is it lost?" asked Lin. "I think so," Sam whispered. "It looks scared." Lin knelt down slowly. "Come here, little pup," she said softly. The puppy wagged its tail and ran to her.

    Use the story above.

    1. How should you read Sam's first words?loud and excitedquiet and sleepy
    2. What clues tell you how to read them?
    3. How should your voice sound at the end of Lin's question?It goes up.It goes down.
    4. Circle two adverbs in the story.

    Write a sentence about the puppy. Use one adjective and one adverb.

    1. ________

    Challenge

    • Read the story with a partner. Each of you reads one character.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 22 · Thursday

    I can compare a Wampanoag child and a settler child long ago.

    Fill in the chart with rows for food, clothing, work and play. Write a ? if you do not know.

    Wampanoag childEnglish settler childMe
    1. Which child's day would be hardest for you? Why?

    Answer.

    1. Who lived near Plymouth first?
    2. Wampanoag people still live in Massachusetts today.truefalse
    3. What did the two children in 1627 have in common?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky