Students will represent whole numbers on a number line and use it to solve addition and subtraction within 100 (2.MD.B.6).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Quick floor-line round: your child starts at 9, hops forward 7, then back 4, then forward 10 and names each landing spot (16, 12, 22). Ask them to write the whole chain as equations.
Weekly Assessment
Part 1: on a blank number line from 0 to 50 with only 0, 25, and 50 labeled, your child places 5, 18, 32, and 44. Part 2: they solve 27 + 16 and 62 - 28 by drawing and labeling hops on number lines. Part 3: 'A ribbon is 45 cm. Kai cuts off 19 cm. Show on a number line how much is left.' (26 cm).
Practice: Number Line Race
Play a game on a 0 to 50 line: roll two dice, add them, and hop that far forward with a coin; on a roll of doubles, hop back that many instead. Each turn, your child says the equation aloud (for example, 'I was at 17, plus 9, now 26'). First to pass 50 wins.
Wrap-Up
Ask: 'How is a number line like a ruler? How is it different?' Preview next week: 'A clock is a number line bent into a circle. We will learn to read it to 5 minutes.'
Assessment
Represent whole numbers on a number line; solve addition/subtraction on number lines
Students will show they can retell a story with its central message, read aloud fluently, and use reflexive pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs (RL.2.2, RF.2.4b, L.2.1c, L.2.1e).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Reading Celebration
Turn off most of the lights and read the owl-calling page of 'Owl Moon' together in whispers, then say 'whoo-whoo-who-who-who-whooooo' the way Pa does. Ask your child which they liked more this week, the quiet picture book or the start of the chapter book, and why.
Reading Assessment
Your child retells 'Owl Moon' aloud with the five fingers without looking at the card, and states the central message in one sentence. Then they read one page of their leveled story aloud while you note accuracy (errors), rate (just right or not), and expression (yes or no).
Publishing and Author's Chair
Your child chooses either the 'Owl Moon' retelling or the 'Charlotte's Web' retelling, copies it neatly, draws a scene, and reads it from the author's chair with expression. Listeners name one adjective or adverb they heard.
Phonics Check
Time your child reading the ten 'Owl Moon' words and the ten Chapter 1 words in one list; note the time and any misread words. Then dictate 'The children kept themselves quiet.'
Independent Reading
Your child reads a book of their choice for 15 minutes. Ask them to find one line of dialogue and read it to you like the character.
Assessment
Oral retelling of Owl Moon with central message; one-page oral reading scored for accuracy, rate, and expression; published retelling using two adjectives, one adverb, and one reflexive pronoun; timed 20-word list and reflexive pronoun dictation.
Students will conclude that water on Earth exists as both liquid and solid, name places where each is found, and show this on a model (2-ESS2-3).
Drawing Conclusions
Your child makes a two-column list: Liquid water (ocean, river, lake, pond, rain) and Solid water (glacier, ice cap, snow, frozen pond, hail). Then they write: 'Water is a solid when ___ and a liquid when ___.' Check the melt-race results from Monday and the glacier drawings.
Art Connection: Frozen and Flowing Earth Model
On a paper plate 'Earth,' your child paints or colors oceans blue, land green and brown, and glues cotton balls at the top and bottom for ice caps and on the mountain peaks for snow. Add a tiny label for each kind of water. Talk about what would happen to the oceans if all the cotton-ball ice melted.
Week Reflection
Ask: 'Which form of water changed the land in our pan this week, and how?' Preview next week: 'We will watch the sky and measure the wind.'
One page for your child for each lesson. Answers are for grown-ups.
Math practice · Week 22 · Friday
Get ready: I can use a number line.
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ELA practice · Week 22 · Friday
Get ready: I can retell and use describing words.
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Science practice · Week 22 · Friday
I can sort water on Earth into liquid and solid.
You need: a paper plate, cotton balls, glue
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