Week 23, Monday: Build a paper clock and tell time to the hour · Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph

Day 111 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will build a paper clock and tell time to the hour and half hour, identifying the hour and minute hands (2.MD.C.7).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

14 − 9 = ? Facts to 20
On a number line, start at 82 and jump back 10. Where do you land? Week 22
About how long is a pencil: 7 inches or 7 feet? Week 20

5
72
7 inches

Standards Addressed

2.MD.C.7

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Draw a number line from 0 to 60 marked by fives and have your child skip count along it by 5s aloud. Then bend a string in a circle and say: 'Imagine this number line curled around. That is what a clock is.'

paperpencilstring

15 min

Mini-Lesson: Build a Clock

Trace a dinner plate on cardstock, write 12 at the top, 6 at the bottom, 3 and 9 on the sides, then fill in the other numbers evenly. Cut a short wide hour hand and a long thin minute hand from cardstock and attach both at the center with a brad. Show 3:00 (minute hand on 12, hour hand on 3) and 3:30 (minute hand on 6, hour hand halfway between 3 and 4), saying each time aloud.

cardstock or paper platedinner plate to tracebrad (paper fastener)scissorsmarker

15 min

Practice: Show Me the Time

Call out times and your child sets the paper clock: 7:00, 11:00, 2:30, 8:30, 12:00, 5:30. Then switch: they set a time and you read it. Finally, they draw two clocks in their journal showing 4:00 and 9:30 with the hour hand drawn correctly (pointing straight at the hour, or halfway past it).

paper clockmath journalpencil

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask: 'Which hand is short? What does it tell us?' (the hour). 'Which hand is long?' (the minute hand). Your child writes 'short hand = hour, long hand = minutes.'

math journalpencil

Materials Needed

paperpencilstringcardstock or paper platedinner plate to tracebrad (paper fastener)scissorsmarkermath journal

Related Resources

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

English Language Arts

Students will identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and the focus of each paragraph (RI.2.2).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

A good retelling tells the events in order. What else should it tell? Week 22
Which word makes sense: 'The dog wagged its (tail / tall).' Week 20
Choose one: The dog (wag / wags) its tail. Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RI.2.2 RI.2.10 RF.2.3c +1 more

Activities

15 min

Read-Aloud

Introduce 'Weather Words and What They Mean' by Gail Gibbons and read the first half (temperature, air pressure, moisture, wind). Remind your child that last week you retold stories; this week you go back to nonfiction and find the main topic, the one big thing a text is about. After each spread, ask, 'What is this page mostly about, in three words or fewer?'

Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons (library)

10 min

Mini-Lesson: Main Topic Is the Umbrella

Draw an umbrella and write 'weather' on top. Under it, draw raindrops labeled 'temperature,' 'wind,' 'clouds,' 'storms.' Say: 'The main topic is the umbrella. Each paragraph or page is one raindrop under it.'

papermarker

15 min

Guided Reading

Your child reads a nonfiction book at their level for 12 minutes and draws their own umbrella for it: the main topic on top and three raindrops for three pages. Check that each raindrop belongs under the umbrella.

leveled nonfiction bookpaperpencil

15 min

Writing Workshop: Choosing an Opinion

Pose the question 'Which is the best kind of weather?' Your child talks through two or three choices, picks one, and writes the opinion sentence: 'I think ___ is the best weather.' Then they list three reasons in a quick web; explain that this week each reason will get a linking word.

paperpencil

10 min

Word Study: Open and Closed Syllables

Write 'blizzard, thunder, humid, cloudy, frozen, pilot, cabin, tornado.' Show that a closed syllable ends in a consonant and has a short vowel (bliz-zard, cab-in) and an open syllable ends in a vowel and says its name (fro-zen, pi-lot). Your child splits each word with a pencil line and reads it.

paperpencil

Materials Needed

Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons (library)leveled nonfiction bookpapermarkerpencil

Related Resources

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

Science

Students will observe and record daily weather, build a simple wind tool, and describe wind as moving air that can change the land (2-ESS2-1, 2-ESS1-1).

Done

This week's reading: Watching the Weather

Standards Addressed

2-ESS2-1 2-ESS1-1

Activities

5 min

Science Question of the Week

Ask: 'Last week we saw ice and water move sand. Can you see wind? How do you know it is there?' Set up a weather log with five rows (Mon to Fri) and columns for sky, temperature (warm, cool, cold), wind (none, light, strong), and rain.

notebookpencilruler

20 min

Investigation: Wind Sock

Tape crepe paper or plastic-bag strips around the rim of a paper cup with the bottom cut out, punch two holes, and tie on a string handle. Take it outside, hold it up in an open spot, and watch which way the strips blow; use a compass app or the position of the sun to name the direction the wind is coming from. Fill in today's row of the weather log together.

paper cupscissorscrepe paper or plastic bag stripstapestringhole punch or pencil tip

5 min

Wrap-Up

Say: 'Wind is air that is moving.' Ask your child to name one fast wind event (a storm knocking down a tree) and one slow one (wind wearing away a rock over many years).

notebook

Materials Needed

notebookpencilrulerpaper cupscissorscrepe paper or plastic bag stripstapestringhole punch or pencil tip

Related Resources

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

Today's Practice

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

Math practice · Week 23 · Monday

I can tell time to the hour and half hour.

Look: 6:30

The long hand is the minute hand. It points to 6.
The short hand is the hour hand. It is halfway between 6 and 7.
It is 6:30, half past 6.

Read the clue. Write the time.

The short hand points to 8. The long hand points to 12.
The short hand is halfway between 6 and 7. The long hand points to 6.
The short hand points to 12. The long hand points to 12.
The short hand is halfway between 10 and 11. The long hand points to 6.

Draw a clock. Draw the short hand and the long hand.

1:00
5:30

Challenge

Which hand is short? What does it tell?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 23 · Monday

I can find the main topic of a text.

Look: Find the main topic

Read: Honeybees make honey. They live in hives. They visit flowers.
Ask: What is every sentence about?
The main topic is honeybees.

Where Does Rain Come From?

The sun warms water in lakes and oceans. Some of the water turns into a gas and rises into the sky. Up high, the air is cold. The water forms tiny drops, and the drops make clouds. When the drops join and get big and heavy, they fall as rain.

A cloud rains over a lake with hills and trees around it.

Use the text.

What is the main topic?rainthe sunlakes
Write one key detail.
I think ________ is the best weather.

Draw a line to split each word. Circle open if the first part ends in a vowel. Circle closed if it ends in a consonant.

tulipopenclosed
cometopenclosed
musicopenclosed
hiddenopenclosed

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 23 · Monday

I can record the weather and see which way the wind blows.

Weather log. Fill in one row each day this week.

Day	Sky	Warm, cool or cold?	Wind: none, light or strong?	Rain?

What was the sky like today?

Take your wind sock outside. Hold it up.

Which way did the strips blow?
What is wind?
Name one fast change wind can make to the land.

You need: a paper cup with the bottom cut out, crepe paper or plastic bag strips, tape, string

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky