Quarter 3 · Detailed day-by-day lesson plans · Days 116–120
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Week 24 works with coins and dollar bills in word problems. In ELA, children study how characters respond to events and what stories teach, while building vocabulary.
Let your child pay for one small item in cash this week.
Real coins and bills, story with strong character arc
Money: Coins and Dollar Bills
Measurement & Data · 2.MD.A.1
Assessment: Identify coins; solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies
Character Responses and Story Lessons
Phonics: Multisyllabic word strategies review
Writing: Vocabulary
Earth's Systems: Water, Wind & Land
2-ESS1-1, 2-ESS2-1, 2-ESS2-2, 2-ESS2-3
Students will identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters by name and value and count a group of one coin type (2.MD.C.8).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Set the paper clock to 10:15 as a quick review from last week. Then dump a handful of coins from the coin jar on the table and ask: 'How could we sort these?' Sort by kind into four piles without naming values yet.
Mini-Lesson: Meet the Coins
Hold up one of each coin and name it with its value: penny 1¢ (copper, smallest value), nickel 5¢ (thick, smooth edge), dime 10¢ (smallest size but worth more than a nickel), quarter 25¢ (biggest). Write the values on four index cards as 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢ and place the matching coin on each. Point out the trick that size does not tell value: the dime is tiny but worth 10¢.
Practice: Count One Kind
Your child counts groups of a single coin and writes the total with the ¢ symbol: 7 pennies (7¢), 6 nickels counting by 5s (30¢), 8 dimes counting by 10s (80¢), 3 quarters counting 25, 50, 75 (75¢). Then they make 40¢ three different ways using one coin type each time (40 pennies, 8 nickels, 4 dimes).
Wrap-Up
Ask: 'Which is worth more, a dime or a nickel? How do you know?' Your child draws the four coins in their journal with their values written as 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, and 25¢.
Students will describe how a character responds to a major event and begin collecting vocabulary from reading (RL.2.3, L.2.6).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Read-Aloud
Read Chapter 4 of 'Charlotte's Web,' 'Loneliness.' Before reading, ask your child to recall last week's opinion about whether Wilbur should have escaped, then say that this week you will watch how Wilbur responds to what happens to him. Stop at the end and ask, 'It rained all day and nobody would play. What did Wilbur do, say, and feel?'
Mini-Lesson: Event, Response, Clue
Make a three-column chart: Event, How the Character Responds, Clue in the Text. Fill the first row together: Event: rain ruins Wilbur's plans. Response: he cries and feels friendless. Clue: 'Wilbur burst into tears.' Keep the chart up all week.
Guided Reading
Your child reads a story at their level for 12 minutes and adds one row to a mini version of the chart for their own character. Check that the clue is a real sentence or phrase from the book.
Writing Workshop: Starting a Word Collector
Fold three sheets into a 'Word Collector' booklet. Explain that this week your child will gather words from the books they read and use them in their own writing. Start with three from Chapter 4: 'lonely, friendless, dreary.' For each, they write the word, the sentence it came from, and a new sentence of their own.
Word Study: Chunking Long Words
Write 'loneliness, friendship, tremendous, miserable, appetite, spider, interesting, salutations.' Model chunking 'lone-li-ness' with a finger under each part and blending. Your child chunks and reads the rest, then finds 'loneliness' in the chapter title.
Students will review the unit by building a single model that shows land, liquid water, ice, and wind acting on Earth's surface (2-ESS1-1, 2-ESS2-1, 2-ESS2-2, 2-ESS2-3).
Science Question of the Week
Lay out the collage, the pan map, the paper plate Earth, and the wind painting from the last five weeks. Ask: 'What is the one big idea all of these share?' Guide toward: water, ice, and wind shape the land, some changes fast and some slow.
Investigation: Whole Earth Pan
Build the pan landscape one last time with a mountain, river groove, lake, and a bare and a planted slope. Run all three forces: pour a cup of water down the mountain, slide a gravel ice cube down one side, and blow through a straw across a dry patch. After each, your child says what moved, whether it was fast or slow, and whether the change was made by liquid water, ice, or wind.
Wrap-Up
Your child draws the final pan and labels three places where the land changed, with the cause of each. Say: 'Earth's surface is always changing.'
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.
Long ago, most people went places on foot. Some rode horses. Families moved their things in wagons pulled by horses or oxen. A long trip could take weeks or even months.
Then people invented new ways to travel. Trains with steam engines could go much faster than wagons. In 1869, workers finished the first railroad that crossed the United States.
In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane with an engine. Their first flight lasted only 12 seconds!
Cars changed travel too. At first, few families could buy one. Then Henry Ford found a faster way to build cars, so they cost less. Soon many more families had a car.
Today people travel by car, bus, train and plane. A trip that once took months can take just a few hours. How did you travel the last time you went somewhere?
Math
Second Grade · Week 24 · Friday · secondgrade.com
Math
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 25. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Set up a pretend store with price tags under $1. Your child pays with real coins, counting the biggest coins first. Redo the missed items. Also check the Unit 4 test: repeat any section where your child missed more than half. |
| Only a few right | Do the catch-up activity "Skip-Count the Coins". Review the Unit 4 test together and reteach one section a day alongside Week 25. |
ELA
Pip the puppy dug a hole in the garden and ruined the flowers. Grandma was upset. Pip hung his head and hid behind the shed. Then he brought Grandma a stick and wagged his tail. Grandma laughed and hugged him. The next day, Pip dug only in his sandbox.
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ELA
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 25. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Reread a story and make a chart of each big event and how the main character responded. Split 6 long words together (fan-tas-tic, but-ter-fly, el-e-phant). Also check the Unit 4 test and reteach any section with more than half missed. |
| Only a few right | Clap and split 3 long words a day. Read one fable a day and name the lesson in one sentence. Review the Unit 4 test together and reteach one section a day alongside Week 25. |
Science
Second Grade · Week 24 · Friday · secondgrade.com
Science
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 25. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Review the unit vocabulary cards and redo one investigation your child enjoyed; have them explain it to you. Also check the Unit 4 test and reteach any section with more than half missed. |
| Only a few right | Walk through the Unit 4 science journal together, retelling each week. Reteach one test section a day alongside Week 25. |
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Social Studies
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 25. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Make a then-and-now poster about travel or school. Also check the Unit 4 test and redo any section with more than half missed. |
| Only a few right | Reread "Getting Around, Then and Now" together and retell the unit with the vocabulary cards. Reteach one test section a day alongside Week 25. |
Health · Safety at Home and Outdoors · All Specials
Health · Week 24
I can cross the street safely and wear my helmet.
Second Grade · Week 24 · secondgrade.com
Math
Counting coins and dollars to buy things
ELA
How characters respond shows the story's lesson
Science
Water, ice and wind change Earth's land
Try it (10 min): Set up a pretend store with price tags under $1. Pay with real coins, biggest coins first, and take turns being the cashier who gives change.
Talk about it: How did you count up to find the change?
Try it (10 min): Watch a short show or read a story together. Pause when something big happens and ask how the character responds.
Talk about it: What would you have done instead?
Try it (10 min): Take a walk and look for places where water or wind changed the land: a muddy path, a pile of sand, a worn step.
Talk about it: Was that change fast or slow?
Try it (10 min): Ask a grown-up how they got to school as a child. Compare it with how you get around today.
Talk about it: What changed, and what stayed the same?
We did blank of 4 activities.
Second Grade · Week 24 · secondgrade.com
