Week 24, Monday: Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters · Describe how a character responds to a major event

Day 116 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters by name and value and count a group of one coin type (2.MD.C.8).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

6 + 3 = ? Facts to 20
What time is it 5 minutes after 12:40? Week 23
A green rope is 42 feet. A yellow rope is 18 feet. How much longer is the green rope? Week 21

9
12:45
24 feet

Standards Addressed

2.MD.C.8

Activities

10 min

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.

paper clockjar of coins

15 min

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¢.

one penny, nickel, dime, and quarter4 index cardsmarker

15 min

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).

jar of coinspaperpencil

5 min

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¢.

math journalpencil

Materials Needed

paper clockjar of coins4 index cardsmarkerpapermath journalpencil

Related Resources

Math Worksheets (Weeks 21-24)Math Answer Key (Weeks 21-24)Unit 4 test (end of unit)

English Language Arts

Students will describe how a character responds to a major event and begin collecting vocabulary from reading (RL.2.3, L.2.6).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Owls hunt at night. They have big eyes. They fly without a sound. What is the main topic? Week 23
What is the plural of 'mouse'? Week 21
Fill in the collective noun: a ___ of fish. Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RL.2.3 RL.2.10 L.2.6 +1 more

Activities

15 min

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?'

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

10 min

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.

chart papermarker

15 min

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.

leveled storybookpaperpencil

15 min

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.

3 sheets folded into a bookletpencilCharlotte's Web by E. B. White

10 min

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.

papermarker

Materials Needed

Charlotte's Web by E. B. Whiteleveled storybookchart papermarkerWord Collector bookletpaperpencil

Related Resources

ELA Worksheets (Weeks 21-24)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 21-24)Unit 4 test (end of unit)

Science

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).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-ESS1-1 2-ESS2-1 2-ESS2-2 +1 more

Activities

5 min

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.

saved projects from Weeks 19 to 23

20 min

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.

baking pandamp sand or soilgrass clippings or paper towelcup of watergravel ice cube (freeze the night before)drinking strawtowel

5 min

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.'

paperpencil

Materials Needed

saved projects from Weeks 19 to 23baking pandamp sand or soilgrass clippings or paper towelcup of watergravel ice cube (freeze the night before)drinking strawtowelpaperpencil

Related Resources

Science Worksheets (Weeks 21-24)Science Answer Key (Weeks 21-24)Unit 4 test (end of unit)

Today's Practice

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

Math practice · Week 24 · Monday

I can name coins and count coins of one kind.

Look: Size does not tell value

penny 1¢, nickel 5¢, dime 10¢, quarter 25¢.
The dime is the smallest coin, but it is worth more than a nickel.
Count nickels by 5s: 5, 10, 15.

Write the value of each coin.

penny = ____¢
nickel = ____¢
dime = ____¢
quarter = ____¢

Count. Write the total with ¢.

5 dimes = ____¢
9 nickels = ____¢
2 quarters = ____¢
12 pennies = ____¢

Challenge

Make 20¢ two ways. Use only one kind of coin each time.

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 24 · Monday

I can tell how a character responds to an event.

Look: Event, response, clue

Event: Tim's ice cream falls on the ground.
Response: Tim is sad and cries.
Clue: "Tears ran down Tim's face."

Think about the chapter you heard today. Fill in the chart.

Event	How Wilbur responds	Clue from the story

What happened to Wilbur's plans for the day?
How did Wilbur feel?
Word Collector: write lonely in a sentence of your own.

Draw lines to split each long word into chunks. Read it.

wonderful
yesterday
remember
butterfly

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 24 · Monday

I can show how water, ice and wind change land.

Test your whole Earth pan. Fill in the chart.

What we did	What moved?	Fast or slow?

Name the three things that changed the land in our pan.

Draw your pan. Label three places where the land changed. Write the cause of each.

My pan:
Finish: Earth's surface is always ________.

You need: a baking pan, sand or soil, water, a gravel ice cube, a straw

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky