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    Week 25, Thursday: Use a line plot to solve comparison · Explain what the illustrations add to the words

    Day 124 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will use a line plot to solve comparison and put-together problems about measurement data (2.MD.D.9, 2.MD.B.5).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 7 + 8 = ? Facts to 20
    2. A red ribbon is 89 feet. A blue ribbon is 80 feet. How much longer is the red ribbon? Week 24
    3. The hour hand is just past the 8 and the minute hand points to the 1. What time is it? Week 23

    Standards Addressed

    2.MD.D.92.MD.B.5

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Have your child measure the hand span of each person at home, thumb tip to pinky tip, to the nearest inch, and record the numbers. Include stuffed animals or dolls if you need more than 4 data points.

    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Build a line plot of the hand spans together. Then model one problem: 'The longest hand span is 8 inches and the shortest is 5 inches. How much longer is the longest?' Write 8 - 5 = 3 and say 'The line plot helps us find the numbers we need.'

    15 min

    Practice

    Your child answers four written questions using the book line plot from Wednesday: 'How many more books are 8 inches than 10 inches? If you stacked the two shortest books, how tall would the stack be? How many books are shorter than 9 inches? How many Xs are on the plot in all?' They write an equation for each.

    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask your child to write one question of their own about the hand span plot and answer it. Read it back and check that the answer matches the Xs.

    Materials Needed

    ruler with inchesWednesday's book line plotpaperpencil

    Related Resources

    Math Worksheets (Weeks 25-28)Math Answer Key (Weeks 25-28)

    English Language Arts

    Students will explain what the illustrations add to the words in 'Last Stop on Market Street' and tell about a book in complete sentences with details (RL.2.7, SL.2.4, SL.2.6).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. In a fable, a slow tortoise wins a race because he never stops. What is the lesson? Week 24
    2. Split into syllables: picnic. Week 23
    3. Is 'softly' an adjective or an adverb? Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RL.2.7SL.2.4SL.2.6+3 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading: Picture Walk

    Take a slow picture walk through Christian Robinson's illustrations without reading the words: find the bus, the man with tattoos, the butterflies in the jar, the rainbow over the last stop. Ask on each page, 'What does the picture tell you that the words did not say?' Your child names at least three things (colors of the city, who is smiling, what CJ is looking at).

    Last Stop on Market Street
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson: Speaking in Complete Sentences

    Play 'No One-Word Answers.' Ask quick questions (What did CJ hear? Who drove the bus?) and your child must answer with a full sentence using a stem: 'I think ... because ...' or 'One example is ...'. If a one-word answer slips out, your child restarts with the stem.

    sentence stem cards
    15 min

    Independent Reading and Book Talk

    Your child reads a self-chosen book for ten minutes. Then your child takes the Speaker card and tells you about it in at least three complete sentences (who, what happened, favorite part), and you take the Questioner card and ask two questions.

    library bookrole cards
    15 min

    Writing Workshop: The Ending and Elaboration

    Your child writes the ending of the recount using 'Finally' or 'At last.' Then reread the whole draft together and pick two plain sentences to elaborate: for each, add what your child saw, heard, or felt. Model with the book: 'The bus lurched forward' becomes 'The bus lurched forward with a hiss and a squeal.'

    writing notebookpencil
    10 min

    Phonics: Mixed Vowel Team Sort

    Shuffle eighteen cards: rain, gray, feet, leaf, boat, snow, chain, stay, sleep, beach, road, slow, paint, tray, green, dream, toast, yellow. Time your child sorting into three columns (ai/ay, ee/ea, oa/ow), then read each column aloud. Write the fastest time to beat tomorrow.

    index cardstimer

    Materials Needed

    Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Penasentence stem cardslibrary bookrole cardswriting notebookpencilindex cardstimer

    Related Resources

    ELA Worksheets (Weeks 25-28)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 25-28)

    Social Studies

    Students will identify the basic needs all people share (food, water, shelter, clothing) and explain that wants differ from person to person (D2.Eco.1.K-2).

    Standards Addressed

    D2.Eco.1.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Review and Extend

    Empty Tuesday's baskets and re-sort them quickly as a game, 30 seconds on a timer. Then ask a new question: 'Do all people have the same needs?' Talk through a person in a cold place and a hot place; both need clothing and shelter, but the kinds differ. Then ask, 'Do all people have the same wants?' Compare your own want with your child's.

    Tuesday's itemstimer
    15 min

    Project Work: Needs and Wants Booklet

    Fold two sheets of paper into a booklet. Page 1 title: 'What I Need and What I Want.' Pages 2 and 3: your child draws and labels the four basic needs (food, water, shelter, clothing) with one example of each from your home. Page 4: 'My Wants' with three drawings. Support: you write labels, your child draws. Stretch: your child adds a page titled 'A want that feels like a need' and explains.

    paperstaplercrayonspencil
    5 min

    Share Progress

    Your child reads the booklet aloud to a family member. Ask the listener to name one want of their own to add to a family wants list on the fridge.

    Materials Needed

    Tuesday's itemstimerpaperstaplercrayonspencil

    Related Resources

    Social Studies Worksheets (Weeks 25-28)Social Studies Answer Key (Weeks 25-28)

    Today's Practice

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

    Math practice · Week 25 · Thursday

    I can use a line plot to solve problems.

    Look: Solve with a line plot

    1. Plot: 4 inches X X, 5 inches X X X, 6 inches X.
    2. How many more are 5 inches than 6 inches? 3 − 1 = 2.
    3. How many in all? 2 + 3 + 1 = 6.

    This line plot shows the hand spans of 8 people. 5 inches: X X. 6 inches: X X X. 7 inches: X. 8 inches: X X. Write an equation for each answer.

    1. How much longer is the longest hand span than the shortest?
    2. How many more people have a 6-inch span than a 7-inch span?
    3. How many hand spans are shorter than 7 inches?
    4. How many Xs are on the plot in all?

    Solve. Show your work.

    1. Ravi's hand span is 5 inches. His mom's is 8 inches. How much longer is his mom's hand span?
    2. Put a 6-inch hand and a 7-inch hand end to end. How long are they together?

    Challenge

    • Write your own question about the hand span plot. Then answer it.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 25 · Thursday

    I can answer in complete sentences and add details to my writing.

    Look: Full sentences and details

    1. Question: What did you eat? One word: soup.
    2. Full sentence: I ate hot soup for lunch.
    3. Add a detail: The cat slept. The cat slept on the warm, sunny rug.

    A Rainy Day Talk

    It was a gray day with rain on the window. Kay and her dad sat on the seat by the door. "What can we play?" said Kay. Dad said, "Let's each tell a dream we had." Kay took turns and kept her eyes on Dad. They did not see the sun all day, but they had a good time.

    Use the story above.

    1. Underline 4 words with a vowel team: ai, ay, ee or ea.
    2. Answer in a full sentence: What did Kay and Dad do?
    3. Which talking rule did Kay follow?

    Make each sentence better. Add something you saw, heard or felt.

    1. The dog ran.
    2. Write the ending of your true story. Start with Finally or At last.

    Challenge

    • Think of the pictures in the story you read today. Name one thing a picture showed that the words did not say.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 25 · Thursday

    I can name the needs all people share.

    All people need these four things. Fill in the missing letters.

    • food
    • water
    • shelter
    • clothing
    1. f____, w____, sh____ and cl____
    2. Draw one example of each need from your home. Label them.

    Think and answer.

    1. A child in a cold place and a child in a hot place both need clothing. How are their clothes different?
    2. Do all people want the same things? Circle one.yesno
    3. Draw or write three of your wants.

    Challenge

    • Name a want that can feel like a need. Tell why.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky