Week 26, Monday: Conduct a household survey · Use sentence stems to build on a partner's ideas

Day 126 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will conduct a household survey with up to four categories and organize the results in a tally table (2.MD.D.10).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

11 − 4 = ? Facts to 20
A line plot shows 1 X over 3 inches, 3 Xs over 4 inches, 3 Xs over 5 inches. How many objects were measured? Week 25
What time is it 20 minutes after 10:55? Week 23

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7
11:15

Standards Addressed

2.MD.D.10

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Spiral from Week 25: show last week's crayon line plot and ask, 'How many crayons were 5 inches?' Then ask, 'Could we make a line plot of favorite colors?' and let your child explain why not (colors are not numbers).

15 min

Mini-Lesson

Explain that a survey is a question we ask many people. Write the question 'What is your favorite fruit?' with four choices: apple, banana, grape, orange. Model making a tally table, with one mark per vote and a slash across every fifth mark.

15 min

Practice

Your child surveys everyone in the house and then calls or texts grandparents, cousins, or neighbors with adult help until they have at least 10 answers. They record each answer as a tally mark and write the total for each fruit.

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask, 'Which fruit got the most votes? How many people did you ask in all?' Have your child add the four totals to check that the sum matches the number of people surveyed.

Materials Needed

paperpencilphone for calling relatives with adult help

Related Resources

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

English Language Arts

Students will use sentence stems to build on a partner's ideas while discussing why the family in 'A Chair for My Mother' saves every coin (SL.2.1b, RL.2.3).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Sort by vowel sound: boat, rain, seed. Week 25
Name one key detail about owls from: 'Owls hunt at night. They have big eyes.' Week 23
Add the end mark: Can you help me Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

SL.2.1a SL.2.1b RL.2.1 +4 more

Activities

15 min

Read-Aloud: A Chair for My Mother

Point to last week's Talking Together chart and say: 'This week we add a new skill, building on someone else's idea.' Read 'A Chair for My Mother' by Vera B. Williams, stopping at the big jar of coins, at the memory of the fire, and when the family finally sits in the new chair. Ask: 'Why does this family save every coin instead of spending them?'

A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams

10 min

Mini-Lesson: Sentence Stems for Adding On

Add four stems to the chart: 'I agree with you because ...', 'I want to add on ...', 'That reminds me of ...', and 'I disagree a little because ...'. Model: you say 'I think the jar is important because it holds their hope,' and then show your child how to answer with 'I want to add on, the jar is also where Rosa puts her own coins.'

chart papermarker

15 min

Guided Reading: Need or Want?

Ask the question 'Was the chair a need or a want?' and hold a conversation where every turn must begin with a stem from the chart; keep a tally of stems used. Reread the pages about the burned apartment and the hard kitchen chairs so your child can point to evidence for either side.

A Chair for My Mothersticky notespencil

15 min

Writing Workshop: Words at Work

Start a 'Words at Work' page for words from the book: tips, coins, save, bargain. For each word your child writes what it means and one real-life place they have seen it (a tip left on a diner table, coins in a jar at home) and draws a tiny picture. Explain that this week's writing is about connecting words to real life.

writing notebookpencilcrayons

10 min

Phonics: Prefixes un- and re-

Word cards: unhappy, unlock, untie, unfair, unpack, unsafe, redo, reread, replay, refill, rebuild, return. Your child covers the prefix with a finger, reads the base word, then uncovers and reads the whole word, saying 'un means not' or 're means again.' Sort into two piles and write three of each.

index cardsmarkerwriting notebook

Materials Needed

A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williamschart papermarkersticky noteswriting notebookpencilcrayonsindex cards

Related Resources

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

Science

Students will sort pictures of animals into groups by observable body features (fur, feathers, scales, shells, six legs) and explain their sorting rule (2-LS4-1).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1

Activities

5 min

Science Question of the Week

Hold up last week's field guide page. Ask: 'If we found 100 living things instead of 10, how would we keep track of them all?' Explain that scientists sort living things into groups by features they can see, and that this is called classification.

20 min

Investigation: Animal Card Sort

Make 16 animal cards from magazine cutouts, printouts, or quick sketches: dog, cat, horse, robin, penguin, owl, snake, lizard, turtle, frog, salamander, goldfish, shark, ant, butterfly, spider. First let your child sort them any way at all and explain the rule. Then give the scientist rules: fur or hair (mammals), feathers (birds), dry scales (reptiles), smooth wet skin (amphibians), fins and gills (fish), six legs (insects). Re-sort and glue each group onto its own labeled sheet.

16 animal pictures6 sheets of paperglue stickmarker

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask the trick questions: 'A penguin cannot fly. Is it still a bird?' (Yes, feathers.) 'A spider has eight legs. Is it an insect?' (No, insects have six.) Post the six group sheets on the wall for the week.

Materials Needed

16 animal pictures6 sheets of paperglue stickmarkerfield guide page from last week

Related Resources

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

Today's Practice

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

Math practice · Week 26 · Monday

I can ask a survey question and record the answers in a tally table.

Look: tally marks

Make one mark for each vote.
The fifth mark goes across the other four to make a bundle of 5.
Count bundles by fives, then count on the extra marks.

Ask at least 10 people one question with four choices. Make a tally mark for each answer.

Choice	Tally	Total

My survey question:
Which choice got the most votes?
Add the four totals. How many people did you ask?

Count the tallies.

2 bundles of 5 and 3 more marks = ____ votes
3 bundles of 5 and 1 more mark = ____ votes
Soccer got 9 votes and tennis got 4 votes. How many more votes did soccer get?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 26 · Monday

I can add on to someone's idea and read words with un- and re-.

Look: Add on to an idea

Mom says, "The park is a fun place."
You add on: "I agree because it has a big slide."
un means not: unfair = not fair. re means again: refill = fill again.

Pick the best way to add on. Circle it.

Dad says, "The jar was important to the family." You say:I want to add on, the jar held coins for the new chair.I like pizza.
Finish the stem about A Chair for My Mother: I agree with you because ...

un means not. re means again. Write what each word means.

unkind
rewrite
unwrap
retell

Challenge

Words at Work: What does save mean? Where have you seen people save?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 26 · Monday

I can sort animals into groups by what their bodies have.

Use the rules. Write the group for each animal.

mammal: fur or hair
bird: feathers
reptile: dry scales
amphibian: smooth wet skin
fish: fins and gills
insect: six legs

bear
eagle
crocodile
salmon
beetle
newt

Trick questions. Think about the body.

A bat can fly, and it has fur. What group is it in?
A spider has eight legs. Is it an insect?yesno

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky