Quarter 3 · Detailed day-by-day lesson plans · Days 131–135
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Week 27 identifies and draws shapes by attribute — sides, angles, vertices — and counts the faces, edges, and vertices of a cube. In ELA, children explore point of view in literature and add temporal words to narrative writing.
Hunt for shapes around the house and count their sides.
Geoboards or rubber bands, narrative draft
Recognizing and Drawing Shapes
Data & Geometry · 2.MD.D.9
Assessment: Identify and draw triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons by attributes
Point of View in Literature
Phonics: Review r-controlled vowels
Writing: Narrative with temporal words; closure
Biodiversity & Interdependence
2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1
Students will identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, and hexagons by counting sides and vertices (2.G.A.1).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Spiral from Week 26: draw a small bar graph with squares 3, triangles 5, circles 2 and ask, 'How many more triangles than circles?' Then ask, 'What makes a triangle a triangle?' and listen for the number three.
Mini-Lesson
Draw a triangle, a quadrilateral, a pentagon, and a hexagon. For each, trace the sides with a finger while counting, then tap and count the vertices, the corners where two sides meet. Write the name and both counts under each: triangle 3 and 3, quadrilateral 4 and 4, pentagon 5 and 5, hexagon 6 and 6.
Practice
Your child builds each shape with toothpicks or straws on the table, using one stick per side, and records sides and vertices in a table. Then they make a wobbly, stretched version of each and confirm the counts stay the same.
Wrap-Up
Ask, 'Is a square a quadrilateral? Is a rectangle?' Guide your child to say yes because both have 4 sides and 4 vertices.
Students will identify the different points of view of the kid and the ant in 'Hey, Little Ant' and begin revising their recount with temporal words (RL.2.6, W.2.3).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Read-Aloud: Hey, Little Ant
Say: 'Last week you built on each other's ideas. This week we listen to two characters who disagree.' Read 'Hey, Little Ant' by Phillip and Hannah Hoose with two voices: you read the kid and your child reads the ant. Stop at the final question about what the kid should do and do not answer it yet.
Mini-Lesson: Point of View
Explain that point of view means who is talking and what that character wants. Make a two-column chart: 'The kid wants ___ because ___' and 'The ant wants ___ because ___' and fill each with two reasons from the text (the ant has a family and a job; the kid says his friends would laugh).
Guided Reading: Best Argument
Reread the book, switching voices so your child now reads the kid. Your child picks the single strongest argument from each character and reads it in that character's voice, then you hold a stem conversation on 'Who makes the better point?'
Writing Workshop: Temporal Words
Pull the Week 25 recount out of the folder. Post a chart of temporal words: first, next, then, after that, later, meanwhile, finally, at last. Your child rereads the draft, circles any time words already there, and adds at least three more so a reader can follow the order.
Phonics: R-Controlled ar
Word cards: car, farm, star, park, yard, shark, garden, market, sharp, harm, start, barn. Remind your child that 'bossy r' changes the vowel sound, read the pile, and connect 'market' to Market Street. Your child writes four words and underlines 'ar' in each.
Students will observe that plants need sunlight and water to grow and begin to explain that animals depend on plants for food and shelter (2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2).
Science Question of the Week
Look at last week's Animal Groups Poster. Ask: 'What would happen to every animal on this poster if all the plants disappeared?' Let your child think out loud. Write the week's question: 'How do living things depend on each other?'
Investigation: Bean Sprout Sun-and-Water Test
Set up four clear cups labeled A to D, each with a wet paper towel and 3 dried beans pressed against the side. A: sunny window, water daily. B: sunny window, no more water. C: dark closet, water daily. D: dark closet, no water. Your child predicts which will sprout and draws the setup. While waiting for sprouts, cut open an apple and a bell pepper and find the seeds; discuss that the fruit is the plant's way of getting animals to carry seeds.
Wrap-Up
Say: 'Plants need sun and water. What do animals need from plants?' List food, shade, homes, and oxygen on an index card. Set a reminder to check and water cups A and C daily.
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.
No plant or animal lives all alone. The living things in a place need each other.
Animals need plants. Rabbits and deer eat plants. Birds build nests in trees. Many insects live on leaves and stems.
Plants need animals too. Bees visit flowers to drink nectar. As they fly from flower to flower, they carry pollen. Pollen helps plants make seeds.
Squirrels bury nuts to eat later, but they do not find all of them. Some of those nuts grow into new trees.
Some animals eat other animals. An owl eats mice. A robin eats worms.
Even dead plants and animals help. Worms and fungi, like mushrooms, break them down into soil. New plants grow in that soil.
Look outside. Can you find a plant and an animal that help each other?
Math
Second Grade · Week 27 · Friday · secondgrade.com
Math
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 28. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Go on a shape hunt at home. For each shape, count the sides and corners and name it. Then draw a pentagon and a hexagon and redo the missed items. |
| Only a few right | Do the catch-up activity "Count Sides and Corners" for 10 minutes a day during Week 28. |
ELA
Carla wants to go to the park. "The sun is out, and I want to run," she says. Her brother Burt wants to stay home. "I want to paint a bird for Mom," he says.
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ELA
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 28. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Read the talking parts of a story aloud, using a different voice for each character, and talk about how each one feels. Sort r-controlled word cards: car, star, fork, short, her, bird, girl, turn, nurse. |
| Only a few right | Reread one story each day, reading each character's words in a different voice. Practice 3 r-controlled words a day. |
Science
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Science
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 28. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Look for bees on flowers, or seeds that stick to socks after a walk. Talk about how each animal helps the plant. |
| Only a few right | Reread "Living Things Need Each Other" together and draw one plant and one animal helping each other. |
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Social Studies
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 28. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Set up a pretend shop. Your child is the producer who makes and sells something, then the consumer who buys. Talk about each role. |
| Only a few right | Look at 5 things in the kitchen and name who produced each one (a farmer, a baker) and who the consumer is (your family). |
PE · Cooperative Games & Team Sports · All Specials
PE · Week 27
I can work with a team.
You need: a hula hoop, a big bed sheet, a soft ball, a spoon and a rolled-up sock
Second Grade · Week 27 · secondgrade.com
Math
Naming shapes by counting their sides and corners
ELA
Characters can see the same thing differently
Science
Plants and animals need each other to live
Try it (10 min): Go on a shape hunt around the house. Find a triangle, a quadrilateral, a pentagon and a hexagon if you can, and count each one's sides.
Talk about it: Which shape was hardest to find?
Try it (10 min): Tell a quick story, like a trip to the store, from two points of view: yours and the family pet's.
Talk about it: What did the pet notice that you did not?
Try it (10 min): Visit a garden, park or backyard. Watch flowers for 10 minutes and count the bees or other insects that visit.
Talk about it: How are the flower and the insect helping each other?
Try it (10 min): Make a simple snack or a card together. List the things you used and the work you did.
Talk about it: Who were the producers? Who were the consumers?
We did blank of 4 activities.
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