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    Week 27, Tuesday: Go on a shape hunt, sorting real objects · Use past-tense irregular verbs in their recount

    Day 132 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will go on a shape hunt, sorting real objects by number of sides and vertices and explaining their reasoning (2.G.A.1).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 4 + 3 = ? Facts to 20
    2. A bar graph of pets shows: birds 7, dogs 9, cats 8. How many more dogs than birds? Week 26
    3. A line plot shows 3 Xs over 3 inches, 4 Xs over 4 inches, 1 X over 5 inches. Which length was measured most often? Week 25

    Standards Addressed

    2.G.A.1

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Play 'Guess My Shape': say 'I have 5 sides and 5 vertices' and your child names it. Do five rounds, including one square described as 'I have 4 equal sides and 4 vertices.'

    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Explain that shapes are named by attributes, meaning the number of sides and vertices, not by how big or which way they turn. Show a book cover, a slice of bread, a stop sign photo, and a soccer ball patch and count sides on each together.

    15 min

    Practice

    Your child hunts the house for at least 8 flat shapes on windows, tiles, signs, cracker boxes, and quilts, sketching each one and writing its name and side count on a recording sheet with columns for 3, 4, 5, and 6 sides.

    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask, 'Which column was easiest to fill? Which was hardest?' Point out that quadrilaterals are everywhere and pentagons are rare in a house.

    Materials Needed

    paperpencilclipboard or hardcover book to lean onhousehold objects

    Related Resources

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

    English Language Arts

    Students will use past-tense irregular verbs in their recount and identify who is telling a story in a self-chosen book (L.2.1d, RL.2.6).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. Your friend says, 'I like dogs.' Which reply builds on what she said: 'I like dogs too, because they are friendly' or 'What's for lunch?' Week 26
    2. Fill in the vowel team: t__th (you brush it). Week 25
    3. What is the past tense of 'sit'? Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    L.2.1dRL.2.6RL.2.1+2 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading: The Ant's Side

    Reread the ant's verses only. Tie to science: 'This week you are learning how living things depend on each other. The ant says it has a nest to feed.' List three jobs the ant claims to do and ask whether the kid ever answers those points.

    Hey, Little Antpaperpencil
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson: Irregular Past-Tense Verbs

    A recount tells what already happened, so verbs are in the past. Chart pairs: go/went, see/saw, say/said, take/took, run/ran, eat/ate, sit/sat, hide/hid, tell/told, come/came. Say a present-tense sentence ('I see a bus') and your child flips it ('I saw a bus').

    chart papermarker
    15 min

    Independent Reading: Who Is Telling?

    Your child reads a library book for ten minutes with one job: figure out who is telling the story. Then your child tells you whether a character is narrating (look for I, me, my) or an outside narrator, and reads one line in that narrator's voice. Support: you read the first page together and circle the pronouns. Stretch: your child finds a place where a second character's point of view differs.

    library book
    15 min

    Writing Workshop: Adding Dialogue

    Your child finds one place in the recount where someone spoke and adds a line of dialogue with quotation marks: 'Hold on tight,' said my dad. Then replace 'said' with a stronger verb (whispered, shouted, laughed). Check the draft for irregular verbs and fix any that are in present tense.

    recount draftpencilverb chart
    10 min

    Phonics: R-Controlled or

    Word cards: corn, fork, storm, horse, morning, short, north, porch, born, sport, forest, torn. Read, then have your child find the two words that fit the ant's world (forest, morning) and write a sentence with them.

    index cardsmarkerwriting notebook

    Materials Needed

    Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoosepaperpencilchart papermarkerlibrary bookrecount draftindex cardswriting notebook

    Related Resources

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

    Social Studies

    Students will explain that producers make goods or provide services and consumers use them, and identify times they are each one (D2.Eco.3.K-2, D2.Eco.6.K-2).

    Standards Addressed

    D2.Eco.3.K-2D2.Eco.6.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Read-Aloud and Discussion

    Read 'The Little Red Hen' (any classic picture book version, such as the Paul Galdone edition). Pause at each 'Not I' and ask who is doing the work. Define producer as someone who makes a good or does a service, and consumer as someone who uses it. Ask: 'Who was the producer of the bread? Who wanted to be the consumers? Why did the hen say no?'

    The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone (library)
    15 min

    Hands-On Activity: Follow the Bread

    Take a slice of bread from your kitchen. On a strip of paper, your child draws the chain of producers: farmer grows wheat, miller grinds flour, baker bakes bread, truck driver delivers, store clerk sells, your family eats. Cut the strip into cards and shuffle; your child puts them back in order and labels each person P for producer. Then your child holds the bread and says, 'I am the consumer.'

    slice of breadpaper stripscissorscrayons
    5 min

    Quick Write

    Sentence frames: 'I was a consumer today when I ___.' and 'I was a producer when I ___ (made a drawing, helped cook, cleaned up).' Add to the booklet.

    bookletpencil

    Materials Needed

    The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone (library)slice of breadpaper stripscissorscrayonsNeeds and Wants bookletpencil

    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 27 · Tuesday

    I can find and sort shapes by their sides.

    Look: Sort a book cover

    1. Count the sides of a book cover: 1, 2, 3, 4.
    2. It has 4 sides and 4 vertices.
    3. It goes in the 4 sides column. It is a quadrilateral.

    Shape hunt. Find 8 flat shapes at home. Draw each in the column for its number of sides.

    3 sides4 sides5 sides6 sides
    1. Which column was easiest to fill?

    Guess my shape.

    1. I have 6 vertices. What am I?
    2. I have 3 sides. What am I?
    3. I have 4 equal sides and 4 square corners. What am I?
    4. Home plate on a baseball field has 5 sides. What shape is it?
    5. A cell in a honeycomb has 6 sides. What shape is it?

    Challenge

    • Do a big triangle and a small triangle have the same name? Why?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 27 · Tuesday

    I can use past-tense verbs and tell who is telling a story.

    Look: Past tense and who is telling

    1. Today I sit. Yesterday I sat.
    2. "I fed my fish." I and my: a character is telling.
    3. "Max fed his fish." An outside narrator is telling.

    Write the past-tense word.

    1. Yesterday I ____ a shell. (find)
    2. Last night we ____ a letter to Grandpa. (write)
    3. Ben ____ his sister a hug. (give)
    4. She ____ a cup of milk. (drink)

    Who is telling? Circle one.

    1. "I ran to the park with my dog."a character (I, me, my)an outside narrator
    2. "Rosa ran to the park with her dog."a character (I, me, my)an outside narrator
    3. Underline the or words: The stork sat by the fort and blew a horn.
    4. Add a line of talking to your true story. Use quotation marks.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 27 · Tuesday

    I can tell who is a producer and who is a consumer.

    A producer makes a good or does a service. A consumer uses it. Put the bread steps in order. Write 1 to 6.

    1. ____ The baker bakes the bread.
    2. ____ The farmer grows wheat.
    3. ____ My family eats the bread.
    4. ____ The miller grinds wheat into flour.
    5. ____ The store clerk sells the bread.
    6. ____ The truck driver takes the bread to the store.

    Finish each sentence.

    1. I was a consumer today when I ____.
    2. I was a producer when I ____.

    Challenge

    • In The Little Red Hen, who was the producer of the bread?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky