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    Week 27, Thursday: Identify cubes by counting faces, edges · Record a retelling of a story that includes

    Day 134 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will identify cubes by counting faces, edges, and vertices and compare them with flat shapes (2.G.A.1).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 8 + 6 = ? Facts to 20
    2. A bar graph of pets shows: birds 4, cats 9, fish 2. How many pets in all? Week 26
    3. A line plot shows 3 Xs over 4 inches, 2 Xs over 5 inches, 1 X over 6 inches. Which length was measured most often? Week 25

    Standards Addressed

    2.G.A.1

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Set out a die, a tissue box, and a square piece of paper. Ask, 'Which of these can you pick up and turn all the way around and still see square parts?' Introduce the word solid for shapes with thickness.

    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Hold a die or sugar cube and count its faces, the flat sides, by marking each with a small sticker: 6 faces. Count vertices: 8. Explain that every face of a cube is a square. Ask, 'How many sides does one face have?' (4).

    15 min

    Practice

    Your child finds three cubes or near-cubes at home, such as dice, blocks, a bouillon cube box, and three flat shapes, and sorts them on two mats labeled Flat Shapes and Cubes. For each cube they write 6 faces and 8 vertices; for each flat shape they write the name and side count.

    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask, 'Is a cereal box a cube?' Guide your child to notice the faces are rectangles, not all squares, so it is a box but not a cube.

    Materials Needed

    dice or small wooden blockstissue boxsmall stickerspaperpencil

    Related Resources

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

    English Language Arts

    Students will record a retelling of a story that includes characters, setting, problem, events, and ending, and revise their recount into a clean copy (SL.2.4, SL.2.5, W.2.3).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. What does 'unkind' mean? Week 26
    2. Name two rules for a good group talk. Week 25
    3. Write the contraction for 'do not'. Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    SL.2.4SL.2.5RL.2.2+4 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading: Reader's Theater

    'Hey, Little Ant' is a song, so chant or sing it as a two-person reader's theater with each of you standing for your character. Run it twice, and the second time your child adds a gesture for the ant's strongest line.

    Hey, Little Ant
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson: Five-Finger Retell

    Hold up a hand: thumb is characters, pointer is setting, middle is problem, ring is events in order, pinky is ending. Model a six-sentence retell of 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!' touching each finger as you go.

    none
    15 min

    Guided Reading: The Recorded Retelling

    Your child practices a five-finger retell of 'Hey, Little Ant' twice, using 'first, next, then, finally.' Then record it on a phone, listen back together, and check off each finger; rerecord once if a finger is missing.

    phone or recorderHey, Little Ant
    15 min

    Writing Workshop: Clean Copy

    Your child rewrites the recount as a clean copy with a checklist: at least three temporal words, one line of dialogue, past-tense verbs, and the starred ending. Edit together for capital letters and end marks.

    recount draftlined paperpencil
    10 min

    Phonics: Mixed R-Controlled Sort

    Shuffle fifteen cards: car, storm, bird, park, fork, girl, farm, horse, turn, star, nurse, short, shirt, yard, her. Your child sorts into ar, or, and er/ir/ur columns, then reads each column with a timer to beat Tuesday's pace.

    index cardstimer

    Materials Needed

    Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoosephone or recorderrecount draftlined paperpencilindex cardstimer

    Related Resources

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

    Social Studies

    Students will act as producers by making a simple good and describe the resources and work it took (D2.Eco.3.K-2, D2.Eco.6.K-2).

    Standards Addressed

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

    Activities

    10 min

    Review and Extend

    Reshuffle the bread chain cards and race the timer. Then ask: 'What did the baker need to make bread?' List ingredients (flour, water, yeast), tools (oven, bowl), and work (mixing, waiting). Explain that producers use resources and effort, and that is why goods cost money.

    bread chain cardstimer
    15 min

    Project Work: Be a Producer

    Your child produces a real good: a batch of 6 no-bake energy balls (1 cup oats, 1/2 cup peanut or sunflower butter, 2 tablespoons honey, mixed and rolled) or 6 hand-drawn greeting cards. Before starting, your child lists the resources needed on a card. Afterward, ask: 'Who will be the consumers of your good? What would you charge for one, and why?'

    oats, nut or seed butter, honey, bowl, spoon (or card stock and markers)index cardpencil
    5 min

    Share Progress

    Your child offers the good to family members and says, 'I am the producer, you are the consumer.' Record the number of consumers on the booklet page.

    Materials Needed

    bread chain cardstimeroats, nut or seed butter, honey, bowl, spoon (or card stock and markers)index cardpencilNeeds and Wants booklet

    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 · Thursday

    I can count the faces, edges and vertices of a cube.

    Look: parts of a cube

    1. A face is a flat side. Every face of a cube is a square.
    2. An edge is where two faces meet.
    3. A vertex is a corner where edges meet.

    Hold a die or a block. Count.

    1. A cube has ____ faces.
    2. A cube has ____ vertices.
    3. A cube has ____ edges.
    4. One face of a cube has ____ sides.

    Cube or not a cube? Circle one.

    1. a diecubenot a cube
    2. a cereal boxcubenot a cube
    3. a flat paper squarecubenot a cube

    Challenge

    • Why is a cereal box not a cube?

    You need: a die or a block

    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 27 · Thursday

    I can retell a story with five parts and sort r-controlled words.

    Look: Five-finger retell

    1. Thumb: Lu and her dog. Pointer: the beach in summer. Middle: the dog runs off with Lu's hat.
    2. Ring: First Lu chases him. Next she calls. Then she holds up a treat.
    3. Pinky: The dog drops the hat.

    Five-finger retell. Pick a story you know well.

    1. Thumb: characters
    2. Pointer: setting
    3. Middle: problem
    4. Ring: events in order (use first, next, then)
    5. Pinky: ending

    Sort the words: harp, horn, third, burst, clerk, card.

    arorer, ir, ur
    1. Words in my table
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 27 · Thursday

    I can be a producer and tell what it takes to make a good.

    Plan the good you will make.

    1. The good I will make:
    2. Resources I need (things and tools):
    3. The work I will do:

    After you make it.

    1. Who will be the consumers of my good?
    2. What would I charge for one? Why?
    3. Number of consumers:

    Challenge

    • Why do goods cost money?

    You need: supplies for your good (oats and honey, or paper and crayons)

    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky