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    Week 27, Friday: Demonstrate that they can identify · Write from a character's point of view

    Day 135 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will demonstrate that they can identify and draw triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes by their attributes (2.G.A.1).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 17 − 8 = ? Facts to 20
    2. A bar graph of pets shows: cats 4, fish 9, rabbits 8. How many more fish than cats? Week 26
    3. A green rope is 68 feet. A yellow rope is 32 feet. How much longer is the green rope? Week 24

    Standards Addressed

    2.G.A.1

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Riddle round: 'I am a solid with 6 square faces' (cube). 'I have 6 sides and 6 vertices' (hexagon). 'I have 4 sides and my corners are all square' (square or rectangle). Do six riddles fast.

    15 min

    Review Mini-Lesson

    Build a shape chart together with five rows: triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, cube. Your child fills in the number of sides or faces and the number of vertices, and draws a small example in each row.

    15 min

    Weekly Assessment

    Show your child six hand-drawn shapes, including a stretched pentagon and a tilted rectangle, and have them name each and write the number of sides and vertices. Then they draw a triangle, a quadrilateral, a pentagon, and a hexagon with a ruler and write the number of faces on a cube.

    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Reflect: 'What surprised you on the shape hunt?' Preview next week: 'We will cut rectangles into rows and columns of squares and count them.'

    Materials Needed

    rulerpaperpencila die or block

    Assessment

    Identify and draw triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons by attributes

    Related Resources

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

    English Language Arts

    Students will write from a character's point of view, publish a well-elaborated narrative recount, and spell r-controlled words in dictation (RL.2.6, W.2.3, RF.2.3).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. What does 'replay' mean? Week 26
    2. Clap the syllables in 'elephant'. Week 24
    3. Write the contraction for 'I am'. Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RL.2.6W.2.3SL.2.5+2 more

    Activities

    10 min

    Reading Celebration

    Listen to Thursday's recorded retelling together. Ask: 'Last week you recorded a conversation about saving and spending. What did you do better this time?' and let your child answer with a stem.

    phone or recorder
    15 min

    Reading Response

    Your child writes three sentences from the ant's point of view telling the kid what to do, then one sentence from the kid's point of view answering. Check that each side uses 'I' and gives a reason from the book.

    writing notebookpencilHey, Little Ant
    15 min

    Publishing and Author's Chair: The Recount

    Your child adds a cover drawing and reads the finished recount from the author's chair. Listeners respond only with stems ('My favorite part was ... because ...', 'I want to add on ...'), and the recount goes into the portfolio.

    clean copycrayonsportfolio folder
    10 min

    Phonics Check: R-Controlled Vowels

    Dictate eight words: farm, storm, bird, turn, her, shark, horse, girl. Then dictate 'The nurse parked her car by the barn.' Your child underlines each r-controlled team.

    writing notebookpencil
    15 min

    Independent Reading

    Fifteen minutes in a library book, ending with your child naming who is telling the story and reading one line in that voice.

    library book

    Materials Needed

    phone or recorderwriting notebookpencilHey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hooseclean copycrayonsportfolio folderlibrary book

    Assessment

    Recorded five-finger retelling scored for characters, setting, problem, events in order, and ending; published narrative recount with at least three temporal words, dialogue, past-tense verbs, and a closing; point-of-view response; dictation of eight r-controlled words.

    Related Resources

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

    Science

    Students will use evidence from the bean cups and pollinator model to conclude that plants need sun and water and that plants and animals depend on each other (2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2).

    This week's reading: Living Things Need Each Other

    Standards Addressed

    2-LS2-12-LS2-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Drawing Conclusions

    Line up cups A to D and have your child rank them from most to least growth. Write the claim: 'Beans need water and light to grow. Cup A grew most because it had both.' If cup C sprouted pale and tall, explain that it is searching for light. Ask what a rabbit would eat if there were no cup A plants in the world.

    bean cupsnotebookpencil
    15 min

    Art Connection: Interdependence Chain

    Cut 6 paper strips. On each, your child draws one pair that depends on each other: bee and flower, squirrel and oak tree, bird and berry bush, worm and soil, cow and grass, person and apple tree. Loop them into a paper chain and hang it under the Animal Groups Poster. Say the chain aloud: 'The flower needs the bee, the bee needs the flower.'

    paper stripscrayonstape or stapler
    5 min

    Week Reflection

    Ask: 'What is one thing you depend on that depends on something else?' Keep cup A growing on the windowsill; preview next week: 'What happens to these chains when a habitat is damaged?'

    Materials Needed

    bean cupsnotebookpencilpaper stripscrayonstape or stapler

    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 27 · Friday

    I can get ready to show what I know about shapes.

    Get ready. Circle true or false.

    1. A hexagon has 6 vertices.truefalse
    2. A square is a quadrilateral.truefalse
    3. A tilted triangle is not a triangle anymore.truefalse
    4. Every face of a cube is a circle.truefalse

    Quick review.

    1. A bar graph shows 5 squares and 2 circles. How many more squares?
    2. How many sides do 2 triangles have in all?
    3. What is a vertex?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 27 · Friday

    I can write from a character's point of view.

    Think about Hey, Little Ant. Use I in each sentence and give a reason.

    1. Be the ant. Tell the kid what to do.
    2. Be the kid. Answer the ant.

    Read. Underline the r-controlled words.

    1. The girl wore a short shirt to the farm.
    2. A bird sat on the barn in the storm.
    3. Turn left at the park.

    Challenge

    • Who is telling the story in the book you are reading now?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Science practice · Week 27 · Friday

    I can explain how plants and animals need each other.

    Line up the bean cups. Rank them from most growth (1) to least growth (4).

    RankCupWhat it had
    1. Finish the claim: Beans need ____ to sprout and ____ to keep growing.

    How do they help each other? Write one way for each pair.

    1. bird and berry bush
    2. squirrel and oak tree
    3. What would a rabbit eat if there were no plants?

    Challenge

    • Name one thing you depend on that depends on something else.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky