Quarter 4 Week 28MondayDay 136 of 180

Week 28, Monday: Partition a rectangle into rows · Determine why Lynne Cherry wrote 'The Great Kapok

Day 136 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count the total (2.G.A.2).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

18 − 9 = ? Facts to 20
How many sides does a hexagon have? Week 27
A line plot shows 3 Xs over 3 inches, 2 Xs over 4 inches, 3 Xs over 5 inches. How many objects were measured? Week 25

Standards Addressed

2.G.A.2

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Spiral from Week 27: show a cracker box and ask, 'Is this a cube? How many faces does it have?' Then hold up one square cracker and ask, 'How many sides? How many vertices?'

15 min

Mini-Lesson

Lay square crackers on a sheet of paper in 2 rows of 4 and trace around the outside to make a rectangle. Explain that rows go across and columns go up and down. Say, 'This rectangle has 2 rows and 4 columns. Let's count the squares: 8.'

15 min

Practice

Your child uses square crackers or sticky notes to fill rectangles you draw: 3 rows of 3, 2 rows of 5, and 4 rows of 2. For each they write the number of rows, the number of columns, and the total squares.

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask, 'What must be true about all the squares inside one rectangle?' (Same size, no gaps, no overlaps.) Eat one cracker to celebrate.

Materials Needed

square crackers or square sticky notespaperpencil

Related Resources

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

English Language Arts

Students will determine why Lynne Cherry wrote 'The Great Kapok Tree' and begin a research notebook on why rain forests matter (RI.2.6, W.2.7).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Name two time-order words you can use in a story. Week 27
When you write about something that happened to you, in what order do you tell the events? Week 25
Choose one: The dog (wag / wags) its tail. Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RI.2.6 RL.2.1 RL.2.6 +3 more

Activities

15 min

Read-Aloud: The Great Kapok Tree

Say: 'Last week every character had a point of view. In this book, every animal does.' Read 'The Great Kapok Tree' by Lynne Cherry, pausing after the boa, the bee, and the monkeys to ask, 'What does this animal want the man to understand?' Keep a running list of the animals that whisper.

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherrypaperpencil

10 min

Mini-Lesson: Author's Purpose

Review PIE: authors write to persuade, inform, or entertain, and often more than one. Read the author's note and the map at the front of the book and decide together which purpose fits best, pointing to two pages as proof.

The Great Kapok Treechart papermarker

15 min

Guided Reading: What the Tree Gives

Reread the tree frog, jaguar, and sloth pages. On a chart titled 'What the Kapok Tree Gives,' your child writes one line per animal ('The jaguar says: food, because animals live in the tree') using a stem conversation to agree on each entry.

The Great Kapok Treechart papermarker

15 min

Writing Workshop: Research Launch

Write the research question at the top of a notebook page: 'Why do rain forests matter, and how can people protect them?' Explain the three sources: Source 1 is the animals' speeches in 'The Great Kapok Tree,' Source 2 is a Gail Gibbons book on Wednesday, Source 3 is a fact sheet you will give. Your child draws three labeled boxes for notes.

writing notebookpencilruler

10 min

Phonics: Closed-Syllable Words

Word cards: forest, insect, blossom, basket, rabbit, sudden, trumpet, velvet, magnet, picnic. Your child draws a line between the two consonants in the middle, reads each part, and blends. Note that a closed syllable ends in a consonant and the vowel is short.

index cardsmarker

Materials Needed

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherrypaperpencilchart papermarkerwriting notebookrulerindex cards

Related Resources

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

Science

Students will identify what a habitat provides (food, water, shelter, space) and observe how removing one part affects the living things there (2-LS4-1, K-2-ETS1-1).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1 K-2-ETS1-1

Activities

5 min

Science Question of the Week

Point to last week's paper chain. Ask: 'If someone paved over the flower bed, which links would break?' Write this week's question: 'How can people protect the habitats living things need?' Review that a habitat gives food, water, shelter, and space.

20 min

Investigation: Shoebox Habitat and the Litter Problem

Build a small pond habitat in a shoebox lid or baking pan: a bowl of water for the pond, soil and grass clippings for the bank, twigs and rocks for shelter, and 6 plastic or paper animals (frog, duck, fish, dragonfly, turtle, heron). Then introduce a problem: drop in 5 pieces of 'litter' (bottle caps, a plastic bag scrap, a candy wrapper) and pour in a spoon of cooking oil to show a spill. Your child describes what each animal loses: the frog cannot find its rock, the duck's feathers get oily. Photograph or draw before and after.

shoebox lid or baking pansmall bowl of watersoilgrass clippingstwigsrocks6 toy or paper animalsbottle caps and wrappersspoon of cooking oil

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask: 'What is the problem here? Who does it hurt?' Write a clear problem statement together: 'Litter and oil get into the pond and hurt the animals that live there.' Explain that engineers start every project by naming the problem clearly.

index cardpencil

Materials Needed

shoebox lid or baking pansmall bowl of watersoilgrass clippingstwigsrocks6 toy or paper animalsbottle caps and wrappersspoon of cooking oilindex cardpencil

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 28 · Monday

I can fill a rectangle with rows and columns of squares and count them.

Look: rows and columns

Rows go across.
Columns go up and down.
All squares are the same size, with no gaps and no overlaps.

Fill each rectangle with square crackers or sticky notes. Draw it. Write the numbers.

Rectangle	Rows	Columns	Total squares

2 rows of 3
5 rows of 3
3 rows of 6

Circle the right answer.

The squares inside one rectangle must bethe same sizedifferent sizes

Challenge

A rectangle has 1 row of 7 squares. How many columns does it have?

You need: square crackers or sticky notes

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 28 · Monday

I can tell an author's purpose and split closed-syllable words.

Look: Why did the author write it?

A book about how bees make honey: inform.
A funny story about a dancing cow: entertain.
A poster that says Brush your teeth!: persuade.

Why did the author write it? Circle one.

A book that tells how frogs growpersuadeinformentertain
A funny story about a pig who wants to flypersuadeinformentertain
A sign that says: Please do not pick the flowers!persuadeinformentertain
In The Great Kapok Tree, what does one animal want the man to understand?

Draw a line between the two middle consonants. Read each part.

muffin
kitten
contest
dentist

Challenge

Write the research question: Why do rain forests matter, and how can people protect them?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 28 · Monday

I can tell what a habitat gives and what happens when it is harmed.

A habitat gives four things. Write them.

food
water
shelter
space

____, ____, ____ and ____

My model pond. Draw it before and after the litter and oil.

Before
After
What does one animal lose?
Finish the problem: Litter and oil get into the pond and ____.

You need: a baking pan or shoebox lid, a bowl of water, soil, twigs and rocks, toy or paper animals, bottle caps and wrappers, a spoon of cooking oil

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky