Week 29, Friday: Demonstrate that they can partition circles · Explain how words and pictures combine on one spread

Day 145 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will demonstrate that they can partition circles and rectangles into halves, thirds, and fourths and describe the shares with correct vocabulary (2.G.A.3).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

11 − 2 = ? Facts to 20
A rectangle is split into 4 rows and 3 columns of same-size squares. How many squares? Week 28
A bar graph of pets shows: birds 9, fish 6, dogs 7. How many more birds than fish? Week 26

Standards Addressed

2.G.A.3

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Show three shapes shaded to show one half, two of the thirds, and three of the fourths. Your child names each shaded amount. Then ask, 'Which shape has the most shaded?'

15 min

Review Mini-Lesson

Make a vocabulary chart together with three columns, halves, thirds, fourths, each with a drawn circle and rectangle showing the shares. Under each, write how many shares make the whole: two halves, three thirds, four fourths.

15 min

Weekly Assessment

Your child draws two circles and two rectangles, partitioning one of each into halves and fourths, and one more rectangle into thirds. They shade one share on each and label it, then shade two of the fourths on the fourth rectangle and write the phrase. Finally they answer: 'Do equal shares of the same shape always have to look the same?' (No, and draw two different halves to prove it.)

5 min

Wrap-Up

Reflect: 'When did you use halves, thirds, or fourths at a meal this week?' Preview next week: 'We will look back at everything from this unit, graphs, shapes, and shares.'

Materials Needed

paperpencilcrayonsruler

Assessment

Partition into halves, thirds, fourths; describe using vocabulary

Related Resources

Math Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)Math Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)

English Language Arts

Students will explain how words and pictures combine on one spread, publish an Over and Under page, and complete a one-minute fluency check (RL.2.7, L.2.1f, RF.2.4).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Split into syllables and read: fantastic. Week 28
Which is 'noisy': a library or a fire truck? Week 26
What is the plural of 'tooth'? Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RL.2.7 L.2.1f RF.2.4a +3 more

Activities

10 min

Reading Celebration

Your child reads the 'Over and Under Our Yard' page aloud with the book's rhythm. Ask: 'Last week you wrote from sources. This week you wrote from a pattern. Which was harder, and why?'

Over and Under Our Yard draft

15 min

Reading Response

Open 'Over and Under the Pond' to one spread. Your child completes three sentence frames in writing: 'The words say ...', 'The picture shows ...', 'Together they tell me ...'.

Over and Under the Pondwriting notebookpencil

15 min

Publishing and Author's Chair

Your child copies the four sentences onto a page split by a horizontal line, drawing the 'over' scene above and the 'under' scene below. Read from the author's chair, and the listener points out one place where the picture adds to the words.

plain papercrayonspencil

10 min

Fluency Check

Flash all thirty high-frequency cards from this week and note any missed. Then your child reads an unfamiliar grade-level page (a Frog and Toad story works well) for one minute while you count words correct and mark expression as smooth, choppy, or mixed.

index cardsFrog and Toad booktimerwriting notebook

15 min

Independent Reading

Fifteen minutes of independent reading, ending with your child reading one favorite sentence aloud two ways: plain, then with expression.

library book

Materials Needed

Over and Under Our Yard draftOver and Under the Pond by Kate Messnerwriting notebookpencilplain papercrayonsindex cardsFrog and Toad booktimerlibrary book

Assessment

Written response integrating words and pictures on one spread; published Over and Under page with four expanded sentences including one compound sentence; fluency check of thirty high-frequency words and a one-minute timed read of a grade-level page with words correct and expression noted.

Related Resources

ELA Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)

Science

Students will conclude that every living thing in an ecosystem is connected through food and create a food web mural of a chosen habitat (2-LS4-1, 2-LS2-2).

Done

This week's reading: Who Eats What?

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1 2-LS2-2

Activities

10 min

Drawing Conclusions

Look back at the yarn web. Your child writes three sentences: 'Every food chain starts with the sun and a plant. Animals get energy by eating plants or other animals. If one living thing disappears, many others are affected.' Ask how this connects to last week's pond problem: oil on the water kills the tiny plants, then the insects, then the frogs.

notebookpencil

15 min

Art Connection: Habitat Food Web Mural

On a large sheet, your child paints or draws one habitat (a pond, a forest, the ocean, or your own yard) with at least 6 living things and the sun. Draw arrows in a bold color from each food to its eater. Look at a library book such as 'Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs' by Patricia Lauber (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science) for accurate pairs.

large paperpaints or markersWho Eats What? by Patricia Lauber (library, optional)

5 min

Week Reflection

Ask: 'Where are you on your own food web? What did you eat today that came from a plant?' Preview next week: 'How do animals' bodies help them survive in their habitat?'

Materials Needed

notebookpencillarge paperpaints or markersWho Eats What? by Patricia Lauber (library, optional)

Related Resources

Science Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)Science Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)

Today's Practice

One page for your child for each lesson. Answers are for grown-ups.

Math practice · Week 29 · Friday

I can get ready to show what I know about equal shares.

Get ready: draw, split and shade.

Draw a circle. Split it into fourths. Shade three of the fourths.
Draw a rectangle. Split it into thirds. Shade two of the thirds.
Draw two squares. Show halves two different ways.

Circle or write the answer.

Which has more shares?halvesfourths
Which share of the same shape is the smallest?one halfone thirdone fourth
A rectangle has 2 rows of 4 squares. 4 + 4 = ____

Challenge

Draw a square cracker. Show how 3 friends could share it fairly.

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 29 · Friday

I can get ready: I use words and pictures together, and I read words fast.

Night at the Pond

The moon is up. A frog sits on a lily pad. It waits and waits. Then, zip! Its long tongue grabs a moth.

Under a full moon, a frog on a lily pad catches a moth with its long tongue while a big fish watches from under the water.

Use the words and the picture above.

The words say ____
The picture shows ____
Together they tell me ____

Fill in each blank with a word from the box.

laugh
would
their
every

The joke made us ____.
The birds made ____ nest.
I read ____ day.
____ you like to come?

Challenge

Read one sentence from the page two ways: plain, then with expression. Which sounds better?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 29 · Friday

I can show how living things in a habitat are connected by food.

Finish each sentence.

Every food chain starts with the ____ and a ____.
Animals get energy by eating ____ or other ____.
If one living thing disappears, ____.

Make a food web mural of one habitat.

Draw the sun and at least 6 living things. Draw arrows from each food to its eater.
What did you eat today that came from a plant?

Challenge

Oil spills on a pond and kills the tiny plants. What might happen next?

You need: a large sheet of paper

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky