Quarter 4 · Detailed day-by-day lesson plans · Days 146–150
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Week 30 reviews graphs, shapes, and equal shares in one mixed assessment. In ELA, readers describe story structure and complete a cumulative phonics review.
Make a one-page family newsletter with one bar graph and one drawn shape.
Mixed-review packet, family newsletter template
Unit 5 Review: Data and Geometry
Data & Geometry · 2.MD.D.9
Assessment: Mixed assessment: graphs, shapes, partitioning, and equal shares
Describing Story Structure (Review)
Phonics: Cumulative phonics review
Writing: Relationships between words
Biodiversity & Interdependence
2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1
Students will review line plots and bar graphs by collecting fresh household data and representing it both ways (2.MD.D.9, 2.MD.D.10).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Spiral from Week 29: fold a paper napkin into fourths and ask, 'How many fourths did I make? Show me two of the fourths.' Then ask, 'What kinds of graphs did we make this unit?'
Mini-Lesson
Review the difference: line plots show measurements with Xs on a number line, bar graphs show categories with bars. Measure the lengths of 8 shoes by the door to the nearest inch and build the line plot together, then survey 'What color is each shoe?' and sketch a tally table.
Practice
Your child builds a bar graph of the shoe colors on grid paper with a title and labels, then answers two questions from each graph: 'What is the most common shoe length? How many shoes are longer than 9 inches? Which color is most common? How many more of that color than the least common?'
Wrap-Up
Ask, 'Why could the lengths go on a line plot but the colors could not?' Listen for 'lengths are numbers.'
Students will describe the beginning, middle, and end of 'The Day the Crayons Quit' and order feeling words by strength (RL.2.5, L.2.5b).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Read-Aloud: The Day the Crayons Quit
Say: 'Last week the pond book had a pattern. This week we look at the whole shape of a story.' Read 'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Drew Daywalt, and after the first three letters ask your child to guess what Duncan will do. Finish the book and name the three parts together: Duncan finds the letters, the crayons complain, Duncan draws a new picture.
Mini-Lesson: Story Structure Map
Draw a map with three boxes: Beginning introduces the characters and setting, Middle grows the problem, Ending solves it. Fill it for the crayons book, then quickly fill it for 'Last Stop on Market Street' from Week 25 to show the same shape in a different story.
Guided Reading: Three Letters
Your child picks three crayons and, for each, records the crayon, its problem, and what it wants on a chart. Then look at Duncan's final picture and find how each of the three complaints is answered, talking it through with stems.
Writing Workshop: Shades of Feeling
Write word cards for two sets: sad, upset, furious; and big, huge, enormous. Your child lines each set from weakest to strongest, acts each out, and writes which word fits red crayon (overworked) and which fits gray crayon (tired of huge animals), with a sentence for each.
Phonics: Cumulative Review, Long Vowels
Shuffle twelve cards mixing silent e and vowel teams: cake, bike, rope, cube, mule, stripe, rain, tray, feet, leaf, boat, snow. Sort by the long vowel sound heard (a, e, i, o, u), then read each pile. Write one silent e word and one vowel team word for the same sound.
Students will test how different bird beak shapes work for different foods and explain that body features help animals survive in their habitats (2-LS4-1).
Science Question of the Week
Point to the hawk on last week's mural. Ask: 'Why does a hawk have a hooked beak but a duck has a flat one?' Introduce the word adaptation: a body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive where it lives.
Investigation: Beak Buffet
Set out four foods in bowls: dried beans (seeds), gummy worms or cooked spaghetti in a pan of water (worms in mud), rice in a cup of water (tiny pond food), and a raisin stuck in a straw (nectar deep in a flower). Provide four beaks: tweezers, a clothespin, a slotted spoon, and a drinking straw. Your child gets 20 seconds per beak per food and tallies how many pieces they collect. Support: you run the timer and record. Stretch: your child predicts the winner for each food before testing and checks the prediction.
Wrap-Up
Ask: 'Which beak was best for seeds? For scooping pond food?' Match each tool to a real bird: tweezers to a robin, clothespin to a cardinal, slotted spoon to a duck, straw to a hummingbird. Say: 'A bird with the wrong beak for its habitat would go hungry.'
Read it aloud first while your child follows along. Then read it together, and let your child read the parts they can. Talk about the words in the word box.
Have you ever traded a snack with a friend? To trade means to give one thing and get another thing back.
Long ago, many people traded without money. A farmer with extra eggs might trade them for a pot that a potter made. Trading goods for goods is called barter.
Barter can be hard. What if the potter does not want eggs? Then the farmer cannot get a pot. Money makes trading easier. The farmer can sell the eggs to anyone and use the money to buy a pot.
Today, most trading uses money. When your family buys apples, you trade money for apples.
Countries trade, too. Bananas grow best in hot, rainy places. Most bananas sold in the United States are grown in other countries, such as Guatemala and Ecuador. People in other countries buy goods from the United States, too. Trade helps people get things they cannot easily make or grow.
Math
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Math
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 31. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Make a quick bar graph of family favorites and ask 3 "how many more" questions. Also check the Unit 5 test: reteach any section where your child missed more than half. |
| Only a few right | Do the catch-up activity "Make a Bar Graph Together". Review the Unit 5 test together and reteach one section a day alongside Week 31. |
ELA
Max wanted to play in the yard. But it rained all night, and the yard was muddy. Max put on his old boots. He splashed and stomped. Then Mom handed him a hose, and he washed his boots clean.
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ELA
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 31. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Fill in a story map (characters, setting, problem, solution) for a favorite story. Line up 3 word cards from least to most. Also check the Unit 5 test and reteach any section with more than half missed. |
| Only a few right | Retell one story a day using "First… Then… In the end…". Review the Unit 5 test stories together and reteach one section a day before Week 31. |
Science
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Science
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 31. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Look at 5 animal pictures and name one body part that helps each one survive (a duck's webbed feet, a polar bear's thick fur). Also redo any Unit 5 test section with more than half missed. |
| Only a few right | Walk through the science journal for this unit together, retelling each week. Reteach one Unit 5 test section a day before Week 31. |
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Social Studies
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 31. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Play a trading game with toys or snacks, then "buy" them with play coins and talk about which was easier. Also redo any Unit 5 test section with more than half missed. |
| Only a few right | Retell the unit with the vocabulary cards, one card a day. Review the Unit 5 test together and reteach one section a day before Week 31. |
Music · Music from Around the World · All Specials
Music · Week 30
I can compare instruments from different places.
You need: a box, a homemade shaker, two wooden spoons
Second Grade · Week 30 · secondgrade.com
Math
Graphs, shapes and equal shares all together
ELA
Every story has a beginning, middle and end
Science
Body parts that help animals survive
Try it (10 min): Ask everyone at home a question, such as "Apples or bananas?" Make tally marks, then draw a bar graph together.
Talk about it: Which answer won? How many more votes did it get?
Try it (10 min): Take turns saying a word, and the next person says a stronger word: warm, hot, boiling. Try big, walk and happy too.
Talk about it: Which word would you use for the hottest day ever?
Try it (10 min): Look at a pet, a bird outside or an animal picture. Find two body parts that help it eat, move, hide or stay warm.
Talk about it: How does that body part help the animal live where it lives?
Try it (10 min): Play a quick trading game with snacks or small toys. Then play again using pennies to buy and sell.
Talk about it: Was trading easier with or without money? Why?
We did blank of 4 activities.
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