Week 30, Monday: Review line plots and bar graphs · Describe the beginning, middle

Day 146 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

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).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

15 − 8 = ? Facts to 20
How many thirds make one whole? Week 29
What do we call any shape with 4 sides? Week 27

7
3 thirds
A quadrilateral

Standards Addressed

2.MD.D.9 2.MD.D.10

Activities

10 min

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?'

15 min

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.

15 min

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?'

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask, 'Why could the lengths go on a line plot but the colors could not?' Listen for 'lengths are numbers.'

Materials Needed

ruler with inches8 shoesgrid paperpaperpencilcrayons

Related Resources

Math Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)Math Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)Unit 5 test (end of unit)

English Language Arts

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).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Is this a complete sentence: 'The big dog.'? Week 29
When you read two characters' words aloud, how can you show they are different? Week 27
What is the past tense of 'tell'? Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RL.2.5 RL.2.3 SL.2.1b +3 more

Activities

15 min

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.

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

10 min

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.

chart papermarker

15 min

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.

The Day the Crayons Quitpaperpencil

15 min

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.

index cardsmarkerwriting notebookpencil

10 min

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.

index cardswriting notebook

Materials Needed

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywaltchart papermarkerpaperpencilindex cardswriting notebook

Related Resources

ELA Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)Unit 5 test (end of unit)

Science

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).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1

Activities

5 min

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.

20 min

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.

dried beansgummy worms or cooked spaghettiriceraisinstrawtweezersclothespinslotted spoon4 bowlstimernotebook

5 min

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.'

Materials Needed

dried beansgummy worms or cooked spaghettiriceraisinstrawtweezersclothespinslotted spoon4 bowlstimernotebookpencil

Related Resources

Science Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)Science Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)Unit 5 test (end of unit)

Today's Practice

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

Math practice · Week 30 · Monday

I can show data on a line plot and on a bar graph.

Look: Line plot or bar graph?

Lengths are numbers: use a line plot. 6, 7, 7, 8 inches: 7 gets 2 Xs.
Colors are not numbers: use a bar graph. Red 3, blue 1.
Give each a title and labels.

These are the lengths of 8 pencils in inches: 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 6, 7, 5.

Make a line plot from 3 to 7 inches. Put an X for each pencil.
What is the most common length?
How many pencils are longer than 5 inches?

Crayons in a box: red 5, blue 3, green 6, yellow 2. Make a bar graph with a title and labels.

Draw the bar graph.
Which color is most common?
How many more green than yellow?

Challenge

Why can lengths go on a line plot but colors cannot?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 30 · Monday

I can tell the beginning, middle and end of a story. I can order words from weak to strong.

Look: Beginning, middle, end

Beginning: Pip the pup plays in the park.
Middle: Pip gets lost, and it starts to get dark.
End: Dad finds Pip and carries him home.

Think about the story you read today. Fill in the story map.

Beginning:
Middle:
End:

Word work: do what each line says.

Order from weakest to strongest: furious, annoyed, angry
Order from weakest to strongest: heartbroken, down, sad
Circle the words with the long a sound: plate, bike, train, tray, note

Challenge

Write one silent e word and one vowel team word that both have the long o sound.

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 30 · Monday

I can test how beak shapes help birds eat.

Beak Buffet: use each beak on each food for 20 seconds. Tally the pieces you pick up.

Beak	Seeds	Worms	Pond food	Nectar

Which beak was best for seeds?
Which beak was best for scooping pond food?

Think about adaptations.

adaptation

A hummingbird drinks nectar from deep in a flower. Its beak is most like the ____.strawslotted spoonclothespin
What is an adaptation?
What would happen to a bird with the wrong beak for its food?

You need: tweezers, a clothespin, a slotted spoon, a drinking straw, dried beans, rice, cooked spaghetti, bowls and water, a timer

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky