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Week 30, Wednesday: Review partitioning rectangles into rows and columns · Describe the circular structure of 'Ox-Cart Man'

Day 148 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will review partitioning rectangles into rows and columns and connect the total to repeated addition (2.G.A.2, 2.OA.C.4).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

9 + 6 = ? Facts to 20
Can equal shares of the same rectangle have different shapes? Week 29
What do we call any shape with 4 sides? Week 27

15
Yes, if they are the same size.
A quadrilateral

Standards Addressed

2.G.A.2 2.OA.C.4

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Riddle: 'I have 6 faces and 8 vertices, what am I?' (cube). 'I have 3 sides' (triangle). Then set out an ice cube tray and ask, 'How many rows? How many columns? How many cubes fit?'

15 min

Mini-Lesson

Draw a rectangle and partition it into 4 rows of 5 with a ruler. Count by rows and write 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20. Then ask, 'What if I erase one row?' and show 5 + 5 + 5 = 15.

15 min

Practice

Your child partitions three rectangles you outline into 3 rows of 6, 2 rows of 7, and 5 rows of 3, writes the repeated addition sentence for each, and finds the total. Then they solve: 'An egg carton has 2 rows of 6. If 5 eggs are used, how many are left?'

5 min

Wrap-Up

Have your child find one real rows-and-columns object in the kitchen (egg carton, muffin tin, ice tray) and say its total as a repeated addition sentence.

Materials Needed

ice cube tray or egg cartonrulerpaperpencil

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 circular structure of 'Ox-Cart Man' and use shades-of-meaning adjectives to describe the market and the walk home (RL.2.5, L.2.5b).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

Rearrange: 'We went to the park after lunch.' Start with 'After lunch'. Week 29
Put in order: finally, first, then. Week 27
Put the two words together: sun + flower. Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

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

Activities

15 min

Read-Aloud: Ox-Cart Man

Tie to social studies: 'This week you are learning about trade. Watch what this family makes and what they buy.' Read 'Ox-Cart Man' by Donald Hall, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, and keep two lists as you go: things the family made and loaded on the cart, and things the man bought at Portsmouth market.

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hallpaperpencil

10 min

Mini-Lesson: Circle Stories

Draw two shapes: a mountain for problem-and-solution stories like the crayons, and a circle for stories that end where they began like the ox-cart man, who walks home and starts making things for next year. Your child places 'Over and Under the Pond' on one of the shapes and explains why.

chart papermarker

15 min

Guided Reading: Was It a Good Trade?

Hold a stem conversation on 'Why does the man sell his ox and cart, and was that a good trade?' Every turn must point to a page; count the goods sold versus the goods bought on your lists and decide together who got the better deal.

Ox-Cart Manstem chartlists from read-aloud

15 min

Writing Workshop: Shades of Weather

Word sets: warm, hot, scorching; and cool, chilly, freezing. Your child orders each set and writes one sentence about the market day and one about the walk home in late fall, choosing the shade that fits best and explaining why. Support: you act out the three temperatures and your child points to the matching word. Stretch: your child adds a fourth word to each set and places it correctly.

index cardswriting notebookpencil

10 min

Phonics: Cumulative Review, Suffixes and Compound Words

Twelve cards: careful, useless, quickly, kindness, hopeful, sadly, sunflower, birdhouse, raincoat, snowman, backpack, farmhouse. Your child sorts suffix words from compound words, draws a line between the parts of each compound, and reads all twelve. Write 'ox-cart' and notice the hyphen joins two words.

index cardswriting notebook

Materials Needed

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hallpaperpencilchart papermarkerstem chartindex 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 blubber and camouflage help animals survive and compare adaptations across the animal groups from Week 26 (2-LS4-1).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1

Activities

5 min

Review

Ask: 'What is an adaptation?' and have your child name the best beak for seeds. Then ask: 'Beaks help with eating. What adaptations help with staying warm or hiding?'

20 min

Deeper Investigation: Blubber Glove and Camouflage Hunt

Blubber test: fill a bowl with ice water. Your child dips a bare finger and counts seconds until it feels too cold (stop at 20). Then put a hand in a zip bag, spread a thick layer of vegetable shortening or butter over a second bag around it, and dip again; count. Compare times. Camouflage test: cut 20 small squares each of green, brown, and white paper and scatter them on the lawn. Your child has 15 seconds to pick up as many as possible; count each color found. Repeat on a white sheet or on brown mulch.

bowl of ice water2 zip bagsvegetable shortening or buttergreen, brown, and white paperscissorstimer

5 min

Data Discussion

Ask: 'Which hand lasted longer in the ice? Which color was hardest to find on grass? On the white sheet?' Connect to whales and seals (blubber), grasshoppers (green), deer (brown), and arctic hares (white in winter).

Materials Needed

bowl of ice water2 zip bagsvegetable shortening or buttergreen, brown, and white paperscissorstimernotebookpencil

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 · Wednesday

I can split a rectangle into rows and columns and add to find the total.

Look: 3 rows of 4

Draw 3 rows of 4 same-size squares.
Add the rows: 4 + 4 + 4 = 12.
There are 12 squares in all.

Draw a rectangle with rows and columns. Write the addition sentence and the total.

2 rows of 5
4 rows of 3
3 rows of 5
5 rows of 2

Solve.

A muffin tin has 3 rows of 4 cups. Priya fills 7 cups. How many cups are empty?
Find something at home with rows and columns. Write its addition sentence.

Challenge

Erase one row from 4 rows of 3. What is the new total?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 30 · Wednesday

I can tell if a story goes in a circle. I can pick the best word for the weather.

Look: A circle story

A seed grows into a sunflower.
The sunflower drops seeds, and a new seed starts to grow. It ends where it began.
Weak to strong: drizzle, rain, downpour.

Think about the story you read today.

Name two things the family made or grew to take to market.
Name one thing the man bought at the market.
Is this a mountain story or a circle story? Why?

Word work: do what each line says.

Order from weakest to strongest: stormy, breezy, windy
Order from least wet to most wet: soaked, damp, wet
Circle the compound words: thankful, cupcake, softly, doghouse, fearless, rainbow

Challenge

Write a sentence about a rainy walk. Use damp, wet or soaked. Tell why you chose it.

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 30 · Wednesday

I can test how blubber and color help animals survive.

Blubber test: count the seconds until your finger feels too cold. Stop at 20.

Test	Seconds in ice water

Which lasted longer, the bare finger or the blubber glove?
Name an animal that has blubber.

Camouflage hunt: count the paper squares of each color you find in 15 seconds.

Color	On the grass	On the white sheet

Which color was hardest to find on the grass? Why?
Why is an arctic hare white in winter?

You need: a bowl of ice water, 2 zip bags, vegetable shortening, green, brown and white paper squares, a white sheet

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky