Week 30, Friday: Demonstrate mastery of Unit 5 skills: graphs, shapes · Complete a story structure

Day 150 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will demonstrate mastery of Unit 5 skills: graphs, shapes, partitioning, and equal shares (2.MD.D.9, 2.MD.D.10, 2.G.A.1, 2.G.A.2, 2.G.A.3).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

16 − 8 = ? Facts to 20
Can equal shares of the same rectangle have different shapes? Week 29
How many sides does a pentagon have? Week 27

8
Yes, if they are the same size.
5

Standards Addressed

2.MD.D.9 2.MD.D.10 2.G.A.1 +2 more

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Lightning review, one question per skill: 'Name a shape with 6 sides. How many squares in 3 rows of 4? What are four equal shares called? What goes on a line plot?' Correct any wobbles kindly.

15 min

Review Mini-Lesson

Lay out the week's work: shoe graphs, shape drawings, partitioned rectangles, and the snack survey. Have your child pick the piece they are proudest of and explain it to you in two sentences.

15 min

Weekly Assessment

Four short parts: draw a bar graph from the data 'red 4, blue 6, green 2' and answer how many more blue than green; name and give side and vertex counts for a drawn triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and quadrilateral; partition a rectangle into 3 rows of 4 and write the repeated addition sentence; partition one circle into halves and one rectangle into fourths, then shade two of the fourths and label it.

5 min

Wrap-Up

Reflect on the whole unit: 'Which was more fun, collecting data or hunting shapes?' Preview Unit 6: 'Next week we put everything from the year into big word problems.'

Materials Needed

this week's graphs and drawingsgrid paperrulerpaperpencilcrayons

Assessment

Mixed assessment: graphs, shapes, partitioning, and equal shares

Related Resources

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

English Language Arts

Students will complete a story structure and shades-of-meaning assessment, publish a crayon letter, and pass a cumulative phonics dictation (RL.2.5, L.2.5b, RF.2.3).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

How should your voice sound at the end of a question when you read aloud? Week 29
Fill in ir or ur: n__se (she helps sick people). Week 27
Join the sentences: The dog is big. The dog is brown. Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RL.2.5 RL.2.2 L.2.5b +4 more

Activities

10 min

Reading Celebration

Line up all the unit books: 'Last Stop on Market Street,' 'A Chair for My Mother,' 'Hey, Little Ant,' 'The Great Kapok Tree,' 'Over and Under the Pond,' and 'The Day the Crayons Quit.' Your child votes for a favorite, reads one page from it, and gives a reason in a complete sentence with a stem.

unit books

15 min

Reading Response and Assessment

Part one: your child fills a beginning, middle, end map for 'Ox-Cart Man' or 'The Day the Crayons Quit' and writes the author's purpose in one sentence. Part two: your child orders three word sets from weakest to strongest (glad, happy, thrilled; small, tiny, microscopic; cold, chilly, freezing).

writing notebookpencilindex cards

15 min

Publishing and Author's Chair: Crayon Letters

Your child copies the letter neatly, folds it, and reads it from the author's chair in the object's voice. Listeners respond with stems and one clarification question, and if you like, record the reading to keep with Week 27's retelling.

lined paperpencilcrayonsphone or recorder

10 min

Phonics Check: Cumulative Dictation

Dictate twelve words: train, sleep, coat, unlock, replay, careful, sadly, farm, bird, turn, can't, sunlight. Then dictate 'The careful girl can't wait for the boat.' Mark any pattern that needs review before Unit 6.

writing notebookpencil

15 min

Independent Reading

Fifteen minutes of independent reading in a library book, ending with a Somebody Wanted But So Then retell in complete sentences.

library book

Materials Needed

unit bookswriting notebookpencilindex cardslined papercrayonsphone or recorderlibrary book

Assessment

Story structure map with author's purpose for one story; ordering of three shades-of-meaning word sets; published letter with opening, problem, request, closing, and two shades-of-meaning words; cumulative dictation of twelve words across vowel teams, prefixes, suffixes, r-controlled vowels, contractions, and compounds.

Related Resources

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

Science

Students will conclude that animals' adaptations match their habitats and design an imaginary animal whose features fit a chosen habitat, reviewing the unit's ideas of diversity and interdependence (2-LS4-1).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-LS4-1

Activities

10 min

Drawing Conclusions

Review the beak tallies, the blubber times, and the camouflage counts. Your child writes: 'Animals have adaptations like beaks, blubber, and colors that match where they live and what they eat.' Then do a unit look-back with the wall: point to the Week 25 field guide, the Week 26 poster, the Week 27 chain, the Week 28 sign, the Week 29 mural, and ask for one sentence about each.

notebookpencil

15 min

Art Connection: Design an Animal for Its Habitat

Your child picks a habitat (desert, arctic, pond, rainforest, deep ocean) and invents an animal that could survive there. The drawing must show and label at least four adaptations: how it eats, how it stays the right temperature, how it hides or protects itself, and how it moves. Add a food web line showing what it eats and what eats it, and decide which of the six animal groups it belongs to.

papercolored pencils or markers

5 min

Week Reflection

Ask: 'What is the most important thing you learned about how living things depend on each other?' Preview Unit 6: 'Next week we follow one animal through its whole life cycle, from egg to adult.'

Materials Needed

notebookpencilpapercolored pencils or markersunit wall displays

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 · Friday

I can get ready: graphs, shapes and equal shares.

Get ready: answer each one.

Name a shape with 6 sides.
2 rows of 4 squares: 4 + 4 = ____
What are three equal shares called?
What goes on a line plot?

A bar graph shows fruit in a bowl: apples 7, pears 3.

How many more apples than pears?
How many pieces of fruit in all?
Draw a pentagon.

Challenge

Which was more fun, collecting data or hunting shapes? Why?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 30 · Friday

I can get ready: story parts, strong words and phonics patterns.

The Lost Kite

Nia had a red kite. The wind was strong, and the string slipped from her hand. The kite flew into a tall tree. Nia felt sad. Her brother got a long stick. He tapped the kite, and it fell down. Nia smiled and held the string tight.

Fill in the story map.

Beginning:
Middle (the problem):
End (the solution):

Word work: do what each line says.

Order from weakest to strongest: gulp, sip, drink
Order from weakest to strongest: chomp, nibble, bite
Underline the vowel team in each word: snail, sheep, float

Challenge

What is the author's purpose for this story?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 30 · Friday

I can design an animal with adaptations that fit its habitat.

Finish the sentence.

Animals have adaptations like beaks, blubber and colors that match ____.

Pick a habitat: desert, arctic, pond, rainforest or deep ocean. Invent an animal that could live there.

Draw your animal. Label how it eats, stays warm or cool, hides and moves.
My habitat is ____.
What does your animal eat? What eats it?

Challenge

Which animal group does your animal belong to? Why?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky