Quarter 4 · Detailed day-by-day lesson plans · Days 156–160
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Week 32 reviews place value and operations within 1000 in a mixed format. In ELA, children review informational text comprehension and research-writing skills.
Pick a favorite animal and do a 10-minute mini research session.
Mixed-math review, kid-friendly research books
Place Value and Operations Review
Review, Word Problems & Consolidation · All Grade 2 CCSS-M Standards
Assessment: Mixed place value, addition, subtraction within 1000
Informational Text Review
Phonics: Word analysis and vocabulary review
Writing: Research and opinion writing review
Review, Projects & Science Fair
Review of all Grade 2 science standards; K-2-ETS1-1, K-2-ETS1-3 (science fair)
Students will read, write, and represent three-digit numbers in standard, word, and expanded form and with base-ten drawings (2.NBT.A.1, 2.NBT.A.3).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Warm-Up
Ask your child to retell last week's checklist for two-step problems. Then hold up 10 bundles of 10 straws (or 10 groups of 10 beans) and ask, 'How many? How do you know?' Say together: '10 tens make 100.'
Mini-Lesson
Review place value to 1000 (first taught Weeks 2 to 5). Display 583. Your child writes it in words (five hundred eighty-three), in expanded form (500 + 80 + 3), and draws 5 flats, 8 rods, 3 units. Repeat with 407 (watch for the empty tens place) and 960.
Practice
Number card mix-up: write digits 0 through 9 on index cards. Your child draws three cards, builds the largest number and the smallest number possible, and records both in all three forms. Do four rounds. Ask each time: 'What does the 7 mean in this number?'
Wrap-Up
Ask: 'What happens if I put a zero in the tens place? Does the number get smaller?' File one number in three forms in the portfolio.
Students will ask and answer questions about key details in an informational text (RI.2.1, first taught in Week 7) and take research notes from a source (W.2.7, first taught in Week 10).
3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes
Shared Reading
Read the first half of Who Would Win? Lion vs. Tiger by Jerry Pallotta, stopping at the size and weight pages. Say: 'Back in Week 7 we learned to ask questions before, during, and after nonfiction.' Before reading, write two questions your child has about lions and tigers on sticky notes and stick them to the cover.
Mini-Lesson
Model a 'Question, Answer, Page' chart: Question: How heavy is a tiger? Answer: found on the weight page. Show that a nonfiction answer is often in a caption or a fact box, not only in the main text. Move any sticky-note question that was answered to the chart.
Guided Reading
Your child rereads the pages on teeth and claws and writes two new questions and answers on the chart, each with a page number. Then they choose the one fact that surprised them most and read it to you.
Writing Workshop
Research review from Week 10. Set up a 'Big Cat Facts' notes page with two columns, Lion and Tiger. Your child writes three short facts in each column from today's reading, in their own words, no full sentences needed yet.
Word Study
Suffix review from Week 7 with words from the book: powerful, fearless, quickly, sharpness. Your child covers the suffix, reads the base, uncovers it, reads the whole word, and tells what the suffix adds ('-less means without').
Students will count and record the different kinds of living things in a small outdoor area to review the idea of biodiversity (2-LS4-1).
Science Question of the Week
Ask: 'Last week we followed one bean through its life cycle. How many different kinds of living things do you think live in one square of our yard or a nearby park?' Have your child write a guess on a sticky note before you go outside.
Investigation
Lay a piece of string in a square about as wide as your child's arms (roughly 1 meter on each side) on grass, dirt, or a sidewalk edge with weeds. For 10 minutes your child looks closely, using a spoon to lift leaves, and tallies each different kind of living thing in a table with columns for plants, insects and bugs, and other (worms, birds seen overhead, mushrooms). Then repeat the tally in a second square on a different surface, such as bare pavement.
Wrap-Up
Compare the two tallies. Ask: 'Which square had more kinds of living things? Why do you think that is?' Review the word biodiversity from Week 25: more kinds of living things means more biodiversity.
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.
Culture is the way a group of people lives. It includes the food they eat and the languages they speak. It includes their music, their stories and their clothes. It also includes the days they celebrate.
People in the United States come from many different cultures. Many languages are spoken here, such as English, Spanish and Chinese.
A tradition is something people do again and again, often for many years. Traditions are often passed down from older family members. One family might make the same soup every winter. Another family might sing a special song on birthdays.
When we learn about other cultures, we learn new foods, games and words. We also learn that families everywhere care about each other. Every culture adds something special to our country. What is one tradition in your family?
Picture caption: A grandmother teaches her grandson how to make a family recipe.
Math
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Math
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 33. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Redo the missed problems with base-ten blocks or quick pictures. After each one, check it: if you added, subtract; if you subtracted, add. |
| Only a few right | Do the catch-up activity "Trade and Check" for 3 days, and keep problems within 500 at first during Week 33. |
ELA
Honeybees live in a hive. Worker bees fly from flower to flower. They sip nectar and carry it back to the hive to make honey.
A worker bee visits a flower.
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ELA
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 33. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Use this week's passage: find each heading and bold word and say what it tells you. Build 6 words from cards (re + play, pain + less, help + ful). |
| Only a few right | Look at text features in one library nonfiction book each day. Practice 2 prefix or suffix words a day alongside Week 33. |
Science
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Science
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 33. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Review the vocabulary cards from this year and sort them into matter, plants and animals, and Earth. Have your child explain 3 of them to you. |
| Only a few right | Walk through the science journal together and retell one favorite investigation. Review 3 vocabulary cards a day alongside Week 33. |
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Social Studies
| If your child got… | Then… |
|---|---|
| All or almost all right | Move on to Week 33. Keep the daily Remember? boxes going. |
| About half right | Ask a grandparent or older relative about a family tradition. Your child draws it and tells the family about it. |
| Only a few right | Reread "What Is Culture?" together and talk about one family tradition, like a special meal or song. |
Health · Kindness, Community and Wellbeing Celebration · All Specials
Health · Week 32
I can do kind things for others and for myself.
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You need: paper for a card, crayons or markers, stickers (optional)
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Math
Big numbers: hundreds, tens and ones
ELA
Text features help me find facts fast
Science
More kinds of living things means more biodiversity
Try it (10 min): Write three digits on scraps of paper. Take turns making the biggest and smallest three-digit numbers, then read them aloud.
Talk about it: What does each digit mean in your biggest number?
Try it (10 min): Open a nonfiction book or magazine. Race to find a heading, a caption, a bold word and the glossary.
Talk about it: Which feature helped you find a fact the fastest?
Try it (10 min): Go outside and look closely at one small patch of ground. Count how many different kinds of plants and animals you find.
Talk about it: Why do some places have more kinds of living things than others?
Try it (10 min): Share a family tradition with your child, such as a special food, song or game. Tell where it came from.
Talk about it: Which of our traditions would you like to keep when you grow up?
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