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    Week 32, Tuesday: Skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s · Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text

    Day 157 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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    Math

    Students will skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s and compare three-digit numbers using >, =, and < (2.NBT.A.2, 2.NBT.A.4).

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. 13 − 9 = ? Facts to 20
    2. Zoe has 35 marbles. Zoe gets 34 more. How many marbles now? Week 31
    3. Can equal shares of the same rectangle have different shapes? Week 30

    Standards Addressed

    2.NBT.A.22.NBT.A.4

    Activities

    10 min

    Warm-Up

    Count aloud together by 5s from 340 to 400, by 10s from 470 to 560, and by 100s from 250 to 950. Then count backward by 10s from 610 to 530.

    hundreds chart (optional)
    15 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Review comparing (first taught Week 6). Write 624 and 642. Ask: 'Which place do we check first?' Compare hundreds (same), then tens (2 versus 4), so 624 < 642. Do 809 and 89 (different number of digits), and 550 and 505. Say the comparison in a full sentence each time.

    paperpencil
    15 min

    Practice

    Explore with a compare game: each player draws three digit cards and builds a number. The player with the greater number writes the comparison sentence and keeps the cards. Play eight rounds, and twice require the smaller number to win instead. Support: use a place value chart to line up digits. Stretch: draw four cards and compare four-digit numbers by the same rule.

    index card digitspaperpencil
    5 min

    Wrap-Up

    Ask: 'Why do we start with the hundreds place when we compare?' Have your child write one true comparison sentence for the portfolio.

    folder

    Materials Needed

    hundreds chartpaperpencilindex card digitsfolder

    Related Resources

    Math Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)Math Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)

    English Language Arts

    Students will identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and the focus of specific paragraphs (RI.2.2, first taught in Week 8) and turn notes into an informational paragraph.

    Remember?

    3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

    1. What kind of writing tells what you think and gives reasons? Week 31
    2. Put in order from least hot to most hot: hot, warm, boiling. Week 30
    3. What is the past tense of 'sit'? Grammar and spelling

    Standards Addressed

    RI.2.2RI.2.1L.2.4d+2 more

    Activities

    15 min

    Shared Reading

    Finish Who Would Win? Lion vs. Tiger, from the hunting pages through the fight and the checklist. Say: 'In Week 8 we learned that a book has one main topic and each page has its own smaller focus.' After every two pages ask: 'What was this page mostly about, in three words or fewer?'

    Who Would Win? Lion vs. Tiger by Jerry Pallotta
    10 min

    Mini-Lesson

    Draw a big circle labeled Main Topic and write 'Which big cat would win a fight' inside. Draw four small circles around it and fill in page-level topics with your child: size, teeth and claws, hunting, the fight. Say: 'Small topics all point back to the big one.'

    papermarker
    15 min

    Independent Reading

    Your child chooses any other nonfiction book from the library basket, reads for ten minutes, and makes their own big-circle, small-circle map for it. Ask them to explain their map to you in one minute.

    nonfiction library book of choicepaperpencil
    15 min

    Writing Workshop

    Informational writing review from Weeks 7 and 8. Using Monday's notes, your child writes a paragraph called 'All About Tigers' or 'All About Lions': topic sentence, three fact sentences, closing sentence. Remind them that each fact sentence needs a capital letter and end mark (Week 29 complete sentences).

    10 min

    Word Study

    Compound word review from Week 14. Cut these into halves and have your child rebuild and read them: eye + sight, night + time, back + bone, out + run, wild + life, some + thing. Then they use two in one sentence about big cats.

    index cardsscissors

    Materials Needed

    Who Would Win? Lion vs. Tiger by Jerry Pallottapapermarkernonfiction library book of choicepencilindex cardsscissorswriting notebook

    Related Resources

    ELA Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)

    Social Studies

    Students will describe a tradition from their own family and identify traditions in a story about another culture (D2.Geo.6.K-2, D2.His.2.K-2).

    This week's reading: What Is Culture?

    Standards Addressed

    D2.Geo.6.K-2D2.His.2.K-2

    Activities

    10 min

    Read-Aloud and Discussion

    Read Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard. Stop on the 'Fry bread is time' page and ask: 'Who is cooking together? Why does the author say fry bread is history?' Explain that a tradition is something a family or community does again and again, often passed from grandparents to children.

    15 min

    Hands-On Activity

    Your child interviews you or calls a grandparent with 4 questions written on a card: What food do we make for special days? What song or game do we always play? What do we do the same way every year? Where did that tradition come from? Your child writes or draws the answers in 4 boxes on a 'Our Traditions' page.

    index card with 4 questionspaper divided into 4 boxespencilcrayonsphone (optional)
    5 min

    Quick Write

    Your child writes: 'A tradition in my family is ____. It started with ____.' Support: dictate the sentence while your child fills in the blanks. Stretch: add a third sentence explaining why the family keeps the tradition going.

    Materials Needed

    Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillardindex cardpaperpencilcrayons

    Related Resources

    Social Studies Worksheets (Weeks 29-32)Social Studies Answer Key (Weeks 29-32)

    Today's Practice

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

    Math practice · Week 32 · Tuesday

    I can skip-count and compare three-digit numbers.

    Look: Count and compare

    1. By 10s: 350, 360, 370, 380.
    2. Compare 471 and 417. Hundreds: 4 and 4 are the same.
    3. Tens: 7 is more than 1, so 471 > 417.

    Skip-count. Fill in the missing numbers.

    1. By 5s: 415, 420, ____, ____, 435
    2. By 10s: 680, 690, ____, ____, 720
    3. By 100s: 135, 235, ____, ____, 535
    4. Back by 10s: 830, 820, ____, ____

    Write >, = or <. Check the hundreds first.

    1. 538 ____ 583
    2. 907 ____ 97
    3. 460 ____ 406
    4. 712 ____ 712

    Challenge

    • Make the greatest number you can with 2, 9 and 5. Is it greater than 925?
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    ELA practice · Week 32 · Tuesday

    I can find the main topic and what each paragraph is about.

    Look: Topic and paragraphs

    1. Paragraph 1: Many frogs lay eggs in water.
    2. Paragraph 2: Tadpoles grow legs and lose their tails.
    3. Main topic: frogs. Paragraph 1 is about eggs. Paragraph 2 is about how tadpoles change.

    Owls

    Most owls are birds that hunt at night. Their big eyes help them see in the dark. An owl can turn its head far around to look behind it. Some owls can hear a mouse move under snow. Owls have soft feathers. The soft feathers let them fly without a sound.

    Use the page above.

    1. What is the main topic?
    2. What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
    3. What is paragraph 3 mostly about?

    Put the two words together. Write the compound word.

    1. moon + light = ____
    2. bed + time = ____
    3. tree + top = ____
    4. Write a sentence about owls with one of your compound words.

    Challenge

    • Write a topic sentence for your own paragraph about lions or tigers.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

    Social Studies practice · Week 32 · Tuesday

    I can describe a tradition in my family.

    Interview a grown-up. Write or draw the answers.

    1. What food do we make for special days?
    2. What song or game do we always play?
    3. What do we do the same way every year?
    4. Where did that tradition come from?

    Think about traditions.

    • tradition
    1. What is a tradition?
    2. In the story you read today, what food does the family make together?
    3. A tradition in my family is ____. It started with ____.
    How did it go? Great Okay Tricky