Quarter 4 Week 36WednesdayDay 178 of 180

Week 36, Wednesday: Collect votes, build a labeled bar graph · Use illustrations to understand characters

Day 178 · 3 lessons · 140 min

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Math

Students will collect votes, build a labeled bar graph, and partition a rectangular cake into fourths two ways (2.MD.D.10, 2.G.A.3).

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

6 + 9 = ? Facts to 20
How many thirds make one whole? Week 35
9 + 8 = ? and 17 − 9 = ? Week 33

15
3 thirds
17 and 8

Standards Addressed

2.MD.D.10 2.G.A.3 2.G.A.2

Activities

10 min

Warm-Up

Read the schedule page aloud and check one time on the clock. Then hold a real vote: ask everyone at home (and call a grandparent or friend if you can) to pick a picnic game: tag, relay, catch, or hide and seek. If you have fewer than 10 voters, add pretend classmates until there are 24 votes total.

planner booklettally sheet

15 min

Mini-Lesson

Part 5, the graph (Week 26 skill): your child turns the tally into a bar graph with a title, a label on each axis, four bars, and a scale of 1 (or 2 if the counts are large). Then write and answer three questions in the booklet: 'Which game won? How many more votes than the last-place game? How many votes in all?' (24).

graph papermarkersrulerplanner booklet

15 min

Practice

Part 6, the cake (Week 29 skill): draw a rectangular cake on paper (or use a real pan of brownies or a graham cracker). Your child cuts it into fourths one way, then draws a second cake and cuts it into fourths a different way, labeling each piece 'one fourth.' Then: 'The cake is for 4 helpers. If each helper gets one fourth, how many fourths are used? Is any left?' Extend: 'If we cut each fourth in half, how many pieces?' (8).

paperrulercrayonsgraham crackers or brownie pan (optional)planner booklet

5 min

Wrap-Up

Ask: 'Which picnic page are you proudest of so far?' File the graph and cake drawings in the booklet.

portfolio folder

Materials Needed

planner booklettally sheetgraph papermarkersrulerpapercrayonsgraham crackers or brownie panportfolio folder

Related Resources

Math Worksheets (Weeks 33-36)Math Answer Key (Weeks 33-36)Unit 6 test (end of unit)

English Language Arts

Students will use illustrations to understand characters and compare central messages across two texts (RL.2.7 and RL.2.9, first taught in Weeks 5 and 14) and publish their Author's Celebration piece as a finished book.

Done

Remember?

3 quick questions from earlier weeks · about 3 minutes

What three things make reading fluent? Week 35
You are telling a story with a partner. What should you do before you add your part? Week 33
What is the plural of 'box'? Grammar and spelling

Standards Addressed

RL.2.7 RL.2.9 RL.2.2 +3 more

Activities

15 min

Shared Reading

Read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds, then read the chapter of The Year of the Dog where Pacy writes and illustrates her book about the ugly vegetables for the contest. Ask: 'How is Vashti like Pacy? How is she different?'

The Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsThe Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

10 min

Mini-Lesson

Week 5 illustration review: look at the page in The Dot where Vashti's framed dot hangs on the wall. Ask: 'What do the picture's colors tell you about how Vashti feels now?' Then Week 14 comparing review: 'Both books say something about making art. What does each one say? Is it the same message?'

15 min

Guided Reading

Your child makes a two-column chart, Vashti and Pacy, with the challenge each faced, what each made, and what each learned, then circles the lesson they most want to remember. Read the last page of The Dot aloud together, noticing the boy who signs his squiggle.

reading notebookpencilThe Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

15 min

Writing Workshop

Author's Celebration, publishing day. Assemble the final copy into a book: title page with author and illustrator, the illustrated pages in order, and an 'About the Author' page at the back with a self-portrait and three sentences (Week 20 publishing review). Staple or bind with yarn through punched holes, and have your child sign the cover, just like Vashti.

chosen piece final copyconstruction paper for coverstapler or yarn and hole punchcrayons

10 min

Word Study

Cumulative review, day three: the year's toughest words. Your child looks back through the reading notebook for six words they marked as hard this year, writes each on a card, and reads the pile twice. Any word they now read easily gets a star.

reading notebookindex cardspencil

Materials Needed

The Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsThe Year of the Dog by Grace Linreading notebookpencilchosen piece final copyconstruction paper for coverstapler or yarn and hole punchcrayonsindex cards

Related Resources

ELA Worksheets (Weeks 33-36)ELA Answer Key (Weeks 33-36)Unit 6 test (end of unit)

Science

Students will write a caption for each portfolio piece explaining the science idea it shows and the evidence behind it (all Grade 2 science standards reviewed).

Done

Standards Addressed

2-PS1-1 2-PS1-2 2-LS2-1 +4 more

Activities

5 min

Review

Hold up Monday's 6 best pieces one at a time. For each, your child says the big idea in one sentence, for example 'Heating and cooling can change matter' or 'Plants need water and light.'

20 min

Deeper Investigation

Your child writes a caption card for each of the 6 pieces using the frame: 'This shows ____. My evidence was ____.' Then choose ONE favorite investigation to redo for 10 minutes as a quick demonstration (for example, an ice cube melting race or the paper towel test) and note whether the result matched the first time.

6 index cardspencilmaterials for one chosen quick demonstration

5 min

Data Discussion

Ask: 'Did the result match? Why do scientists repeat tests?' Connect to the three trials from Week 34. Support: offer the choice between two demonstrations you have materials for. Stretch: have your child change one variable in the redo and predict the new result before running it.

Materials Needed

6 best portfolio pieces6 index cardspencilmaterials for one quick demonstration

Related Resources

Science Worksheets (Weeks 33-36)Science Answer Key (Weeks 33-36)Unit 6 test (end of unit)

Today's Practice

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

Math practice · Week 36 · Wednesday

I can make a bar graph of votes and cut a cake into fourths.

Look: Graph the votes, cut the cake

Votes: tag 7, catch 4. Draw the tag bar to 7 and the catch bar to 4.
Tag won by 7 − 4 = 3 votes.
Fourths two ways: 4 strips, or a cross in the middle.

Picnic game vote: tag, relay, catch or hide and seek. Get 24 votes in all (add pretend votes if you need to). Tally the votes. Then make a bar graph with a title and labels.

Game	Tally	Total

My bar graph
Which game won? How many more votes than the last-place game?
How many votes in all?

Picnic cake.

Draw two cakes. Cut each into fourths a different way. Label each piece one fourth.
3 helpers share a cake equally. What is each piece called?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

ELA practice · Week 36 · Wednesday

I can compare the lessons in two books and publish my own book.

Look: Compare two lessons

Book 1: Sam shares his crayons with a new boy.
Book 2: Ada helps her neighbor rake leaves.
Both books teach: being kind makes friends.

Compare Vashti from The Dot and Pacy.

	Vashti	Pacy

What challenge did Vashti face at the start?
What did Pacy make?
What lesson do both books share?

About the Author. Write three sentences about you.

About the Author:
Write two words that were hard for you this year. Put a star by any you can read now.

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky

Science practice · Week 36 · Wednesday

I can tell what each piece of my science work shows.

Write a caption for your best pieces.

Piece 1: This shows ____. My evidence was ____.
Piece 2: This shows ____. My evidence was ____.
Piece 3: This shows ____. My evidence was ____.

Redo one test.

The test I did again:
Did the result match the first time?yesno
Why do scientists repeat tests?

How did it go? Great Okay Tricky