2nd grade, week 10, day 5

Reread: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

1. Reread “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse” from last week. The second time is smoother and quicker: that is fluency growing.
2. Find this week's sight words, “been” and “before”, in the book or on their cards.
3. Let your child pick one page to read to someone else in the family.

• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, to read on screenon peabody.kidspeabody.kids/library/the-town-mouse-and-the-country-mouse
• Sight word games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/sight-word-games

Does it hook a listener?

1. Read your story aloud and change the beginning if it doesn't make a listener want more.
2. A strong first sentence makes a reader want more: a sound, a question, or a moment of action. Your child tries two beginnings and keeps the better one.

Adding with regrouping on paper

1. Do an adding two-digit numbers sheet with regrouping.
2. Your child explains one of the answers out loud.

• Two-digit addition worksheets, with regroupingteach.peabody.kids/worksheets/math/two-digit-addition-with-regrouping
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Fossils tell the past

1. Fossils show living things from long ago. Press a shell or a leaf into play dough to make a print.
2. Write what a scientist could tell about the living thing from your print.

• Dinosaurs bingo cardsteach.peabody.kids/bingo/dinosaurs

A directions game

1. Write directions with north, south, east and west for someone to find a hidden object, then test them.
2. Afterward, your child writes how today's topic shows up in their own town or home.

Read-aloud: The Frog Prince

1. Read “The Frog Prince” aloud. If your child asks to hear it again, say yes: hearing a story twice is how it sticks.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?

• The Frog Prince, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-frog-prince