2nd grade, week 11, day 1

New: ar and or

1. This week: ar and or. Ar says /ar/ (garden) and or says /or/ (storm), in short words and in two-syllable words.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: garden, market, sharp and storm.
3. Your child finds a ar and or word in a book or on a box at home.

• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games
• How phonics works, for parentsteach.peabody.kidshttps://parent.peabody.kids/school/reading/how-phonics-works

The best pet

1. Write which animal makes the best pet, with two reasons that use because.
2. An opinion piece says what the writer thinks, gives two or three reasons with because, and ends by saying the opinion again.

Breaking a ten

1. Build 52 with blocks. To take away 27 there aren't enough ones, so break a ten rod into ten ones.
2. Now take away 7 ones and 2 tens: 25 are left.

• Base-ten blocks on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/base-ten
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Food chains

1. Animals get energy from food: grass is eaten by a rabbit, and the rabbit by a fox. Draw a food chain with three links.
2. Make one more chain for an ocean or a pond.

A neighborhood walk

1. Take a walk and list the buildings, signs and landmarks you pass.
2. Afterward, your child writes two or three sentences about what they did and why it matters.

Read-aloud: Penguins Up Close

1. Read “Penguins Up Close” aloud. It is above what your child reads alone, on purpose: hearing longer stories builds words and understanding.
2. This one is true. Afterward, ask: what is one new thing you learned? Then find one more fact in it together.
3. On the read-along you can show the pages on a big screen, or let it read the words aloud while each one lights up.

• Penguins Up Close, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/penguins-up-close