2nd grade, week 11, day 3

ar and or in sentences

1. Read the ar and or words from this week again, then read them in sentences: on the decodable page, or in three short sentences you write.
2. New sight words: “both” and “buy”. These are read by sight, not sounded out. Write each on a card and read the cards every day this week.

• R-controlled vowels (ar, or): decodable sentencesteach.peabody.kids/decodables/r-controlled
• Dolch second grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/second
• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games

The most amazing body part

1. Write which animal body part is the most amazing, with three reasons.
2. An opinion piece says what the writer thinks, gives two or three reasons with because, and ends by saying the opinion again.

Subtracting in columns

1. Write 63 − 38 one above the other. Cross out the 6 and write 5, and make the 3 ones into 13.
2. Do three more and check each one by adding.

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

Water and shelter

1. List how three animals near you find water and shelter.
2. Watch a bird or a squirrel for ten minutes and write down everything it does.

Signs and symbols

1. Draw five signs you saw on the walk, like a stop sign, and write what each one tells people.
2. Your child explains today to someone at home, then writes the main idea in a sentence.

Read-aloud: The Cat That Walked by Himself

1. Read “The Cat That Walked by Himself” aloud. Give the characters different voices; it helps a young listener follow who is talking.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?

• The Cat That Walked by Himself, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-cat-that-walked-by-himself