2nd grade, week 15, day 1

New: ou and ow

1. This week: ou and ow. Ou (cloud) and ow (crown) both say /ow/, in short words and longer ones.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: cloud, sound, mouth and found.
3. Your child finds a ou and ow 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

Why I am writing

1. Write the first sentence of a letter that says why you are writing: to invite a friend to a ramp race.
2. A letter has a date, a greeting, a body that says why you are writing, a closing and a name.

Count by 5s around the clock

1. Point to each number on the clock face and count by 5s: 5, 10, 15, all the way to 60.
2. Each number the long hand passes is five more minutes.

• Clock face on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/clock
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Ramp height and distance

1. Roll a car down a ramp at three heights and measure in inches how far it goes past the end.
2. Make a table and a bar graph of the results.

• Workshop: ramp races (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/build/ramp-races
• Bar graph template (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/math/bar-graph-template

Scarcity

1. Nobody has enough money for everything. Pick three wants from a catalog, then choose just one.
2. Afterward, your child writes two or three sentences about what they did and why it matters.

Read-aloud: The Elevator Plan

1. Read “The Elevator Plan” aloud. It is above what your child reads alone, on purpose: hearing longer stories builds words and understanding.
2. Before reading, look at the title and the first page and ask: what do you think this story is about?
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.

• The Elevator Plan, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-very-bad-idea-club-the-elevator-plan