2nd grade, week 16, day 5

Passage: The Lost Mitten

1. Your child reads the passage, then you read it back to them.
2. Ask the questions under it, and let your child point to where the answer is.
3. Read this week's sight words, “goes” and “green”, on their cards.

• The Lost Mitten: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/the-lost-mitten
• Dolch second grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/second
• 2nd grade learning games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games-by-grade/second-grade

A character paragraph

1. Write a paragraph about one character with a topic sentence, three details and an ending.
2. Your child describes a character from a read-aloud: how they look, what they do, and what that shows about them.

• Character traits organizer (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/character-traits-organizer

Plan an afternoon

1. Plan a Saturday afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00 with a start and end time for each thing.
2. Add up the time for each part to check it comes to four hours.

• Clock faces (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/math/clock-faces
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Ice cream in a bag

1. Make ice cream in a bag with ice and salt.
2. Feel the outside bag: salt makes the ice melt and get even colder, which freezes the cream.

• Kitchen: ice cream in a bag (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/kitchen/ice-cream-in-a-bag

Things a town shares

1. List things a community shares, like parks, libraries and roads, and talk about how they are paid for.
2. Afterward, your child writes how today's topic shows up in their own town or home.

Read-aloud: The Bear Who Could Not Sleep

1. Read “The Bear Who Could Not Sleep” aloud. If your child asks to hear it again, say yes: hearing a story twice is how it sticks.
2. Afterward, ask: has anything like this happened to you? How was it the same, or different?

• The Bear Who Could Not Sleep, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-bear-who-could-not-sleep