2nd grade, week 18, day 5

Passage: The Mail Carrier

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, “off” and “pull”, on their cards.

• The Mail Carrier: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/the-mail-carrier
• 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 finished piece

1. Copy your best piece of the quarter neatly and read it to the family.
2. Your child rereads with a checklist: capitals, end marks, spelling patterns we know, and does every sentence make sense.

• Writing steps poster (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/posters/writing-process-poster

Second quarter review

1. Do ten review problems: regrouping, measuring, time and money.
2. Mark any that need more practice next quarter.

• Math worksheet generatorteach.peabody.kids/make/math-sheet
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Magnets at home

1. Find magnets used at home, like on the fridge or a cabinet door, and write what each one does.
2. Your child explains today's science to someone at home, then writes it down in three sentences.

Helpers then and now

1. Compare a helper's job long ago and today, like a mail carrier on horseback and in a truck.
2. Write how the job changed and how it stayed the same.

Read-aloud: The Squeaky Gate

1. Read “The Squeaky Gate” 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 Squeaky Gate, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-fixers-the-squeaky-gate