2nd grade, week 19, day 1

New: soft c and g

1. This week: soft c and g. Before e, i or y, c usually says /s/ (city) and g often says /j/ (gem).
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: city, circle, face and race.
3. Your child finds a soft c and g 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

Read and close

1. Read a short passage about needs and wants, close it, and write three facts from memory.
2. Your child reads a short passage, closes it, and writes three facts from memory in their own words.

• Needs and Wants: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/needs-and-wants

Hundreds, tens and ones together

1. Build 243 + 125 with base-ten blocks: hundreds with hundreds, tens with tens, ones with ones. That makes 368.
2. Do 312 + 456 and 530 + 247 the same way.

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

Mixtures

1. A mixture is two or more things put together that can be separated again. Mix raisins, cereal and pretzels, then sort them back out.
2. Your child writes what they did, what they saw, and what they think it means, in a science notebook.

• Kitchen: trail mix (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/kitchen/trail-mix

Needs, wants and why

1. Make a T-chart of a family's needs and wants. Next to each need, write why people can't live without it.
2. Talk about something that is a need for one family and a want for another.

Read-aloud: The Fisherman and His Wife

1. Read “The Fisherman and His Wife” 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 Fisherman and His Wife, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-fisherman-and-his-wife