2nd grade, week 19, day 3

soft c and g in sentences

1. Read the soft c and g 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: “about” and “better”. These are read by sight, not sounded out. Write each on a card and read the cards every day this week.

• Dolch third grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/third
• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games

Fact or opinion

1. Write two facts and two opinions about money, and label each one.
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

A new hundred

1. Build 372 + 156. The tens make 12 tens, so trade ten tens for a hundred flat: 528.
2. Do 481 + 263 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

Sand and salt

1. Mix sand and salt, then find a way to get them apart again. Hint: one of them dissolves.
2. Your child writes a guess about why it happened, and how they could test the guess.

Income and spending

1. Money that comes in is income, and money that goes out is spending. Make a chart for a pretend week of a lemonade stand.
2. Did the stand earn more than it spent on lemons and cups?

• Kitchen: lemonade (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/kitchen/lemonade

Read-aloud: Rumpelstiltskin

1. Read “Rumpelstiltskin” 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?

• Rumpelstiltskin, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/rumpelstiltskin