2nd grade, week 19, day 5

Passage: Needs and Wants

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, “about” and “better”, on their cards.

• Needs and Wants: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/needs-and-wants
• Dolch third grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/third
• 2nd grade learning games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games-by-grade/second-grade

A paragraph of facts

1. Write a paragraph of facts about needs and wants, with a topic sentence and an ending.
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

Three-digit addition on paper

1. Do a three-digit addition sheet.
2. Your child explains one of the regroupings out loud.

• Three-digit addition worksheetsteach.peabody.kids/worksheets/math/three-digit-addition
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Colors that separate

1. Draw a thick dot with a washable black marker on a strip of paper towel, dip the end in water, and watch the colors come apart.
2. Your child explains today's science to someone at home, then writes it down in three sentences.

The same needs everywhere

1. Families everywhere need food, water, shelter and clothes, and meet those needs in different ways. Find a very cold place and a very hot place on Planet Earth.
2. Write how homes and clothes in those two places would be alike and different.

• Planet Earth: the globe to turn and explore (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/planet

Read-aloud: The Emperor's New Clothes

1. Read “The Emperor's New Clothes” aloud. If your child asks to hear it again, say yes: hearing a story twice is how it sticks.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?

• The Emperor's New Clothes, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-emperors-new-clothes