2nd grade, week 20, day 5

Passage: The Water Cycle

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, “bring” and “carry”, on their cards.

• The Water Cycle: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/the-water-cycle
• 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 water glossary

1. Write a glossary of five water words in ABC order, each with its meaning.
2. Informative writing explains new words. Your child writes a word, what it means, and an example of it.

• Word map: definition, example, picture (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/frayer-model
• The Water Cycle: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/the-water-cycle

Three-digit subtraction on paper

1. Do a three-digit subtraction sheet.
2. Check two of the answers by adding.

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

Cleaning water

1. With a grown-up, pour muddy water through a filter of paper towel, sand and gravel in a cut plastic bottle.
2. Is it cleaner? It is still not safe to drink: talk about why towns clean water before it reaches the tap.

A family time chart

1. Make a chart of what each person in the family does in the morning, the afternoon and the evening.
2. Afterward, your child writes how today's topic shows up in their own town or home.

Read-aloud: Water Uphill

1. Read “Water Uphill” 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?

• Water Uphill, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/water-uphill