2nd grade, week 22, day 3

-s, -es and -ies in sentences

1. Read the -s, -es and -ies 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: “draw” and “drink”. 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

However

1. Write a sentence about ships and airplanes that uses however.
2. To compare, your child writes how two things are alike and how they are different, using both, but and however.

• Venn diagram: same and different (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/venn-diagram

A key worth two

1. Make a picture graph where each picture stands for 2 votes. How do you show 7 votes?
2. Talk about using half a picture.

• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Staying dry

1. Rub a little oil on one square of paper and leave another plain, then drip water on both. A duck's oily feathers work the same way.
2. Your child writes a guess about why it happened, and how they could test the guess.

Moving goods

1. Trucks, trains, ships and planes carry goods. Pick one thing in your home and guess how it got there.
2. Draw its trip, with each kind of transportation it may have used.

Read-aloud: Tam and the Wind-Up Tractor

1. Read “Tam and the Wind-Up Tractor” aloud. Give the characters different voices; it helps a young listener follow who is talking.
2. Afterward, ask your child to tell the story back to you: first, next, last.

• Tam and the Wind-Up Tractor, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/tam-and-the-wind-up-tractor