2nd grade, week 23, day 1

New: irregular plurals

1. This week: irregular plurals. Some words change instead of adding -s: man, men; foot, feet; mouse, mice.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: men, women, feet and teeth.
3. Your child finds a irregular plurals 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

A question about homes

1. Write a question about homes long ago that you want to answer.
2. Your child writes a question, finds three facts that answer it, and writes them as a paragraph with a topic sentence.

• Know, wonder, learned chart (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/kwl-chart

A bar graph with a scale

1. Make a bar graph from last week's answers, with a scale up the side that counts by 1s.
2. Label the bars and give the graph a title.

• Bar graph template (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/math/bar-graph-template
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Leaf shapes and edges

1. Collect leaves from three trees and sort them by shape and by edge: smooth, toothed or lobed.
2. Your child writes what they did, what they saw, and what they think it means, in a science notebook.

A one-room home

1. Long ago, many homes had one or two rooms, a fireplace for heat and cooking, and no running water.
2. Draw a floor plan of a one-room home and label where people cooked, slept and ate.

Read-aloud: The Boxcar Children

1. Read “The Boxcar Children” 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 Boxcar Children, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-boxcar-children