2nd grade, week 28, day 5

Passage: A Seed Grows

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, “light” and “long”, on their cards.

• A Seed Grows: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/2/a-seed-grows
• 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 strong opening line

1. Rewrite your first sentence two ways and keep the one that hooks a reader best.
2. Your child plans a story on a story map: who, where and when, before writing the beginning.

• Story map: who, where, problem, fix (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/story-map

Shape riddles

1. Write riddles like: I have five sides and five corners. What am I?
2. Trade riddles with a grown-up and draw each answer.

• Shapes wheelteach.peabody.kids/wheel/shapes
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Plants from parts

1. Some plants grow from parts instead of seeds. Put the top of a carrot or the base of a celery bunch in a dish of water.
2. Watch for new leaves over a week and draw what grows.

A town plan

1. Draw a town plan with five public places, a key and a compass rose.
2. Afterward, your child writes how today's topic shows up in their own town or home.

Read-aloud: Why Do Leaves Change Color?

1. Read “Why Do Leaves Change Color?” aloud. If your child asks to hear it again, say yes: hearing a story twice is how it sticks.
2. This one is true. Afterward, ask: what is one new thing you learned? Then find one more fact in it together.

• Why Do Leaves Change Color?, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/why-do-leaves-change-color