2nd grade, week 8, day 1

New: doubling

1. This week: doubling. After one short vowel and one consonant, double the consonant before -ed or -ing: hop, hopped, hopping.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: hopped, hopping, stopped and stopping.
3. Your child finds a doubling 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 fall walk

1. Write the true story of a walk outside this week, in order.
2. A true story tells what happened in order and how the writer felt. Your child includes a feeling and why they felt it.

Take away tens, then ones

1. 68 − 25: take away 2 tens (48), then 5 ones (43).
2. Do 79 − 34 and 56 − 21.

• Base-ten blocks on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/base-ten
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Why seasons change

1. Daylight is shorter in fall and winter and longer in summer. Check sunset times in a weather report for a week.
2. Write whether the days are getting shorter or longer.

Public and private

1. Public places belong to everyone; private places belong to a person or a family. Sort ten places.
2. Afterward, your child writes two or three sentences about what they did and why it matters.

Read-aloud: Why Do Leaves Change Color?

1. Read “Why Do Leaves Change Color?” aloud. It is above what your child reads alone, on purpose: hearing longer stories builds words and understanding.
2. This one is true. Afterward, ask: what is one new thing you learned? Then find one more fact in it together.
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.

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