2nd grade, week 9, day 3

Review words in sentences

1. Read these review words, then use each in a sentence out loud: float, new, hopped, snow, blue and hopping.
2. Mix them up: point to a word at random and see if your child can read it.
3. New sight words: “around” and “because”. These are read by sight, not sounded out. Write each on a card and read the cards every day this week.

• Dolch second grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/second
• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games

A walk to measure

1. Write directions for the walk you measured, with the number of steps.
2. Directions name each turn and landmark in order. A grown-up follows your child's directions exactly; where they get lost, add a step.

Two steps

1. Solve: 30 birds, 12 fly away, then 9 more land. How many now?
2. Make up one two-step problem for a grown-up.

• Two-color counters on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/counters
• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

Heavy for its size

1. Compare two rocks of about the same size. Which feels heavier? Weigh them on a kitchen scale if you have one.
2. Your child writes a guess about why it happened, and how they could test the guess.

Map scale

1. On a map, a small length stands for a big real distance. Measure a short walk in steps, then draw it with 1 inch for 10 steps.
2. Check your map by walking it.

Read-aloud: The Run to Nome

1. Read “The Run to Nome” aloud. Give the characters different voices; it helps a young listener follow who is talking.
2. This one is true. Afterward, ask: what is one new thing you learned? Then find one more fact in it together.

• The Run to Nome, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-run-to-nome