Language Arts Curriculum for April 6th-10th

Unit 5; Lesson 24Online access to your child’s reading textbook is available at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s ThinkCentral website. http://www-k6.thinkcentral.comusername: student2password: grade2

Monday, April 6th: Essential Question- Why are some stories told over and over again? (discuss and review)

read/review Topic and Target Skill: Cause and Effect (textbook pgs. 312-313)

review vocabulary words: tumbling, flung, tangled, empty, swift, peacefully, stream & blazed (textbook pgs. 310-311)

review phonics skill of the week (prefixes re-, un-) unhappy, unlike, untangle, unkind, unlock, unpack, refill, replay, repaint, retell, remake & reread-

Pick 3 phonics words from above and write 3 complete sentences.Tuesday, April 7th:

read anchor text, Half-Chicken (textbook pgs. 314-331) Folktale discuss Classroom Conversation comprehension questions (textbook

pg. 334) discuss the character’s point of view in the story (textbook pg. 333) Talk about the causes/effects of the story (textbook pg. 332)

Examples: Everyone wanted to see Half-Chicken, so Half-Chicken became very vain. The wind blows Half-Chicken onto a tower, so Half-Chicken turns into a weather vain.

Wednesday April 8th:

Practice fluency, read & discuss the moral of The Lion and the Mouse (textbook pgs. 336-338)

review irregular action verbs (textbook pgs. 340-341)Thursday, April 9th:

Make a list of antonyms that you know. Write a story using as many antonyms as you can! (please send your completed story through email

or Remind)

Friday, April 10th: No school. Happy Friday!(Optional) Additional Activities: Compare Texts: Half-Chicken & The Lion and the Mouse Text to Text,

Text to Self & Text to World (pg. 339) Writing: Write About Reading; Write a paragraph to explain ways Half-

Chicken was helpful. (pg. 335) Writing: Informative; Explore a Topic (pgs.342-343) Raz Kids (access Raz Kids through Ms. Kopec’s homepage) Review Fundations trick words: both, talk, walk, full, pull, done, goes,

pretty, shall, please, again, animal, done, goes, against, knew, know, sure, again, often, only, house, once, move, right, know, place, used, together, eight, large, more, change, city, sure, every, often, family, night, carry, something, together

Math Curriculum for April 6th-April 9th

Monday, April 6th: Lesson 15-1 Please check our Teacher Homepages online for access to the Pearson

Realize Math website. username: student2a5 password: grade2a5 Click Explore, click math, click Topic 15: Measuring Length Begin by watching the Topic Opener/Animal Measurement Review the vocabulary words: unit, length, inch, width, nearest inch,

centimeter, nearest centimeter First watch the online learning video: Topic 15-1/Exploring Length Either print and complete the PRACTICE page, or if printing is an issue,

please have your child copy the problems on a separate piece of paper and complete.

Tuesday, April 7th: Lesson 15-2 Please check our Teacher Homepages online for access to the Pearson

Realize Math website. username: student2a5 password: grade2a5 Click Explore, click math, click Topic 15: Measuring Length First watch the online learning video: Topic 15-2/Inches Either print and complete the PRACTICE page, or if printing is an issue,

please have your child copy the problems on a separate piece of paper and complete.

Please send Topic 15-2 PRACTICE page through email or Remind.

Wednesday, April 8th: Lesson 15-3 Please check our Teacher Homepages online for access to the Pearson

Realize Math website. username: student2a5 password: grade2a5 Click Explore, click math, click Topic 15: Measuring Length First watch the online learning video: Topic 15-3/Centimeters

Either print and complete the PRACTICE page, or if printing is an issue, please have your child copy the problems on a separate piece of paper and complete.

Thursday, April 9th: Lesson 15-7 Please check our Teacher Homepages online for access to the Pearson

Realize Math website. username: student2a5 password: grade2a5 Click Explore, click math, click Topic 15: Measuring Length First watch the online learning video: Topic 15-7/Adding and

Subtracting in Measurement Either print and complete the RETEACHING page, or if printing is an

issue, please have your child copy the problems on a separate piece of paper and complete.

Friday, April 19th: School closed

(Optional) Additional Activities: Have your child measure the length of household objects such as

shoes, toys, games, etc. Have your child measure your family members hands and feet and

make a chart/graph with the results to compare. Have your child find pictures in a magazine. Cut them out and measure

them using inches and centimeters. Educational measurement game to play on www.abyca.com

-Strolling with my Gnomies

Science Curriculum for April 6th-April 9th Here is this week’s science activity. You will be learning about

weather! This activity is for the entire week April 6- April 9.

Step 1- Access the link: classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/

grades-1-2.html Make sure it says Week 1 Day 2: Earth Science- Weather Step 2- Watch the story: Come On, Rain! and read the book

Rainy Weather Days (Click Take Me There!)

Step 3- Watch the video: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Step 4- After watching the video, take the Quiz Whiz.

Step 5- Do the draw and write activity: Raining Bats and Frogs! Please email or send in Remind your writing and picture to your teacher.