• Subject Area

    Lessons for Day 1- 2nd Grade

    Math

    Grade 2, Day 1 Math: Practice Counting to 1, 000

    Estimated Time for 4 Activities: Approximately 45 minutes

     

    Overview: Practice counting-up from 100 to 1000 by ones, tens, and hundreds

    Use base ten blocks

    Write numbers in standard form, expanded form, and word form

    Complete pages marked DAY 1 in your packet

     

    Activity 1:

    Overview: Practice counting-up from 100 to 1, 000 by ones.

    Explanation: Count on by ones from 100 up to 1, 000.

    Things to know:

    1. Sit with mom, dad, grandparent or guardian, or your brother or sister to practice counting to 1, 000.
    2. If you do not have the supplied worksheets or access to any of the worksheets, it is fine to create your own based off the supplied worksheets.
    3. More specific directions are provided on each sheet/activity that goes along with these lessons. You will find these worksheets in your “Distance Learning” folder in the packet labeled Math Days 1-5.

    Tasks:

    1. Practice counting-up from 100 to 1, 000 by ones.

     

    Activity 2:

    Overview: Practice counting-up from 100 to 1, 000 by tens.

    Explanation: Count on by tens from 100 up to 1, 000.

    Things to know:

    1. Sit with mom, dad, grandparent or guardian, or your brother or sister to practice counting to 1, 000.
    2. If you do not have the supplied worksheets or access to any of the worksheets, it is fine to create your own based off the supplied worksheets.
    3. More specific directions are provided on each sheet/activity that goes along with these lessons. You will find these worksheets in your “Distance Learning” folder in the packet labeled Math Days 1-5.

    Tasks:

    1. Use the base ten blocks to count up from 100 to 1, 000 by tens.
    2. Write the number to match the given base ten blocks you count.

    How is this assignment turned in to the teacher:  All assignments will be collected when students return to school.

    Keep your work in your “Distance Learning” folder until that time.

     

    Activity 3:

    Overview: Practice counting-up from 100 to 1, 000 by hundreds.

     

     Explanation:  Count on by hundreds from 100 up to 1, 000.

     

    Things to know:

    1. Sit with mom, dad, grandparent or guardian, or your brother or sister to practice counting to 1, 000.

     

    1. If you do not have the supplied worksheets or access to any of the worksheets, it is fine to create your own based off the supplied worksheets.

     

    1. More specific directions are provided on each sheet/activity that goes along with these lessons. You will find these worksheets in your “Distance Learning” folder in the packet labeled Math Days 1-5.

     

    Tasks:

    1. Use the base ten blocks to count-up from 100 to 1, 000 by hundreds.
    2. Write the number to match the given base ten blocks you count.

    How is this assignment turned in to the teacher:  All assignments will be collected when students return to school. Keep your work in your “Distance Learning” folder until that time.

     

    Activity 4:

    Overview: Use place value to read, write, and represent numbers to 1, 000 using standard, expanded, and word form.

     

     Explanation:  You will read and write numbers up to 1, 000 in standard, expanded, and word form.

     

    Things to know:

     

    1. Sit with mom, dad, grandparent or guardian, or your brother or sister to practice reading and writing numbers up to 1, 000 in standard, expanded, and word form. Examples are provided for you on the worksheets.

     

    1. Examples: 563

     

    Standard form: 563

    Expanded form: 500+60+3

    Word Form: Five hundred and sixty-three

     

    1. If you do not have the supplied worksheets or access to any of the worksheets, it is fine to create your own.

     

    1. More specific directions are provided on each sheet/activity that goes along with these lessons. You will find these worksheets in your “Distance Learning” folder in the packet labeled Math Days 1-5.

     

    Tasks:

    1. Write each given number in standard, expanded, and word form.
    2. Play a game to write a number in standard, expanded, and word form.

     

    How is this assignment turned in to the teacher:  All assignments will be collected when students return to school. Keep your work in your “Distance Learning” folder until that time.

     

    Online Resource:  Check out Seesaw for an assignment to complete as well

     

    Language Arts (Writing)

    60 minutes

    Overview:  Work on SIGHT WORDS ~ the spelling and the recall of the words, Write your opinion 

    Assignment:

     You can cut out words to make flash cards- Unit One.  Complete activities for Unit 1.

    Opinion- Write 2 or more complete sentences about your favorite game to play outside in a notebook or on paper.

    (Restate giving your opinion and give 1-2 reasons)

    Online Resource:  Check out Seesaw for an assignment to complete as well

     

    Reading

    45 – 60 minutes

    Overview: Read a story and Identify plot elements in a story. Think about the characters, setting, problem, solution, and main events. You will be implementing your decoding skills and applying your reading strategies, as good readers do.

     

    Assignment:

    Pick a fiction story to read at home.  

    Complete the graphic organizer in the packet: characters, setting (where and when) Was there a problem in your story?  

    How did the problem get solved?  If the story did not have a problem, write a 2 sentence summary.  What was the book mostly about?

    When you come to an unknown word, code the word, read it sound for sound, and then the fast way.  (Follow the Soar Procedure.)

     

     Date:_______________

    Book Title:__________________________________________

     

    Brief summary of what I read.

    ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

     Online Resource: 

    Scholastic Learn at Home https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html?promo_code=6294&eml=CM/smd/20200312//txtl/sm/ed&linkId=84269747

    Social Studies/Science

     

    Estimated Time: 45- 60 minutes     (Homeroom Classroom)

     

    Overview:  You will learning about fossils and how they can tell/teach us about the history of our land.

     

    Assignment:  In your packet

    Do the first reading on fossils and answer the questions

    Talk about the importance of fossils and what they tell us of the area, the animal, the plant, the climate

     

    Online Resources:  Go to Pebble Go and read about Fossils

     

     

     

    Misc.

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