Week of June 1 - June 5

DAILY LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:

MATH on Freckle – 40 mins

• Fact Practice for 10 minutes
• Adaptive Math for 15 minutes
• “From my Teacher” for 15 minutes

LITERACY - 1 hour

• Choice Read for 30 to 45 minutes
• Lexia for 15 to 20 minutes

The Daily Special - 20 minutes

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEEK:

Reading:  Would you like to listen to a good Read Aloud?  Here is Jane Goodall reading The Eagle and the Wren.  What do you think the lesson of the story is?  Talk about it with an adult.

Writing:  Wizard Week - If you could have one magical power, what would it be?  Why would you want to have that power?  What would you do with it?

Math: Do you remember Dice in a Corner?  Why not give it another try!

Science:  This week we are introducing States of Matter!  A solid is something that can hold its shape.  A liquid is something that takes the shape of the container it is in, and can flow.  A gas also takes the shape of the container, but fills out the space.  Matter can change states.

Introduction: Changing states of matter 

What if all the ice on Earth melted?

Try these fun projects!

Oobleck

Fireworks in a jar.  

Take a look at these books on Epic:

Week of May 25-29

DAILY LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:

MATH on Freckle – 40 mins

• Fact Practice for 10 minutes
• Adaptive Math for 15 minutes
• “From my Teacher” for 15 minutes

LITERACY - 1 hour

• Choice Read for 30 to 45 minutes
• Lexia for 15 to 20 minutes

The Daily Special - 20 minutes

Additional suggestions for the week:

Math:

Zios and Zepts

On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs.

The great planetary explorer Nico, who first discovered the planet, saw a crowd of Zios and Zepts. He managed to see that there was more than one of each kind of creature before they saw him. Suddenly they all rolled over onto their backs and put their legs in the air.

He counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Do you think there are any different answers?

Reach 100 Hundred

Here is a grid of four "boxes":

You must choose four different digits from 1−9 and put one in each box. For example:

This gives four two-digit numbers:

52	(reading along the 1st row)
19	(reading along the 2nd row)
51	(reading down the left hand column)
29	(reading down the right hand column)

In this case their sum is 151.

Try a few examples of your own.
Is there a quick way to tell if the total is going to be even or odd?


Your challenge is to find four different digits that give four two-digit numbers which add to a total of 100.

How many ways can you find of doing it?

Writing:

How Is It Made? Choose an everyday object (like LEGO bricks or toilet paper) and find out how it’s made. Write what you learned! Send a postcard or letter to a friend who would like to learn some interesting facts.

New landform this week - Volcanoes!

Volcano videos:

National Geographic video

All About Volcanoes

Try this experiment:

Easy volcano eruption - three methods

Find these fun books on EPIC:

 

We've Got Mail!

Here are some postcards second graders have received in the mail! Thank you for sharing these wonderful places with us! Our world is truly amazing! Keep the postcards coming (take a photo and email them to your teacher with a description of the place in the postcard)!

Twelve Apostles rock formation (limestone stacks that are the remnants of caves and arches formed by erosion)

Uluru: the famous sandstone mountain in the Australian outback

Mount Tongariro, a volcano near Madeleine's aunt's home of Lake Taupo, New Zealand (Tongariro was to location for Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies!).

A dune in the Thar desert, India

Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world!

A beach in Cuba

Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

Lake Winola in Pennsylvania

Week of May 18-22

DAILY LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:

MATH on Freckle – 40 mins

• Fact Practice for 10 minutes
• Adaptive Math for 15 minutes
• “From my Teacher” for 15 minutes

LITERACY - 1 hour

• Choice Read for 30 to 45 minutes
• Lexia for 15 to 20 minutes

The Daily Special - 20 minutes


ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEEK:

Math:

Do you have dice at home? Check out these two fun dice games, "Going to Boston" and "Pig." You can make your own score sheets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVVh_mb_x4

Writing

Let's write about landforms! So far, we've learned about canyons, caves, and this week, mountains! One way to record your thinking about these landforms is by making a 3-2-1. Here's how:

1. Choose one of the landforms you've learned about (do the one you are most interested in!)

2. First, write 3 super cool, amazing facts you learned about this landform. 

3. Next, write down 2 questions you still have about this landform.

4. Last, write down 1 connection you have to this landform. For example, a connection could be that you've seen this landform in real life. Have you ever visited a canyon or cave? We are surrounded by mountains. Have you ever hiked up one of the mountains in Vermont? 

Share your writing with your teacher! We love seeing what you are doing at home!


Science: Landforms! 

This week we are going to learn all about mountains! Vermont is the Green Mountain State, so we are familiar with this landform! We can see mountains in every direction. Have you ever wondered how mountains were formed? Take a look at these videos and you'll find out!

Where Do Mountains Come From? | Geology for Kids

Why is Mount Everest so tall? - Michele Koppes

Make Your Own Mountains! - #sciencegoals

Here are some great books about mountains on Epic Books!

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Postcard Challenge

Have you received any postcards or emails from family or friends spotlighting a beautiful or interesting landform?  Be sure to share it with your classroom teacher!  Let's learn about different landforms from all over the world.

Week of May 11-15

Week of May 11-15
DAILY LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:

MATH on Freckle – 40 mins

• Fact Practice for 10 minutes
• Adaptive Math for 15 minutes
• “From my Teacher” for 15 minutes

LITERACY - 1 hour

• Choice Read for 30 to 45 minutes
• Lexia for 15 to 20 minutes

The Daily Special - 20 minutes


ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEEK:

• Writing:  May 12th is National Limerick Day.  Limerick's are fun and sometimes silly poems.  Here's a great video to get you started: Limerick Poems for Kids 

• Math: Check out Youcubed at Home to find home-friendly math tasks!
• Math Games with a deck of playing cards:
• Flip and Add to 100: This simple math game uses a standard deck of playing cards (take out the face cards or assign them values, like 1 or 10). Players draw a card and add it to their running total, trying to be the first to reach 100 without going over. Increase the difficulty level by having players draw two cards and add them together, then add the sum to their total.  
• Flip and Subtract from 100: Instead of adding to 100, this game starts at 100 and players draw a card and subtract from 100, trying to be the first to reach zero.

If you are interested in learning more about fractions, check out the videos below:        

• Fractions Video
• Pizza and Pie Fractions      

        This week we will be studying CAVES!  A cave is a large underground chamber, typically of natural origin, in a hillside or cliff.   

                                                

• Reading: Find and read these books on EPIC:

• Biggest, Baddest Book of Caves
• Legendary Landforms: Caves
• Learning About The Earth: Caves 

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• Science: Check out these videos about CAVES!
• Types of Caves for Kids
• How Do Caves Form?

Postcard Challenge
Have you received any postcards or emails from family or friends spotlighting a beautiful or interesting landform?  Be sure to share it with your classroom teacher!  Let's learn about different landforms from all over the world.

Week of May 4-8
DAILY LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:

MATH on Freckle – 40 mins

• Fact Practice for 10 minutes
• Adaptive Math for 15 minutes
• “From my Teacher” for 15 minutes

LITERACY - 1 hour

• Choice Read for 30 to 45 minutes
• Lexia for 15 to 20 minutes

The Daily Special - 20 minutes


ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEEK:

This week we are going to be studying Canyons.  Just one of the many incredible landforms we have all over the Earth.  

• Math: Try these math games! You only need a deck of cards.

• Reading: Find and read these books on EPIC:
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• Science: Check out these videos about Landforms!
• The Grand Canyon
•  Canyons and How They are Made
• Grand Canyon in Depth

      Postcard Challenge

      If we were in school right now, second graders would be starting a unit all about Landforms!  During the landform unit, we have a POSTCARD CHALLENGE!  While it will be a bit different since we are all at home, I think it will still be exciting to do.  Here's the Postcard Challenge:

         

Please reach out (social media works well) to your friends and relatives and ask them to send a postcard (or an email with pictures) featuring a landform in their home city or state.  Once you receive it, please send it along to your classroom teacher via email and she will share it with the class.  Let's see how many landforms all around the world we can learn about through these postcards/emails.