Week 2

Grade 2

Week 2 Lessons

LITERACY

Understanding Characters through Drawing

To develop an understanding of character traits from stories.

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NUMERACY

getting to 100

Numbers to 100 represent quantities that can be decomposed into 10s and 1s.

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Activities by Topic

These activities may take a few days or a week to complete.  They can be varied or modified to suit your environment.

LITERACY

Reading and Writing

Be an Author:

Authors get ideas from everywhere and anywhere!
Your goal is to write a story that combines 3 items from the list below. The items can be a major part of the story or a minor part. They need to show up somewhere in your story.

  • A hot dog, skateboard, broom
  • Set of keys, bowl of soup, a basketball
  • A bike, an old book, pair of flip flops
  • Lawnmower, chocolate bar, teapot
  • TV, piggy bank, towel
  • Cat, tree, chair · Paintbrush, stuffed animal, rainbow
  • speakers, mop, sandbox
  • Guitar, mirror, tiger
  • Birthday cake, bear, winter coat

Challenge: You may wish to use emojis or other images to replace words. Sometimes this is called a rebus story.

Create an instruction How To book!
Think of something you know or decide on a topic to investigate online. Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/) is a great place to learn things. [Make sure you ask your parents first.]

  • On a piece of paper, write your instructions. Make them clear so that anyone who picks up your book will be able to learn.
  • Add diagrams or pictures to help others understand your instructions.
  • If you have access to a computer, you can use any software to publish. (Examples might be Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, iMovie, or even a drawing app.)

Be a Reader

  • Get your favourite book to read or re-read.
  • Challenge: If you have access to a computer or ipad, record yourself reading your favourite book. Make sure your voice shows emotion when it is needed. That will make it interesting to listen to your audiobook.
  • If you have access to a computer (or digital device) go to Unite for Literacy https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/ You can read these books (in multiple languages).
  • TumbleBooks (https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/home.aspx) [This site is also in French.] Select “StoryBooks” tab as a starting point and choose a story to read or have your parent read to you.

NUMERACY

How Close to 25

  • This activity needs 2 people to explore.
  • You will need 2 sets of counters (lego, blocks, any toys available). Make sure you can figure out which counters belong to each person; 1 dice and a 25 square board (5 rows and 5 columns).
  • Person 1: Roll the dice. Cover the number of squares.
  • Person 2: Roll the dice. Cover the number of squares.
  • Continue until the board is covered.
  • Decide who covered more squares just by looking at the gameboard (no counting). Tell why you know this. [This takes visual estimation skills.]
  • Clear the board and replay.

Pixel Art:

Pictures on computers used to be made by colouring in tiny squares. You may know that Mario (the video game) was made this way.

You will need graph paper to do this or use Microsoft Excel spreadsheet on a computer.

  • Create a picture using pixel squares.
  • Colour in the squares.
  • When finished, count the total number of squares by colour.
  • Create a table graph of colours.

It may look like this:

Can you figure out a way to add up all the colours in the table?

If you have access to a computer, try Prodigy Math:

https://www.prodigygame.com/pages/parents/
Parents will need to sign up for a free account. This site provides opportunities to think, play with math ideas and support extensions. Select Number Sense or Measurement.
*NOTE: it is a good idea to limit screen time to 15 minutes.

MAKER TIME LEARNING

Kid Inventor:

Inventors are everywhere. Here are some kid inventors just like you: http://tiny.cc/63qqlz

  • Using whatever you have available at home, create something that will help with daily life.
  • Make sure you test out your invention and re-build. Make it the best possible invention ever!
  • Tell your family how you came up with your wonderful idea.

Chef in Training:

  • Help your parents make breakfast, lunch or dinner.
  • Follow your parent’s instructions. You might mix things, cut or break apart things, scoop things.
  • Fold napkins – Here is a youtube video that has some simple instructions: http://tiny.cc/72mqlz
  • Even cleanup is important.

Fitness

If you need some movement, then hop on over to GoNoodle https://family.gonoodle.com/   
Try “Popping Bubbles” “Chicken Dance” “Twist and Shout”– this is sure to give you a workout.  

OR – use any music you have and make up a dance filled with hops, jumps and swinging arms.  

*Be careful of furniture – you need a bit of space for this. 

Extension Activity

Some of our school hallways have sensory paths for people to follow. These are basically different ways to move in some direction. (eg. walk 5 steps, jump forward 6 jumps…)

If you have access to sidewalk chalk and a sidewalk close by, this activity can lend itself to several things (outdoor fresh air, engaging thinking process, fun for yourself and anyone else who ends up walking along that sidewalk).

Create a path with a series of actions to engage. For example, write part of the alphabet or numbers on circles alternating left, right, left, right; stop and do 3 bunny jumps; draw some footprints (trace your shoes); draw curvy lines to balance.

  • Make your path as crazy as you wish (but not too far from your home).
  • Try out your sidewalk path – how does it work for you?
 

Extension Activity

Walking Science

If you can go outside, go on a nature hunt.

  • While you’re walking, notice details. Details on trees and roots, buds, leaves, grass, bark on trees, bugs.
  • Do a tree rubbing by pressing paper and using a pencil to lightly rub against the bark. Notice the image left on the paper.
  • Don’t forget looking at the clouds and sky.
  • If you have access to a camera, take pictures so you can remember the details.
  • Sketch your observations. Indoors? Check out the plants in your house.
  • Measure the height of the plant
  • Measure the water that goes into the plant
  • Sketch the leaves, note the veins. What patterns do you see?

Extension Activity

Doodles with Mo Willems
(writer of the Pigeon picture book series).
He is also Artist in Residence at the Kennedy Center, U.S.

Mo Willems has posted ‘Doodle videos’ on YouTube: http://tiny.cc/o3mqlz

  • Start with Episode 1.
  • You will need paper and crayons.
  • When you are finished, hang them up in your room or on a window to share with the world.