Content Topic: ELA
Genre: Fable
Common Core Standards:
RL1, 2, 3, 8/RI13/RF20a, 20f,
21b/W24, 28, 36b, 38b
W.2.8 – Recall Information
W.2.7 Recount
(See board in room – written out)
Grade Level: 2nd
Themes:
Essential Questions:
Explain what animals in a story teach
us.
Discuss features of different habitats.
Resources:
-textbook
-workbook
-www.teachersguide.com
-YouTube
-Wolf story library
-Google
-index cards
(3 words for centers)
Academic Language:
-problem
-solution
-story elements
-ideas
-writing traits
-comprehensive skills
-singular/plural nouns
-structural analysis
-mechanics of comma
Lesson Title: Unit 2: The Boy Who
Cried Wolf
Vocabulary:
-believe
-lessons
-delicious
-remarkable
-feast
-snatch
-fond
-stories
Skills of the Week:
Writing:
Whole Group:
Spelling Words
1. mule
2. fuse
3. plum
4. use
5. dug
6. cub
7. hum
8. huge
9. must
10. fun
Small Group:
-phonics: vowels u
-commas
-vowel –CVC syllables
-predictions
-plots
-suffixes ly, ful
-pp.128-129
-Writing Traits
-Ideas
-Use supporting details
-Identify ideas
-Identify
-reading/oral/choral
-workbook pages
-3-5 oral comprehend
-Leveled reading
-centers
-Burst
Modifications:
-Spelling words
-Burst
-Leveled readers
11. affection
12. crave
13. frustrated
14. nourishment
15. sheep
16. seek
17. shepherd
18. villagers
19. hilltop
20. dragons
Monday 12/2
-p.155 Introduce story
-Genre – Discuss
-Essential
Question/Read/Discuss
-Pronounce spelling words
-A+ Action – Spelling words
-Discuss story: Tortoise
and Hare
-YouTube: Tortoise and
Hare
-Discuss definitions
-A+ Definitions with picture,
word, sentence
-Revisit essential
question/genre p.126
-Teacher read aloud – story
– whole group
-p.123 Making Connections
-p.125 Problem/Solution
-Discuss suffixes p.127
3-5 min. oral card
-Centers
Directions/Strategies/Resources for Teaching ELA
Tuesday 12/3
Wednesday 12/4
Thursday 12/5
-A+ Action
-Review story elements
-Review genre
-Review story elements
-Review vocabulary p.61
Whole group
-p.62 Long vowels
-Worksheet – cut and paste
vowels
-Create a graphic organizer
of the boy who cried wolf
(Teacher models)
-TLW create their map from
organizer
-Summarize the boys
characteristics
-Discuss author’s purpose
of fable writing
-3-5 min. oral
comprehension card
-Centers
-A+ Action
-Review story elements
-Review genre
-Review vocab – define on
board
-Workbook pp.63-66
Whole group
-Anthology
Fable – Wolf Wolf pp.136139
-Read whole group with
teacher
-p.145 Predictions
-p.151 Confirm predictions
-Whole group – text
evidence p.159
-Independently summarize
with map organizer
-A+ Action
-Review story elements
-Review story in writing
map organizer –
characters, genre, setting,
plot
-Workbook pp.62-68
-Workbook pp.69-70
-3-5 min. oral card/centers
-Read short stories – 1
paragraph each pp.160163
-Compare these Cinderella
stories to American version
of Cinderella
Friday 12/6
-A+ Action
-Review story elements
-Review genre
-Spelling Test
-YouTube version of “The
Boy Who Cried Wolf”
-Written Comprehension
Test
-Art
-Guidance
Content Topic: Mathematics
Common Core Standards:
2.NBT.2 Count, skip
1.2.MP.2 Reason abstractly and
quantitatively
1.2.MP.8 Look for repeated patterns
2.OA.4 Use addition to find the total
number of objects arranged in arrays
1.2.MP.5 Use appropriate tools
1.2MP.1 Make sense of problems and
persevere solving problems
Monday
-YouTube – Read Anne’s
Mysterious Multiplying Jar –
by Mitsumasa
-Skip Count by
1.5.10,100,1,000
Student book pp.149-152
-Lesson #1 – Multiply 2: Skip
counting
pp.153-155
Grade Level: 2nd
Essential Questions:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Verify multiplication answers by
using skip counting.
Conceptualize and solve
multiplication problems.
Justify multiplication answers by
using skip counting.
Identify a pattern or structure
when multiplying by 10.
Explain how to use a known
multiplication fact to answer an
unknown multiplication fact.
Tuesday
-Review 2,5,10, 100, 1,000
Skip count
-Workbook pp.127-128
-Multiplying 2 – Using dot
paper pp.156-157
-YouTube rap
*Mrs. D’s – Multiplication Rap – YouTube
*Rocking Out with the 3’s – YouTube
*Multiplication Rap – 5’s – YouTube
Themes:
Resources:
-text
-craft sticks
-workbook -hundred board
-YouTube
-base ten blocks
-index cards (optional)
-dot paper
-paper clip
-pencil
-white board
-counters
Wednesday
-Review with skip counting
1,2,5,10,200
-Division/Multiplication fact
Sheet (outline)
-pp.158-160 Whole group
-p.161 Independent work
-Workbook pp.129-132
-Multiplication review orally
Lesson: Multiplication 2,5,10
Vocabulary:
-multiply
- word form
-skip count
-multiplication facts
-division word problems
-dot paper
-hundred
-hundreds
-thousand
-standard form
-expanded form
Thursday
-Lesson #3 – Review
Skip count by 5
-p.162 Play game on p.162
with 100 boards
-p.163 Whole group
-Learn skip count game p.164
-Guided practice
p.165 #4 Guided Practice
Friday
-Review skip count
1,2,5,10,100,1,000
-Practice/Apply pp.133-136
-Math journal bottom of page
-p.169 Teacher Manual
Content Topic: Social Studies
Common Core Standards:
R.I.2.7 Read/Ask Questions
R.I.2.4Read/ Give Ideas
2.C.2.1 Explain how cultures
contribute to communication, food,
events
2.C.2.2 Recognize historic figures
related to holidays
Monday
-Discuss winter
-Define winter months – What
happens?
-Brainpop – Winter season
-Fill out December calendar
from Weekly Reader
Grade Level: 2nd
Essential Questions:
-Explain change of seasons.
-Donations
-Compare/contrast Lebanon to
American Christmas celebration
-Discuss Lebanon flag
Tuesday
-Christmas winter
-Lebanon
-You Tube – sing songs
-Discuss history
-Christmas
-Venn Diagram
**Plans subject to change if Weekly Readers come in.**
Themes: Various Winter Topics
Resources:
-construction paper
-Weekly Reader
-YouTube
-Brainpop
-Sheets of large paper
Wednesday
-Review history – Lebanon
-Venn Diagram
-Whole group – our flag
-Make a flag –each child
Lesson Title: Winter Holidays
Vocabulary:
-Christmas
- donation
-Lebanon
-flags
-winter
-weather
-climate
Thursday
-Discuss our weather, climate
and food of Lebanon
-YouTube
-Lebanon events
-Select one event and create
a mural
Friday
-Discuss giving donations
-December weather – test
worksheet
-Read whole group weekly
reader
-Complete back
independently
-Questions 1-5
Content Topic: Science
Grade Level: 2nd
Common Core Standards:
2.E.1 Understand patterns of weather
and factors that effect weather.
Essential Questions:
-Explore and observe earthquakes
changes on Earth.
-Explain earthquakes, landslides, and
volcanoes.
Monday
-Read pp.C18-C19
-Discuss earthquakes
-Explore Activity
-YouTube or Brainpop Earthquake
Tuesday
-pp.C20-C21
-Review, define, explore
earthquakes
-Complete worksheet on
earthquakes
-Read p.C21-Define landslide
-Observe
-YouTube / Brainpop
Resources:
-index cards
-text book
-resources text workbook
-Brainpop
-YouTube
-foil
-aluminum pans
Wednesday
-pp.C22-23
-What is a volcano?
-Define – volcano
-Divide students into groups
with index cards – Write
questions about volcano,
earthquakes, landslide
Lesson Title: Earth Can Change
Quickly
Vocabulary:
-earthquake
-volcano
-landslide
-mudslide
-lava
Thursday
-p.C23
-Review the whole unit
-Retell p.C23
-Complete Think and Write
-Teacher models questions
-Students complete questions
1-3
-After questions find YouTube
World’s Most Amazing
Quakes, Volcanoes, etc.
Friday
-Create by drawing any of the
three world forces that
change Earth
-Write 3-5 sentences about
the selection
-Share
-Display
Writing Journal
Mon. Explain why some animals frighten you and why.
Tues. Tell how you are similar and different from the shepherd boy. Create a venn diagram.
Wed. What did you learn after reading this story about how animals can teach us things?
Thurs. Create a flow map.
Fri. Rewrite the story/fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Predict or write a new beginning, middle,
end.