STATIONS

MAY 19TH – MAY 23RD

Project Overview

Animal Project This week second graders

will be learning about animal and plant life

cycles.

Our field trip to the Indianapolis Zoo is this

Friday, May 23rd!

Noise Level 1Monday

Look at the picture on page 192 and 193. Discuss what you think the animal will grow up to be. Then, Read Lesson 1: What is the life cycle of a butterfly?

TuesdayLesson 2: What is the life cycle of a frog?Read the lesson and complete the responses in your group.

WednesdayLesson 3: What is the life cycle of a plant?Read and complete the responses in your reading group.

ThursdayQuiz

FridayField Trip to the Indianapolis Zoo!

Life Cycles

Materials Needed• Science Journal• Pencils

I Can:• Identify the meaning or lesson of a

story.• Explain Life Cycles in Plants and

Animals• Contrast Life Cycles in plants and

different animals

Reading

Project Connection

Animals

WritingAnimal Life Cycles

MondayLesson 1: The Life Cycle of a ButterflyOn page 195, complete the SEQUENCE activity and

response. Then, complete any pages from Lesson 1 that you did not finish in Reading.

TuesdayOn page 202, complete the activity to show how the life cycles are alike and different. You will create a mobile to display your findings.

WednesdayComplete Investigate It: What is the life cycle of a beetle?Pages 214 and 215.

ThursdayComplete Chapter 6 Review on pages 220 and 221

FridayField trip to the Indianapolis Zoo

I Can:• Explain Life Cycles in

Plants and Animals• Compare and Contrast Life

Cycles in plants and different animals

Materials Needed• Writing Rubric• Computers

Project Connection:

Animals

Self-Selected Reading / Accelerated Reader

Noise Level 0

1. Choose a library book or a book of choice that you have not read.

2. Be sure you picked a book that you can read alone.3. Silently read .4. After you finish your book, write the name of the book in your

Data Binder.5. Be sure to fill in the information about your book in your binder.6. If you can answer all the questions in your Data Binder, get

your laptop and log on to AR to take your test.7. Record your AR score in your Data Binder.

.

I Can:• Read fluently• Restate facts and recall

information

Materials Needed• Data binder

• Book of choice

• Computer

Working with Words

Noise Level 11. Monday and Tuesday

1. Complete the activity to practice your new spelling words.

2. Paper is in the binder2. Wednesday

1. Fluency Practice 3. Thursday

1. Review words - Spelling City4. Friday

1. Field trip to the Indianapolis Zoo!

I Can:• Demonstrate understanding of

spoken words, syllables, and sounds.

• Demonstrate an awareness of the sounds that are made by different letters.

Materials Needed:

1. Vocab list2. Fluency

Book

Project Connection:

Animals

Math Journal

Noise Level 1Monday

1. 11.8 – Multiplication/Division Fact Families

2. Pages 282, 283, and 2841. Tuesday

1. 11.9 – Multiplication/Division Fact Practice

2. Pages 285, 286, and 2872. Wednesday

1. Review2. Page 288

3. Thursday1. Any pages in Chapter 11 that you need

to complete. (pgs. 263-288)4. Friday

1. Field trip to the Indianapolis Zoo

I Can:• Solve word

problems involving coins and bills.

• Find the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars

• Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value.

Materials NeededMath Journal, Pencil,

Project Connection:

Counting money

Project Connections

Noise Level 1

Monday: $1, $10, $100 Exchange Game

Tuesday: Money Exchange Game

Wednesday: Money War

Thursday: Online Money Games

I Cans:• Solve word problems

involving coins and bills.• Find the value of a

collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars

Materials NeededCoins, bills and money exchange boards, Money activity sheet

Project Connection:

Counting money

MathSkill

Application

Noise Level 1

Monday- Online Fraction Practice (Student Links)

Tuesday – Fraction Top-It Game

Wednesday – Online Fraction Practice (Student Links)

Thursday – Chapter 11 Test

I Can:• Solve word problems

involving coins and bills.

• Find the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars

Materials NeededEM Fraction cards, pencil, counters

Project Connection:

Counting money

Math Games

Noise Level 0

Log on to Everyday Math Online using your EM card. 1. Monday

1. Money Exchange $1, $10, $1002. Tuesday

1. EM Online Facts Workshop Game3. Wednesday

1. Penny-Nickel-Dime Exchange4. Thursday

1. Quiz2. EM Online Facts Workshop Game

I Can:• Solve word problems

involving coins and bills.

• Find the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars

Materials NeededComputer

EM Computer Card

DIBELS Packet

Project Connection:Counting money