1. Read or listen to a persuasive text. While reading, think about what the author is trying to persuade you to think or do. Discuss with an adult what the author is trying to persuade you to think or do.

• Suggested Story: The Best Season (MyBook 1 pages 279-292)

• Click here or on the picture to listen to the story.

2. Write at least 3 complete sentences to tell about the text you read.

💻 📖 To complete the activities above, use your student consumable or go to www.timeforkids.com

Potential Grade: Have students share about what the author is trying to persuade readers to think or do.

Time Allotment: 20 minutes

1. Find a collection of objects (no more than 120) and skip count by fives. How many objects are in your collection?

2. Use objects to model and solve the problem:

There were 15 squirrels in a tree. Six squirrels climbed out of the tree. How many squirrels are in the tree now?

Potential Grade: Draw a picture of your work and explain it to someone at home.

Time Allotment: 20 minutes

1. Look at your living things list from yesterday.

2. Pick one living thing from your list. Think about what it needs to live.

3. Draw and label what it needs. How do these things help it live? What would happen if one of these things was taken away?

💻 Watch and observe the painted lady butterfly. What do you notice and what do you wonder? https://www.dallasisd.org/Page/65397

Potential Grade: Explain your work to someone at home.

Time Allotment: 20 minutes

Use the document to review some common landforms and bodies of water.

• Describe the different landforms you have seen.

• Where did you see them?

• Describe some bodies of water you have seen.

• Where did you see them?

• Write a sentence about a landform you have seen and draw a picture of it.

• Write a sentence about a body of water you have seen and draw a picture of it.

Potential Grade: Have students show you their sentences and describe the landform and body of water they chose. Have students name a different body of water and landform. How is it different from the one they wrote about?

Time Allotment: 20 minutes