Week 2

Week 2: September 8-11

Day 1:

🏃Gym: Movement & Safety Challenge

• Establish your gym routines:

• How we enter/leave the gym

• Personal space

• Stop/start signal

• Equipment expectations

• What to do when the teacher gives instructions

Science: What Is Science?

Objectives: Students will understand that scientists ask questions, make observations, collect information, and use evidence to explain what they discover.

Activities: 

• 💬 Minds On: “What’s Inside a Seed?”

  • Ask: “What do you think is inside this seed? What could this seed become?”

  • Learn the journey of a life cycle

• 🔄 Learn the Plant Life Cycle: Introduce the main stages

• 🧩 Sequencing the Plant Life Cycle:

  • Students work with a partner to put mixed-up life-cycle cards in the correct order

  • Have partners explain why they chose their sequence

• 🏷️ Label the Life Cycle:

  • Students independently label the stages of a plant's life cycle

• ✏️ Describe the Stages:

  • Students write a short description of what happens during each stage

• 🎨 Draw & Label:

  • Students draw their own plant life-cycle diagram

• 💭 Reflection Question:

  • Ask: “Why is it called a life cycle?”

• 🎟️ Exit Ticket: Show What You Know

  • Students draw and label at least three stages of a plant's life cycle

Math: Number Sense

Objective: Students will represent, compare, and describe numbers using place value and mathematical language.

Activities: 

• 🕵️ Minds On: Mystery Number

  • Who am I?

• 🔢 Mini-Lesson: Place Value

  • Review: Hundreds, Tens, Ones

• 🎲 Partner Activity: Build My Number

• 🏆 Challenge: Who Has the Greatest Number?

• 🧠 Exit Ticket: “Write a three-digit number and represent it in two different ways.”

Day 2:

Math: Number Sense

Objective: Students will represent, compare, and describe numbers using place value and mathematical language.

Activities: 

• 🧠 Minds On: “What Number Am I?”

• 🔢 Mini-Lesson: Different Ways to Show a Number

• 🎲 Build a Number: Partner Activity

• 🔍 Place Value Detective

• 📝 Independent Practice

• 💬 Consolidation

• 🎟️ Exit Ticket

  • Write a three-digit number.

  • Show it in two different ways.

  • Circle the digit with the greatest value.

Social Studies: What Is a Community?

Objective: Students will identify the characteristics of a community and recognize that communities can be different while meeting the needs of the people who live there.

Activities:

• 💬 Minds On: “What Is a Community?”

  • “When you hear the word community, what do you think of?”

• 🔎 Explore Different Communities

• 🧩 Community Sorting Activity

• 🗺️ My Community: Students draw a simple map of their community or neighbourhood.

• 💬 Partner Share: 

  • “One important part of my community is ___ because ___.”

• 🎟️ Exit Ticket: What is a Community?

  • Students write one or two sentences explaining what they think a community is.

Science: Plant Life Cycle 

Objective: Students will describe what happens during the different stages of a plant's life cycle and understand how the stages are connected.

Activity:

• 🌱 Minds On: “What Happens Next?” 

• 🔄 Review the Life Cycle

• 🔍 Explore Each Stage

• 🧩 Life Cycle Matching Activity

• ✏️ Science Journal:

  • Students write about one stage

• 🔄 Life Cycle Challenge

• 🎟️ Exit Ticket

  • “One stage of a plant's life cycle is ______. During this stage, ______.”

Day 3: 

Language Arts: Becoming Stronger Readers

Objective: Students will use reading strategies to make predictions, ask questions, make connections, and demonstrate understanding of a text.

Activities:

• 💬 Minds On: “What Makes a Good Reader?”

• 📖 Mini-Lesson: Reading Strategies: Introduce three strategies:

  • 🔮 Predict: What do I think will happen?

  • 🔗 Connect: What does this remind me of?

  • ❓ Question: What am I wondering?

• 👀 Read-Aloud: “Stop & Think”

• 👥 Partner Reading/Thinking

• 📝 Independent Writing Response: “While I was reading, I predicted…”

Day 4: 

Language Arts: Becoming Stronger Writers

Objective: Students will generate ideas and write a short personal response using complete sentences, descriptive details, and appropriate conventions.

Activities:

• 💬 Minds On: “What Makes Writing Interesting?”

• ✏️ Mini-Lesson: 5 W's + H

• 🧠 Brainstorm: “A Moment I Remember” – Students choose a personal experience to write about.

• 📝 Independent Writing: “A Moment I Remember” – Students write a short paragraph about their chosen experience.

• 👥 Partner Share: “Glow & Grow” – Students read their writing to a partner.

  • Partner gives: 

    • Glow: Something they liked.

    • Grow: One suggestion for adding more detail.

• 🔄Quick Revision: Students choose one sentence from their writing and make it more detailed based on their partner's feedback.

Spelling Lesson: Introduce & Practice

Objective: Students will identify the week's spelling pattern, distinguish between vowels and consonants, and practise accurately spelling the week's words.

Activities: 

• Weekly Spelling Lesson

  • Explain the pattern and model it on the board

  • Introduce the 10 Words

• Spelling Game

• 10 min practice every day

• Test every Friday

Social Studies: Different Types of Communities

Objective: Students will identify different types of communities, compare their characteristics, and recognize how communities meet the needs of the people who live there.

Activities:

• 💬 Minds On: Review Wednesday's lesson

• 🗺️ My Community: 

  • Students choose whether their own community is primarily urban, suburban, or rural.

  • Students draw a simple map showing important features of their community.

  • Include at least 5 labelled features.