Day 5 · Friday

Objective: I can show what I know about saving, smart spending and giving on the weekly check.

Standards: D2.Eco.1.3-5, D2.Eco.2.3-5, D2.Civ.6.3-5

Materials: Stored Week 31 check (the Friday Check) and its answer key, Three-jar table from Day 4, 3 jars and 10 play $1 bills from Day 4, 5 index cards, Notebook, Pencil

1. Warm-Up · 5 min

   Spaced review from Week 26. Ask: "What is scarcity?" (There is not enough of something for everyone who wants it.) Then play Jar Sort. Read each item. Your child says Save, Spend or Give. "A new bike someday." (Save.) "A snack today." (Spend.) "Coins for the animal shelter's collection jar." (Give.) "Money in case your glasses break." (Save.) "A movie with a friend." (Spend.)

2. Mini-Lesson · 10–15 min

   Say: "Today's check covers saving, smart spending, giving and the three jars. Let's warm up with Fix It." Write one wrong sentence on each card. Your child reads it, fixes it and tells why. Card 1: "A sale always saves you money." (Not if you did not plan to buy. You still spend.) Card 2: "Saving $2 a week, a $12 puzzle takes 5 weeks." (It takes 6 weeks: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.) Card 3: "A plan of $3, $5 and $1 uses all of $10." (No. It adds to 9.) Card 4: "Teaching a friend to juggle is giving things." (No. It is giving talent.) Card 5: "A long-term goal takes a week or two." (No. It takes many months or years.) Now model checking work. Say: "On number problems, write the math. Then check it another way, such as skip-counting." Open the Day 4 table. Ask: "Show me one row. How do you know it is right?" (The three numbers add to 10.) Ask: "Which tip helps when you feel rushed to buy?" (Wait a day.) Ask: "What is a nonprofit?" (A group whose main job is helping, not earning a profit.) If stuck, say: "Act it out with the jars and bills."

3. Activity / Source Work · 15–20 min

   The Friday Check. 1) Put the jars, bills and cards away. Give the stored Week 31 check now. It has 7 items and takes about 15 minutes. Do not time it. You may read any item aloud. Your child may work on notebook paper. 2) Score it with the answer key. 3) Choose a route. 6 or more right: your child is ready for Week 32. For a challenge, plan a real savings goal and draw its thermometer. 4 or 5 right: redo the Day 4 table with $10 a week. Then act it out with the bills and jars. 3 or fewer right: reteach Day 1. Drop bills into a jar 2 at a time, skip-counting aloud, until you reach an $8 goal. 4) Go over each missed item together. Your child fixes it in a different color.

4. Notebook Entry · 10 min

   Your child writes one money habit to start this month. Then name one person who could use a gift of time or talent. "This month I will ___." "I could give my time or talent to ___ by ___." Sample: "This month I will save $2 every week. I could give my time to Grandpa by reading to him."

5. Exit Ticket · 5 min

   After the check, ask the three questions aloud. Praise honest reflection and any answer that shows the math. If time ran short, do the notebook entry later today.

Homework: Your child explains the three-jar plan to a family member and shows that the parts add up. Look for the adding check.

Objective: I can solve area and perimeter problems on the Week 31 check.

Standards: 3.MD.D.8, 3.MD.C.7.b

Materials: Stored Week 31 check and its answer key, 6 paper slips. Write one on each. Slip 1: Carpet for a floor 5 feet by 4 feet. Slip 2: A border around a poster 4 feet by 2 feet. Slip 3: Rope around a square mat with 6-foot sides. Slip 4: Grass seed for a yard 9 meters by 2 meters. Slip 5: Both have area 16. Smaller perimeter: 2 by 8 or 4 by 4? Slip 6: Both have perimeter 12. More area: 5 by 1 or 3 by 3?, Grid paper, 20 square tiles and yarn (for reteaching), Ruler (for homework), Pencil

1. Warm-Up · 5 min

   Spaced review from Week 30 Day 4. Ask: "A square has a perimeter of 12 inches. How long is each side?" (3 inches) Then practice ×9 facts with no clock. Ask 9 × 3, 9 × 6, 9 × 7 and 9 × 8 (27, 54, 63, 72).

2. Mini-Lesson · 10–15 min

   Play Cover or Around for 10 minutes. Mix the 6 slips face down. Say: "Flip a slip. Say cover for area or around for perimeter. Then solve and name the unit." Model one turn. Flip slip 2. Say: "A border goes around, so this is perimeter. 4 + 2 + 4 + 2 = 12. So the border is 12 feet." Now your child takes every turn: flip, say cover or around, sketch, solve. Ask each turn: "Do you need square units or plain units?" A right answer with the right unit wins the slip. There is no clock. Answers for slips 1 to 4: 20 square feet; 12 feet; 24 feet; 18 square meters. Slip 5: 4 by 4, with 16 against 20. Slip 6: 3 by 3, with 9 against 5.

3. Guided Practice · 10–15 min

   Do three check-style problems together. Your child sketches each one on grid paper. 1) Find the area and the perimeter of a rectangle 8 units long and 5 units wide. (area 40 square units; perimeter 26 units) 2) Name every rectangle with area 21. Which has the smaller perimeter? (1 by 21 has 44; 3 by 7 has 20, so 3 by 7.) 3) With a perimeter of 18 units, which rectangle holds the most area? (5 by 4, with area 20 square units.) If stuck, say: "Say cover or around first. Then sketch and label every side."

4. Independent Practice · 15–20 min

   Give the stored Week 31 check now. It has 7 items. Find it with the Week 31 lessons. Put the slips away. Your child works alone for about 15 minutes, with no hints. Tiles and grid paper are fine. Score it with the answer key. Choose a route by the result. Six or seven right: move on to Week 32. Four or five right: find the kind of item missed. Items 1 and 2 ask for area and perimeter: redo Day 1 Guided Practice. Items 3 and 4 keep the area the same: redo Day 2 Guided Practice with tiles. Item 5 keeps the perimeter the same: redo Day 3 Guided Practice. Items 6 and 7 are stories: redo Day 4 Guided Practice. Three or fewer right: reteach the Day 1 Mini-Lesson with tiles and yarn. Use the Week 32 catch-up days for that.

5. Exit Ticket · 5 min

   After the check, your child answers these three questions; then go over any missed check items together.

Fact fluency: ×9 facts

Homework: Your child finds the perimeter of one door or window at home to the nearest foot. Sample: a door 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide is 20 feet around. Then your child says the ×9 facts in order, with no clock.

Objective: I can show what I know about revising, editing and publishing.

Standards: W.3.5, W.3.6, L.3.1.F, L.3.1.H, L.3.1.I, L.3.2.A

Materials: Week 31 English Language Arts Check, Pencil, Colored pencil, Published report, Writer's notebook, Your child's own nonfiction book

1. Warm-Up · 5 min

   Word study (about 3 minutes). Give a quick spelling check with no clock. Say each word and a short sentence: laugh, enough, thought, caught, said, because. Challenge word: through. Your child writes in the notebook. Correct it together. Your child rewrites any missed word and underlines its tricky part. Spaced review from Week 26. Ask: "Is 'my legs turned to jelly' literal or nonliteral? What does it mean?" (Nonliteral. My legs felt weak and shaky.)

2. Mini-Lesson · 10–15 min

   Say: "Before the check, we warm up each skill once." Use the published report and these fresh examples. 1) Your child names one revising change and one editing change made this week. (Revising changed ideas, such as cutting a sentence. Editing fixed capitals, punctuation or spelling.) 2) Your child finds one compound sentence in the report and names its joining word. (Look for and, but, or or so after a comma.) 3) Say: "Make one complex sentence with when: The rain began. We went inside." (We went inside when the rain began.) 4) Your child reads the report title and tells why each capital is there. (First, last and important words.) 5) Say: "Fix the verb: The puppies chews the rope." (chew) 6) Your child writes your own city and state. Ask: "Where is the comma?" (Between the city and the state.) 7) Ask: "What should every report visual have?" (A title, labels and a caption.) Reteach any skill your child misses with one more example.

3. Guided Practice · 10–15 min

   Give the stored Week 31 English Language Arts Check. It has 8 items and takes about 15 minutes. Your child works alone. You may read a question aloud, but give no hints. Check it with the answer key. Your child corrects each missed item in colored pencil and explains the fix. Then follow this route. 6 or more right: your child is ready for next week. 4 or 5 right: redo the Day 3 practice page, then edit an old notebook page with the ruler trick. 3 or fewer right: reteach Day 2. Write short sentences on paper strips. Join pairs with word cards for and, but, so and because.

4. Independent Practice · 15–20 min

   Hold a celebration read. 1) Your child reads a favorite paragraph of the published report aloud, with expression. 2) Your child tells you the best fact from the research. 3) Your child reads a nonfiction book on a new topic for about 10 minutes. 4) Your child writes one fact from it in a complete sentence. Look for: a capital, an end mark, and a subject and verb that agree.

5. Exit Ticket · 5 min

   Ask the three questions to close the week. Your child may look at the corrected check and the notebook.

Homework: Read a nonfiction book for 15 minutes. Find one sentence with a joining word such as because or but. Copy it into the notebook and circle the joining word.

Objective: I can explain how the environment affects the traits of plants and animals.

Standards: 3-LS3-2

Materials: Week 31 Science Check (7 items) and its answer key, Bean cups with the box, and the Bean Log from Day 1, Ruler marked in centimeters, Science notebook and pencil

1. Day 155 — Week 31 Check: Environment and Traits — Wonder Warm-Up · 5 min

   Spaced review from Week 29. Ask: "What is a learned behavior?" (Something a living thing does after practice, teaching or watching others.) Bean check: measure any sprouts in centimeters and record them. Your child describes what they see, using the word environment. Then the big question. Ask: "How does the environment shape living things?"

2. Mini-Lesson · 10–15 min

   Play True or Fix It. Say: "I will read a sentence. If it is wrong, fix it. Listen to me do one first." Say: "A plant grown in shade turns into a different kind of plant. That is wrong. It is the same kind. Shade changes how it grows." Now your child tries four. 1) "A fair test can change two things if they are small." (Fix: it changes only one thing.) 2) "The environment changes plants but never animals." (Fix: food, space and exercise change animals too.) 3) "A wind-bent pine has the same kind of needles as a straight pine." (True.) 4) "Height comes only from parents." (Fix: food, sleep and health matter too.) If stuck, say: "Find that day's notebook page. Read me your frame sentence." Keep this part to 10 minutes.

3. Investigation / Hands-On · 15–20 min

   Fair Test Doctor. 1) Rule a table in the notebook: Plan | What changes | Fair? | Fix. 2) Read each plan. Your child finds what changes and repairs any unfair plan. Plan A: "Two cups of grass seed. One sits in sun with sand. One sits in shade with potting soil." (Light and soil both change. Not fair. Fix: use the same soil.) Plan B: "Two radish pots share a windowsill, the same soil and the same seeds. One gets 2 spoons of water. One gets 6." (Only water changes. Fair.) Plan C: "Two pea pots. One is in a warm room. One is on a cold porch in a bigger pot." (Warmth and pot size both change. Not fair. Fix: use pots of one size.) 3) Your child plans one new test aloud: "I will change ___ and keep ___ the same." Look for exactly one thing changed in every repaired plan. Keep this part to 15 minutes.

4. Science Notebook Entry · 10 min

   Reflection. Your child finishes three frames. "The idea I understand best is ___." "One idea I want to practice is ___." "One trait of mine that the environment affects is ___." Sample: "One trait of mine that the environment affects is my leg muscles, which get stronger when I ride my bike."

5. Wrap-Up & Exit Ticket · 5 min

   Ask the three exit questions aloud and praise answers that give a reason. Then give the Week 31 Science Check, which has 7 items. Allow about 10 minutes, later today if time is short. Your child works alone. Score it with the key. With 6 or more right, plan a new fair test with grass seeds, with and without water. With 4 or 5 right, redo the Day 4 page with new sprout measurements and talk about the colors. With 3 or fewer right, reteach Day 1. Cover one houseplant leaf with foil for a few days and compare. Keep both bean cups going for Week 32.

Homework: Check both bean cups. Water them equally if the soil is dry. Draw both cups side by side. Look for: an honest drawing, even if nothing has sprouted.