Week 20 Objectives

TRC Question Stems for I See Animals Hiding

1.  Explain why the author wrote the story.  Use at least two key details to support your answer.  (RI 2.3) 2.  Look at pages 140-141.   Tell the most important ideas on these pages.  (RI 2.5) 3.  Compare and contrast I See Animals Hiding and Animal Camouflage.  Name two ways the stories are alike and two ways the stories are different.  (RI 2.9) 4.  Why is it important for deer to shed their red-brown summer coat for a gray winter coat in autumn?  (RI 2.1) 5.  Why do animals need to hide and how can camouflage help them with this?  (RI 2.1).

Grammar Practice

MATH Borrowing and Regrouping

2. NBT.5  Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. 2. NBT.B.6  Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations. 2.NBT.B.7  Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds. 2. NBT.B.8  Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900. 2. NBT.B.9  Explain why addition and subtraction   strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

History & Writing

2. H.1 Understand how various sources provide information about the past.

2. H.1.2 Identify contributions of historical figures (community, state, nation and world) through various genres.

W.2.2  Write informative/explanatory text - introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section