Grade 2 · Week 5nouns
Harvest Day in the Garden
Students read about a school garden harvest and practice identifying concrete nouns, collective nouns, and frequently occurring irregular plural nouns.
On screen - your kid, alone
- 1Day 1 - Meet the story
- 2Day 2 - Word work
- 3Day 3 - What it means
- 4Day 4 - Fix & re-read
- 5Day 5 - Show what you know
Offline - with you
Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
Read the passage together and find people, places, things, and animals. Practice the group nouns class and bunch. Then compare one child with several children, one foot with two feet, and one tooth with several teeth. Ask your child to explain why each word is a noun before completing the questions.
Harvest Day in the Garden
On Friday morning, Ms. Patel took her class to the school garden. The students got baskets and a small shovel from the shed. Leo pulled up bright orange carrots. Mia picked a round red tomato. Then Leo pulled out a big bunch of carrots at once! Soft mud squished under their feet. Dirt was on their hands. No one cared about the mess. The class put the food into three baskets near the gate. Beans went in one basket. Carrots went in another. Tomatoes went in the last basket. Ms. Patel smiled at the teamwork. Next, the class carried the baskets to the lunchroom. The cook thanked the students. She said they would have a fresh salad for lunch. Leo felt happy when he saw the full baskets. The children washed their hands in the classroom. They shared stories about the garden. At lunch, the fresh carrots crunched in their mouths. Working in the garden was hard, but it was a fun day for the class.
What this lesson checks
- Grammar usage: Read this sentence from the story: "Leo pulled up bright orange ______, and Mia picked a round red tomato." Which word is a noun that best fills the blank?
- Grammar usage: This sentence is missing a noun. Rewrite the sentence with a noun in the blank: 'Ms. Patel led her class to the ______.' Use a place noun from the story.
- Grammar usage: Read this sentence from the story: "Mia picked a round red tomato." Which word in the sentence is a noun?
- Grammar usage: Read this sentence from the story: "The cook thanked the students and promised a fresh ______ for lunch." Which noun best fills the blank?
- Grammar usage: This sentence is missing a noun where you see the blank. Rewrite the whole sentence and put a noun in the blank that names a thing: 'The students grabbed ______ and a small shovel from the shed.'