Week 5 of 8
Week 5
2nd Grade → 3rd Grade · Skip counting and Nouns verbs
Math
Skip Counting
Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and beyond. Throughout second grade.
The mistake to watch for. Skip counting fluently from zero but stalling when asked to start from another number — 15, 20, 25 is harder than 5, 10, 15.
How to help. Practice starting from odd places on a hundreds chart. The step size is what matters, not the starting point.
A worked example
Count by fives: 5, 10, 15, 20, ___. Each number is 5 more than the one before it, so the next number is 25.
Reading & language
Nouns and Verbs
Telling whether a word names a person, place, or thing (noun) or names an action (verb). Second grade.
The mistake to watch for. Classifying by word length or familiarity rather than function — assuming short words are always verbs.
How to help. Ask "can you do this?" A word you can physically act out is a verb; a word you can point to or hold is a noun.
A worked example
In 'The bird sings', 'bird' is a noun — a person, place or thing — and 'sings' is a verb — an action. Ask yourself: can you do it? If you can, the word is probably a verb.
Words for this week
- count
- To say numbers in order to find out how many there are.
- pattern
- Something that repeats in a way you can predict, like 2, 4, 6, 8.
- number
- A word or symbol that tells how many, like 5 or twelve.
- skip
- To go past some numbers when you count, like 5, 10, 15.
- next
- The one that comes right after.
- noun
- A word for a person, place or thing, like girl, school or ball.
- verb
- A word that tells an action or a state, like run, is or sing.
- action
- A word that tells what someone or something does, like run, jump or read.
- person
- A man, woman, boy or girl.
- place
- Where a digit sits in a number: ones, tens or hundreds.
Read this week
Food
A short food article from our Learn library, chosen for this reading level. Read it together, then ask your child to tell you one new thing they learned.