1st grade, week 20, day 2

Spell words with y as long e

1. Say a word: baby, candy, lady and bunny. Your child says each sound, then writes the word.
2. Check each one together and fix any letter that is off.
3. Read all eight y as long e words as fast as you can, then once more.

• Spelling practice sheet makerteach.peabody.kids/make/spelling
• Copywork maker: print a line to copyteach.peabody.kids/homeschool/aids/copywork
• 1st grade learning games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games-by-grade/first-grade

Salty or fresh

1. Write two facts about salt water and fresh water in your own words.
2. A report teaches facts. Your child writes a topic sentence, three facts in their own words, and an ending sentence.

• Main idea and details organizer (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/main-idea-and-details

Add the tens, keep the ones

1. Build 36 with blocks and add 2 ten rods. The ones stay at 6 and the tens go from 3 to 5: 56.
2. Do 41 + 30 and 27 + 50 the same way.

• Base-ten blocks on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/base-ten
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Salt water and fresh water

1. Oceans are salt water; most rivers and lakes are fresh water, the kind people can drink.
2. Stir salt into one cup of water and taste a drop of each. Which could you drink?

• Ocean animals bingo cardsteach.peabody.kids/bingo/ocean-animals

Morning, afternoon, evening

1. Make three columns and list what your family does in the morning, the afternoon and the evening.
2. Your child writes one thing they learned today and reads it to you.

Read-aloud: Rain's Long Trip

1. Read “Rain's Long Trip” aloud, with your child beside you where they can see the pictures.
2. This one is true. Afterward, ask: what is one new thing you learned? Then find one more fact in it together.

• Rain's Long Trip, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/rains-long-trip