1st grade, week 21, day 1

New: ar

1. This week: ar. An r after a vowel changes its sound: ar says /ar/ as in car.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: car, star, park and farm.
3. Your child finds a ar word in a book or on a box at home.

• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games
• How phonics works, for parentsteach.peabody.kidshttps://parent.peabody.kids/school/reading/how-phonics-works

Draw the land

1. Draw a mountain, a valley and a plain, and label each one.
2. A labeled diagram shows the parts of something. Your child draws it, labels three parts, and writes a sentence about each.

Tens take away tens again

1. 80 − 30: 8 tens take away 3 tens leaves 5 tens, which is 50.
2. Show it with ten rods, then do 60 − 40 and 90 − 70.

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

Mountains, valleys and plains

1. Find mountains, valleys and flat plains on Planet Earth.
2. Your child draws each one and labels it.

• Planet Earth: the globe to turn and explore (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/planet

The days of the week

1. Say the seven days in order and find today on a calendar.
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

• Calendar maker (printable)teach.peabody.kids/make/calendar

Read-aloud: Pecos Bill

1. Read “Pecos Bill” aloud. It is above what your child reads alone, on purpose: hearing longer stories builds words and understanding.
2. Before reading, look at the title and the first page and ask: what do you think this story is about?
3. On the read-along you can show the pages on a big screen, or let it read the words aloud while each one lights up.

• Pecos Bill, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/pecos-bill