1st grade, week 22, day 2

Spell words with or and ore

1. Say a word: more, store, shore and sport. 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 or and ore 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

Both

1. Write two sentences that start with Both about a sailboat and a ship.
2. To compare, your child writes how two things are the same and how they are different, with words like both and but.

• Venn diagram: same and different (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/venn-diagram

Line up the ends

1. Two ribbons can look the same until their ends are lined up. Line up two strings at one end and compare them.
2. Try it the wrong way, with the ends apart, and talk about why lining up matters.

• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Beaks are tools

1. Pick up seeds with tweezers, rice with a spoon, and water with a straw. Which bird beak is each tool like?
2. Your child writes what they noticed, starting with “I saw.”

Travel long ago

1. Long ago people walked, rode horses, drove wagons and sailed in boats with sails.
2. Ask a grandparent or an older neighbor how they got to school as a child.

Read-aloud: The First Steps

1. Read “The First Steps” 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.

• The First Steps, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-first-steps-on-the-moon