1st grade, week 22, day 5

Passage: Wheels Help Us Move

1. Your child reads the passage, then you read it back to them.
2. Ask the questions under it, and let your child point to where the answer is.
3. Read this week's sight words, “around” and “because”, on their cards.

• Wheels Help Us Move: passage with questionsteach.peabody.kids/passages/1/wheels-help-us-move
• Dolch second grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/second
• 1st grade learning games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games-by-grade/first-grade

My comparing paragraph

1. Write a paragraph comparing travel long ago and today, with an ending sentence.
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

A length sort

1. Find five things shorter than your hand and five longer than your arm.
2. Sort them into two piles, then put each pile in order by length.

• Group sort game from your own listteach.peabody.kids/activities/group-sort
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

A bird feeder

1. Fill half an orange peel or a paper cup with birdseed, hang it where you can see it, and watch who comes.
2. Your child writes one question today's science made them wonder about.

A then and now chart

1. Make a chart with two columns, then and now: a horse and a car, a sailboat and a ship, a wagon and a truck.
2. Your child draws one in each box and writes what changed.

Read-aloud: The Bremen Town Musicians

1. Read “The Bremen Town Musicians” aloud. If your child asks to hear it again, say yes: hearing a story twice is how it sticks.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?

• The Bremen Town Musicians, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-bremen-town-musicians