1st grade, week 23, day 1

New: er, ir and ur

1. This week: er, ir and ur. Er, ir and ur all say the same sound, /er/, as in her, bird and fur.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: her, fern, bird and girl.
3. Your child finds a er, ir and ur 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

Parts of a letter

1. Write the date, a greeting and a closing for a letter to a grandparent or an older friend.
2. A friendly letter has a date, a greeting, a body, a closing and a name. Your child writes to someone they know.

Paper clips end to end

1. Lay paper clips end to end along a book, with no gaps and no overlaps. How many paper clips long is it?
2. Measure a crayon and a spoon the same way, and write each length.

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

Tree parts

1. Draw a tree and label its roots, trunk, branches and leaves.
2. Your child draws what they saw in a science notebook and writes one sentence about it.

Light then and now

1. Before electric lights, homes were lit by candles, oil lamps and the fire.
2. Turn off the lights at dusk for ten minutes. What is hard to do in the dark?

Read-aloud: The Thread That Glowed

1. Read “The Thread That Glowed” aloud. It is above what your child reads alone, on purpose: hearing longer stories builds words and understanding.
2. This one is true. Afterward, ask: what is one new thing you learned? Then find one more fact in it together.
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.

• The Thread That Glowed, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-thread-that-glowed