1st grade, week 23, day 3

er, ir and ur in sentences

1. Read the er, ir and ur words from this week again, then read them in sentences: on the decodable page, or in three short sentences you write.
2. New sight words: “been” and “before”. These are read by sight, not sounded out. Write each on a card and read the cards every day this week.

• R-controlled vowels (ar, or): decodable sentencesteach.peabody.kids/decodables/r-controlled
• Dolch second grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/second
• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games

Telling news

1. Write a letter to a friend telling two things you learned about homes long ago.
2. A friendly letter has a date, a greeting, a body, a closing and a name. Your child writes to someone they know.

Same-size units

1. Measure a table with your hand spans, then a grown-up measures it with theirs. Why are the numbers different?
2. Talk about why people measure with units that are all the same size, like cubes or inches.

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

Leaf shapes

1. Collect three leaves from different trees and trace them. How are they different?
2. Ask: what do you think caused it? Your child writes their idea in a sentence.

Water then and now

1. Many families carried water from a well, a pump or a stream.
2. Carry a bucket of water across the yard. How many trips would one bath take?

Read-aloud: The Princess and the Pea

1. Read “The Princess and the Pea” aloud. Give the characters different voices; it helps a young listener follow who is talking.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?

• The Princess and the Pea, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-princess-and-the-pea