1st grade, week 23, day 4

Read: A Bath for the Birds

1. Your child reads it aloud to you, then reads one page again with expression, the way a character would say it.
2. When your child is stuck, say the first sound and let them finish the word, rather than saying the whole word.
3. Afterward, ask your child to tell it back: what happened first, next and last?

• A Bath for the Birds, to read on screenon peabody.kidspeabody.kids/library/a-bath-for-the-birds

A letter from long ago

1. Write a letter as if you were a child long ago, telling about carrying water from the well.
2. A friendly letter has a date, a greeting, a body, a closing and a name. Your child writes to someone they know.

Cubes and squares as units

1. Line up small cubes along five things and count the cubes each time.
2. Or cut a strip of centimeter graph paper and count the squares along each thing.

• Centimeter graph paper (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/math/centimeter-graph-paper
• Base-ten blocks on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/base-ten
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Rings tell age

1. Look at the rings on a tree stump or a cut log: each ring is about one year of growing. Count them.
2. Your child labels a drawing of today's science with three words.

Making butter

1. Many families long ago made their own butter by churning cream.
2. Shake cream in a jar until it turns to butter, taking turns when arms get tired.

• Kitchen: butter in a jar (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/kitchen/butter-in-a-jar

Read-aloud: The Cat That Walked by Himself

1. Read “The Cat That Walked by Himself” aloud, and let your child turn the pages.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?
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 Cat That Walked by Himself, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-cat-that-walked-by-himself