1st grade, week 28, day 1

New: compound words

1. This week: compound words. Two whole words joined into one: sun + set makes sunset.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: sunset, rainbow, cupcake and football.
3. Your child finds a compound words 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

Plan a seed story

1. Plan a story on a story map about a seed that wants to grow.
2. A made-up story has characters, a setting, a problem, and a way the problem gets fixed. Your child plans it on a story map first.

• Story map: who, where, problem, fix (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/story-map

Sides and corners

1. Draw a triangle, a square, a rectangle and a hexagon, and count the sides and corners of each.
2. Write the numbers in a chart.

• Shapes wheelteach.peabody.kids/wheel/shapes
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Inside a seed

1. Soak a dry bean overnight, then open it gently. Find the baby plant and its stored food.
2. Draw the inside of the bean and label the parts.

• Plants and seeds bingo cardsteach.peabody.kids/bingo/plants-and-seeds

The library

1. Talk about what a library lends besides books, and who works there.
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

Read-aloud: Jack and the Beanstalk

1. Read “Jack and the Beanstalk” aloud. It is above what your child reads alone, on purpose: hearing longer stories builds words and understanding.
2. Before reading, look at the title and the first page and ask: what do you think this story is about?
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.

• Jack and the Beanstalk, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/jack-and-the-beanstalk