1st grade, week 29, day 1

New: two syllables

1. This week: two syllables. Split between the two middle consonants and read each part: rab-bit, nap-kin.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: rabbit, napkin, picnic and kitten.
3. Your child finds a two syllables 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

Quotation marks

1. Write a sentence where an ant says hello, with quotation marks around its words.
2. When characters talk, their words go inside quotation marks. Your child adds one or two lines of talking to a story.

Two triangles make a square

1. Cut a paper square from corner to corner. What two shapes do you get?
2. Put them back together a new way: what shape is it now?

• Geoboard on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/geoboard
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

What makes an insect

1. Insects have six legs, three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen) and often wings.
2. Look at an ant, a beetle or a picture of one and point to each part.

• Insects and bugs bingo cardsteach.peabody.kids/bingo/insects

City life

1. Look at pictures of a city and list what you see: tall buildings, buses, crowds and apartments.
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

Read-aloud: Look at Ants

1. Read “Look at Ants” 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.

• Look at Ants, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/look-at-ants