1st grade, week 29, day 3

two syllables in sentences

1. Read the two syllables 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: “found” and “gave”. These are read by sight, not sounded out. Write each on a card and read the cards every day this week.

• Dolch second grade sight words: flash cardsteach.peabody.kids/sight-words/second
• Phonics games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/phonics-games

Said, asked and shouted

1. Write three lines of talking using said, asked and shouted.
2. When characters talk, their words go inside quotation marks. Your child adds one or two lines of talking to a story.

Shape pictures

1. Cut triangles, squares and rectangles from paper and make a picture, like a house or a boat.
2. Count how many of each shape you used.

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

A bug hunt

1. Lift a log or a flat stone, look underneath, and count what you find. Put it back gently.
2. Draw the creatures you saw and count their legs.

Country life

1. Talk about life in the country: farms, fields, animals, and homes far apart.
2. Ask: why does this matter? Your child says the answer, then writes it as a sentence.

Read-aloud: Tam and the Wind-Up Tractor

1. Read “Tam and the Wind-Up Tractor” aloud. Give the characters different voices; it helps a young listener follow who is talking.
2. Afterward, ask your child to tell the story back to you: first, next, last.

• Tam and the Wind-Up Tractor, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/tam-and-the-wind-up-tractor