1st grade, week 30, day 1

New: -le

1. This week: -le. -le at the end makes its own beat, /ul/: lit-tle, ap-ple.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: little, apple, table and puzzle.
3. Your child finds a -le 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

A frog poem

1. Write a list poem with one line for each stage of a frog's life.
2. A list poem lists things about one topic, one on a line, and ends with a line that surprises. Your child reads it aloud.

Two equal parts

1. Fold a paper rectangle in half so the two parts match exactly. Each part is one half.
2. Fold another a different way. Are those halves too?

• Fraction bars on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/fraction-bars
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A frog's life cycle

1. A frog starts as an egg, hatches as a tadpole with a tail, grows legs, and becomes a frog.
2. Draw the four stages in a circle with arrows between them.

Many hands

1. Do a big job together as a family, like tidying a room, and time it. Was it faster together?
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

• Timerteach.peabody.kids/timer

Read-aloud: Frogs Are Amazing

1. Read “Frogs Are Amazing” 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.

• Frogs Are Amazing, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/frogs-are-amazing