1st grade, week 31, day 1

New: contractions

1. This week: contractions. Two words pushed together, with an apostrophe where letters were left out: can not becomes can't.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: can't, don't, it's and I'm.
3. Your child finds a contractions 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

Did I like it?

1. Write whether you liked this week's first read-aloud, with one reason.
2. Your child writes whether they liked a book, gives two reasons from the story, and ends by saying the opinion again.

• Book report page (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/book-report

Faces, edges and corners

1. On a box, the flat sides are faces, the lines where faces meet are edges, and the points are corners.
2. Count the faces on a cube, a cereal box and a can.

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

Guess and test

1. Gather ten things. Your child guesses sink or float for each, then tests it in a tub of water.
2. Make a chart of the guesses and what really happened.

Leaders around me

1. List leaders you know, from a parent to a coach, and what each one does.
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

Read-aloud: Sink or Float?

1. Read “Sink or Float?” 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.

• Sink or Float?, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/sink-or-float