1st grade, week 32, day 1

New: -er and -est

1. This week: -er and -est. -er compares two things (taller), -est compares three or more (tallest).
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: taller, tallest, faster and fastest.
3. Your child finds a -er and -est 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

What you need

1. Write what you need to play a game you know well.
2. Your child writes how to play a game: what you need, how to start, how to take a turn, and how to win.

• Sequencing organizer: first, next, last (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/sequencing-organizer

Pennies and nickels

1. A penny is 1 cent and a nickel is 5 cents. Five pennies are worth one nickel.
2. Trade pennies for nickels until there are none left to trade.

• Coins and bills on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/money
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

The engineer's steps

1. Engineers ask, plan, build, test and make it better.
2. Write the five steps on a strip of paper and use it all week.

• Problem solving steps (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/posters/problem-solving-steps-poster

Stripes and stars

1. Count the 13 stripes and the 50 stars on a picture of the American flag.
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

Read-aloud: The Three Little Pigs

1. Read “The Three Little Pigs” 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.

• The Three Little Pigs, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/the-three-little-pigs