1st grade, week 33, day 1

New: open syllables

1. This week: open syllables. A vowel at the end of a syllable usually says its name: he, go, and the ba in baby.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: he, me, we and she.
3. Your child finds a open 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

Pick a living thing

1. Pick a plant or an animal near your home and write a topic sentence about it.
2. Your child picks a plant or animal, writes four facts with a topic sentence and an ending, and draws a labeled picture.

• Main idea and details organizer (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/main-idea-and-details

Count by 10s

1. Count by 10s to 120 and color the tens on the hundreds chart.
2. What pattern do the colored squares make?

• Hundreds chartteach.peabody.kids/hundreds-chart
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Reduce, reuse, recycle

1. Reduce means using less, reuse means using again, and recycle means making old things into new ones.
2. Find one example of each at home.

What is a symbol?

1. A symbol stands for an idea. List symbols you see every day, like a stop sign or a heart.
2. Afterward, your child draws today's activity and writes one sentence about it.

Read-aloud: Why Is the Sky Blue?

1. Read “Why Is the Sky Blue?” 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.

• Why Is the Sky Blue?, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/why-is-the-sky-blue