1st grade, week 34, day 5

Reread: Mia and the Kite

1. Reread “Mia and the Kite” from last week. The second time is smoother and quicker: that is fluency growing.
2. Find this week's sight words, “read” and “right”, in the book or on their cards.
3. Let your child pick one page to read to someone else in the family.

• Mia and the Kite, to read on screenon peabody.kidspeabody.kids/library/mia-and-the-kite
• Sight word games (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/learning-games/sight-word-games

Revise an old piece

1. Pick an old piece of writing and add two details to make it stronger.
2. To revise, your child adds details: a describing word, a when, or a why. Two added details make a piece stronger.

A story problem of my own

1. Your child writes a story problem for you, with a picture.
2. Solve it together and check with counters.

• Two-color counters on screenteach.peabody.kids/manipulatives/counters
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Moving air pushes

1. Make a balloon car or a straw rocket and launch it with air.
2. Measure how far it goes and try to beat it.

• Workshop: balloon car (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/build/balloon-car
• Workshop: straw rocket (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/build/straw-rocket

Build a landmark

1. Build a landmark from blocks or boxes and write a sign telling what it is.
2. Afterward, your child draws a picture and writes a caption under it.

Read-aloud: Mrs. Hedgehog's Umbrella

1. Read “Mrs. Hedgehog's Umbrella” aloud. If your child asks to hear it again, say yes: hearing a story twice is how it sticks.
2. Afterward, ask: has anything like this happened to you? How was it the same, or different?

• Mrs. Hedgehog's Umbrella, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/mrs-hedgehogs-umbrella