1st grade, week 35, day 4

Read: Tom and the Big Fish

1. Your child reads it aloud to you, then reads one page again with expression, the way a character would say it.
2. When your child is stuck, say the first sound and let them finish the word, rather than saying the whole word.
3. Afterward, ask your child to tell it back: what happened first, next and last?

• Tom and the Big Fish, to read on screenon peabody.kidspeabody.kids/library/tom-and-the-big-fish

Write the end

1. Write how the problem gets fixed and how the character feels.
2. Your child writes a whole story, checks it, and copies it neatly into a little book to read to the family.

• Story map: who, where, problem, fix (printable)teach.peabody.kids/printables/reading/story-map

Take-away facts

1. Do a subtraction within 20 sheet.
2. Circle any fact that was slow and say its whole fact family.

• Subtraction within 20 worksheetsteach.peabody.kids/worksheets/math/subtraction-within-20
• 1st grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/1st-grade

Sun or shade melt

1. Put one ice cube in the sun and one in the shade, and time how long each takes to melt.
2. Write both times and talk about why they are different.

• Timerteach.peabody.kids/timer

Helping out

1. With a grown-up, do one thing to help your community this week, like picking up litter in a park.
2. Your child tells someone at home about today, then writes one word for it on the family calendar.

Read-aloud: Puss in Boots

1. Read “Puss in Boots” aloud, and let your child turn the pages.
2. This is an old tale, told for a long time. Afterward, ask: what did someone in the story learn?
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.

• Puss in Boots, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/puss-in-boots