2nd grade, week 29, day 1

New: vowel teams in two syllables

1. This week: vowel teams in two syllables. Split the word into its parts and read each vowel team: rain-bow, sea-weed.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: rainbow, peanut, seaweed and daydream.
3. Your child finds a vowel teams in two 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

What goes wrong

1. Write the problem your character faces, like a beetle who can't find her way home.
2. In the middle of a story, the character has a problem and tries to fix it, and the first try may not work.

Faces of a cube

1. A cube has 6 square faces, 12 edges and 8 corners. Count them on a block or a box.
2. Put a sticker on each face as you count.

• 2nd grade math path (peabody.kids)peabody.kids/grades/math/2nd-grade

An insect's body plan

1. Insects have three body parts, six legs and two antennae. Look closely at a beetle or a picture of one.
2. Draw it large and label the head, thorax, abdomen, legs and antennae.

• Insects and bugs bingo cardsteach.peabody.kids/bingo/insects

Urban, suburban and rural

1. Urban means city, suburban means near a city, and rural means country. Sort pictures into the three.
2. Afterward, your child writes two or three sentences about what they did and why it matters.

Read-aloud: Look at Ants

1. Read “Look at Ants” 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.

• Look at Ants, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/look-at-ants