Kindergarten, week 28, day 1

New: ending blends

1. This week: ending blends. Two sounds at the end of a word, each still heard: ha-n-d, ju-m-p.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: hand, sand, nest and fast.
3. Your child finds a ending blends 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

Longer or shorter?

1. Hold a spoon and a fork side by side with their ends lined up. Which is longer?
2. Line up the ends every time, or the test isn't fair.

Inside a seed

1. Soak a dry bean in water overnight, then open it gently with a fingernail.
2. Find the tiny baby plant inside, and the food stored around it.

• Plants and seeds bingo cardsteach.peabody.kids/bingo/plants-and-seeds

Read-aloud: Meg and the Seed

1. Read “Meg and the Seed” 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.

• Meg and the Seed, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/meg-and-the-seed