Kindergarten, week 30, day 1

New: adding s

1. This week: adding s. An s on the end means more than one: one cat, two cats; sometimes it says /z/, as in dogs.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: cats, dogs, pigs and hats.
3. Your child finds a adding s 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

Sort by color

1. Sort a pile of buttons, blocks or crayons by color.
2. Count each group and say which has the most.

• Group sort game from your own listteach.peabody.kids/activities/group-sort

Egg to frog

1. A frog starts as an egg, hatches into a tadpole, grows legs and becomes a frog.
2. Act out each stage: egg, swimming tadpole, hopping frog.

Read-aloud: Frogs Are Amazing

1. Read “Frogs Are Amazing” 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.

• Frogs Are Amazing, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/frogs-are-amazing