Kindergarten, week 31, day 1

New: a_e

1. This week: a_e. An e at the end is silent and makes the a say its name: cap becomes cape.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: cake, make, game and name.
3. Your child finds a a_e 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

Cubes around us

1. Find cubes at home: a die, a block, a box shaped like a cube.
2. Count the faces of one: there are six, all squares.

• Dice rollerteach.peabody.kids/dice

Guess, then test

1. Gather ten things from the kitchen. Your child guesses which will float.
2. Test each one in a tub of water and check the guesses.

Read-aloud: Sink or Float?

1. Read “Sink or Float?” 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.

• Sink or Float?, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/sink-or-float