Kindergarten, week 32, day 1

New: i_e

1. This week: i_e. The silent e makes the i say its name: kit becomes kite.
2. Read these words together, running a finger under each one as you say it: kite, bike, time and five.
3. Your child finds a i_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

Two triangles

1. Cut a paper square from corner to corner. What two shapes do you get?
2. Put them back together, then make a bigger triangle from them.

What engineers do

1. Engineers find a problem, plan, build, test and make it better.
2. Build a tower from blocks, and count how tall it gets before it falls.

Read-aloud: Ben and the Blocks

1. Read “Ben and the Blocks” 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.

• Ben and the Blocks, read-along on screenteach.peabody.kids/read-aloud/ben-and-the-blocks