Kindergarten · Week 1print concepts
Bubbles Our Class Fish
Students read a short passage about their class fish Bubbles, point to print features like the first word and spaces, and answer five questions with teacher and homeschool guidance.
On screen - your kid, alone
- 1Day 1 - Meet the story
- 2Day 2 - Word work
- 3Day 3 - What it means
- 4Day 4 - Fix & re-read
- 5Day 5 - Show what you know
Offline - with you
Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
Sit next to your child with the page where you both can see it clearly, and say, "We are going to read about a class pet fish. Before we read the words, show me where to start." A good answer is your child pointing to the first word of the first sentence and then sweeping a finger left to right across the line. As you read together, pause and ask, "Can you find one word? Now can you find one letter inside that word?" — strong answers show that a word is a group of letters with spaces around it, and a letter is just one shape. Point to a period at the end of a line and ask what it tells the reader; you want to hear something like "stop" or "the sentence is done." If your child struggles, slow down and model it yourself: put your finger under the first word, say it, slide to the next word, and show how the space tells your finger to hop, then invite your child to copy exactly what you did on the next line.
Bubbles Our Class Fish
Here is our fish. We see Bubbles swim. Look at the fin. It is my turn. We can see a fish. Bubbles has a fin. The fish can swim. Go look at Bubbles. Here is a fin. We see it swim. The fish is our pet. Look here.
What this lesson checks
- Main idea: Look at the first line. What shows that the sentence is done?
- Main idea: Look at the line: We see Bubbles swim. Point to the first word you read. Which word is it?
- Main idea: Look at this line: We can see a fish. What do the spaces between the words show you?
- Main idea: Look at this line: Bubbles has a fin. How many words are in this line?
- Main idea: Look at this line: The fish can swim. Which way do your eyes go when you read it?