Kindergarten · Week 7short vowels
My Lunchbox
Students read a short kindergarten passage about packing a lunchbox, practice identifying short vowel sounds in CVC words, and answer six 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 and read the passage out loud first, then ask them to read it with you, pointing to each word. Say something like, "Let's hunt for short vowel words — words like ham, zip, and pot. What vowel do you hear in the middle?" A strong answer is when your child can say the middle sound on its own (the /a/ in ham, the /i/ in zip) and can stretch the word into three sounds: /h/ /a/ /m/. If your child gets stuck, slow down and tap each sound on a finger, or hold up the word and cover the first and last letters so only the vowel shows. You can also grab real items from the kitchen — a cup, a nut, a bun, a lid — and have your child match each one to its written CVC word. Keep it short and playful; five to ten minutes of focused practice is plenty at this age.
My Lunchbox
I pack my bag. I zip it up. I tap the lid. In my bag, I has a bun with ham and jam. I has a red fig. I has a hot dog in a cup. I has a nut. I has a pot pie. My mom is a hen! I jet to the bus.
What this lesson checks
- Sound correspondence: Which word has the short a sound, like in 'cat'?
- Sound correspondence: Which word ends with the short i sound and the letter g, like in 'pig'?
- Sound correspondence: Find a word from the story that has the short a sound, like in 'cat'. Write the word.
- Sound correspondence: Find a word from the story that has the short i sound, like in 'sit'. Write the word.
- Sound correspondence: The short a sound is the sound in 'cat'. Find a short phrase from the story that has a word with the short a sound. Copy it here.
- Sound correspondence: The short e sound is the sound in 'pet'. Find a word from the story that has the short e sound. Write the word.