Grade 1 · Week 24suffixes
Snow Day
Students read a short story about a snow day, then practice the word endings -s, -ed, and -ing: reading them, building them, and matching each ending to when the action happens.
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.
Read the snow story together and hunt for the word family: pack, packed, packing — same base word, different endings. Play the time machine game at home: say a base word like jump, then ask, "What did you do yesterday?" (jumped), "What are you doing right now?" (jumping), "What does your sister do every day?" (jumps). Act each one out — actually jumping while saying jumping makes the -ing ending stick. When reading together this week, pause at any -ed word and ask, "Did this already happen, or is it happening now?" If your child writes "planed" for planned or "runing" for running, do not worry about doubled letters yet — hearing the right ending is the grade 1 win.
Snow Day
Snow falls on our street today. I zip my coat and step out. Yesterday we packed snow into balls. Today we pack a big fort. Ben is packing the last wall now. We played all day yesterday. Mia jumps in the snow. She jumped in a pile yesterday too. Jumping in snow is so fun! We drink hot cocoa after we play.
What this lesson checks
- Base word: Look at the word packed. What is the base word — the word without the ending?
- Grammar usage: Pick the word that fits: Right now, Ben is ____ the last wall.
- Grammar usage: Pick the word that fits: Yesterday, Mia ____ in a pile of snow.
- Grammar usage: Pick the word that fits: Every day, snow ____ on our street.
- Base word: Add -ing to the word play. Write the new word.