Activities & Lessons

Grades 1–2 Daily Reading Activities: Teamwork

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Welcome to Teamwork. We'll provide five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together.

Day 1 Activity

Let’s Watch: Super Citizen

Watch the video Super Citizen to learn more about teamwork, good citizenship, and helping others.

Discuss the Video

How do Leon and Carly help their grandmother at the garden? What can you do to be a super citizen?

Let’s Read: Chipmunk's New Home

The rain has washed away Chipmunk’s home! What can his friends do to help?

Download Chipmunk's New Home

Check Understanding

What did you learn about Chipmunk’s New Home? Answer these questions.

Use the text to help you.

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.


Day 2 Activity

Let’s Reread: Chipmunk's New Home

The rain has washed away Chipmunk’s home! What can his friends do to help?

Download Chipmunk's New Home

Take It Further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Write About It

  • Think of a problem you solved. Did anyone help you?
  • Draw three pictures. Show the problem, what you did, and who helped you.
  • Write a sentence about each picture.

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.


Day 3 Activity

Let’s Read: How Living Things Help Each Other

Plants, animals, and people all help each other. How can you help?

Download How Living Things Help Each Other

Quiz

How much do you know about How Living Things Help Each Other? Take the quiz.

Then, check your answers to the quiz. How did you do?

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.


Day 4 Activity

Let’s Reread: How Living Things Help Each Other

Plants, animals, and people all help each other. How can you help?

Download How Living Things Help Each Other

Take It Further

Choose an activity to extend the fun.

Response Writing: Make an Accordion Book

  • Use a sheet of recycled paper to make an accordion book.
  • Fold a paper strip back and forth. You should have about five sections. Trim the end of the last section so that all the strips are the same size.
  • Draw a plant or animal on each page of your book. You can use only the front, or use the front and back of the strips.
  • Write how each plant or animal helps living things.

Hands-On Activity: Examine Plants and Seeds

  • Look closely at plants and seeds. Use a hand lens if you have one.
  • Identify the parts that might be sticky or sharp. How do you think those parts of the plant travel?
  • Order the plants or seeds by largest, tiniest, stickiest, or smoothest. Then classify them a different way.

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.


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