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Look out the window
Warm-up · 5 min. Say the weather. Say how it feels.
Pip asksPick the weather you can see right now. The sky in the window will change!
Say it like this
It isweather…
today.
I feelhow…
Point at each word as the child reads the sentence frame. If it's grey outside, still choose a second weather to play with — “Let's pretend it is stormy.” Praise full sentences, not one-word answers.
2
The blend machine
Phonics · 8 min. Two letters, one sound: br · dr · fr · gr · st · sn
Feed the machine
Which two letters are missing?
Six blend friends
Try itRead the list out loud, then hunt for those sounds inside today's story. storm is hiding in page 1!
Model one: “br — brrr, like a little wind — bring.” Let the child press the keys; a wrong press is fine, the machine shakes and they try again. Extension: clap the syllables of each word.
3
Word baskets
Vocabulary · 5 min. Read each word. Put it in the right basket.
How to playTap a word so it wiggles. Then tap a basket. Read it out loud as it lands.
Words are printed without pictures on purpose — the child must read, not guess from an image. If a word stalls, sound it out together from the first letter.
4
My little book: the big wind
Reading · 8 min. Six pages. Read them, then hunt the words the · my · is.
Word hunt
Tap every the, my and is you can find in all six pages. 0 / 11Read the page first, together. Then cover the picture with your hand and ask the child to read it again — pictures support memory, so hide them to build real decoding. Ask: “Why did Frog help Sam?”
5
Our weather week
Counting · 4 min. Tap each day to build the graph.
Seven days in a row
This is the weather in Pip's garden last week. Tap a day and it jumps onto the graph.
The graph
Question 1Which weather happened the most days?
Question 2How many rainy days were there?
Count out loud with one finger pointing at each bar. Wrong answers are welcome — ask “how did you count?” and let them show you.
6
Trace the sky words
Writing · 5 min. Finger first, then the marker. Stay on the dotted road.
Crayon:
…or just use your finger on the screen!
Say the letters as they trace: “r — ai — n.” Watch the pencil grip: thumb and first two fingers, not a fist. Two good lines are enough — stopping early is a win.
7
Weather freeze dance
Movement break · 4 min. Stand up! Five weather moves.
8
Press GO and stand up.
Do it with them. This is not a delay — moving the words into the body (“blow like the wind”) locks the vocabulary in.
8
Stickers, song and goodbye
Wrap-up · 3 min. Sing it once more. Count your stars.
My star chart
Goodbye weather song (tap a line to hear it)
Today I can say…
- I can read br, dr, fr, gr, st, sn.
- I can say “It is windy today. I feel cool.”
- I can read a whole little book by myself.
- I can count the weather on a graph.