Teacher: Andy Class: EP3 Toadstool Week: 2 Dates: 26/05/14-30/05/14
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Sitapatr School Th#s $eek $e are learn#n%: Learning animals and their babies C#rcle T#&e 'e(#e$ Continue to review classroom commands in the morning sessions using games like 'teacher says', and try to teach the students some of the other games that we will commonly use this year such as the slaps game, the sumo game, or cat and mouse. We can warm up to these games by using the introductions and feeling vocabulary that we studied last week, and ensure that all students are comfortable using these words in simple sentences eg: am happy, he is sad, she is angry, you are sick etc. Act#(#t! T#&e Play flashcard races and the fly swat game with animals and their young flashcards. Students can imitate animal noise and actions. Read Are you my mother? book. Old ac!onald had a farm" song. aking animal masks for the students to wear. #om$rehension worksheets and $icture to word association to teach students the words for key animals. Students should learn to associate all baby animals with their corres$onding adults% and to name all adult and baby animals when $rom$ted. &hey should begin to learn to s$ell the names of the easier animals% and will be tested on these 'ocabulary s$ellings throughout the week. Students should $ractice the sentence structures( &his is a)an..." and A baby ... is called a ..." Phonics )e$ *letters/sounds/(ocaular!+ !uck)duckling* hen)chick* cat)kitten* dog)$u$$y* frog)tad$ole* kangaroo)+oey* horse)foal* bear)cub* shee$)lamb* deer)fawn* bird)nestling. A kitten is a baby cat etc. Animal sounds and associating them with their animals , -uack% cluck% meow% woof etc. !"ford #honics World 2 $ Continue %hort &owels 'nit (. )eview the short 'a' sound $ cat, ant, yak, a". 'am' sound $ ram, *am, yam, dam. ntroduce the 'an' sound $ fan, man, pan, can. Associate words with pictures, chanting sounds, writing practice and rhyming similar sounds. #lay warm+up games like the slaps game and cat and mouse to practice sounds. Check that all students are comfortable using and associating the sounds and the words from this unit before we move on to unit 2 ne"t week. Wr#t#n% Pract#ce #ractice writing the animal names for adult and baby animals so that we can use them to complete e"ample sentences. %ome students may be able to copy the full sentence structures, and should be encouraged to do so as an e"tension e"ercise. We will have a spelling test on the more simple vocabulary words this week, and the more comple" words ne"t week. Parent ,ollo$ -. / -se/ul Wes#tes / 0o&e$ork: .el$ your children to $ractice naming animals by identifying them in /nglish if you see them in daily life , common e0am$les would be cat)kitten% dog)$u$$y% or bird)nestling. Students can $ractice the 1Old ac!onald1 song that can be found at this link( &hey can also $ractice their $honics words at home using the #!2RO that comes with their new $honics book.