Teacher: Andy Class: EP3 Toadstool Week: 2 Dates: 26/05/14-30/05/14

Anuan Weekl! "utl#ne

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.