This week's lessons focus on the differences between rural and urban locations. Activities will include games to associate things with the town or country, such as location games. Students will learn about where food comes from through stories, songs, and discussions. The phonics lesson focuses on short vowel sounds like cat, cap, and map. Parents are encouraged to discuss urban and rural differences with their children and practice new phonics words.
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EP3 Toadstool Week4
This week's lessons focus on the differences between rural and urban locations. Activities will include games to associate things with the town or country, such as location games. Students will learn about where food comes from through stories, songs, and discussions. The phonics lesson focuses on short vowel sounds like cat, cap, and map. Parents are encouraged to discuss urban and rural differences with their children and practice new phonics words.
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Teacher: Andy Class: EP3 Toadstool Week: 4 Dates: 09/06/14-13/06/14
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Sitapatr School Th"s #eek #e are learn"n$: Locations The town and the country C"rcle T"%e &e'"e# This week we will review the animals and babies that we were studying in the previous unit, and practice introducing ourselves using the sentence structures that we covered in the first week of school. We can play games like spin the bottle to choose students who have to stand up and speak in front of the class, and they can talk about themselves and their favorites such as their favorite animal or their favorite colour. We will also review things in the classroom using realia and TPR, encouraging students to be interactive with their environment. Act"'"t T"%e Location games associating things with the town or the country. Spelling games using the childrens bodies to form letters for simple words. Worksheets to practice associations and writing. Making toilet roll mice. Town mouse and country mouse book reading to children and acti!ities to complete with the book. "ountry Mouse song with actions for children to dance along. "olouring sheets. Thinking about where food comes from milk# cheese# apples$ This week students should learn about the differences between rural and urban locations through indirect learning and thematic association# discussing the differences between the two using stories and games. What different acti!ities can we do in each place% What kinds of people li!e and work in them% We can use acti!e games such as the class hunt to encourage tactile learners and some basic reciprocal learning by asking students to discuss what they like or dislike about the different locations. Speaking in sentences will continue to be encouraged. Phonics - Lily (e# )letters/sounds/'ocabular* Town&"ountry town# country# bus# building# train station# 'TM# plants# pig# farmer# tractor# apples# apple tree# cheese# milk# cow# mouse. Sentences( ' ... is found in the )town&country* )food product* comes from )animal&plant*
!ford Phonics World " # $ontinue %hort &owels 'nit ". Review the (ad( and (ag( sounds # dad, pad, bag, rag. (ap( sound # cap, map, nap, tap. Practice the (at( sounds # bat, rat, hat, mat. $hoose the correct start sound, associate, rhyme, and write words from their phonic sounds. There are easy reading stories, ma)es, simple word searches and other activities in the coursebook and workbook. Play warm*up games like feed the puppet and the corners game to review old and new words from unit ". This week we will also try to complete the unit " review to check that all students are understanding the words and how to spell them. Wr"t"n$ Pract"ce This week we will continue to practice writing the key vocabulary words so that students learn to read them by sight. They do not need to sound them out phonetically, but should recogni)e the start and end sounds and the general shape of the word. We will have a spelling +ui) at the end of the week where students will be asked to complete the words with some of the letters missing. Parent +ollo# ,- / ,se.ul Webs"tes / /o%e#ork: This week parents can encourage their children to discuss the differences between urban and rural en!ironments# especially if they take a trip to the countryside or to a city. +oint out the differences and ask which they prefer. 'lso practice phonics words at home using the ",-./M that comes with their new phonics book this week we are studying unit 0.