Weekly Anuban outline

Teacher: Mike Higson Class: EP 3 Lily Week no: 8 Dates (from / to): 08/07/2013 12/07/2013

Weekly Outline:
Activity session subject : Locations - Under the sea and at the beach Vocabulary: Activities / songs / games: Under the sea: crab, shells, jellyfish, turtle, shark, dolphin, squid, whale, seahorse, octopus. At the beach: bucket and spade, sand, beach ball, sand castle, sailboat, surfing, lighthouse, fishing Grammar: This week we will focus on using adjectives to describe the sea animals. How many legs does an octopus have? An octopus has 8 legs. Focus on activities on the beach. Students will identify beach activities and answer to the question what do you like to do at the beach? I like to swim/play beach ball/jetski... Crafts and activities This week students will finish the under the sea and at the beach wall display. This week we will also make textured starfish. We will do this by cutting out starfish templates and then gluing rice onto them. The students will then decorate the starfish how they want to. A prize will be given for the best starfish. The students will solve a series of puzzles set by the teacher. One puzzle will feature a list of sea animals with the vowels missing. The students have to fill in the blanks. Another is a word scramble, where sea animals and beach item words are mixed up. The students have to rearrange the letters. A third is a series of questions using adjectives to describe to sea animals. The students must identify the animals and spell them correctly. Worksheets-2 word searches: at the beach and under the sea. Songs We will practice under the sea song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovsiO5PIOQ And also the underwater song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fb1Xv9mZl4 Games A student is blindfolded and randomly points to another student. The student pointed to then has to choose a random flashcard, spell it out and pronounce it. The blindfolded student then guesses who is speaking. If they are correct the student who read the flash card takes their place. Hangman-students guess letters to spell a word on the board. The focus vocab as well as phonic words are used in this game.

Duck duck goose is played but using the focus vocabulary to replace duck and goose. Musical chair-a flashcard is placed on the chairs and students move round them to the music. A chair is removed each time. When the music stops the students sit down and must read the flashcard on their chair. If they cant read the card or if they cant find a chair they are out of the game.

Phonics

In phonics we will recap the previous sounds and words (in, pin, tin, bin, win, fin, og, dog, bog, cog, log, fog, op, cop, mop, top) with games, such as using phonics flashcards. Introduce new sounds ot this week and 5 associated words i.e. cot, tot, dot, pot, hot. Introduce new sounds up and ub later in the week and several associated words i.e. rub, cub, tub, cup, pup. Practice the new sounds and words on the board, reciting as a whole and individually. Read pages 26-29 in the reader as a group so the students can understand the meaning of the words. Also pay attention to prepositions on, in and under. Do exercises in the activity book on pages 26-29. Exercises include circling the correct answer, tracing and writing the correct word and understanding prepositions. Play splat-students hit letters called out by the teacher and try to guess which word is being spelled out. Recap the vowel sounds as some students are still mixing them up. Focus on handwriting mistakes, especially making sure the letters are the correct size and in the right position.

Review This week we will review the phonics from the past few weeks, paying attention to common mistakes. We will practice handwriting, making sure the letters are the correct shape and position.

Notes / parent follow up: Please help your child to speak clearly and loudly and encourage them to speak English with you. Here is a fun video that you can watch with your child. This is what we have been covering in class and it will help their vocabulary a lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls5hoi9t2UE