Teacher: Andy Class: EP3 Toadstool Week: 9 Dates: 14/07/14-18/07/14

Anuban Weekl !utl"ne

Sitapatr School
Th"s #eek #e are learn"n$:
Locations The Rainforest
C"rcle T"%e &e'"e#
This week in circle time we will review the
origins of food that we studied as part of the
Town and Country Unit. Students should be
able to identify where things come from and
use the sentence structure - ... comes from
a ...!.
"e can use matching activities and #uestion
games with the flashcards to review. "e will
also spend some e$tra time with the spelling
practice for rainforest animals towards the
end of the week% as games like Spin the
&ottle and 'angman can be a fun way to
prepare for the spelling test.
Act"'"t T"%e
Rainforest vowel worksheet.
Colouring insect images.
Rainforest hunt outdoor activity. Students have to respond to commands in
groups in order to find their way around and out of the rainforest.
Watching videos of the rainforest and naming what we see.
Eploring the animals of the rainforest and how they interlink with each other.
Students can practise singing the !n "he #ungle song that can $e found at this
link%
&lay the Snake Races game students have to crawl to an o$'ective on their
$ellies.
&lay the (onkey Chases )ruit game students should understand this easily as
it is an adaptation of a popular "hai game.
"his unit is a good opportunity to get some decorations up in the classroom
teacher (ike and ! have prepared a variety of Rainforest themed arts and crafts
for the students to do like spiral snakes and finger puppets. *s we already have
an under the sea wall display outside the classroom it will $e nice to create a
rainforest theme inside. !n the second week of this unit+ we will also concentrate
on spelling some of the more simple voca$ulary words. !n practice we will
concentrate again on vowels and then progress to full spelling later in the week.
Phonics
(e# )letters/sounds/'ocabular*

!n the rainforest+ ! can see,
Rainforest+ ant+ $at+ $utterfly+ caterpillar+ crocodile+ dragonfly+ frog+ li-ard+
monkey+ mos.uito+ mouse+ owl+ parrot+ scorpion+ snake+ spider+ tiger+ tree+
tropical+ wet.
)T+ ,"ke*
This week we will review Unit ( in )$ford
*honics "orld book + and focus on
pronouncing the ,$- in ,mi$- and ,si$.- . will
ask the students to give me all the words
that we covered in this Unit and then we
will drill them focusing on reading%
pronunciation and spelling. "hen the
students are comfortable with Unit ( we
will move onto Unit / which features the
following sounds and words0 ,o%- ,fo$%- ,log%-
,o$%- ,rod%- ,ot%- ,pot%- ,hot%- ,cot%- ,dot%- ,op%-
,top%- ,mop%- ,hop%- ,pop%- "e will play
several games to introduce the new
words% such as ,splat%- ,flashcard draw%-
,word relay- and ,air draw.- "hen the
students understand the new material we
will go through the )$ford *honics "orld
+ workbook as a group% asking the
students to read out the #uestions and
then we will answer them one by one.
After completing each section . will ask the
students to give me the answers and . will
Wr"t"n$ Pract"ce
This week the students will take a break
from writing practice% since they finished
their writing book last week. .f their writing
starts to deteriorate again% . have another
writing booklet that we can do.
Parent -ollo# ./ / .se0ul
Webs"tes / 1o%e#ork:
/ou can watch the In the Jungle
video at this link%
http%00www.youtu$e.com0watch1
v234iw5678a)o
"his week in phonics we will $e
$eginning unit 9 in :ford &honics
World. "he students can practice
using the ;<; and will also $e
$ringing home their Work$ook at
times for homework.