LA 12 : DIY Airplanes

Lesson : Language Arts
Year : 3

For this lesson, I only asked my students to bring empty bottles, cellophane tape and scissors. Luckily, they brought it and we were able to work on this activity!

This activity is taken from THIS BLOG which I have adapted it a little bit. But, basically the ideas and templates given are from the source stated above.

What do you need?

• White papers (to wrap the body of the bottle)
• Colour papers (for the airplane parts template)
• Empty bottles with caps
• Markers (for decorating purposes)
• Scissors
• Cellophane tape or Double sided tape
• Glue

How to make it?

1. Use one A4 white paper and wrap the body of the bottle.
2. Cut the airplane parts carefully (especially the propeller).
3. Help the students to cut the inner part of the propeller and slide it onto the bottle's neck. Ensure that the propeller fits well and close the cap of the bottle back. To make it spin, just simply adjust the tightness of the cap.
4. Then, continue with other parts of the airplane such as wings, horizontal fin (the small parts) and dorsal fin (the medium parts).
5. Give the students extra papers for the engine parts as it is not given in the template.
6. Use more creativity in decorating the airplane such as drawing the pilot, windshields or you can also let the students decorate the body of their airplanes too!
7. My students have difficulties in drawing the pilot's picture, thus they write their names on that airplane part.
8. You can also make a hole at the center of the bottles for money box purposes.
9. Have a good try! *check out the source of this activity for more details.

Since I forgot to bring white papers the other day, I only able to give the students colour papers for the body of their airplanes. So, here are the photos of the activity :

While doing this activity, the class was very silent as everyone was too focus to finish this. Some of them even delayed their recess time just to finish this and wanted to take it with them during recess. Well, overall, I'm glad that they were able to make one! The airplane template is uploaded below :

Thanks for reading!

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Phonic 5 : Letter Box Activity (phonemes 'ew' and 'oe')

Lesson : Phonemic Awareness
Year : 2

In this lesson, I introduced the students with these phonemes first. Then, I started to divide them into groups and play the letter box activity.

What do you need?
Word cards (check the file uploaded below), a small box (to fill in the word cards), two tissue boxes (one for each phoneme)

How to do it?

1. The students will draw lots word cards from the small box.
2. The students say out the words that they got and put them into a phoneme box prepared (depends on what word they got, either with phoneme 'ew' or 'oe').
3. The activity is continued until all students finish to draw lots.
4. While waiting, the students will be given time to copy the words that they have learnt based on these two phonemes.

*Enrichment Activity (Writing Words Activity) :

1. Prepare few laminated papers (I prepared 10 papers) and 10 whiteboard markers.
2. Divide the students into groups (depends on your number of students).
3. Start the 'Writing Words' Activity.
4. The teacher will say out the words (based on phonemes learnt) and the groups need to write the words on the laminated paper correctly.
5. If they got it wrong, marks will not be given.
6. Make sure the students were able to say out the words too. (for bonus marks).
7. Done!

Word cards file is uploaded below :

Thanks for reading! :)

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LA 11 : Goaty Money Box

Lesson : Language Arts
Year : 2

In previous lesson of language arts, I have conducted this activity of making a money box. Since the instructions from the textbook is quite hard for the students to make it (and it was quite dangerous too since it uses cans), I came across a suitable money box template which in line with the topic that they learnt. A Goaty Money Box!

Here are some photos of the templates and the sample that I have made :

Based on the sample, the students were able to produce their own! Check out their money boxes below! :)

As usual, the template of this money box is uploaded as below :

Thanks to THIS SOURCE for this beautiful money box template. You can simply google for other themes of money boxes. Thanks for reading! :)

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