LA 13 : Paper Dolls

Lesson : Language Arts
Year : 3
Topic : People Around Us

As I've told yesterday, I have conducted this lesson with my Year 3 pupils to teach them more about names of occupations. I encourage them to look for the meaning in their own dictionary. Anyway, I've edited the black and white version into coloured ones. I downloaded each picture from HERE and then using it in my lesson.

So, here are the files :

Black and White version

Colour version

Try it and Good luck! :)

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Phonic 8 : Phonemes /t/ and /p/

Lesson : Phonemic Awareness
Year : 1
Topic : Around the School

For this week, I started to introduce my pupils with new phonemes, /t/ and /p/. I recalled the previous phonemes learnt (/s/ and /ae/) before continue to the new ones. 

1) School Tour : Circle and Colour

In this lesson, I started by introduce few words that consist of phonemes /t/ and /p/. Then, I guided the pupils for school tour and with given worksheet, they need to circle the pictures associated with the learnt phonemes. I took the idea of this lesson from Teacher Dilla and recreate it into my own version of Circle and Colour.

This activity required a lot of patient in handling the school tour because as we all know, Year 1 pupils are excited whenever they stepped out of their class. Hahaha! Its a waste since I didn't have the chance to take any photos throughout the school tour session. :( 

Anyway, I've uploaded the document for this worksheet below :

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2) Cut and Write

In this lesson, I reintroduced the words associated with phonemes /t/ and /p/ to the pupils. Then, I asked them to sit in groups, and gave them a worksheet and a colour paper (as in the picture below). They need to cut and paste the pictures in the right columns, based on the words given on the whiteboard. Bear in mind teachers, you need to prepare for extra scissors and glue too! 

Word cards (sorry for my not-so-good-looking tiger) to assist the pupils to complete the worksheet (a copy of this is given below) :

Pictures during the activity:

As usual, I've uploaded the copy for this worksheet below :

Worksheet

Word Cards

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3) Itsy Bitsy Phoneme Books

These phoneme books are taken from HERE.

That's all for now. Keep teaching and Good Luck! :)

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L & S 12 : Colour Dictation

Skill : Listening and Speaking

Year : 3

Topic 4 : People Around Us

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Its a recall topic for this week, so I'll start the lesson by asking the pupils to search for few words related to occupations in their dictionary. Oh yes, my pupils started to love using dictionary now, which is a great achievement for them. :)

Then, I'll continue with an activity named as Colour Dictation. A sample of worksheet can be seen in the picture below :

As we can see, this worksheet needed the pupils to listen to text read by the teacher (refer to textbook page 26, *modify and add more occupations in the text) and colour the names of occupations that they heard. That's it. A copy of this worksheet is given below in two formats (docx. and pdf). You may change the names of occupations to whatever that you like. Have fun and good luck! :)

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Phonic 7 : Extra Worksheets for Phonemes /s/ and /ae/

Lesson : Phonemic Awareness
Year : 1

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Hey there! I'm back! So, in this post, I would like to share two extra worksheets that I have prepared for my pupils to reinforce their knowledge in these two phonemes : /s/ and /ae/.

1) Cut and Paste

The first activity is Cut and Paste (refer to the picture below).  *sorry for the blur picture :(

This activity simply needed the pupils to cut and paste the pictures and categorise them according to the correct columns of phonemes. As preparation, do spare some scissors and glues for the pupils. Always do so. Anyway, this activity is done to reinforce the pupils' prior knowledge about the phonemes that they have learnt. I've uploaded a copy of this worksheet below :

Cut and Paste

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2) Word Search

As referred to the word search below, this activity needed the pupils to slightly think advanced towards the words that they have learnt. I'll be giving them this worksheet tomorrow since I'll be away from them (100 meters) because I am involved in netball training with our school netball players. So, they need to solve this on their own. I love to let them think and recall the spelling slowly through pictures that they have seen.

I purposely made this kind of worksheet to test the pupils' knowledge about the spelling of the related pictures shown. They have been drilled and shown the correct spelling of these pictures. So, by doing this worksheet, it would help them to recall it. The copy of this worksheet is given below :

Word Search

Keep going and teaching! Good Luck! :)

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Writing 11 : Solve the Puzzles

Skill : Phonemic Awareness (Writing)
Year : 1

So, for today's lesson, I adapted the lesson from Teacher Dilla, who shared her activity for this topic. In my lesson, I simply searched for few images that contain phonemes /s/ and /ae/. The images are :

• Sun (as example)
• Snail
• Snake
• Soup
• Bus (new word)
• Apple
• Ants
• Pan (new word)

Before I started the lesson, I recap yesterday's lesson by asking the students few words that we have learnt yesterday. To reinforce, I draw the pictures of the words learnt and add on two more new words (bus and pan). Then, I asked the students about the spelling of these words and focused on phoneme /s/ and /ae/.

Then, I explained about this 'Solve the Puzzle' game and showed a picture (Sun) with the spelling, pasted it on the whiteboard. 

To begin, I asked the pupils to draw lots from a black bag (for surprise purpose) to get a piece of puzzle pieces each. Then, they went around the class and looked for matched pieces. The sample of images are as follows :

The pupils enjoyed this lesson, since they need to know what images that they hold by finding the right pieces of puzzle. Then, I gave them tack tack (the green clay ones) and asked them to paste it themselves on the whiteboard. 

Then, our lesson is continued with writing activities in their activity book. That's all for today! 😊

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Phonic 6 : Phonemes /s/ and /ae/

Lesson : Phonemic Awareness

Year : 1

In this lesson, I taught them to sing the song based on Are You Sleeping, Brother John? tune. The lyric is as follows :

Phoneme /s/

Sea and sailors, sea and sailors,

/s/, /s/, /s/, /s/, /s/, /s/, /s/,

/s/ is the sound of S,

/s/ is the sound of S,

/s/, /s/, /s/, /s/, /s/, /s/.

Phoneme /ae/

Apple and ants, apple and ants.

/ae/, /ae/, /ae/, /ae/, /ae/, /ae/,

/ae/ is the sound of A,

/ae/ is the sound of A,

/ae/, /ae/, /ae/, /ae/, /ae/, /ae/.

For reinforcement activity, I taught them to make a simple book. The template of this letters sounds book is taken from ITSY BITSY BOOK. Just simply download the template and used them. The instructions on how to make this book also stated in the given link above. My kids were very happy when they succeed in making their own book! 

The samples are as follow :

For enjoyment, show and pretend to your kids that you are making magic by making a book without using any stapler and cellophane tape! They'll be curious to do one too. Ensure that they coloured it well by making your own beautiful samples as their guide. Since they saw I coloured my book using magic pens (small marker pens coz that's the only colour that I have with me for now), they also bought one. So, they have extra colours now. :D 

Anyway, always be patient and be more creative in teaching phonemes so that they could remember the sounds better.

Good luck! :) 

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L & S 11 : DIY Microphones

Skill : Listening and Speaking
Year : 3
Topic : People Around Me

Okay, I'm back! So, yesterday's lesson, I made a teaching aid that definitely will encourage my students to speak in English. Yes, it works! So, here is the tutorial on how to make the microphones!

Sample of DIY Microphones

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What do you need?

• Empty tissue rolls
• Styrofoam balls (the best thing to use but I don't have any so I used table tennis balls)
• Used papers 
• Any colour papers (I used origami flowery papers)
• Black colour origami paper
• Aluminium foil
• Decorative tape (bought at Kaison)
• Double Tape
• Cellophane Tape
• Scissors

How to do it?

The body of the mic :

1. Cut the empty tissue rolls to the length of the microphones that you want.
2. Wrap it using any colour papers (I used flowery origami papers). Use cellophane tape around the whole 'mic' to ensure its durability.
3. Put decorative tape on top and bottom of the mic (optional).

The head of the mic :

1. Wrap the table tennis ball with two layers (or more) of the used papers. It will be better to used a styrofoam ball since its shape is perfect for this.
2. Then, wrap it once again with aluminium foil and shape it properly like the picture above.

Combine them!

1. Simply tape the head of the mic and the body with cellophane tape, or you can also use hot glue gun to make sure the head of the mic did not fall off easily.

Tadaaa! Done! May this tutorial helps you to make even a better version of microphones. I'm not that good with decoration and creativity but I tried my best. Its fun to see your students enjoyed your lesson with the help of your own teaching aids. Good luck! :)

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