Term 3 Week 5 and 6 Daily plan for English

Day 1: Teaching 1. Introduce the new spelling words. Ask children to explain their meanings

and use the words in sentences. Sound the words, blend them and read them. Write the words on their whiteboards one at a time. Do this with each word.

2. Read the memory sentence. Let your child read it 3 times over. 3. Practice reading the sight words and the words for next week’s reader. 4. Go over the story – Kipper the clown. Discuss the story. Watch the video.

Read to the children, children read with teacher, child reads alone with support.

5. Simply the best phonics page 18. 6. DBE book pages 26 (read the sentences 3 times), 27 (read the words at the

top of the page 3 times), 28, 29, 30 and 35.

Day 2: Homework 1. Write the spelling words for Day 1. 2. Write the memory sentence for Day 1. 3. Read: Kipper the clown 4. Read the sight words and the words for next week. 5. Watch the worksheet cloud lessons for Monday and Tuesday this week.

Day 3 Teaching 1. Sound the spelling words, blend them and read them. Write the words on

their whiteboards. Do this with each word. 2. Read and write the memory sentence three times on their white boards 3. Practice reading the sight words and the words for next week’s reader. 4. Read: Kipper the clown in groups and independently. 5. Kipper the clown sequencing activity. 6. Afrikaans sentences: PowerPoint 7. Jolly phonics book page 12 and 13. Use PowerPoint for page 13

Day 4: Homework 1. Write the spelling words for Day 2. 2. Write the memory sentence for Day 2. 3. Read: Kipper the clown 4. Read the sight words and the words for next week.

5. Watch the worksheet cloud lessons for Wednesday and Thursday this week. Day 5 Teaching

1. Sound, read and write the words on their white boards. Practice writing the memory sentence three times.

2. Read and write each sight word on their boards. 3. Read the words for next week. 4. Read: Kipper the clown individually. 5. Opposites: colour, match and write activity 6. Simply the best Phonics page 19 7. Handwriting lesson for the week + write a sentence with two of the words

from the DBE book. (See the lesson). 8. Introduce the story of: Kipper’s idea to the children.

Day 6: Homework 1. Write the spelling words for Day 3. 2. Write the memory sentence for Day 3. 3. Read: Kipper the clown 4. Read the sight words and the words for next week. 5. Practice writing the sight words. 6. Watch the worksheet cloud lessons for Friday and Monday this week. 7. Revise the matching opposites using yesterday’s activity.

Day 7 Teaching 1. Sound, read and write the words on their white boards. Practice writing the

memory sentence three times. 2. Read and write each sight word on their boards. 3. Read the words for next week. 4. Read: Kipper’s idea. Read again, with children reading along. Let children

read without the teacher, supporting each other. Teacher helps if everyone struggles.

5. Handwriting lesson 2 6. Creative writing. Sequence a story.

Day 8: Homework 1. Write the spelling words for Day 4. 2. Write the memory sentence for Day 4. 3. Read: Kipper’s idea 4. Read the sight words and the words for next week. 5. Practice writing the sight words. 6. Watch the worksheet cloud lessons for Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Day 9: Teaching

1. Spelling and Maths test (in your pack) 2. Simply the Best Phonics page 20 3. PowerPoint of Afrikaans sentences revision 4. Complete all the work for the week.

Day 10: Homework

1. Complete any outstanding work sent home 2. Watch worksheet cloud Thursday and Friday lessons.

Term 3 Week 5 and 6 English Grade One

1. Spelling:

Keep building the words with your set of letters, or the letters printed on card in

your pack.

2. Memory sentence

3. Sight words:

Please practice reading and spelling these words this week.

□ any □ many □ want □ two □ saw

□ four □ more □ put □ goes □ before

4. Reading

Kipper the Clown The children put on a circus. Kipper was a clown. Floppy pulled his leg. Chip was a strong-man. He made everyone laugh. Wilma and Biff did gymnastics. Everyone had a drink. “What a good circus!” said Mum. Wilf was a stuntman. Kipper was fed up. He wanted to be a stuntman. “Look at me!” he said. Everyone looked at Kipper. Oh no! “I’m a clown, after all,” said Kipper. Listen to the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKe8lECDsS0

5. Kipper the clown activity:

a.) Colour in and then cut out the pictures below:

b.) Read and cut out the sentences below:

Kipper was a clown Wilma and Biff did gymnastics. Kipper wanted to be a stuntman. The children put on a circus Wilf was a stuntman. Oh no!

c.) First, match the sentences to the pictures. d.) Now stick the pictures with the sentences underneath in the correct order

in which they happened in the story.

Memo: The children put on a circus. Kipper was a clown. Wilma and Biff did gymnastics. Wilf was a stuntman. Kipper wanted to be a stuntman. Oh no!

6. Opposites Watch the video on YouTube -> https://youtu.be/TW4OQxUVjiE Colour in and cut out the pictures on the next two pages. Match the opposites and write the word again underneath each picture.

Kipper’s Idea Dad took Kipper to school. They went past the library. A lady was painting the wall. Kipper ran into the playground. He wanted to play. There was a drawing on the wall. It was a drawing of Kipper. The wall looked a mess. Mrs May was cross. The children were painting. Kipper had an idea.

Miss Green drew circles on the wall. The children painted faces. The wall looked good. Everyone liked it. “Good for Kipper!” everyone said. Listen to the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAyqi_6b8QM

7. Jolly Phonics

Keep revising the Jolly phonics sounds using the flashcards provided in Revision

week. Make sure you use the Jolly Phonics App on your phone to revise all 46

sounds.

Dictation: page 12

van jug yes west jump sheep thank chop queen starfish

8. Learn to read these words by next week:

what disappointed sports long

first race second Hooray shouted spoon third poor

surprise blindfold shame Kyk Hier Dit die na

9. Afrikaans: New words with a PowerPoint with audio

10. Handwriting: Lesson 1

Week 1 lesson: remind them to start by doing cross – dot in the margin

Lesson 2:

Week 2 lesson: remind them to start by doing cross – dot in the margin

11. Creative writing

Start by writing the date and the heading. Underline using a ruler.

Below is what you will be working towards. Use it as a guideline. Do not let your child see it and just copy. There are words provided to help them, but most of this they should be able to write independently. Discuss the pictures fully first and provide the suggested sentences after the discussion. You may suggest the sentences; they then write the words neatly on the lines, making sure to use capital letters and full stops.

went friend’s house First saw Then Last loves

word bank

□ Did I use capital letters?

□ Did I space my words?

□ Did my letters touch the top and the bottom of the lines?

□ Did I remember to use a full stop each time?

Week 5/6 Phonics Test

This week, now that you all have an exercise book to work in, we would like

you to start setting the test out as follows.

Don’t forget to rule across the page!

The test words are out of 14 marks

For the sentence, there are a total of 8 marks. One mark for each word. One mark for a capital letter at the beginning and one mark for a full stop at the end.

Total Mark

22