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Year 2 Amethyst
Literacy weekly plan
Monday 16-1-12 am
Week 3 Week beginning 16-1-12
Science
Brought forward from last week. Friday art am.
Learning
Main Teaching Content
Success Criteria
Intention/Skills
Focus group in bold
We are learning that
Reread Adam’s Amazing Space Adventure. (part about the sun)
Remember:
the sun is a sphere and Ask the chn to draw a picture of the sun. (Probably a circle with lines
Talk the sentence.
that we see it in the
coming out.) Ask the chn why they have drawn the sun like they have.
Record
daytime.
On the IWB display cartoon pictures with actual pictures of the sun.
Capital letter.
Which one is really the sun? Use a large ball to explain that the sun is
Full.stops.
Continued into the
really a large ball that is very very hot and made of gases that are
afternoon.
burning. Talk about the sun and explain that it is very dangerous to look
at the sun even wearing sun glasses.
Introduce the word sphere. Using a globe explain the earth is roughly a
sphere but a much smaller one than the sun.
Demonstrate how the earth is tilted and how it orbits around the sun
and also spins. Explain that at night time we can’t see the sun because it
is on the opposite side of the earth.
TP Why does the sun seem so small to us?
Discuss the different colours you might see in the sun if you could look
at it directly.
Place a tea light in the middle of a sand tray and talk about the colours
in the flame.
Take opportunity to talk about dangers of fire.
Activities
Call chn a few at a time to make a collage of the sun using different coloured tissue.
HA
MA
LA
Children to write a few facts about the
As HA Teacher focus
TA support. Discuss what they would like to write.
sun
Scribe the sentence on the board. Discuss spelling
strategies, capital letters and full-stops etc.Then
hide and dictate the sentence.
Plenary
Talk about the crucial part that the sun plays in our lives: it gives us
warmth and light. Discuss how most of us enjoy being in the sun.
Remind the chn of the dangers of looking directly in the sun and discuss
the need to wear sunscreen. How else can we protect ourselves from the
sun.
Literacy/Science
Learning
Intention/Skills
Tuesday 17-1-12 am
We are learning about
mnemonics.
AFL
That we can see the sun during the day and that it
is dangerous to look directly at the sun.
This lesson took 2 sessions Carried on in the
afternoon.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Success Criteria
Begin the lesson by asking chn to spell some words on their wbs. Sue to
support some with mnemonic cards. What do we use to help us spell
some of these words?
Explain LI. Talk partner time to discuss what it means.
Display other mnemonics. Allow the chn to look at them, read and
discuss. Showing the written phrase only ask children to spell word.
Did it help you to spell the word?
TP time to discuss what mnemonics are. Explain that a mnemonic helps
us to remember how to spell words or to remember the order of
something.
Previous learning. Ask children what we have been learning about. Space.
Children to name the planets. Can we think of a way that would help us
to remember the order of the planets? (Mnemonics)
Display a few examples and ask chn to read. (Explain about Pluto)
Using one of these phrases and ask a child to order the planets, others
to support.
Explain that we are going to have a go at writing our own mnemonic for
Space. (a-e split digraph) TP time to think of words.
Can we make a mnemonic from these words.
Steps
Expalin activities.
Explain to the chn that during the plenary I will ask some chn to say
their mnemonic.
Remember to:
Look at the word.
Think of words beginning
with each letter.
Write in table.
Choose words to make a
mnemonic.
Activities
Chn to work with a partner to make up their own mnemonic.
HA
MA
Work with a partner and talk about
TA support. Chn to work in pairs.
words that they find difficult to spell.
Provide the chn with a table with a
Find the word in a dictionary and then
word written at the top.
create their own mnemonic.
Chn to think of words that begin with
Students to support.
each letter and write in the table.
They then decide which words to use
to make their mnemonic.
LA/SpNds
Teacher focus. Together discuss
different words linked to our topic.
Decide together on a word. Teacher to
scribe on the wb. Together think of
words beginning with each letter. Chn
encouraged to write some of the words
on their wbs. Discuss different sounds
learnt in phonics. Teacher to also
write on wb. Choose appropriate words
to form mnemonic.
Plenary
Select chn to say their mnemonic. Chn to write the first letter of each word on their wb to come up with their word.
Sue/Management time.
Tuesday pm
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning to use
our knowledge of
mnemonics to order to
planets.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Recap on the use of mnemonics and why they can help us.
Refer back to the ones that will help us to order the planets.
Read together and discuss.
Using mnemonic order the planets.
Activities
All chn to order the planets. Provide mnemonics and word banks.
Plenary
Chn to show their work and explain how the mnemonic helped them.
Success Criteria
Remember to:
Read the mnemonic.
Look at the initial letter.
Look at the initial letter of the
planets.
Order.
Wednesday 18-1-12 am
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning about
mnemonics.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Recap on the meaning of mnemonics and allow the chn to
talk about what we did yesterday and to share some of
their work so far. Use another example on the IWB and
model again how to create a mnemonic.
Discuss spelling of words as we do so, bringing in phonic
knowledge. Children to discuss success criteria.
Success Criteria
Remember to:
Look at the word.
Think of words beginning with each letter.
Write in table.
Choose words to make a mnemonic.
Remember that it needs to make sense
although it can be a funny sentence.
Activities
Children to continue to work in mixed ability pairs or individually for the children who have chosen to do so.
Sudents, TA and myself to support groups of chn.
Plenary
AFL
Self assess against criteria. Have we achieved the LI.
Chn can think of words that begin with each letter.
Chn to share their mnemonics.
Use phonic knowledge to support their writing.
Sentence to make sense.
Wednesday pm Guided reading /Library
Thursday 19-1-12
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning to
write things that we
like to do in the sun.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Recap on the facts that we learnt about the sun.
Display a picture depicting a hot sunny day.
TP time discuss what is happening in the picture. Use your senses to
describe what you can see, hear, smell etc. Take feedback.
and together create a spider gram on IWB.
Talk-Pair-Share-Using one some of the chn’s ideas, ask them to create
an interesting sentence.
Scribe on the IWB. What makes it a good sentence? Discuss wow words.
Different punctuation etc.
Activities
Big write all chn to write independently.
Success Criteria
Remember to
Think about what makes a
good sentence.
WOW words
Full-stops
Capital letters
Punctuation marks.
Plenary
Self assess. Did we include all the things that make a good
piece of writing?
AFL
Using Capital letters
Full stops
Wow Words
Different sentence starters etc.
Friday inset Target Tracker
Monday session 1
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning about
adjectives.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
This is quite a short session on a Monday. Today the student will begin
the lesson by talking about adjectives and what they are. Explain that
over the next few sessions we are going to do some descriptive writing
about our aliens and that adjectives will help to make our writing much
more interesting.
Display some sentences about aliens.
Chn to identify the adjective in each sentence and to say what it is
actually describing.
Display pictures of some alien faces and ask chn to talk-pair-share and
then write a descriptive sentence on their wb.
Take feed back and then model on the IWB encourage high level writing
and use of adjectives.
Success Criteria
Remember to:
Talk through a descriptive
sentence with partner.
Use adjectives.
Write a sentence to
describe your alien.
Wow words.
Capital letters and fullstops.
Activities
Chn work in mixed ability pairs. Provide chn with a picture of an alien to talk about and label using adjectives.
Plenary
Recap on the term adjective and ask children to share their descriptions.
Monday session 2 and 3
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning about
adjectives.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Recap from previous lesson about the use of adjectives. Explain that we
are going to pretend that we are an alien and that we are going to
describe ourselves. Together think of some of the things we need to
include eg name, where we are from, what we look like etc.
Hand out to the chn their pictures of their aliens. Using some of the
headings listed, allow chn time to describe their alien with their partner
and then swap over. Remember to use the descriptive words from the
previous lesson. Share descriptions.
Show the chn a prepared description. Read together. Ask chn what they
like about this example and what they might like to include in their
writing.
Steps for success
Success Criteria
Remember to:
Talk through a descriptive
sentence with partner.
Use adjectives.
Write a sentence to
describe your alien.
Wow words.
Capital letters and fullstops.
Activities To support assessments.
HA Independent
Plenary
MA Independent
AFL
Level 1
Level 2
LA/SpNds
Level 1 chn supported by encouragement
I do a FUN activity with my kids using the five senses. I give each student a piece of writing paper and tell them we are going to write about
"Object X." They have to pretend they are aliens and want to send information back to their home planet about a new discovery: "Object X" (a
Hershey's kiss!).
1) we write about what it looks like first
2)then how it feels,
3)then we write about the sound(of the foil wrapper);
4)next we smell Object X
5)we use our sense of taste!!!! mmmm!
Wednesday 25-1-12
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning
to describe an
object.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Display the spinner with different graphemes which relate to what they have been
learning in phonics. Ask chn to say the sounds and to think of some words that have
that sound in.
Recap on the meaning and use of adjectives and how they can make our writing a lot
more interesting .Display LI and ask a child to read.
Display different objects and allow the chn time to talk to their partners about what
these objects are and what they are used for. (Pair-share talk)
Explain that they are to pretend that they are aliens and that they have landed on
Earth and that they have discovered something strange that us Earthling use. Explain
that we are going to use our senses to describe them. (Pair-share talk)
Model labelling a picture using descriptive language.
Together work out the steps for learning.
Activities
All chn to choose from one of the objects
HA Teacher focus
MA Student support
Plenary
Success Criteria
Remember to:
Look at the object.
Describe it.
Use adjectives
Label
LA/SpNds TA and student support
Learning
Intention/Skills
We are learning to
include VCOP in our
writing.
Main Teaching Content
Focus group in bold
Following on from the previous lesson. Chn are going to pretend
that they are reporting back to their planet about their discovery.
Display an example on the IWB read together and discuss.
Identify adjectives and talk about how we can improve the writing.
(Sentence starters, punctuation etc.) Refer to sounds learnt in
phonics.
Friday 27th January
Activities
All children to report back to their planet about their discovery.
HA Independent
MA Teacher focus
Plenary
Ask chn to reread their work. Have they followed the
steps and included everything. How could they improve
their work.
Self assess.
Success Criteria
Remember to:
Look at our labelled pictures.
Write an introduction to our
writing.
Describe object using senses.
VCOP
LA/SpNds TA
Work with the chn to write a few
sentences.
AFL
Level 1 Have an awareness of full-stops and capital letters.
Level 2 As above plus adjectives, commas etc