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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