K-1+English+T3+2014 

calendar & date guided reading handwriting || buddy reading calendar & date handwriting (page in handwriting book)- w spelling focus- w sight word practise
 * **Week** || **Focus** || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** ||
 * **1** ||  || SDD || student assessment || student assessment ||
 * **2** ||  || buddy reading

Introduce Botswana: look at the country on a world map. Watch the following video: [|Botswana Tourism Video - Animals] Discuss: what do you know about Botswana now? || buddy reading calendar & date handwriting-

spelling focus- ng || spelling focus- ch Watch the following video: [|Botswana Tourism Guide] Discuss: does this video make you want to travel there? why/why not? || Read the book- Yellow Chicken in Paris. Discuss- where is Paris, what is the language they speak - during the book show students the famous buildings using google images and google maps. Get the students to discuss and compare.
 * 3 ||  || sight word testing

EDUCATION WEEK OPEN DAY- parents looking at work, reading eggs, ipads and smart board demonstrations. || - buddy reading - calendar & date - double letter phonics practise- reading sounds - spelling focus- sh (worksheet Sounds like more fun) - sight word practise - Revise and discuss the book "Yellow Chicken in Paris" - Get students to practise saying some basic French words - Watch the following clip getting students to listen for french language spoken. [|Madleine Lost In Paris] || - Buddy reading- Teacher working with Kai - sight word activity: - Botswana - writing || - Individual Reading- K/1 working with teacher on sight words - Buddy reading- Teacher working with Kai - sight word activity: - spelling focus- brainstorm words that have qu. As a class read through the following: [|I can read 'qu' words] - reading & handwriting (in reading groups) -Botswanna & CWA colouring in sheets
 * **4** ||  || - Individual Reading- K/1 working with teacher on sight words

Introduce the food within the country and different dishes consumed by different families in Botswana ‍‍‍‍‍Have a bank of strong persuasive words to help with writing sentence You will, You should,‍‍‍‍‍ - sight words - revise phonics 2 letter blends. - revise botswana and what students know
 * Model ** -
 * Guided- ** Together write a sentence persuading the audience to come to Botswana to taste the food
 * Independent- ** Write sentence from board then write another sentence || STAGE DAY ||
 * **5** ||  || SCHOOL EXCURSION || SCHOOL EXCURSION || SCHOOL EXCURSION ||
 * **6** ||  || - buddy reading

Introduce different festivals in Botswana on IWB- Type into google- Botswana travel guide iexplore Look at two festivals on the page. Have a bank of strong persuasive words to help with writing sentence You will, You should, - buddy reading ( PM reader testing- AJ & Kai) - sight word activities (groups rotating) - 1. Magnetic letters Ipad App- writing words 2. Money- In pairs take 10 coins each & sight words. 1 student points to a card and counts to 3, their partner has to say the word quickly. If they cant say the word they need to hand over a coin. - spelling- 'ing' find ing words on the word wall and students think or more. students record in book. - reading groups rotation: working with the teacher on levelled readers or reading eggs.
 * Model ** -
 * Guided- ** Together write a sentence persuading the audience to come to Botswana to see one of the festivals.
 * Independent- ** Write sentence from board then write another sentence || - read over individual sight word lists

CWA OPEN DAY || sight word stations- 1. write into book and break up into syllables. 2. In pairs take 10 coins each & sight words. 1 student points to a card and counts to 3, their partner has to say the word quickly. If they cant say the word they need to hand over a coin.

spelling focus- er - read the following book: - discuss what does imaganitve and factual mean? - discuss how to start a story - students share plans with teacher

students begin writing an imagnative story. || - buddy reading
 * **7** ||  || - sight word testing

- students give personal news - writing about news using time to talk format.

- Rotation: working with the teacher, spelling city, magnetic words & copying unknown sight words into book. || - sight word testing - buddy reading

spelling focus- ar rotation: reading groups and 'ar' worksheet

- Read the book: Going to school. - Discuss all the things we do at school in Australia and list. - Students write their own sentence "At school......" || - sight word testing - buddy reading -revise double letter blends

spelling focus- th worksheet

reading rotation: - reading eggs - reading with teacher - magnetic letters app on ipad - writing sight words in sentences. ||
 * **8** ||  || - sight word testing- buddy reading

- students give personal news - writing about news using time to talk format.

- Rotation: working with the teacher, spelling city, magnetic words & copying unknown sight words into book. || - sight word testing - buddy reading

- revise double letter phonics.

spelling focus- ou -revise 'ou'. Write up on smartboard, get students to think of words that have the sound in them. Complete worksheet.

- discuss: how do we celebrate christmas? does everyone do the same things? - read the first two pages of 'children around the world celebrate christmas' - look up china on google maps and show the students. - discus and compare the differences and similarities between christmas in Australia and China. Modell and then students complete individually in books; Writing "In China...." || - sight word testing - buddy reading

- revise double letter phonics.

spelling focus- oi - revise 'oi'. Write up on smartboard, get students to think of words that have the sound in them. Complete worksheet.

sight word activities: two students on ipads making unknown words with magnetic letters app. The other two students working with teacher practising words and writing unknown ones into their literacy book.

reading groups: reading with two students while the other two are on reading eggs and then swap. || - students give personal news - writing about news using time to talk format.
 * **9** ||  || - sight word testing- buddy reading

- Rotation: working with the teacher, spelling city, magnetic words & copying unknown sight words into book. || read the pages on russia and mexico from Children around the world celebrate christmas. As a class fill in the following table: country, weather, food, how to say merry christmas, interesting facts. Comparing how these countries (and Australia) celebrate christmas. || spelling focus- ue

read the whole book: Children around the world celebrate christmas.

Fill out pages 1 and 2- about them. Share with the class. || buddy reading
 * **10** ||  || sight word testing

2 students reading with the teacher while the other two are on reading eggs and then swap. Tash & Maddie- L16 Great Day Out Kai & Aj- L8 Making Lunch

All: - free writing of own choice - making words using magnetic letters and recording in their book.

Watch the scarecrow [|The scarecrow] Stopping the video at various intervals and discuss.

Reading response: students make up a healthy meal- draw and labell. || - sight word testing (preschoolers listen to book)- buddy reading - calendar

Tash & Maddie, Kai & AJ- read the readers they read in these groups yesterday. Preschoolers: Reading Eggs Big Book- I can & worksheet

Preschoolers: Learning the letter S - [|Jolly Phonics - S] - Reading eggs letter S activities - practise writing S on the whiteboards - S handwriting worksheet - make S with play dough.

Es1 & 1: using the alphabet cubes make as many words as they can. (They can work together)

Watch: Alphablocks- Alphabet || buddy reading & sight words. - reading with the teacher in pairs - other students making words using magnetic letters.

Visiting the preschool || **Text Types:** persuasive, imaginative **Comprehension:** Questioning, Visualising, predicting and previewing
 * Focus:** Intercultural experiences


 * Buddy Reading:** Students read for 5 minutes individually (read sight words and then book), then read to a partner for five minutes and listen to their partner read to them for 5 minutes. I work with AJ Monday and Tuesday and Natasha Wednesday one-on-one reading.

handwriting reading writing spelling comprehension talking and listening
 * Syllabus Focuses:**

[|Fun Fonix] sight words [|UOW] [|interactive activities] Grammar and Punctuation
 * RESOURCES:**