- Teaching Plan - Grade - 1

- Aiju 爱菊 - - shangnan 上南 - - Tianshan 天山 - - Baoshan 宝山 -

GRADE 1

Week: 1 1- 4 September 2008

FOCUS for the week: Introductions, greetings, identifying and naming people correctly and politely.

Monday

Back to school. Focus on Introductions, getting to know each other, especially our names.

“My name is T _ _ _ _ _ _.” Students to guess what is the teachers name by calling out letters of the alphabet. (Point is to highlight that names always start with a capital letter and see how well they remembered the alphabet.)

“What is your name ”. Students to write to guess each others names by writing down first letter and partner guesses the other letters. (Check to see if students know how to spell their name with a capital letter.)

Students to make their own name cards.

Alphabet ball game. Teacher starts asking “Who’s name starts with A .” Student who’s name starts with A get the ball when they answer “My name is …”, and continue like this through the alphabet.

Tuesday

Greeting Activity - Students are given a classmates name card. They are to find that classmate and greet correctly using their name.

Students to start a Classmate Alphabet in their notebooks. Starting with the letter A they are to write down all classmates names that start with A. Classmates that start with A are: Angela, Amelie, Apple, Amy.

Textbook: Welcome to English page 1 & 2

Wednesday

Greeting Activity (as practiced on Tuesday).

Students are to continue with their Classmate Alphabet in their notebook.

Today write down all classmates that start with the letter B, C, D and E.

Classmates starting with the letters B, C, D and E are: Brian, Candy and Esther.

Textbook: Pre-Task Language Practice Pages 1 & 2.

Homework: Pre-Task Language Practice – to finish Page 1 and 2 if didn’t finish in class.

Thursday

Greeting Activity (as practiced on Wednesday).

Students are to continue with their Classmate Alphabet in their notebook.

Today write down all classmates that start with the letter F, G, H, I and J.

Classmate starting with the letter F, G, H, I and J are: Gene, Jill, Jerry, Julia and Jackie.

Spelling Test: Hello, Good morning, Good afternoon, Amy.

Textbook: Reading and Writing Page 1 and 2.

Homework: Practice to write spelling test words - Greetings: Hello, Good morning and Good afternoon – three times each.

GRADE 1

Week: 2 8 – 11 September 2008

FOCUS for the week: Introductions, greetings, identifying and naming people correctly and politely.

Monday

Students are to continue with their Classmate Alphabet in their notebook.

Today write down all classmates that start with the letter K and L.

Classmates starting with the letters K and L are: Kitty, Liyen.

Textbook: Welcome to English Pages 3 - 6

Homework: Grammar Practice Pages 1 and 2.

Tuesday

Students are to continue with their Classmate Alphabet in their notebook.

Today write down all classmates that start with the letter M, N and O.

Classmates starting with the letters M, N and O are: Misaki, Melanie.

Textbook: Pre-Task Language Practice Pages 3 and 4.

Wednesday

Students are to continue with their Classmate Alphabet in their notebook.

Today write down all classmates that start with the letter P, Q, R, S and T.

Classmates starting with the letters P, Q, R, S and T are: Polly, Sofia, Tomasz

Textbook: Reading and Writing Pages 3 and 4. Ping Reading Book Pages 1 – 4.

Homework: Grammar Practice Pages 3 and 4.

Thursday

Students are to continue with their Classmate Alphabet in their notebook.

Today write down all classmates that start with the letter U, V, W, X, Y and Z. There is none so homework is to find words that do start with these letters.

Spelling Test: Good Afternoon, Good Morning, girls, Thursday, Melanie

Textbook: Phonics

Homework: Write a new Alphabet down the page in notebooks, this time with a Capital A and a small a … Aa. Also bring your favourite toy to school to introduce to your classmates on Monday.

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 3 Teacher: Theresa

Tuesday

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 7 - 10

Focus: introducing family, friends and classmates, getting familiar with capital letters and small letters, introduce new vocab He/She is, This is, father, mother, brother, sister, classmate, friend

Activities:

(a) Check all did the alphabet neatly in books, start with Aa – students to write down all classmates names with a big A and a small a in their notebooks.

(b) Introduce my family, friends with photos. Draw my family tree.

(c) All kinds of families. Talk about family from the teachers Disney book.

(d) Pages 7 – 10 in Welcome to English Book

Homework

Pictionary – students to stick the stickers of me, my classmate, my friend and to write the words three times each in their notebooks. (words: my father, my sister, my mother, my brother, my classmate, my friend). If students have a photo of their family bring to class tomorrow.

Wednesday

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) pages 5 & 6

Focus: students to practice telling each other who is in their family, make a family tree

Activities:

(a) Check homework – tell each other who is in their family from photo

(b) Pages 5 & 6 Book B – Pre-Task Language

(c) Make a family tree

Homework: Grammar practice (Book C) page 1

Thursday

Textbooks: Reading and Writing Skills (Book D) Pages 5 - 7

Focus: new words: Nice to meet you. Adjectives: happy, pretty/handsome, funny, clever, smart. Describing your friend or family member.

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) write down new words and sentences three times each in notebook to describe your friend or family member. Use Disney characters to describe them, from teachers book.

(c) Page 5 to 7 Reading and Writing Skills (Book D)

Homework: finish Page 8 Book D

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 4 Teacher: Theresa

Monday

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 9 – 11

Focus: talking about family, friends and classmates, using the word “too” eg. I have a brother. I have a brother too. I am fine. I am fine too.

Activities:

(e) Check homework: Writing about their toy they bought to class last week. “This is my toy. It is a ______ . Her / His name is ________ . He / She is (pretty, strong, red, cute, cuddly). “

(f) Spelling test: my father, my mother, my brother, my sister, classmate, friend, My name is, He is, She is, This is, Good morning.

(g) Pages 9 – 11 in Welcome to English Book.

Homework:

Grammar practice (Book C) page 5 & 6.

Tuesday

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) pages 7 & 8

Focus: Recognising who is who. This is ______ .

Activities:

(d) Check homework

(e) Pages 7 & 8 Book B – Pre-Task Language

(f) Oxford Storyland Book pages 1 - 4

Homework: Write about a classmate, a friend and a family member as follows: This is Amy. She is my classmate. This is Jerry. He is my friend. This is my mother. She is beautiful.

Wednesday

Textbooks: Reading and Writing Skills (Book D) Pages 7 & 8

Focus: introduce your friend to another friend

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Page 7 & 8 Reading and Writing Skills (Book D)

(c) practicing introducing your friend to another friend like in book.

Homework:

Where is your family from. Students to write three sentences about where their family is from. eg. My mother is from Japan. My father is from Germany. I was born in ______ .

Thursday

Textbooks: Grammar Practice (Book C) pages 7 & 8. Up & Away Phonics

Focus: He/ She, am, is, are, Review of Unit 2

Activities:

(a) Book C pages 7 & 8. Hold up pictures of different Disney characters, students to reply with correct He or She is ___________ .

(b) Up & Away phonics

(c) Test on putting words in correct order to make a sentence.

Homework: Spell the numbers from 1 to 10 in their notebooks. Write three times.

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 5 Teacher: Theresa

Saturday 27 Sept. (Monday)

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 13 & 14

Focus: Talking about what you have and how many. Eg. “I have a ball. I have two balls.“ Making singular nouns plurals : Adding “s” to the noun when more than one.

Activities:

(h) Introduce singular and plural nouns. Get students to look at picture of a sweetshop … pretend they are buying something there (pg 42 from teachers book). “May I have a ______ please.” “May I have two _____ please.”

(i) Writing new words from pictionary. Then have students change them to plural by adding “s”.

(j) Pages 13 & 14 in Welcome to English Book.

(k) Students to write down names of some toys they have at home.

Homework:

Sunday 28 Sept. (Tuesday)

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) – Page 9 & 10

Focus: Using plurals to talk about how many

Activities:

(g) Using a pack of cards, students given a card each. They are to pretend they are cookies and say how many they have based on the card they have. Eg. I have 5 cookies. (red colour – strawberry, black colour – chocolate) egl I have 3 strawberry cookies.

(h) Pages 9 & 10 Book B – Pre-Task Language

Homework: Write about something you did during the holidays.

Monday 6 October

Textbooks: Reading and Writing Skills (Book D) – Page 9 & 10

Focus: Recognising how many things there are and writing correctly plural with “s” or “es”.

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) get students to name one thing in the classroom eg. Door, window, desk, chair etc then turn into plural nouns – two doors, 5 windows, 20 desks etc

(b) Page 9 & 10 Reading and Writing Skills (Book D)

Homework:

Book C- Grammar Practice – Page 9

Tuesday 7 October

Textbooks: Grammar Practice (Book C) page 10

Focus:

Activities:

(a) Check homework – review use of “es” and “s”, cookie – cookies, glass – glasses, rose – roses, etc

(b) Book C – page 10

(c) spelling test

Homework: Spell out and write down numbers from 1 to 10.

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 6 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 13 October

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 19 & 20

Focus: Using numbers, plurals or singular nouns and an adjective to describe what you have.

Activities:

(l) Introduce new vocab: a pen, a pencil, a ruler, an eraser, a sharperner, a pencil case … place stickers in pictionary and write new words. Introduce use of the article “an” to be used before a noun beginning with a vowel eg. An eraser, an elephant.

(m) Introduce colours. What colour is this “It is red.” What colour are these pens “They are green.” (use visual on p. 127 of teachers book) Explain difference when to use “It is …” and “They are …”

(n) Pages 19 & 20 in Welcome to English Book.

(o) Students to write down everything in their pencil case. Eg. I have a pen. It is red. I have three pencils. They are brown. Etc.

Homework: Page 13 Book C – Grammar practice

Tuesday 14 October

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) – Page 13 & 14

Focus: Colours – using colours to draw and describe things

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Book B – Page 13. Write about the picture. Describe what the colour of the things in the picture is.

(c) Book B – Page 14.

Homework: Students to write about what’s in their own school bag as on page 14 in Book B.

Wednesday 15 October

Textbooks: Reading and Writing Skills (Book D) – Page 13 - 14

Focus: Describing something old and new, using capital letters and full stops.

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Book D – page 13 & 14

(c) Outdoor activity - Now is the autumn season, write down the colours you see in the trees when you are outside. Draw what a tree looks like in autumn.

Homework: Book C- Grammar Practice – Page 14

Thursday 16 October

Textbooks:

Focus:

Activities:

(a) Check homework

(b) Spelling Test : two red cars, a pencil, an eraser, green, white, two sisters, a doll, five buses

(c) Book B - page 15. Students in pairs to write about what each other has in their pencil case.

(d) Students to draw something that the teacher will explain to them in colour and see who gets what it is correct. Eg. It as two eyes. They are green. It has a big nose. It is red. Etc…

Homework: Read page 25 – 27 in the Storyland book and answer page 28. Draw an animal you like and write about it’s colour.

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 8 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 27 October

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 25 & 26

Focus: Talking about what you “can” and “can”t” do. Using verbs to describe what you can and can’t do.

Activities:

(p) Check homework – Storyland book page 39 & 40.

(q) Warm up review of previous units – students to answer questions teacher asks.

(r) Introduce new vocab: skip, read, climb, swim, draw, write. Put stickers in picture dictionary at back of Book A and write out the new words.

(s) Pages 25 & 26 in Welcome to English Book.

(t) Introduce and write down some other verbs of what you can and can not do eg. Sing, drive, fly, cook, etc

Homework: write down three sentences of things you can do and three sentences of things you can’t do (yet). Eg. I can climb. I can skip. I can draw. I can’t swim. I can’t drive. I can’t cook.

Tuesday 28 October

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) – page 21

Focus: ask and answer questions: Can you …. Yes, I can. No, I can’t.

Activities:

(a) check homework

(d) Introduce the names of the animals used on page 21. Talk about other animals and what they can and can not do.

(e) Book B – Page 21

(f) Students to listen to what teacher can and can not do and write down. Then teacher will check if students understood correctly.

(g) Answer questions about other people Eg. Can you mother sing Can you father cook

Homework: Book C – page 17

Wednesday 29 October

Textbooks: Book D – page 17 & 18

Focus: using the word “very” to describe how well you can do something. Eg. “I can run very fast. I can swim very well.”

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Book B – pages 17 & 18

(c) Students to talk about what you can do very well and write sentences about what they can do well.

Homework: Book C – page 18

Thursday 30 October

Textbooks: Book B – page 22

Focus: Talking about what others can and can not do. Eg. “Yes, he can. No, John can’t skip. Etc.

Activities:

(a) Check homework

(b) Book B – page 22

(c) Make a chart to ask your classmates as on page 22.

Homework: from the chart write three sentences of what a classmate can or can not do.

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 9 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 3 November

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 27 & 28

Focus: Talking about what can and can not do using expression, sad, happy etc.

Activities:

(u) Check homework

(v) Review spelling of vocab last week: can, can’t, fast, write, draw, sing, run, swim, walk,

(w) Introduce new vocab: sad, rude - stick in picture dictionary – only, late, help

(x) Book A – page 27 & 28

(y) Students to choose three animals and write what they can or can not do.

Homework: Book C – page 19

Tuesday 4 November

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) – page 23

Focus: Identifying what people can do

Activities:

(a) check homework

(h) Book B – Page 23

(i) Students to make a chart and ask each other questions about what they can do. Then write sentences about each other.

Homework: Book C – page 20

Wednesday 5 November

Textbooks: Book D – page 19

Focus: Writing about what other people can or can not do.

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Book D – page 19

(c) review sentence structure and punctuation

Homework: writing the numbers ten to twenty – prepare for spelling test tomorrow

Thursday 6 November

Textbooks: Storyland Book

Focus: numbers one to twenty

Activities:

(a) Review homework for spelling test

(b) Review vocab from story students have already read : long, short, cat, dog, brown, black, tail, runs, swims, white, green, red, big, mouse, likes (practice rhyming)

(c) Storyland Book – page 42 & 43. Make sentences using words on page 43

Homework: read pages 47 to 49

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 10 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 10 November

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A)

Focus: Conversation about what you can and can not do. Describing how you feel.

Activities:

(z) Check homework – pages 47 – 50 in Storyland book

(aa) Review spelling of vocab last week: jump, climb, skip, swim, sing, draw, sad, rude, happy,

(bb) Book A – page 29 & 30

(cc) Introduce new vocab to describe how you feel – sleepy, sad, hungry, silly, angry, scared, grumpy (students to guess what the faces mean – from looking at teachers Disney book)

Homework: Write two sentences about what makes you happy and what makes you sad.

Tuesday 11 November

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)

Focus: Review & using commas in lists.

Activities:

(j) check homework.

(k) Warm up – students to respond to my questions

(l) Book B – Page 24

(m) Write your own answers that are different from the ones on page 24

(n) Commas in lists – Worksheet

(o) Review Bedroom vocab – look at teachers disney book page 29

Homework: Write a list of all things in your bedroom using commas.

Wednesday 12 November

Textbooks: Reading & Writing (Book D)

Focus: Writing about yourself – what you can and can not do.

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Book D – page 20

(c) Review writing sentences of what you can do using commas.

Homework: Write down a list of all the food you like.

Thursday 13 November

Textbooks: Storyland Book

Focus: At the supermarket – making lists for shopping

Activities:

(a) Review vocab for fruit & vegetables, - page 20 & 21 teacher’s disney book

(b )Storyland Book – page 51 - 58

Homework: Storyland Book

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 11 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 17 November

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A)

Focus: Talking about facial features and describing body types

Activities:

(dd) Picture Dictionary for new vocab: ear, eye, mouth, nose, hair, long, short, fat, thin, tall etc

(ee) Book A – page 31 & 32

(ff) Look at some pictures the teachers have of people and describe them.

Homework: Write some sentences that describe yourself.

Tuesday 18 November

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)

Focus:

Activities:

(p) check homework.

(q) Warm up – students to respond to my questions

(r) Review plurals – eye, eyes, shoulder, shoulders, leg, legs, arm, arms etc

(s) Book B – Page 25 (listen and colour as teacher describes the picture)

(t) Book B – page 26 (practice describing the pictures verbally using “a”)

Homework: Book C – page 21

Wednesday 19 November

Textbooks: Reading & Writing (Book D)

Focus:

Activities:

(a) check homework

(b) Book D – page 21

(c) Practicing introducing your classmate as on page 21.

(d) Book D – page 22

Homework: Write a description of your favourite toy, animal or character from a story. You can draw a picture too.

Thursday 20 November

Textbooks: Disney characters & Shoujo Drawing for face expression

Focus: Describing expressions through drawing facial features

Activities:

(a) Introduce new body parts vocab: using Pinocchio – page 114 teacher’s book.

(b) Drawing & describing expressions: page 59 Shoujo book of teacher.

Homework: Book C – page 22

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 12 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 24 November

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A)

Focus: Describing similar facial features using “They have”, “They are”; Phonics focus - “m” & “n”

Activities:

(gg) Warm Up song. One-by-one intro and description. Tell me what word I am spelling out loud (features & adjectives).

(hh) Check homework – write sentences about what the clown they drew in class last Thursday looks like.

(ii) Book A – page 33 & 34

(jj) Draw the faces the teacher describes. Write sentences about what features they have the same and what are different.

Homework: Book C – page 22

Tuesday 25 November

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)

Focus: Using … I am, I have, She/He is, She/He has … to describe people.

Activities:

(u) Warm up.

(v) Check homework

(w)Book B – page 27 & 28 – facial expressions: sad, happy, afraid, angry, rude (Simon says with facial expressions & body parts)

Homework: Book C – page 23

Wednesday 26 November

Textbooks: Reading & Writing (Book D)

Focus: Describing yourself & a friend.

Activities:

(a) Warm Up.

(b) Check homework

(c) Book D – page 23

(d) Guess the animal. One student to come to front of class and hold a picture of an animal that they can not see but only the rest of the class can see. The class is to describe the animal and the person holding the picture to guess what it is.

Homework: Book C – page 24

Thursday 27 November

Textbooks:

Focus: Review

Activities:

(a) Warm Up.

(b) Check homework

(c) Write some incorrect sentences on the board and students to write down correctly. Eg. this is my muther, she like ice cream, she is long hair, they has big eyes, I have a dog a cat a horse and an elephant

(d) Food : using flash cards students to first say if the like the food to their classmate then ask if their classmates likes it too. Eg. I like apples. Do you like apples Yes, I do. … He likes apples. She likes apples. Do you like apples. … We all like apples. Do in chart then report back to class when teacher asks each group.

Homework: practice song for Saturday

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 14 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 8 December

Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A)

Focus: :is, are, can, can’t

Activities:

(kk) Check homework – Write these words in alphabetical order : snake, dog, four, red, apple, father, run, skip. Write a sentence using some of the words. Eg. My father can run. The apple is red.

(ll) Book A – page 37 & 38

(mm) Make a birthday card

Homework: Book C – page 27

Tuesday 9 December

Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)

Focus: pronunciation focus short “u” sound

Activities:

(x) Check homework

(y) Warm up

(z) Book B – page 31

(aa) Phonics book – page 13 - 15

Homework: Book C – page 28

Wednesday 10 December

Textbooks: Reading & Writing (Book D)

Focus:

Activities:

(e) Check homework

(f) Warm Up – look at pictures of cartoon and put in the correct order

(g) Book D – page 25 & 26

Homework:

Thursday 11 December

Textbooks: Book B

Focus:

Activities:

(a) Warm Up.

(b) Check homework

(c) Book B – page 32 – extension activity – to draw what teacher describes using colour and numbers

Homework: Book C – page 29

School: Aiju Grade: 1 Week: 15 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 15 December

Textbook: Phonics

Focus: spelling prep & review of the vowels a, i, o and u.

Activities:

(nn) Spelling – introduce vocab for test on Thursday. Mother, friend, nose, eyes, climb, swim, blue, green, four, ten.

(oo) Phonics – page 16

(pp) Colour exercise – page 41 grammar book.

Homework: Write out spelling test words three times each in notebooks.

Tuesday 16 December

Focus: Facial expressions

Activities:

(bb)Check homework – review spelling words

(cc) Warm up – how am I feeling from looking at my face. Write on board then students given a facial expression and classmates to describe how he looks. Eg. He looks happy. She looks angry.

(dd)Funny faces – match the words with the faces of Calvin – silly, tired, mad, bored, noisy, wondering, thinking, rude, angry, afraid, scared, happy

(ee)Put the pictures of story in replica panerai watches correct order and describe how Calvin feels from his face expression.

Homework: Write 4 sentences using: mother, friend, nose, eyes

Wednesday 17 December

Focus: Review can and can not

Activities:

(h) Review spelling words

(i) Warm Up – question & answer session

(j) Tic-tac-toe - expressions

(k) Each student given a word (skip, swim, climb, run, draw, write, jump etc) need to find out who is the other person in the class who can do the same thing as them, then write it down …

(l) Guessing game test – write down the answer to what or who teacher is describing.

Homework: Write 4 sentences using: climb, swim, green, four

Thursday 18 December

Focus: Spelling test & plurals (s) and (es)

Activities:

(a) Spelling test

(b) Check homework

(c) Review plurals : pencil, pencils, bus, buses, ball, balls, doll, dolls, etc

(c) Plurals grammar worksheet – page 69

Homework: