Our Progress: Term 3 Week 1 and 2

English

Current Big Book : The King's Cake

Vocabulary :
birthday, cake, candles, cook, gardener, hose, king, queen, soup, squirted and waggled

Grammar :
Pronouns and Possessives : she /her and he/his
Simple Present Tense
Simple Past Tense **
Possessives : my, your, his, her, its, our, their

Jolly Phonics :
- revised Book 1 sounds : /s/ , /a/, /t/, /i/, /p/, /n/
- revised Book 2 sounds : /c/, /k/
- learnt new sounds from Book 2 : /e/, /h/, /r/, /m/

Phonics-Blending:
- drew a mind-map for the sound of /at/
- pupils came out with words containing the /at/ sound : cat, fat, sat, mat, rat, bat, hat, pat, flat and that.
Parents, you may like to revise these words at home or get your child to think of more words with /at/ sound.

Notes :
Not every word with /at/ will be pronounced the same way.
Some pupils contributed words like 'what' and 'water', highlighted to them that words with same spelling may not be pronounced the same way all the time.

Some pupils gave me words like 'gate', I made use of the opportunity to introduce the 'silent e' or 'magic e'.
['silent e'  - we don't pronounce the 'e' : bake, gate, have, save, wave, tube, cube... ... and they change the other vowel sound.]

Common Mistakes:
During lessons these 2 weeks, we came across some of the words below, so I highlighted the commonly mixed-up words (as shown below):
their / there
its / it's
mine / my
when / went

** Simple Past Tense List 1 [Irregular] :
Parents. you may want to write these words on flash cards for revision at home.

see - saw
go - went
do - did
drink - drank
sing - sang
give - gave
sleep - slept
sweep - swept
weep - wept
keep - kept
run - ran
read - read
cry - cried [ change 'y' to 'i', add 'ed']

** Simple Past Tense List 2  :
walk - walked
look - looked
play - played
talk - talked
kick - kicked
cook - cooked
comb - combed
like - liked

Mathematics

Current Topic : Mass

Pupils learnt about the importance of MASS through things around us, like why we need weighing scales in supermarkets / markets, why the lifts must have a weight limit, why mummy needs to weigh sugar and flour when she is baking a cake etc.

Pupils learnt to use the following vocabularies from this topic :
 heavy, as heavy as, heavier than, heaviest
light, as light as, lighter than, lightest
same mass, more mass, less mass