Sample Week: Lesson 3

OBJECTIVES:

To recognise, say and write the sound ‘t’.

To practise matching sounds to letters.

To use initial sound (first sound we hear in a word) knowledge to write for a purpose.

RESOURCES:

VOCABULARY:

sound | letter | words

LESSON GUIDANCE:

Each day consists of 2 sections: phonics and English. You may find it easier to do the sections at different times of the day. It is important to give your child a break between each section. You may find that your child needs to take a break during each section too.

Phonics

Introduction

Show your child Sound Cards ‘s’ and ‘a’. Can they remember these sounds? Ask your child to say the sound and write the letter. Remind them where to begin each letter and say along. For example: ‘a’: ‘ around, up ,down and flick!’

Show your child the ‘t’ Sound Card. Say: We are going to be learning about the letter ‘t’ today.

Watch Sound ‘t’ Video.

Say the sound together with your child. Say: The letter ‘t’ is at the start of the words ‘tick - tock’. We are going to use our arm to make that action while we say the sound.

Practise with your child ‘tick-tock’ action while saying the sound ‘t’.

Ask: What words begin with ‘t’? Your child might think of tin, take, time or top.

Main Activity

Watch Writing ‘t’ Video.

Say: I am going to pretend this finger is a magic pen again! Today it is going to write in silver.

Help your child choose their magic pen finger and talk about what colour it might use today.

Explain that ‘t’ is a letter that is quite tall. Use your finger to draw a large ‘t’ in the air. Say: ‘Down, under and take your pen off to draw the line across’ as you form the letter. Ask your child to do the same.

Help your child to begin at the top of the letter each time. Can your child draw a letter ‘t’ in the palm of their hand? What about on your hand? Have a go at writing ‘t’ on paper together.

Then you might like to go outside to practise writing this new letter. You could use a paintbrush dipped in water to write the letter on the ground.

Write the letter ‘t’ several times forming it carefully. Together, think of some other words that start with the letter ‘t’.

Apply

Stick the sound cards onto three separate, upturned cups, so they spell out s-a-t.

Say: I have put our new letter sounds on the wall. We are going to knock them over, just like Humpty!

Say a sound, ask your child to try and knock that labelled cup over. Say another sound. Can they knock that labelled cup over? Repeat, asking your child to choose the sounds for you to knock down.

Extra Support

Point to the letter sound as you say it if your child needs help to find which letter to knock down.

Extra Challenge

Say, look, s-a-t are our new sounds and together they make a word SAT. Humpty Dumpty SAT on the wall. Model (show) blending the sounds together. Ask your child to do the same.

English

What to Get Ready

Look through the three Mark Making Examples. Today your child will have a go at writing. They may just use mark making or they may use some letters you can recognise. It is important give them lots of praise during this activity.

Main Activity

Say to your child that today they will be writing a ‘Get Well Soon’ card to Humpty Dumpty.

Ask:

How is Humpty Dumpty feeling after falling off the wall?
Why do you think we should send Humpty Dumpty a card?
How do you think that will make Humpty Dumpty feel?
What could we draw or write on the card?

Talk about the picture they could draw on the front. Ask your child to draw a picture on the front cover of the card.

Ask: What could we write inside the card?

Ask your child to write a message to Humpty Dumpty inside the card.

Your child may use some letters and some other mark making. Look at Mark Making Examples 1 Download Mark Making Examples 1, Mark Making Examples 2 Download Mark Making Examples 2 and Mark Making Examples 3 Download Mark Making Examples 3 to remind yourself of the different types of mark making that might be done by your child.

You may not be able to read your child’s writing. We just want them to have a go!

Ask them to tell you what their own writing says to Humpty Dumpty. You can write what they say at the very bottom of the card if you wish.

Ask them to write their name at the bottom. If they find that tricky, they could write the first letter in their name. You could then write their name on a separate piece of card and ask them to copy it.

Extra Support

Show them on a separate piece of paper how to write a sound so that they can copy.

Extra Challenge

They may write some words like ‘to’ or put a ‘H’ for ‘Humpty’ or write ‘love’. Ask them to write their name on their own.