jueves, 23 de abril de 2015

ALPHABLOCKS - Episodes "ng", "ai, ay and a__e", "w", "oa".

Letter sound "ng"
Letter sounds that have the same pronunciation:  "ai", "ay" and "a__e". 
Letter sound "w"
Letter sound "oa"

jueves, 9 de abril de 2015

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle

Vocabulary. 

- Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Animals: caterpillar, butterfly
- Food: apple, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges, chocolate cake, ice-cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, lollipop, cherry pie, sausage, cupcake, watermelon.
- Numbers: one, two, three, four and five. 

martes, 7 de abril de 2015

"TODAY IS MONDAY" by Eric Carle.


Vocabulary.
- Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Animals: hedgehog, snake, elephant, fox, pelican, cat, monkey.
- Food: string beans, spaghetti, soup, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken, ice-cream.
- Other words: eat up, hungry, children.

ALPHABLOCKS - Brilliant show from the BBC.

Episode 1
Learn all the alphabet letter sounds. 

Episode 2
Blending simple sounds. Difference between e and ee. 

Episode 3
Blending sounds. Vowels a, e, i, o and u.

Episode 4
Blending sounds. Vowels a, e, i, o, u and y.

Episode 5
Blending sounds. Consonants c and ck. 

Episode 6
Blending sounds. Consonants f, ff, n and ow. 

Episode 7
Blending sounds. Consonants b and d. 

PHONICS - Sixth group of letter sounds.

This group consists of these letter sounds: y, x - ks - cks, ch - tch, sh, th - th. 
Actions for the letter sounds:

y - Pretend to be eating a yogurt and say y, y, y. 
x, ks, cks - Pretend to take an x-ray with an x-ray camera, saying ks, ks, ks. 
ch, tch - Move arms and sides as if you are a train saying ch, ch, ch. 
sh - Place index finger over lips and say shhhh.
th - Pretend to be naughty clowns and stick out tongue a little for th (this) and further for th (thumb). 

PHONICS - Fifth group of letter sounds.

Letter sounds related to this group: z, zz, w, wh, ng, v and oo. 
For letter sound z, we put our arms out and pretend to be a bee, saying zzzZZZzzz

For letter sound w, we blow on to open hand, as if we were the wind, and we say wh, wh, wh.

To make letter sound ng, we'll imagine we are a weightlifter pretending to lift a heavy weight above our head saying nggg...

To memorize the letter sound v, we'll pretend to be holding the steering wheel of a van and say vvvvv.

For oo, we'll move head back and forth as if it is the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock, saying u oo u oo