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          Primary 1: Making A Cake


Shortened version due to EDB restrictions and changes

Activities
Activity 1: High Frequency Words
Revisit high frequency words
Create a sentences with the words
Activity 2: Phonics
Revisit the Phonics PowerPoint.
Revisit the four sounds for this unit (/e/, /c/, /l/, /n/).
Introduce the chant for the sound /n/.
Demonstrate how to write the letter
Sky write it as a class and choose 3 students to come up to write them.
Ask the students to say the sound and the word after you.
-> Using volume control
Activity 3: Storytelling
Using what I know
Introduce the characters in the story by showing the objects/pictures.
Tell the story using the pictures.
Encourage students to join in with the repetitive phrases.
Ask the students questions
Activity 4: Shared Reading Cake Recipe
Understand the purpose of a procedural text and follow the instructions.
Explain to students the purpose of the text
Explain the difference between a recipe and a story
Read the recipe
Use countable and uncountable while identifying ingredients
Activity 5: Make a Cake
Refer to the Chocolate Cake Recipe Point to the cake mixture and ask:
What is in the cake?
Tell students to answer in complete sentences using the language structure:
There is (ingredient) in the cake, and There are (ingredient) in the cake

        Primary 2: Making Porridge


Shortened version due to EDB restrictions and changes

Activities
Activity 1: Warm up song
Sing the porridge song with students
Activity 2: Phonics identifying beginning and middle sounds
Revisit the initial phonics sounds
Revisit short vowel song
Introduce long /a/ with hand movement
Activity 3: Share read
Cover page: ask students the title and what it is about
Share read with students in groups
Boys/girls/yellow, red, blue and green group

Activity 4: Making Porridge
Develop receptive and expressive language
->Identify syllables in words.

Show page 6 of the big book and ask,
What did Goldilocks eat in the story? (porridge)

Tell students we are going to make some porridge to eat!
Introduce ingredients for making porridge.
Sing the first three verses of the Porridge Song with the students
Read each step of the porridge song with students
Count the syllables with the students for each ingredient
Show a banana and count the syllables then cut it into 3.

Send students to their groups to taste the porridge.

Activity 5: Conclusion Identify syllables in words.
Introduce the Syllable PowerPoint.
Say and clap the words with the students.
Use groups to clap the syllables