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Dear Parents,
The effectiveness of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades. However scientific studies have repeatedly found that explicit systematic phonics instruction is the most effective way to teach children how to read. Phonics is teaching children the sounds made by individual letter or letter groups and teaching children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word.
Why is it important?
Phonics instruction teaches children how to decode letters into their respective sounds, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.
Keep in mind that most words are unfamiliar to early readers in print, even if they have spoken knowledge of the word. Having letter-sound knowledge will allow children to make the link between the unfamiliar print words to their spoken knowledge.
At Olive Trails Phonics is an important part of language skill. Learners will start by being able to read CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant words) such as t-a-p. They will begin trying to sound out each letter sound to blend into a word. They will begin to spell words and become skilled readers.
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Classroom Connection
Nursery
English:-
Introduction of Letter ‘Ww’: A video related to letter ‘Ww’ was shown with phonic sound and associated pictures. For the better reinforcement, a story related to letter ‘Ww’ was shown to the learners. Learners were actively involved to make the formation of Letter ‘W’ using earbuds / toothpicks / clay. They played the game of “Letter hunt” in which Learners were busy searching the objects like watch, water, walnut and whistle.
Writing Letter ‘R’ and ‘S’ :-
Young brain tend to remember what they copy therefore they were taught to write letter R and S by copying the teacher’s direction from the live board and explained the formation of the letter.
Learners were encouraged to write it in their Red and Blue line notebook. They followed the pattern taught by the teacher for the letter formation.
MATH :-
Writing of Number from 1 to 6 in sequence was done. Teacher showed how to write in sequence by using live board.
Left and Right :-
The concept of left and right was explained to the learners. They were taught an easy trick to differentiate between left and right and identify left easily through a video. To make the concept more clear, learners danced on action song ‘Boogie Woogie’
THEME :- Waterways
Water transport was introduced to the learners by showing a video on it. The video included knowledge about ship, sail boat , submarine and yacht. They were shown flash cards and were asked to show any water transport toy if they have.
Role Play:
Learners were made to select the community helpers that they want to become when they grow up.
They were dressed up like doctors, engineers, fire fighters, etc. They used props and said a few lines about what they had become and why.
Reading - Up You Go.
The book “Up You Go” is an amazing reading book with coloured pictures. The Learners can see a happy family spending quality time together.
Kids are seen enjoying on the water slide. At last when dad comes down the slide he breaks the slide and water pool.
Curious Explorer
Activity. 1 Waiting for Wings
Teacher showed a video related to insects where they learned about the life cycle of Butterfly.
Activity. 2 Insects Anatomy
This was fun activity where learners were asked to make insects by using colorful clay or dough.
Learners made different insects like caterpillar, dragonfly, snail, grasshopper and spider.
Activity. 3 Bees and Bugs
This activity was all about insects yoga pose. Where learners were showed a video and were asked to do the yoga pose
Classroom Connection
Jr.Kg
English- Learning CVC words introduced learners to the concept that words have a beginning ,middle and ending sound that together create a word. Recap of en, et and ed was done by showing them the flashcard.
Recap of “a” words
Activity was done by molding the clay into the letters depending on how the stroke is when writing and this makes learning more effective.
Math: Everyday we are surrounded by shapes of things. Learning shapes builds literacy and Math skills kids carry through their lives. Teacher introduced the shape Hexagon and related objects with the help of Power Point Presentation.
Draw the shape: learners were asked to draw the objects related to the shapes like Heart, Star, Pentagon and Hexagon.
Backward counting 10-1
Backward counting helps learners to understand before numbers. Teacher introduced the concept by showing them the Power Point Presentation. Writing was also done for backward counting 10-1 using tens and ones concept.
Theme: Recap of rail transport was done with the help of PPT. Teacher introduced the waterways by showing the Power Point Presentation. While explaining the concept teacher also asked questions to check their existing knowledge. Means of water transports are showed to the learners.
Curious Explorer
This week was all about pets. A video was shown to the learners about it. Fun hands on activity to explore the shape by creating a colorful finger paw print was conducted. Another activity where learners were asked to blow up balloon and decorate it to look like insects.
Classroom Connection
Sr.Kg
Math:
Number names 1 to 50:
Number name is the method of representing numbers in words. In this week, recap of number names from 1 to 40 was done, and number names from 41 to 50 were introduced using PowerPoint presentation. A fun activity was conducted, in which learners identified the number name of the given number and responded accordingly. Also, learners practiced writing number names in their notebooks while teachers were writing it on the liveboard.
Counting numbers
Learners learnt sequencing the numbers from 1 to 99. The learners enjoyed playing the Number Counting game with numbers flashcard.
Shapes:
Shapes are ways children observe and categorize what they see, define and organise their world. Shapes like cone and Triangle were introduced to learners along with an ice cream rhyme. A fun activity of making ice cream cone using brown paper and cotton was conducted in the class, which the learners enjoyed a lot.
English:
Reading comprehension:
Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand its meaning and to integrate with what we already know. Teachers read the given text and asked questions related to it. Learners answered enthusiastically and wrote answers in their notebooks. It helps to build vocabulary and enhance their speaking skills.
Jumbled Sentences:
Jumbled sentence are some puzzled sentences or words that have to be put together in a proper sequence in order to make a complete sense of the sentence. Teacher introduced jumbled sentences with the help of PowerPoint presentation, and later conducted a game where learners unscrambled them. Learners enjoyed the game very much.
Theme:
Movie:
Teacher did a recap on the topic “Movies”, through a presentation. Teacher explained about the importance of movies and how movies are an excellent audio-visual tool for educating them. They can be very useful to show children different cultures, to teach them history, accustom them to fundamental values, show them all in a simple and entertaining way.
Ancient and modern Communication
The recap was done on the “Ancient and modern Communication”. In which, they learnt that, people communicate through language - spoken and written. Written language includes books, newspapers, and e-mail. People also communicate without words. Body and face movements show feelings. The learners drew two pictures of means of communication in their books, while teachers drew it on the Liveboard.
Curious Explorer
Children are naturally curious because they are learning through every experience and social interaction they have. Pre-schoolers often have active imaginations, and they enjoy using their curiosity to explore their feelings and their world.
Activity 1: Curious George goes camping, by H.A.Rey
Read aloud, story of Curious George goes camping by H.A. Rey. The children enjoyed listening to the picture story on camping and exploration by George.
Activity 2: Camp Fun:
The learners created a mini campsite using Play-doh clay. They created a Tent, a Campfire, Rocks etc.
Activity 3: Camping senses:
The learners were given a task to review each of the five senses. A chart making fun activity of things we might see, hear, smell, taste and touch while on a camping trip was prepared by them.
Virtual Birthday Celebrations
Celebration – Add color to our life and birthday is one of them. Count not the candles the lights they give. Count not years ,but the life you live . Happy Birthday
Learners who were celebrating their birthday dressed up in fancy attire . Backdrop was decorated with balloons and streamers. The cake cutting was done along with birthday song and to add more fun a game was organised and played where all learners participated with great joy.
