S E M E S T E R 1
Month: MAY
Theme: Welcome back to school
ENGLISH (Grammar Time 3)
- ‘To be’, subject pronouns: affirmative (full form, short form), negative (full form, short form), questions (short answers), personal (subject) pronouns.
- Articles: indefinite article (a, an), definite article (the), zero article.
Spelling & Vocabulary:
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Punctuation:
- Full stops
Writing:
- Write a letter about your school, classroom, best friends, teacher, favourite subject.
Guided
- Re-telling stories in proper sequence; identifying main idea of a story.
Speaking (Teacher’s Resource File):
- Oral activity 1
MATHS
Numbers to a 10,000.
Counting and comparing.
Ordering and number patterns.
Addition within 10,000
With/without remaining.
Word problems.
Adding mentally.
SCIENCE
LIFE SCIENCE.
Life and the environment.
How science works.
Introduction.
Heredity. Traits. Genes and Chromosomes. What are genes and chromosomes?
HEALTH
Your amazing body.
Taking care of your body.
Bones, muscles and nerves.
Breathing and digestion. People grow at different rates.
Taking care of your body.
Factors that can affect health.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Combine various locomotion/traveling movements with changes in direction. Warm-up and cool down routines. Travel in various ways, dodge stationary and opponents.
Dodge-ball.
DESIGN & TECH
- International safety signs: the students will make safety signs; they will be able to visually recognize and know the meaning of the most common international safety signs; they will be able to match the safety signs with words describing them.
ARTS
- My school: the students will draw LBS on wet drawing paper (using tempera) to represent a rainy day at school.
COOKING
- Salad time
Month: JUNE
Theme: Endangered and extinct animals
ENGLISH (Grammar Time 3)
Grammar:
- Plural nouns: regular nouns, irregular nouns.
- Demonstrative pronouns: singular (affirmative, negative, question), plural (affirmative, negative, question).
-‘There is, ‘There are’ prepositions of place: affirmative (full form, short form), negative (full form, short form), question, prepositions of place.
- ‘Can’: affirmative, negative (full form, short form), question
Spelling & Vocabulary:
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Punctuation:
- Commas
Writing:
- Complete with the plural of the words in brackets
- Draw your room and write a paragraph about it
- Memory quiz
- Teacher of the month
Guided
- Re-state information in a short non-fiction story.
Speaking (Teacher’s Resource File):
- Oral activity 2, 3, 4, 5
MATHS
Subtraction within a 10,000 With/without remaining.
Subtracting two numbers.
Subtraction mentally.
Length/Measuring in meters, centimeters.
Comparing lengths.
Addition/Subtraction in length.
SCIENCE
LIFE SCIENCE.
Extinct and endangered animals. Protecting endangered animals. Habitats and ecosystems. Plants and animals living together. Interaction.
How living things complete.
Environment changes.
Types of animals. How are animals grouped? Growth and change. Where animals live and eat. The food chain. Test.
HEALTH
Your skin.
Teeth and gums.
Ears, eyes and nose.
Ways to prevent tooth decay.
The tooth diagram.
Life skills – Respect.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Manipulation skills. Ball skills.
Throwing and catching a ball. Hit a slow moving object using various parts of the body.
Ball skills. Basket-ball.DESIGN & TECH
- Traffic lights, traffic signs, and crossing the street: the students will make traffic lights, traffic signs used when crossing the street; they will understand the meaning of the traffic lights and signs and how to use them to safely cross the street.
- Mobile phone: the students will make a mobile phone; they will become familiar with the dial of a telephone and how to dial a phone number; they will understand the word ‘dial’ both as a noun and as a verb.
ARTS
- Human face: the students will draw faces of boys and girls; they will learn the basic skills needed for drawing a human face.
COOKING
- Scrambled eggs
Month: JULY
Theme: Habitats / Environment
ENGLISH (Grammar Time 3)
- Imperatives, object pronouns: affirmative, negative, let’s, subject pronouns, object pronouns.
- Revision (Units 1-6)
- Possessive case, ‘whose?’: singular, plural, of, whose.
- ‘Have got’: affirmative (full form, short form), negative (full form, short form), questions, form, use
Spelling & Vocabulary:
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Punctuation:
- Question marks and exclamation marks
Writing:
- Fill in the blanks
- Find a photograph of you and your friends and/or family and write about it.
Guided
- Express thoughts and feelings about a piece of writing.
Speaking (Teacher’s Resource File):
- Oral activity 6, 7
MATHS
Multiplication.
The multiplication tables.
Multiplication in a vertical form. Word problems. Multiplying mentally.
SCIENCE
Resources and materials.
Earth’s Resources.
HEALTH
Why your body needs food.
Food pyramid.
Healthful foods.
Life skills – Responsibility and making responsible decisions.PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Stability skills. Jumping for height and distance. Balance in different positions, using different parts of the body.
Mini gymnastics. Assault course to practice moving the body in various ways.
DESIGN & TECH
- Analog clock: the students will make an analog clock to be used as a teaching aid and to identify the parts of the clock; they will learn the concepts of hour/first, minute/last; they will learn how to tell the time using both hours and minutes; they will understand and respond to the term ‘tell time’ and the questions ‘What time is it’ or ‘Do you have the time?’ARTS
- Environment: the students will make a composition about the surrounding world using real life things (e.g. leaves, string etc.).
COOKING
Month: AUGUST
Theme: Countries of the World
ENGLISH (Grammar Time 3)
Grammar:
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns: subject pronouns, possessives adjectives, possessive pronouns
- ‘Some’, ‘any’, countable, uncountable nouns: countable nouns (affirmative, negative, question), uncountable nouns (affirmative, negative, question), some, any, derivatives.
- ‘How much’, how many’, quantifiers: countable nouns (affirmative, negative, question), uncountable nouns (affirmative, negative, question), quantifiers
- Comparison of adjectives: regular adjectives (positive, comparative, superlative), iregular adjectives (positive, comparative, superlative)
Spelling & Vocabulary:,
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Punctuation:
- Speech marks
Writing:
- Write a letter about your friends and family. Use helping questions.
- Look at a picture for one minute then cover it and write sentences with ‘some’ and ‘any’
- Write your family’s list for the supermarket.
Guided
- Identify characteristics of different forms of written materials.
Speaking (Teacher’s Resource File):
- Oral activity 8, 9, 10MATHS
Relating division to multiplication.
Long division.
Word problems.
Dividing mentally.
SCIENCE
Resources and materials.
The Environment. Recycle. Material and their properties. Physical properties, flexibility, transparency, strength, conductivity. How materials are used. Changing matter. Matter and its properties. Properties of objects. How can matter be mixed/ changed? Sound, light and heat. Combining matter. Chemical changes.
Physical changes and chemical changes. Test.
HEALTH
Life skills – Responsibility and making responsible decisions.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Physical Activity.
Tag games and outdoor pursuits. Football.DESIGN & TECH
- Digital clock: the students will make a digital clock to be used as a teaching aid; they will learn to visually recognize and verbalize the time using a digital clock; they will learn that ‘00’ means ‘o’clock’.
- My country: the students will create posters in groups about
COOKING
- Stuffed potatoes
Month: SEPTEMBER
Theme: The Water Cycle
ENGLISH (Grammar Time 3)
- Comparison of adjectives
- Revision (Units 7-11)
- Present continuous: affirmative (full form, short form), negative (full form, short form), question, form, spelling, use
- Present simple: affirmative, negative (full form, short form), question, form, spelling, use
- Revision (Units 1-13)
Spelling & Vocabulary:
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Punctuation:
- Review
Guided
- Oral reading assessment.
Writing:
- Write a letter to a freind and say if you’re a cat lover or a dog lover. Use the given adjectives.
- Imagine you are in the schoolyard, during the break right now. Write down what you can see. Use the given verbs.
- Write a letter to a friend about your holiday. Use the given ideas.
Speaking (Teacher’s Resource File):
- Oral activity 11, 12, 13
EXAM
MATHS
Length. Metres/centimeters.
Adding/Subtracting in metres and centimeters. Kilometres. Adding/Subtracting in kilometers and metres.
Exam.
SCIENCE
Forces and Motion.
Types of force. Attraction/Repulsion. What forces can do. Examples of the size forces The effects of forces acting upon other forces. Force affects motion.
Force and magnets. Cause and effect.
Exam
HEALTH
Keeping safe. Being responsible for your safety. Safety around others. Fire safety. Exam.
Life skills – Resolving conflict. Communication. Disaster safety.
Physical Activity.
Exam and assessment.
DESIGN & TECH
- Picture frame: the students will make a picture frame for a family picture; they will give a presentation about their family using the framed picture.
ARTS
- Water cycle: the students will make a composition about a specific aspect of the water cycle; they will assemble the different parts of the water cycle into a complete composition about the water cycle; they will present their work.
COOKING