Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.

Make predictions based on what has been read so far.

Great news children...

 

Your brand new pets have arrived.

They are in a special box waiting for all of you in Year One to take care of them.

What do you think the pet will be?

Your pet is a train!

It has come with the book, 'How to Train a Train'.

Read these pages from the book together with your teacher.

Your teacher will read a sentence then you will repeat it.

Remember your 'smooth reading' and interesting voices.

Now let's look closely at one of the important words from the book:

 

steam

 

Word rap:

 

 

Now fill this magic word mat in together.

Next talk about all the words underlined in red in the

'How to Train a Train' book in the pictures above.

Tell your teacher what you have learned when you watch these videos about steam trains.

Tell me...

Tell me more...

Now say this sentence together:

 

Early steam engines mostly just sit in museums.

What does the word steam mean in this sentence?

Here is another sentence with the same new word:

Steam pours from the train's chimney.

 

Your teacher will now say a sentence for you to repeat three times.

Remember your actions for full stop and capital letters!

Now click on the pictures below to find out more information about trains...

Have you found any really interesting new words?

Put them on the English working wall.

Revision - Time and money

Lets watch this video about time and months!

Key vocabulary - 

First, Next, Before, After, o'clock and half past!

Complete page 157

Lets listen to this song about money!

 

Lets complete page 158