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Poetry - Exploring the Senses

Objectives

To begin to use the voice to add expression when reading aloud.

To write a list.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | Book: The Trunk and the Skunk and Other Stories

📄 'Five Little Senses' poem | 📄 Senses Treasure Hunt

Vocabulary

Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary

Today's Lesson

Introduction

Watch this step's introductory video with your student.

What to Get Ready

Have the new set of sound flashcards, 📄 Sound Flashcards 7, printed, trimmed and ready to use in this series of lessons, along with the previous sets of sound flashcards.

Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.

Write the phrase ‘But can you see the snail?’ onto a strip of paper. You could use the 📄 Blank Strips document from the Resources.

Print out the 📄 Senses Treasure Hunt sheet.

During this lesson, your student will be asked to collect some different tastes during the 'Main Activity'. You may prefer to prepare a choice of items they can taste in advance.

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Quick recognition of sounds.

Phonics - New Learning

Tell your student that today they will be learning ways of writing the sound ‘s’.

Show your student the 📄 flashcard ‘s’. We already know that this letter can make the sound ‘s’ as in ‘sit’. Today we are looking at a different letter that sometimes makes the sound ‘s’.

Show your student the 📄 flashcard ‘c’. What sound do we know this letter makes? (Answer: ‘c’ as in ‘cat’.) Tell your student that this sound can also make the sound ‘s’ as in ‘city’.

Phonics - Blend to Read

face (3) | space (4) | circus (5) | pencil (6)

Phonics - Split to Spell

cell (3) | lace (3) | dice (3) | city (4)

Phonics - Extra Support

Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.

Phonics - Extra Challenge

cement (6) | stencil (6) | Cinderella (8)

Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the mice had a race in space. Then ask your student to read the caption.

If your student finds caption reading easy, rather than you writing the caption, you can say the caption and they can write it on the whiteboard.

Reading & Writing - Introduction

‘Take a Peek’ at the story ‘Where is the Snail?’ from book The Trunk and the Skunk and Other Stories.

Now show your student the phrase ‘But can you see the snail?’ that you have written on a strip of paper. Tell your student that this phrase is repeated throughout the story. When we have a repeated phrase in a story, it is a good opportunity to read withexpression.

Spend a few minutes with your student taking it in turns to read the phrase ‘But can you see the snail?’ in different and interesting ways. You might try to change which word in the sentence you emphasise, for example:

‘But can you see the snail?’’

‘But can you see the snail?’

‘But can you see the snail?’

‘But can you see the snail?’

Support your student as they read ‘Where is the Snail?’ Praise them when they use expression, especially for the phrase ‘But can you see the snail?’

Tell your student that they will be reading some poetry over the coming lessons.

Reading & Writing - Main Activity

Read the 📄 'Five Little Senses' poem to your student.

Explain that during the next few lessons we are going to be learning more about poetry and about our senses.

Read the poem again to your student and then ask your stduent to name the five senses.

Explain that you want your student to make up an action for each sense to help you both remember them all.

For example: sticking a tongue out for taste; cupping your ear for hearing; hand over the eyes for sight; fingers pinching the nose for smell; wriggling the fingers for touch.

Now call out the different senses and see if your student can remember the action.

Then swap: you do the action and see if your student can shout out which sense it stands for.

Reading & Writing - Apply

It is now time for your student to go on a senses treasure hunt!

Point to the first column on the 📄 Sense Treasure Hunt sheet. Explain that your student needs to find five different things they can see around the learning environment. Challenge them to choose varied and unusual items! Ask them to list these sights on the sheet.

In the next column they need to collect sounds they can hear around the learning environment. They may need to move into different spaces/rooms or they may even like to listen out of a window! Ask them to list five different sounds on their sheet.

Repeat with the other columns for the remaining three senses.

Reading & Writing - What to Notice

While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.

For example:

‘You looked really carefully to spot that item.’

‘Superb listening skills!’

‘I can see you sounding out that word really carefully.’

Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling

Children’s handwriting develops at different times. Have a close look at your student's recent writing. Are there letter shapes that they still need to work upon? If there are, please continue to choose one or two letters a day over the course of a week to focus upon. You may find your student needs to practise letters shapes they find tricky many times before they feel confident.

Remember to use the 📄 Letter Formation Ideas resource.

If your student is confidently and correctly forming all of their letters you may choose to move on to ask your student to complete one of the 📄 Pre-Joining Patterns sheets.