One Little Kitten   

      unit -3 

Listen and enjoy this poem

One little kitten

Two big cats

Three baby butterflies

Four big rats

Five fat fishes

Six sad seals

Seven silly seagulls

Eight happy eels;

Nine nervous lizards

Ten brave bees

Eleven smelly elephants

Twelve fat fleas

Thirteen alligators

Fourteen whales

Fifteen donkeys

With fifteen tails.

Carolyn Graham

New words

cat fat rat sad ten 

Let’s read

A fat cat saw a  rat

 

Reading is fun  

• How many kinds of creatures are there in the poem?
• Are the seals happy?

Let's talk

• Where do the fish live?
• What are the other things found in water?
• There are many creatures in the poem. Which ones have you seen?
• Tell us about when you feel —

Sad         brave

happy      nervous

let’s share

Make faces to show your feelings to your friends.

  sad   

 brave 

    nervous

     happy

Let's draw

Look at the pictures of the animals given below and underline them in the poem. Then trace the letters.

 

  kitten 

     

butterfly 

     

   cat  

      

rat   

       

 fish     

        

seal

            

   seagull  

          

  eel    

      

     lizard 

             

   bee      

 

   elephant        

            

   flea           

                 

  alligator           

   

   donkey        

      

   whale

Say aloud

Look and read

Say these words aloud. Then match them with the pictures by drawing lines.

bag    tin    hen   pen    tap    axe   ant   fox   cap   cot

           

               

               

               

             

Fill in the blanks from the words given above.

 

Lalu and Peelu

Listen and enjoy this story

There was a hen.

 She had two chicks, Lalu and Peelu.

Lalu was red.

 He loved red things.

Peelu was yellow.

 

He loved yellow things.

One day Lalu saw something on a plant.

 It was red.

 He ate it up. Oh, no! It was a red chilli.

 It was very hot.

Lalu’s mouth started burning.

He screamed.

Mother Hen came running.

Peelu came too.

Peelu said, I’ll get something for you!”

Peelu brought a yellow laddu.

Lalu gobbled up the laddu.

His mouth stopped burning.

Mother Hen and Lalu kissed Peelu.

Vineeta Krishna

New words

chicks        

hen

hot

plant

yellow

Let's read

I love plants.

The chicks ran to their mother.

 Reading is fun

• Name the chicks in the story.
• Who liked yellow things?
• What did Lalu eat one day?

 Let's talk

• Peelu brought a yellow laddu for Lalu. What are the other things Peelu could have brought that are both yellow and sweet? Name at least two, e.g. a mango.

 Let's share

• Lalu loves red things. Peelu loves yellow things. The colour red is called 'lal' in Hindi and yellow is called 'peela'. What do you call these colours in your language?
• Give names to these chicks using the names of some other colours in your language.

Let's write

Match the chicks to the eggs they have hatched from.

One has been done for you.

Trace the letters on the eggs   a  e  i  o   u

 

Let draw

Trace and colour three flowers.

red  rose

 bluebells

 yellow sunflower

Riddle Time.

Red plus yellow is orange

Red plus blue is purple

Blue plus yellow is green

Add white to make them light.

Mother Hen and the Chicks

 

 Let’s act

Come to me, chicks.

I want you here.

What do you

want, mother?

Look at me.

Do what I do.

Down and up.

Up and down.

Mother! Mother!

I can do what you do.

Look at me.

Down and up.

Up and down. 

Look at me, chicks.

Do what I do.

Up-down - Oh! Oh!

Mother! Mother!

The water! The water!

Percy is down, down,

in the water.

Oh! Percy, Percy!

Adapted from E.H. Grassam

Act out this story with the class.

Poem – one littie kitten

Story – lalu and peelu

Teacher's Pages UNIT 3

While working with the children provide them with activities that are interesting and challenging. Give opportunities for fun to the children and encourage early writing attempts. Help them to develop the skill to identify and discriminate objects, pictures, colours, shapes etc.

• Develop listening skills

Recite the poem to the children using appropriate actions/gestures. Read the story with emphasis on new words and make sentences with reference to the story.

• Develop pronunciation

Read the text and say aloud with the children

 ate, date, gate      boy, joy, toy    burn, turn  bees,fleas

• Exposure to language

Use sight words in the classroom such as visuals and cue cards. Let the children read these:

 a  e i  o u

• Develop speaking skills

The little play on chicks can introduce vocabulary in an interesting, conversational way.

1. Have a talk on eating healthy food.

2. Conversation based on ‘Role play’

• Divide the class into four groups Red Yellow Blue Green

Group Red: to make paper bags.

Group Blue: to collect leaves for eyes, nose, ears.

Group Yellow: to roll a string/play dough for whiskers.

Group Green: to roll a rope/twigs to make tails.

All groups will join to complete the paper bags. The children can decorate them with animal faces or figures. Afterwards these can be used as hand puppets. You can encourage the children as they go about doing this activity. Add any other material that you may want.

• Imagine you are eating a fruit and it falls down. Ask the children what they would do.
• Act out a situation when (i) you are hungry (ii) you are full (iii) you overeat.

• Develop writing skills / fine motor coordination

1. Write the words hat, bed, pin, hot, cut and numbers 11 to 20 on the blackboard. Let the child write numbers and read from the board. Use Activity Sheets to further encourage the patterns as on pages 31, 33 and 37 and numbers 11 to 20 (here co-ordinate with the maths teacher). However, do not force the child.
2. Sorting things into groups is an essential part of learning. By differentiating between objects, children start to think about similarities and differences and how things can be categorised. Show children how to sort leaves and twigs by placing them in two different piles.
3. Give children coloured beads and ask them to string them in a sequence. For example, one blue bead, two red beads and so on. Or on a string, thread two or three beads and ask the children the number ofbeads.

• Raising awareness

• Tell the children to wash their hands before and after meals.