Eating Good Food and Taking My Vaccinations to Keep My Body Healthy

Curriculum details

Strand

All About Me (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Eating Good Food and Taking My Vaccinations to Keep My Body Healthy (1.4)

Content standard

K2.1.4.1 - Demonstrate the understanding and knowledge of keeping our bodies healthy by eating good food and visiting the hospital when sick

Indicator

K2.1.4.1.3 - Break the sound in a multi-syllabic word and clap out the syllables and blend them again as one word.

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 5 (Week 5 of the year)

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Curriculum reference

Kindergarten Curriculum (KG1 and KG2), 2019, p. 113

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

* Select some of the long words related to the theme [e.g. Vaccination, the names of the six killer diseases]
* Learners stretch the words, Identify and count the syllables in the words through clapping. Learners mention the number of syllables in the word, say it more quickly and blend the sounds.
* Engage learners in more practice of clapping out the syllables in the words from the read aloud text, and blending the sounds [e,g, /t//u//b//e//r//c/u/l//o//s//i//s/ and [tu-ber-cu-lo-sis] as in tuberculosis with five syllables]
* Learners identify and indicate the number of syllables in the six killer diseases (polio, tuberculosis, measles,) [E.g. po-lio] has two syllables.