Eating Good Food and… · KG2 Integrated Learning

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

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.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Clap and count the syllables in words related to eating good food and vaccinations, such as “vaccination”, “polio”, “measles” and “tuberculosis”.
Break a multi-syllabic word into its separate syllables by saying each part slowly.
State the number of syllables in a given word after clapping them out.
Blend the syllables of a word back together to say the whole word correctly.
Identify words from the theme that have two, three, four or five syllables.

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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)
Term is the curriculum's own; the week within it is our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order. Follow your school's scheme of learning.
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.