UNIT

One Little Kitten

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Listen and enjoy this poem
One little kitten

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Two big cats

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Three baby butterflies

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Four big rats

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Five fat fishes

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Six sad seals

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Seven silly seagulls

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Eight happy eels;

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Nine nervous lizards

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Ten brave bees

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Eleven smelly elephants

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Twelve fat fleas
Thirteen alligators

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Fourteen whales
Fifteen donkeys

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With fifteen tails.

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Carolyn Graham

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New words

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cat fat rat sad ten

Lets read
A fat cat saw a rat.

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Reading is fun
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How many kinds of creatures are there in the poem?
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Are the seals happy?

Lets talk
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Where do the fish live?

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What are the other things found in water?

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There are many creatures in the poem. Which ones

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have you seen?

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Tell us about when you feel
sad brave

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happy nervous

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Lets share

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Make faces to show your feelings to your friends.

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sad happy

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

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butterfly cat

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kitten

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R li fish

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rat

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seal

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N re p eel

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seagull

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lizard

to bee

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elephant

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whale

donkey
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Say aloud

am he if in is

it me my no of

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on so to us we

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all and
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bad

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big bit

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catp cry day

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dog fat let met not

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pig

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one ran red sad

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n o sit sun ten the

try two was wet you

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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

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Fill in the blanks from the words given above.
b __ g h __ n t __ p c __ p t __ n

c __ t __ nt p __ n f __ x __ xe
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Lalu and Peelu
Listen and enjoy this story
There was a hen.
She had two chicks,

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Lalu and Peelu.

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Lalu was red.
He loved red things.
Peelu was yellow.

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He loved yellow things.
One day Lalu saw
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something on a plant.

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It was red. He ate it up.

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Oh, no! It was a red chilli.
It was very hot.
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Lalus mouth started
burning.
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He screamed.

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 Mother Hen came running.
Peelu came too.
Peelu said, Ill get something for you!
Peelu brought a yellow laddu.

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T sh
R li
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Lalu gobbled up the laddu.

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His mouth stopped burning.
Mother Hen and Lalu kissed Peelu.

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chicks hen hot plant yellow

Lets read
I love plants.
The chicks ran to their mother.
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Reading is fun
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Name the chicks in the story.
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Who liked yellow things?
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What did Lalu eat one day?

Lets talk

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Peelu brought a yellow laddu for Lalu. What are the

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other things Peelu could have brought that are both

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yellow and sweet? Name at least two, e.g. a mango.

Lets share

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Lalu loves red things. Peelu loves yellow things. The

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colour red is called lal in Hindi and yellow is called

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peela. What do you call these colours in your
language?
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Give names to these chicks using the names of some
other colours in your language.

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Lalu

Peelu
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Lets 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

a e i o u

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T sh
R li
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Lets draw C
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Trace and colour these flowers.

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Bluebells
Riddle Time !
Red plus yellow is orange
Red plus blue is purple
Blue plus yellow is green
Red rose Add white to make them light.
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Mother Hen and the Chicks
Lets act
Come to me, chicks.
I want you here.

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What do you
want, mother?

N re p Look at me.
Do what I do.

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Down and up.
Up and down.

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I can do what you do.
Look at me.
Down and up.
Up and down.

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 Look at me, chicks.
Do what I do.
Up-down - Oh! Oh!

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Mother! Mother!

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The water! The water!
Percy is down, down,

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in the water.

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Oh! Percy, Percy!

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Adapted from E.H. Grassam
Act out this story with the class.
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Poem One Little Kitten UNIT
Story Lalu and Peelu
Teacher's Pages 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.
4 Develop listening skills

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

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reference to the story.

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4 Develop pronunciation

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Read the text and say aloud with the children

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ate, date, gate boy, joy, toy burn, turn bees, fleas
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Exposure to language

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Use sight words in the classroom such as visuals and cue cards. Let the

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children read these:

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Develop speaking skills
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The little play on chicks can introduce vocabulary in an interesting,

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conversational way.
1. Have a talk on eating healthy food.

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2. Conversation based on Role play
l Divide the class into four groups Red , Yellow , Blue , Green

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Group Red: to make paper bags.

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Group Blue: to collect leaves for eyes, nose, ears.
Group Yellow: to roll a string/play dough for whiskers.

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Group Green: to roll a rope/twigs to make tails.
All groups will join to complete the
MATERIAL REQUIRED

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paper bags. The children can decorate
them with animal faces or figures.
Afterwards these can be used as hand Any old paper bags/
puppets. You can encourage the newspapers, glue, thread, rope,
children as they go about doing this coloured pencils and markers.
activity. Add any other material that
you may want.

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

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maths teacher). However, do not force the child.
2. Sorting things into groups is an essential part of learning. By

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differentiating between objects, children start to think about

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similarities and differences and how things can be categorised.

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Show children how to sort leaves and twigs by placing them in two

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different piles.

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3. Give children coloured beads and ask them to string them in a

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sequence. For example, one blue bead, two red beads and so on. Or

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on a string, thread two or three beads and ask the children the

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number of beads.

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Raising awareness

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

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