YOUNG GAIA / LEVEL 1

SESSION 1

Learning Intentions:
1.’Getting to know you’ activities.
2. Emotive writing from “The Heart”.
GAME SKIP MY NAME ALPHABET
1 TOPIC INTRODUCTION “HEART MAPS” 10mins.
What is the purpose of maps? What are the differences between the two maps?

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Suitcase with Heart maps inside to help us find the happiest journey. Pencils to sketch with
and write down all the things that make us happy.

WE ARE GOING ON A JOURNEY!

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Along the way we will learn to: express all the ways we can be happy, beautiful and clever,
write with emotion, spell words correctly, write simple, compound and complex sentences.

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2 SHARING AND LISTENING. BRAINSTORMING 10mins.

SHARING AND LISTENING Inside my heart map are the

people and things that are important to me are on my
map.
RESPONDING BRAINSTORMING IDEAS ON THE
WHITEBOARD
What is important to you?
Examples:
Happy memories
People I care about
Places I’ve visited.
Things I do in my free time.

3. WRITE A SIMPLE SENTENCE FOR EACH POINT IN YOUR WORKBOOK 15

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GUESS THE WORD GAME 10mins.

 REFLECTION 15mins.

Study your Heart Map and see if you can add more topics.
What feelings come up? Write as many words as you can to describe the feelings
(adjectives)
For example: funny, tingly, warm and fuzzy, humorous, dreamy……

Watch the video on Simple and Compound sentences. 4mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tCUNM1RWQc

 SIMPLE AND COMPOUND SENTENCES 20 mins.

Write simple sentences about your topics using the adjectives you wrote earlier.
Change the simple sentences into compound sentences using the acronym FANBOYS

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 4. ACROSTIC POEM -HEART
Brainstorm on the whiteboard and copy into workbook.
Now do your name!

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 SESSION 3

Learning Intentions:

1. Listening and understanding

2. Reading Comprehension
3. Responding to written text
4. Spelling new words correctly
GAME GUESS THE WORD ALPHABET 10 mins

1 LISTENING AND UNDERSTANDING

Watch YouTube clip on the heart TO 3 MINUTE MARK and compare how this is a different
way of looking at the heart . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruM4Xxhx32U 5 minutes

2.READING COMPREHENSION 20 mins.

What is the heart?
The heart is a muscle. It pumps blood all around the body.
What is blood?
Blood is the transport system for our bodies.
It picks up and carries oxygen and nutrients to where they are needed. It also picks up waste products and
helps transport them out of the body.
Blood is also part of the immune system. White blood cells fight off infections.
How does the circulatory system work?
The left side of the heart pumps blood that contains oxygen around the body through arteries.
When blood passes the intestines, it picks up nutrients that have been absorbed from food.
Blood travels from arteries into capillaries. These deliver oxygen and nutrition to every cell in the body and
pick up waste products including carbon dioxide.
Veins take the blood back to the right side of the heart. It is then pumped to the lungs.
The lungs absorb carbon dioxide, and the blood absorbs oxygen. It then travels back to the left side of the
heart, ready to be pumped around the body again.
The heart is so strong that this whole process only takes about one minute!

Read the passage above and highlight all the words that are new to you or the ones you don’t understand.

For each word highlighted let’s write a description below.

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 3.HEART QUIZ

Play the heart quiz game to see how much you learnt and remembered.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zv9qhyc/articles/zm6xvk7

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SESSION 4

Learning intentions:
1. Understanding the reading process
2. Leaning to use the SQ3R strategy to unpack information.
3.  Learn to predict and verify word meaning of unfamiliar words or familiar words

GAME: GREEN GLASS DOOR 10 MINS.

1 TOPIC INTRODUCTION “UNDERSTANDING THE READING PROCESS”
Watch YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dhcSP_Myjg15 mins

SQ3R
S = Survey means to look at the assignment, the pictures, the title and headings. Read the
first sentence or two.

Q = Question means to ask yourself, “What is the assignment about? What is the author
trying to tell me?” Once you know what you are going to read, you can read with better
understanding.

3R = Read, Recite, Review

As you READ the assignment look for the answers to the questions. (Read the questions
first.) Use a highlighter to underline the matching words in the text.

RECITE in your mind the main ideas you have just read.

REVIEW what you have learnt. Make notes/sketches in your workbook.

2 OUR SOLAR SYSTEM 20 mins

Read the text ‘Identifying the main idea and details using the SQ3R method.
Let’s answer all the questions on the sheets provided.

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3 CLOZE PASSAGE 10 mins

What do you think of when you hear the words, “Milky Way?” Do you think of

a………………………. bar? Well, there is another Milky Way, and you live in it! It is

our …………………………… Scientists have ………….. that there are many galaxies in

outer space. The Milky Way is a ……………..-shaped galaxy with swirls of stars

spinning out from the ……………………of it. Scientists believe there are about

200…………………….. stars in the Milky way. One of these stars is the …………..

Eight planets ……………..the sun. One of them is Earth. Even from Earth, on a

clear night, away from…………… ………………., you can see part of the Milky Way.

It is called that because……………………………………………………………………………………

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However, if you looked at it with a telescope, you would see that it is made up

of thousands of ……………………..

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SESSION 5
Learning intentions:

1. Short and long sounds

2. Sequencing
3. Quiz
GAME: Reviewing Vocabulary, Bean bag Dart board 7 min.
Galaxy Orbit Scientist Solar System

1 TOPIC INTRODUCTION: Vowel sounds

Watch ‘Vowel Song” and discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjcT7Gto3U
5 min.

2 SHORT AND LONG A SOUNDS

Watch the video “Short Vowel A/Long Vowel A “2.50 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJAOSOrGKM

Work through the sheet to understand and practice the different ways of spelling the A
sound. 20 mins

3 SEQUENCING
Unscramble the sentences in the worksheet to place events in the order they happened.
10min.

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 SESSION 6

Learning intentions:
Short and long sounds
Vocabulary, Predicting Text
Antonyms

GAME: GUESS THE WORD ALPHABET 10 MINS.

1 TOPIC Revision: Vowel Song . Watch video without sound. Join in to make the right sound
5min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjcT7Gto3U

2 SPELLING WORDS with long and short e vowel sounds

Working through the worksheets learn the rules for predicting spelling conventions. 15mins

3 PREDICTING TEXT. Crossword and filling the missing letters.

Working through our sheets lets complete the crossword and find out about antonyms. 10
mins.

Working on our heart maps to create a story. 10 mins

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Learning Intentions
Identifying the main idea and detail
Spelling rules and conventions
Words ending in Y, changing y to I before adding es or ed.
Work on heart map stories
GAME: Reviewing Vocabulary, Bean bag Dart board 7 min.

Working through the exercise sheets to spell long and short e vowel words 10 min.

Identifying the main Idea in a text. Watch YouTube video and work through Main idea sheets
20 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbO3lRXT0ww

Working through the sheets to understand the changes in spelling verbs for different
conjugations. 10 min

Working on Heart map stories.

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SESSION 8

Learning Intentions

Spelling rules for E sounds

Combining consonants
Work on Heart map stories to conclusion

GAME: test your ee knowledge! Put each word in a sentence 5mins

DREAM MEET QUEAN BEECH SHEAP

DREEM MEAT QUEEN BEACH SHEEP

Listen and watch the video about THE GANG OF THREE . How can they help you with
spelling? How many words can you see in your list that start with 3 consonants. Stickers
for correct answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YfuGb8f7Jo

Let’s make more words using the 6 gangs of three. 20 mins

Work through sheet 1 to organise Short-e and Long -e words . Part A

Part B remember THE GANG OF THREE! 10 mins

Work through sheet 2 to continue expanding E-sound vocabulary and spelling. 10 mins

Finish working on Heart Map and Never Ending Story. 10 mins

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SESSION 9

Learning Intentions
Revising words that start with three consonants
Short and long i- sounds
Sequencing
Game: HOMOPHONES Bean bag throw to make as many homophones as possible. Write on
the whiteboard 10mins

Gang of Three Revision:

Write a word and a sentence in your workbook for each of the consonants below 10 mins.
SCR THR SPL SPR STR SHR

Watch the video long and short i- sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_rybfUBI38
Work through sheet 1 and 2 to understand long and short i-sounds and spelling. 20 mins

Sequencing
Learning to sequence a story. Key words such as first, then, next and finally can give you
clues to determine the correct sequence. Use a highlighter to find these conjunctions 15
mins.

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