Welcome to the J.Curriculum. My name is teacher Jace and today I will take you through a brief example of my self made curriculum giving you an example of two units.
Firstly let me explain to you a little more about the J.Curriculum and why it is beneficial for your children or students. The things we utilize in this curriculum help your youngster develop knowledge by using daily things like weather or fruit like in our demo units. This curriculum incorporates unit vocabulary terms into topics such as mathematics, storytelling , language, and arts, resulting in a highly interdisciplinary curriculum.
Please have a look at the next two Units to see how they can benefit your child.
Week 1: Weather (20 min classes for N2)
Vocabulary: How's the weather? It's sunny/rainy/snowing/cloudy
Monday: Language
Objective: To be able to describe the weather.
Warm up
Ask, "How's the weather?" It's sunny/It's rainy/It's cloudy/It's windy/It's snowy.
Stick flashcards onto an open umbrella. Ask the students to chant, "How's the weather, how's the weather today" teacher should spin the umbrella.
Weather activity ideas
Spin the bottle: Place the flashcards on the floor in the shape of a circle. Ask "how's the weather?" before spinning the bottle in the middle of the circle. Ask the children to respond accordingly
Tornado game: Ask the students to stand up in front of their chairs. As the flashcards are shown by the teacher, the students do a corresponding action e.g. dance for sunny/spin for windy/jump in a puddle for rainy. When the teacher shows the tornado card the students should quickly sit down
Tuesday: Music/Drama
Objective: To learn about weather through song
Warm up
Play a game to review the weather vocabulary
Activity
Learn the words/ actions to a weather song Suggestions
How's the weather (Super Simple)
Eensy weensy spider (Super Simple)
Hows the weather (Dream English)
Wednesday: Storytelling
Objective: To be able to sort items of clothing into weather categories
Warm up
Review a song
Activity
Read the book “Maisy‟s Wonderful Weather” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2IlbyUPOo
For each type of weather ask children to identify the items of clothing and talk about the things you can do e.g. fly a kite when it's windy
Thursday: Math/Science
Objective: To be able to sort items of clothing into weather categories
Warm up
Draw some items of clothing on the whiteboard. Ask the children if we wear each one in "sunny weather" or "rainy weather‟
Activity
Weather clothing sort/color
Print out the clothing sorting worksheet
Ask students to sort the items of clothing into "sunny weather‟ and "rainy weather‟ categories
Friday: Art
Objective: To learn how to draw different types of weather
Warm up
Demonstrate to the children how to draw different types of weather
Activity
Ask children to draw the weather using the template provided
Week 2: Fruit (20 min class for N2)
Vocabulary: Apples/ pears/ oranges/ strawberries/ bananas/ grapes
Monday: Language
Objective: To learn the names of different fruits
Warm up
Go through the fruit vocabulary - apples/ pears/ oranges/ strawberries/ bananas/ grapes
Listen to the Dream English fruit song to introduce additional fruit vocabulary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OESBH5SK_9c
Activity
Show children the flashcards. Encourage them to say the names of each item of fruit
When the teacher shows the"silly banana‟ flashcard, the whole class should shout "silly banana‟, stand up and switch places
The teacher can also change what he/ she wants the students to do when the silly banana card comes out e.g. jump 10 times
Tuesday: Music/Drama
Objective: To learn fruit vocabulary through song
Warm up
Play the"silly banana game‟ to review the vocabulary
Activity
Review the song “Welcome to the fruit market” by Genki English
Place the flashcards on the whiteboard
Follow the song. Point to the fruits. Encourage children to sing the names of each fruit
Note: The teacher will need to print the Genki English flashcards, which go alongside the song.
Wednesday: Storytelling
Objective: To learn about fruit through creative storytelling
Warm up
Review the song “Welcome to the fruit market” by Genki English
Activity
Read the classic Eric Carle story “The very hungry caterpillar”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY
After reading, ask children to recall how many of each item of fruit the caterpillar ate on each day of the week
Thursday: Math/Science
Objective: To count and sequence items of fruit according to the storybook “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Warm up
Review the weekly song. Review the storybook “The very hungry caterpillar”
Activity
The Hungry Caterpillar story sequencing using the “story sorting” template and cards provided, ask children to help put the cards (fruit) in the correct order
Friday: Art
Objective: To make faces using fruit and vegetables
Warm up
Introduce the "fruit face‟ craft activity. Look at the examples provided and ask the children to identify the fruit and vegetable body parts e.g. “carrot nose”, “strawberry cheeks
Activity
Color in, photocopy and cut out the fruit and vegetables in advance
Provide each child with a sheet of A3 paper and a glue stick
Ask children to make their own funny fruit and vegetable faces
Encourage children to talk about their creations