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Healthy lunch; hard and soft
Connect P2 Term 1: Unit 6
GoalMake a healthy lunch, say hard or soft, and hear the sound dr.
New words
healthy lunch · food that is good for your bodyhard · not soft; you cannot squeeze itsoft · you can squeeze itdrum · you hit it to make a sounddraw · make a picture with a pencil
Explanation
A healthy lunch has fruit, bread, cheese or chicken, and water. We eat ice cream and fries only sometimes. Things are hard or soft. A rock is hard. Wool is soft. The letters d and r together say dr, like in drum, dress, dragon and drink.
Worked examples
Mum
What would you like in your lunch box, Jana?
Jana
I’d like bread, cheese and an apple.
Mum
Good! And some water to drink.
Listen and say. Find the dr.
Now you. Say one hard thing and one soft thing in your room. Then write dr in the air.
Class activity
Make a healthy lunch. The child draws a lunch box and puts in four healthy foods. Then the child says: This is hard. This is soft. (bread is soft, an apple is hard). Finish with: dr, dr, drink water!
Practice
1
Listen. Does the word start with dr or fr?
…
dr.
2
Look. Which one is hard: a rock or wool?
A rock.
3
Which is good to eat every day: an apple or ice cream?
An apple.
4
Fill in: __ess (dr or cl?). You wear it.
dr (dress).
5
Writing: write dr three times. Copy the word ‘drink’.
dr dr dr drink