Week 19 · Unit 8 (B): a story set at a toy stall (reference only), verbs followed by -ing, gh words, bar graphs and pie charts (maths), a description of my favorite game, project board game, self-assessment · 3 lessons
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Laugh or bought? Words with gh and graphs
Connect Primary 6 Term 2, Unit 8: pp. 26–33
GoalSay the sounds of gh and read a bar graph and a pie chart.
New words
laugh · to make happy sounds when something is funnyenough · as much as we needbought · the past of buygraph · a picture that shows numberscategory · a group of things of the same kindtotal · all the numbers added together
Explanation
The letters gh can say different things. In some words gh says /f/: laugh, cough, enough, tough. In other words the gh is silent, so we do not say it: bought, thought, night, light, daughter. Now graphs. A bar graph shows numbers with bars: a taller bar means a bigger number. A pie chart shows parts of a whole. A class of 20 children voted for a favourite game. The categories are hide and seek, skipping, board games, marbles and hopscotch. The total is 20. Look at the bar graph and the pie chart and answer the questions.
Worked examples
Listen and say. First /f/, then silent gh.
Look at the pie chart of the same votes. Biggest slice? Smallest slice?
I laughed enough. It was a tough night. We bought a light and thought about it.
Listen and say.
Now you. Ask five friends or family members which game they like best. Make a small bar graph.
Class activity
Class vote. The child asks ten people for their favourite game and records the votes in a table. Then the child draws a bar graph, says the biggest and smallest categories, and checks that the votes add up to the total.
Practice
1
Look at the bar graph. How many children chose hide and seek?
6.
2
Which game did the fewest children choose?
hopscotch (2 children).
3
How many children chose skipping or marbles?
7 children.
4
Add all the votes to check the total: 6 + 4 + 5 + 3 + 2.
