Video: Needs of Pollinators - Matching Sight Words to Pictures
In this video, a Foundation-Year 1 teacher is matching sight words to photos of previous activities. The learning area is Science. The lesson follows on from activities the previous day when the students helped to meet the needs of pollinators by planting flowers, building bee hotels and preparing water bowls. (See videos From principles to practice: planting flowers and From principles to practice: making drinking bowls.)
The teacher uses this chance to practice sight words as a prompt to consolidate learning, and make sure that students understand the needs that were being met through yesterday’s activities.
Key Takeaways
- Notice how the teacher has photos of the student activities the previous day up on the white board (planting flowers, making bee hotels etc.). These photos act as a reminder and prompt for today’s activity.
- Notice how she builds vocabulary meaning by matching the words to real life, and to illustrations on the white board
- Notice how she uses the words as a prompt for long oral turns when students explain the processes related to that word