What your child learned in class. Home study activity. Extra practice. I did it!

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1 Unit8 Let s Talk Student Book 2, Unit 8, pages Doing Things Conversation: Let s play a game! What are you doing? I m riding a bicycle. What are you doing? We re swimming. Sing What Are You Doing? with your child. Take turns singing each of the parts in the song and doing the gestures. Play a game with your child and his or her friends, using the verbs from this lesson and the previous lessons. Ask What are you doing? Each child answers, Watch what I do! as he or she does the action. Then each child describes the action saying, I m (riding a bicycle). Then create new verses for the song using other verbs from earlier units. Workbook page 65 Student Audio CD Tracks ask and answer What are you doing? talk about actions. sing What Are You Doing?

2 Let s Learn Student Book 2, Unit 8, pages Conversation: Doing Things: What s he doing? He s drawing. dancing, swimming, sleeping, drawing, singing, running, walking, reading Sing the Doing Things song with your child. Take turns singing each of the parts in the song. Have your child write the vocabulary words, or draw pictures of the words, on pieces of paper, one piece for each word. Fold the pieces of paper and mix them up. Then each of you take four papers and look at them. Put them in the order that you would like to do them and share it with each other, saying I m (reading). I m (drawing). I m (dancing). I m (singing). Next pretend that someone else is doing the activities. Ask each other What s he or she doing? Use the drawings to answer the question. Workbook pages Student Audio CD Tracks ask and answer What s he or she doing? describe physical actions.

3 Let s Learn More Student Book 2, Unit 8, pages Conversations: More Doing Things: Listen and do verbs: Where is Kate? She s at the library. at home, at school, at the park, at the store, at the library, at the zoo Snap your fingers. Stamp your feet. Open your mouth. Close your eyes. Talk with your child about the different places family members are, using the vocabulary in this lesson and discuss what they are doing. Practice the Listen and Do verbs and then say them in a rhythmic pattern to create a chant. Workbook pages Student Audio CD Tracks talk about what one does at different locations. identify locations at (the library). ask and answer Where is (Kate)? say the Listen and Do verb phrases.

4 Let s Read Student Book 2, Unit 8, pages Phonics Phonics: Long vowel Uu words (huge, tube, blue, glue, few, new) Have your child practice saying all the long U words with you. Listen to the Student Audio CD with your child and practice the correct pronunciation of each word, practicing all the sounds (t + u + b + silent e = tube) in the words. Then ask your child to say The Long U Phonics Chant along with the audio. Invite your child to read the Little Book Making Art. Encourage your child to write and draw stories of his or her own, using the phonics words. Workbook pages 70-71, Making Art Student Audio CD Tracks say or sing The Long U Phonics Chant. name the long U words. read the Making Art Little Book with you.

5 Let s Review Student Book 2, Unit 8, pages What your child reviewed in class Units 7 and 8: Conversations, vocabulary, language Have your child draw pictures of as many verb phrases as he or she can remember from Units 7 & 8 and the rest of the book. Encourage him or her to describe the actions by saying I m (brushing my teeth). Then point to each picture and ask your child Is (he jumping)? Have your child respond with Yes, (he) is. or No, (he) isn t. Take turns asking the questions. For extra practice, identify where the child is and say what he or she is doing. Workbook pages Student Audio CD Tracks 59, 60, 61, 62, 63-65, 68, 69, 70, 71, My child can say the words from Units 7 & 8. ask and answer What are you doing? ask and answer What is (she) doing? say the phonics letters and sounds and read stories.