The Orchid School

Baner
Syllabus Overview 2015- 2016
Std : I
Subject : English
Lesson /
Month Expected Learning Objective Activities/FAs Planned
Week Content / Name of the Book
● Identify characters and events of a story.
My Balloon Pg nos 8 to 14 ●Memory game: Memorize
● Recognise and read sight words.
(1-2 April) a sequence of words and then repeat.
● Acquire print awareness.
●Find and tell who the people or animals
● Identify characters and events of a story. were in the story.
My Balloon Pg nos 8 to 14 ● Recognise and read sight words.
(6-10 April)
● Acquire print awareness. ●Groupwise enactment of the story
sequences.
●Memory game: Memorize
APRIL ● Identify naming words and categorize them according to a sequence of words and then repeat.
Phonics Rhyme pg nos 15 to 18
person, place, animal or thing.
Pat the Cat
(13-17April) ● Can use looks like to compare the apparance of things. ●Find and tell who the people or animals
Gwen the Hen
were in the story.

●Memory game: Memorize

● Identify naming words and categorize them according to a sequence of words and then repeat.
Phonics Rhyme pg nos 15 to 18
person, place, animal or thing.
Pat the Cat
(20-23 April) ● Can use looks like to compare the apparance of things. ●Find and tell who the people or animals
Gwen the Hen
were in the story.

Summer Break( 24th April-9th June)

● Act out the story/ Dramatization.

● Identify the characters and their details in the story.
● Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.
● Game: Touch/Identify body parts, and say
Keechu Monkey Can't Sleep ● Can read, pronounce and write CVC words.
the name simultaneously. ● List names of
● Identify the rhyming words.
(9-12 June) 5 friends in alphabetical order.
● Can write, read and pronounce the words ending with -ck
and -ng.

Phonics Rhymes
● Identify the characters and their details in the story.
●Todd the Frog
● Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.
●Kit Likes to Sit Acting out the Action Words
(15-20 June) ● Can read, pronounce and write CVC words.
● Identify the rhyming words.

JUNE
 ● Identify the characters and their details in the story.
JUNE

Yum,Cakes ! ● Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.

●Memory game: Memorize
(22-26June) a sequence of words and then repeat.
Poem ● Can read, pronounce and write CVC words.
Cheenu's Grandpa
● Identify the rhyming words.

● Identify the characters and their details in the story.

● Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.

Poem ●Memory game: Memorize
(29-30 June)
●My Friend Shelly a sequence of words and then repeat.
● Can read, pronounce and write CVC words.

● Identify the rhyming words.

 Test 1,Test
FA 1
2,Test 3

● Identify the characters and their details in the story.

●Mick, My Duck ● Write sentences with capital letters and full stops. ●Make sentences using the words that the
(1-3 July) ● Can read, pronounce and write CVC words. students made.(oral game).
● Identify the rhyming words.

● Identify the characters and their details in the story. ●Draw pictures that go with the sentences for
● Write sentences with capital letters and full stops. the sight words.
●The King's Song
(6-10 July) ● Can read, pronounce and write CVC words. ●Make sentences using the words that the
● Identify the rhyming words. students made.(oral game).
● Use pictures to read words. ●Draw pictures that go with the sentences for
JULY ● Can make thank you cards for their friends. the sight words.
● The only Elephant in School
● Can predict the story using pictures.
(13-17 July) Pg nos.44 to 51
● Identify pronouns in the story'. ●Make sentences using the words that the
students made.(oral game).
● Use pictures to read words. ●Draw pictures that go with the sentences for
● Can make thank you cards for their friends. the sight words.
● The only Elephant in School
● Can predict the story using pictures.
(20-24 July) Pg nos.44 to 51
● Identify pronouns in the story'. ●Make sentences using the words that the
students made.(oral game).
● Can ask questions beginning with 'wh' words. ●Make sentences and some tongue twisters
● Tongue Twisters with 'wh' ● Can answer the 'wh' questions.
(27-31July)

● Can ask and answer questions to understand the sory ● Write/mark/cirlce

better. capital letter words
● Identify naming part and telling part in a sentence and full stop.
● Able to make words by changing letters. ●Give letters on the board and ask the
● A piece of cake children to make words out of them.
(3-7 Aug) pg nos 57 to 65 ●Act out the action words.
●Narration of a story identifying the
beginning, middle and end of the story.
● Say a word aloud and ask them to identify
the blend in them.
● Can ask and answer questions to understand the sory ●Narration of a story identifying the
better. beginning, middle and end of the story.
● Act out the story/ Dramatization.
● Identify naming part and telling part in a sentence
●Babu's sons.
(10-14 Aug) Pg nos. 69 to 76
● Able to make words by changing letters.
AUG
● Identify topic and rhyming words in poems.
AUG

Phonics Rhyme: ● Able to make words by changing letters. ● Say a word aloud and ask them to identify
● My Friend Brand ● Identify topic and rhyming words in poems. the blend in them.
(17-21 Aug) ●The Sheep and the Bee ● Use rhyming words to write a poem.
Notebook work ● Can ask and answer questions to understand the sory Notebook work
better.
● Identify naming part and telling part in a sentence
● Able to make words by changing letters.
● Identify topic and rhyming words in poems.
(24-28 Aug) ● Use rhyming words to write a poem.
● Can read, pronounce and write /ai/ and /ie/ words.
 Test1, Test2,
FA 2
Test 3

● Identify the characters and main event of a poetry.

●Watch Me Grow. ●Make sentences and write with capital letter
● Use rhyming words to write a poem.
I paint the wall and full stop(make word cards and arrange it
(1-4 Sept) ● Can read, pronounce and write /ai/ and /ie/ words.
Tie your lace in order).

● Identify the characters and main event of a story.

● Retell a story.
●Pairing children for exchange of dialogues.
● I Don't like My Hair pg nos 87 to 96 ● Identify and write contractions for 'not'.
(7-11Sept)
● List details related to the characters and setting.
● Write a story about a character's likes and dislikes.
●Make sentences and write with capital letter
●The Star and I and full stop(make word cards and arrange it
SEPT My Stork likes corn ● Can read, pronounce and write /ar/ and /or/ words. in order).
14-18 Sept)
● The Girl and the bird ● Say a word aloud and ask them to identify
the blend in them.
● Differentiate between statements, exclamations and
questions.
● Identify and read exclamatory sentences.
●Ready for School. Pg nos 113 to 115 Poetry ●Dramatization.
(21-25Sept) ●Identify the character's daily routine in the poem
● Can write about a day in his/her life.
● Can read, pronounce and write words with the letter 'c'
● Write a story about a character's likes and dislikes. Notebook work
Notebook work
(28-30 Sept)

SA 1 Syllabus

● Identify and describe settings with a story.

● Can compare two texts.
● Use describing words to describe things. ●Picture reading, with emphasis on the
●A Rain Game pg nos 101 to 108 ● Describe the setting of a story. naming words, action words, and the
(5-9 Oct)
problems and solutions.
● Identify and describe settings with a story.
● Can compare two texts. ●Picture reading, with emphasis on the
●A Rain Game pg nos 101 to 108 ● Use describing words to describe things. naming words, action words, and the
OCT (12-16 Oct)
problems and solutions.
● Identify and describe settings with a story. ●Reconstruct a jumbled sentence.
●Where is Gola's Home? Pg Nos 117 to 125 ● Can compare two texts.
(19-23 Oct)
● Use describing words to describe things. ●Picture reading, with emphasis on the
● Identify and describe settings with a story. ●Reconstruct a jumbled sentence.
● Can compare two texts.
●Where is Gola's Home? Pg Nos 117 to 125 ● Use describing words to describe things. ●Picture reading, with emphasis on the
(26-31 Oct)
naming words, action words, and the
problems and solutions.
 Phonics Rhyme: Tell Me Why ●Memory game: Memorize
● Use rhyming words to write a poem.
(2-4 Nov) a sequence of words and then repeat.

NOV
 NOV Diwali Break (5th-22nd Nov)

●Story Writing Pg Nos 131 to 133 ● Can draw pictures and write an original story and share,
edit their story by adding details. ● Create your own story and share it with
(23-30 Nov) your friends.

Test 1,Test 2,
FA 3
Test 3

●Ask the students to bring different calendars

and discuss/present in front of the class.
(1-4 Dec)
● My Day at the Park. Pg nos 134 to 141 ● Write a paragraph about the places they visit. ●Picture talk using preposition words.
●Ask the students to bring different calendars
and discuss/present in front of the class.
(7-11 Dec)
● My Day at the Park. Pg nos 134 to 141 ● Write a paragraph about the places they visit. ●Picture talk using preposition words.
DEC ● Can read, pronounce and write u_e, -ou, -ow, /oo/ and
Block 22 /ue/ words. ●Memory game: Memorize
(14-18 Dec)
Phonics Rhyme: The Brown Owl a sequence of words and then repeat.

(21-22Dec)
Notebook work ● Write a paragraph about the places they visit. Notebook work
Christmas Break
(23rd-2nd Jan)
● Identify the main idea of a story.
Identify information being imparted by a lesson
(4-8 Jan) ● What is a Tree? Pg Nos 145 to 152
●Picture description.
● Identify the main idea of a story.
Identify information being imparted by a lesson
(11-14 Jan)
● What is a Tree? Pg Nos 145 to 152 ●Picture description.
JAN
● Write a paragraph on uses of a tree
(18-22 Jan) Notebook work Notebook work

● Write a paragraph on uses of a tree

(25-29 Jan)
Notebook work Notebook work

Test 1,Test 2,
FA 4
Test 3

● Identify the main idea of a story. ●Picture description.

●Play fun game in which the students orally

(1-5 Feb)
● Clean Your Room. Pg nos 155 to 159 ● Use prepositions to tell the location of something. unscramble funny sentences made up by the

FEB

FEB ● Identify the main idea of a story.
(8-12 Feb) ● Use prepositions to tell the location of something.
● Write and follow the instructions to draw things in a
● Clean Your Room. Pg nos 155 to 159 picture.
● Identify the main idea of a story.
●Picture description.
●Play fun game in which the students orally
unscramble funny sentences made up by the
teacher/their classmates.

(15-19 Feb) Notebook work Notebook work

Phonic Rhyme: My Parrot and I ● Can read, pronounce and write words ending with -le, 'ie'
(1 -5 Mar) and 'ee' sounds. ● Picture description.

Phonic Rhyme: My Parrot and I ● Can read, pronounce and write words ending with -le, 'ie'
(8-11 Mar) and 'ee' sounds. ● Picture description.

(14-18 Mar)
MARCH Bed in Summer. Pg no 164 ● Identify rhyming words in poem. ● Recap of grammar topics.
(21- 26 Mar) ● Write small stories to give it as an article for
(21- 25 Mar) Orchid Samachaar’ or Orkids online
Notebook work ● Identify the main idea of a story. magazine.

( 28 -30 Mar) ● Write and follow the instructions to draw things in a

Notebook work picture. ● Recap of grammar topics.

SA 2 Syllabus