Billy's Bucket - Week 2 Teaching Slides

In the second week of the teaching slides for 'Billy's Bucket', Year 1 students delve into a series of engaging activities designed to enhance their understanding of possession and narrative structure. The activities begin with an exploration of a picture, identifying items that belong to Billy, his mum, or dad. The children are encouraged to create sentences using these items, thereby practicing their sentence formation skills. They are also tasked with completing a timeline, which aids in their comprehension of the story's sequence and encourages them to predict future events. Additionally, the students are prompted to formulate questions for the character Billy, developing their questioning and inquisitive thinking.

A key focus of these activities is the use of apostrophes to indicate possession. The slides guide students through examples of how to correctly use apostrophes with nouns to show ownership, such as "Billy’s toy car" or "mum’s high-heeled shoe". Students are then asked to apply this knowledge by making a list of items from the picture and assigning possession with apostrophes. The exercises progress to sentence writing, where the children use the items and their associated possessive forms in full sentences. For instance, they might write, "Billy’s toy car was powered by battery." This approach not only reinforces grammar concepts but also encourages creative thinking as students imagine the story behind each item. Year 1 students are specifically instructed to come up with five questions for Billy, using question words provided as prompts, while Year 2 students are expected to create eight questions, fostering a deeper level of engagement with the text.