Henry & Lucy Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 42
Unit
1 Meet Henry and Lucy
Lesson 2
Objectives
New words
Earth, happy, live, moonbeam, people, sad
Functional language
Greetings and introductions
Lexical chunks
Who are you?
What's your name? My name is…
How are you? I'm happy/sad.
Nice to meet you…
Pattern awareness
am/are/is + adjective/noun
Phonics and phonemic
awareness
Rhyming words (in chant)
Materials
Word and picture cards: Earth, happy, moonbeam,
people, sad
Word cards: live
Poster: the room
Bean bag or soft ball to throw to pupils in game
Do you remember?
Have pupils look at the picture of Henry and Lucy’s room on pages 12 and 13. Ask: What do you
see in Henry and Lucy’s room?
1a. Listen and Chant
• Play CD Track 4. Tell pupils that chants and poems usually use rhyming words at the end
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of sentences. Have them read the text silently, circling two rhyming words (sky, Hi). Invite
a pupil to the board to write the two rhyming words. Note that the words have different
spelling patterns but make the same long /i/ sound.
Ask pupils to look for names in the text. Ask how many names appear in the chant.
(1 - Mr. Moon) Discuss the use of Mr. as a title for men.
Ask pupils who the "speaker" is in the chant. (Mr. Moon) Ask pupils to identify him on the
page. Ask who he is speaking to. (Henry and Lucy)
Read the chant with the class a few times.
Elicit that only in a fantasy can the moon come and speak to people. Encourage pupils to
share other fantasy stories they are familiar with. Elicit what possible role Mr. Moon will
have in the book.
