Lesson One – Santa’s Postcards

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and select some special vocabulary words that can be used to describe different places that could be visited by Santa Claus.

The class can use the five senses to produce list of words that can be used to describe a specific holiday location. that Santa might visit such as the seaside or a farm.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and select some special vocabulary words that can be used to describe different places that could be visited by Santa Claus

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe vocabulary that can be used to describe different locations that Santa could visit on holiday and a template to select and record vocabulary to describe different holiday locations using the five senses.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary to describe different places that could be visited by Santa Claus.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a narrative story to describe some of the different places that Santa could visit on a holiday. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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