Lesson Five – Boxing Day

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to devise and structure storyboards to describe some of the different things that can happen at the North Pole after Christmas.

The class can select and record illustrations and sentences to show what Santa Claus and the elves might do to enjoy Boxing Day together after their busy Christmas Eve.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to devise and structure storyboards to describe some of the different things that can happen at the North Pole after Christmas

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe some of the different things that Santa might perform on Boxing Day and templates to select and record actions that Santa might do with the elves on Boxing Day and record some of the special clothing that Santa might wear on Boxing Day.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to devise storyboards describing what happens at the North Pole after Christmas.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to record and sequence recounts to describe the activities of characters who live and work at the North Pole including Santa Claus, the elves and the reindeer. 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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