Lesson One – Winter Garden
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden during the winter for a range of special purposes.
The class can practise completing a survey to record different pieces of information about some of the animals that are visiting an area in the school grounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden during the winter for a range of special purposes
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden in the winter and a template to collect and record information about some of the animals that could be seen in a garden habitat during a season of the year.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden habitat during the winter.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to explore how animals adapt to the changes to the natural world in the winter including animals that live in Britain and other habitats such as the arctic. 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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Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
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Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
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Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative
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Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale