Lesson Six – Visits and Trips

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain and model how to compose letters to describe a range of journeys that can be made to different locations by families on a special day out.
The class can select and add words to complete a range of different simple sentences about visiting somewhere special with their family such as the zoo or a castle.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to compose letters to describe a range of journeys that can be made to different locations by families on a special day out
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe a journey to a specific location by a family and a template to complete a letter using simple sentences to describe a family visit to somewhere special on a day out.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose letters to describe a range of journeys that can be made to different locations by a family.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that could be taken in the local and wider community. 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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Journeys
Identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that could be taken in the local and wider community
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Visits and Trips
Explain and model how to compose letters to describe a range of journeys that can be made to different locations by families on a special day out
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Quick and Slow Journeys
Identify, describe and compare ways of travelling to a range of locations in the local and wider community for different purposes
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Shopping Journeys
Describe and record some of the different journeys that can be made in the local area when going shopping for a range of products