Easter Story Poems

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and publishing different types of poems that use line structures and vocabulary to illustrate scenes in the Easter story. The class can explain how to express ideas and thoughts about what happened to Jesus at Easter.

Easter Words
Read and compose a selection of acrostic poems to explain the meaning of some special vocabulary words that are connected to the Easter story

Easter Kenning
Read and write example Kenning poems to illustrate and describe some of the different characters that feature in scenes from the Easter story

Easter Haikus
Read and write example Haiku poems to express ideas and thoughts about some of the main events and significant characters that feature in the Easter story
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition