Amazing Animals

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use special vocabulary words to use when composing poems with different forms to describe a range of animals. The class can practise creating Kenning and shape poems to illustrate what makes a particular animal and unique.

Animals Alive
Select and use special vocabulary words to describe the sounds and movements of some different wild animals to use when composing lines for a poem

Animal Kenning
Select and build vocabulary word phrases containing nouns and adjectives that can be used in a Kenning poem to describe a specific type of animal in the world

Sea Fish Shape Poem
Select and shape a range of special vocabulary words to use in a poem describing some of the different types of fish that live in the sea
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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