Unit C – Weather Postcards

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on family holidays, practise adding the suffix ed to word roots to indicate the past tense in sentences and investigate punctuation to use for statements and questions.

Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

Lesson One : Word Changes

Practise adding the suffix ed to different word roots with no changes to the spelling to make some special words that can be used to describe family holiday events and experiences

Lesson Two : Holiday Places

Practise writing and punctuating statements and questions to name and describe some of the different places that could be visited on a family holiday

Lesson Three : Holiday Sentences

Investigate and record how to use the suffix ed to convert example sentences from the present to the past tense to describe different holiday events and experiences

Lesson Four : Holiday Lists

Select and record lists of some of the special vocabulary words that could be used to locate and describe a family visit to a holiday location in the world

Lesson Five : Holiday Postcard

Explain and model how to compose a written recount to use on a postcard describing events that might be experienced on a family holiday to a specific location in the world

  • Plurals Sentences Suffix s

    Plurals Sentences Suffix s

    Practise converting singular nouns into plurals by adding the suffix s to build words to use in sentences on different topics and themes

  • Family Times

    Family Times

    Identify, calculate and record the start and finish times and durations of different family events and experiences using analogue and digital clocks

  • Transport Poems

    Transport Poems

    Read and respond to poems about different ways to travel using a range of transportation vehicles

  • Final Sound /v/

    Final Sound /v/

    Explore and record the spelling and meaning of some different words that end in the /v/ phoneme sound