Lesson Four – Changing Trees
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the changes that can happen to trees during different seasons of the year.
The class can make models of leaf shapes with different colours to add to tree shapes to illustrate how a deciduous tree can change during the summer, autumn, winter and spring.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe some of the changes that can happen to trees during different seasons of the year
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how trees can change during the four seasons of the year and a template to add materials to tree shapes to show changes to trees during the autumn, winter, spring and summer seasons.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how deciduous trees can change during the four seasons of the year including changes to the colour of leaves.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate changes to different trees during the autumn and explore how this affects animals that live in a woodland habitat including owls and squirrels. 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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Hansel and Gretel
Investigate some of the different characters, settings and plot events used to tell a traditional story and identify letters that match initial sounds of words
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Hansel and Gretel Story Scenes
Use drama and role-play to illustrate and record each of the main story events and dialogue that feature in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel
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Hansel and Gretel Story Sentences
Select and record different vocabulary words that can be used when compiling sentences to describe what happened in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel
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Hansel and Gretel Story Changes
Identify and role-play a range of narrative predictions to illustrate the sequence of events that happen in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel