Lesson Five – Party Shoes

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select, describe and record the design for a special pair of shoes that could be worn for a family party celebration.

The class can practise sorting different shoes into matching groups based on their individual properties using the correct vocabulary words such as dull and shiny.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select, describe and record the design for a special pair of shoes that could be worn for a family party celebration

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify vocabulary that can be used to describe different materials used for footwear, a set of cards to select and sort different types of shoes into groups by their matching material properties and a template to record the design for a shoe that can be worn to a specific type of party.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the design for a pair of shoes that could be worn for a special party celebration.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate, compare and test some of materials that can be used to make different types of footwear that are used for a range of functions. 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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