Unit F – Family Holiday

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense. The class can compose sentences to use in postcards describing what happened during a holiday.

Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense

Lesson One : Seaside Storyboard
Explore how to identify and recount some of the special events and experiences that can happen when on holiday at the seaside using example sentences in the past tense

Lesson Two : Seaside Postcards
Practise completing written and pictorial postcards to describe some of the events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday to the seaside using the past tense

Lesson Three : Seaside Rhymes
Practise writing sentences and word phrases to recount some of the special events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday to the seaside

Lesson Four : Tongue Twisters
Practise composing and performing some different tongue twisters about special family holidays using matching initial sounds for each set of words in the poems

Lesson Five : Holiday Diary
Practise using past tense vocabulary words in example sentences to describe some of the special things that might happen during a family visit to the seaside
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Food and Drink Colours
Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals
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Calendar Days
Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar
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Fantasy Stories
Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings
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Class Portraits
Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate