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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