Unit A – School Stories

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod. The class can role-play how to support visitors to the classroom.

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod

Lesson One : New School
Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting about school events and identify and record the initial phonemes of names of the characters in the narrative story

Lesson Two : School Friends
Practise using a story with a familiar setting that takes place in a school location to identify the initial phonemes that can be used to spell matching groups of words

Lesson Three : School Words
Practise using a story with a familiar setting to identify and model writing initial sounds for some of the different objects that can be found in a school location

Lesson Four : School Cupboard
Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting about starting in a new school and identify the initial phonemes that comprise different words

Lesson Five : School Visitors
Select and role play events and experiences that might happen in a school and identify and record the initial sounds that can be heard in matching cvc words
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T-shirts
Select and combine a range of different shapes, colours and patterns that can be used to design and print a t-shirt for a specific function or event
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Fashion Parade
Select and design clothing patterns to use on t-shirts matching a range of different family functions, events and occasions
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T-shirt Shapes
Investigate and record some of the different shapes that can be used to make pattern designs on clothing to match a special function, occasion or event
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T-shirt Printing
Explore and test different ways of printing shapes and patterns on fabric to represent occasions and events to use on example t-shirts