Lesson Two – Advent Calendars
This religious education teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate the festive season.
The class can practise creating a calendar to count down the number of days left until Christmas by using numbers and a design illustration.
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 special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate the festive season
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify shapes and objects used to represent different times of the year and a template to create a Christmas countdown calendar using special shapes and pictures to signify and celebrate Christmas.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate Christmas.
This lesson is part of a topic scheme of work to get the children to read and respond to the sequence of events in the nativity story by using drama, role-play and art and design projects. 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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Animal Sizes
Practise using the correct vocabulary words to identify and describe the sizes of different animals that live in the world
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Animal Words
Identify and match sets of statements to describe the sizes of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of bigger and smaller
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Animal Lengths
Identify and match sets of statements to describe the length of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of longer and shorter
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Animal Heights
Identify and match sets of statements to describe the height of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of taller and shorter