Lesson Six – Grandparents

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise suggesting and recording some of the special ways that grandparents can help and support different members of a family.

The class can identify and describe some of the different ways that people can change as they get older both in their appearance and abilities in completing tasks.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise suggesting and recording some of the special ways that grandparents can help and support different members of a family

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the links between different members of a family and templates to design and make a card to thank a member of a family for their help and support in range of events and experiences.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how grandparents can help and support different members of a family.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood. 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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