Celebrating Summer
This assembly teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and describe how the season of summer is the same or different as other times and seasons during the year.
The class can identify and describe some of the special things that they can do with their family and friends during this season of the year to celebrate summer.
Download this teaching pack including an assembly plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and describe how the season of summer is the same or different as other times and seasons during the year
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe a range of summer events and experiences and a shared reading text of a prayer to reflect on special ways that a family can use to celebrate the summer.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how the season of summer is the same or different as other times during the year.
This assembly can support development in learning how the world changes during the four seasons of the year and how each special time can affect individuals and families. There are teaching activities for shared learning and reflection and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty