Animal Poems
This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and collect different vocabulary words to use when composing poems about the appearance, movements and sounds made by a range of animals. The class can use the selected vocabulary in poems about animals with patterned language.
Fantastic Fish
Select and record vocabulary words that can be used to describe the shapes, colours and patterns seen on different fish to utilise when composing poems
Elephant
Select, define and record synonyms for different vocabulary words that can be used to describe a particular type of mammal in a poem to illustrate their appearance, movements and sounds
Family Pets
Select and use descriptive vocabulary words in a poem to describe some of the different animals that can be kept as pets by families
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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