Work Diaries

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to select and compose fictional and factual recounts describing some of the things that can happen when completing jobs at home in some other locations. The class can use time adverbials to sequence events listed in their work diary recounts.

Garden Planting
Explain and record how to write a factual recount to describe how to plant some different flowers in a garden during the spring

Farm Diary
Explain and model how to write a factual recount describing some of the special jobs that might be completed on a farm by a farmer

Factory Diary
Explain and model how to write a factual recount describing some of the special jobs that might be completed in a factory by the workers
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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