Christmas Lists

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and model how to compile lists of items that might be needed for different Christmas events or experiences. The class can change some words into plural nouns when making lists for specific functions.

Christmas Party
Identify and record how to write lists of foods, drinks and games that might be needed for a class Christmas celebration

Reindeer Lists
Practise writing lists to record some of the different items that Santa might need to care for his team of reindeer at the North Pole

Santa’s Workshop
Identify and record how to convert singular nouns into plurals to list some of the different items that might be used by Santa in his workshop
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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