Unit B – Pet Shop

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases based on That Pesky Rat, Lauren Child.

Investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases

Lesson One : Word Building
Select and build a selection of different words by adding the phoneme sounds of al or el to a range of letter strings to use when describing pet animals

Lesson Two : Pet Homes
Select and use a selection of special vocabulary words to describe some of the places where an animal could live as a pet

Lesson Three : What Pet
Select and record a list of explanations and reasons as to why a specific type of animal would make a good pet for a family

Lesson Four : Unusual Pets
Collect and record sets of notes that can be used to describe the appearance and behaviour of an unusual animal that might be kept as a pet by a family

Lesson Five : Pet Advert
Compose and present information in an advert that can be used to describe an animal that might be for sale to families in a pet shop
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Farm Toys
Design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm
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Farm Puppet
Explore how to design and make a puppet of a farmer using a movement mechanism to illustrate the matching actions of the character
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Spinning Toy
Investigate how to build a model of a toy that includes rotational movements to show some of the different actions that might happen on a farm
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Farm Animals
Design and build a model of a toy that uses card linkages to create a range of different movements to represent actions of an animal that lives on a farm