Family Fireworks

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to select special vocabulary for sights and sounds to use when composing poems describing different fireworks used by families on Bonfire Night. The class can combine vocabulary words to build lines for a poem describing different fireworks.

Select special vocabulary for sights and sounds to use when composing poems describing different fireworks used by families on Bonfire Night

Lesson One : Firework Colours

Practise using the conjunction and to list and record descriptions of some colour shades that can be seen in fireworks in matching example sentences

Lesson Two : Firework Lists

Explore how to create lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe some of the special sounds made by different fireworks on Bonfire night

Lesson Three : Firework Party

Investigate how to select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party in an example sequenced recount

Lesson Four : Bonfire Night

Explore how to select and use special vocabulary words to describe some of the sights and sounds that might be experienced on the fifth of November

Lesson Five : Firework Show

Practise reviewing and performing poems about Bonfire Night events by adding musical sound effects and illustrations

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