This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use special vocabulary words to use when composing poems with different forms to describe a range of animals. The class can practise creating Kenning and shape poems to illustrate what makes a particular animal and unique.

Animals Alive

Select and use special vocabulary words to describe the sounds and movements of some different wild animals to use when composing lines for a poem

Animal Kenning

Select and build vocabulary word phrases containing nouns and adjectives that can be used in a Kenning poem to describe a specific type of animal in the world

Sea Fish Shape Poem

Select and shape a range of special vocabulary words to use in a poem describing some of the different types of fish that live in the sea

  • Rounding Hundreds

    Rounding Hundreds

    Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Rounding Tens

    Rounding Tens

    Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Classic Animal Stories

    Classic Animal Stories

    Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters

  • Cities, Towns and Villages

    Cities, Towns and Villages

    Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition