Amazing Animals

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
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team