Family Holidays

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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. The class can suggest how families might respond to different scenarios that could occur on a holiday.

Holiday Weather
Practise composing a recount to describe different types of weather patterns in countries around the world that might be experienced on a family holiday

Camping Trip
Explain and model how to write a diary entry about a camping trip to a special location using adverbials of place to structure the events and describe nouns in a recount

Summer Trips
Practise writing and publishing recounts of different events and experiences that could occur during a family summer holiday to somewhere special in the world
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Friction
Investigate, describe and test the effects of air and water resistance and friction on different objects and materials presenting results using graphs and tables
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Capacity Conversions
Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres
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Story Conjunctions
Identify and model how to link clauses in sentences related to some of the special characters and events that feature in different stories
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Colon Lists
Explain and model how to use colons to introduce lists on different topics and themes when they are preceded by a matching independent clause