Unit E – Seasons

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to select figurative imagery to describe different seasons of the year for use in poetry with similes and metaphors, investigate spellings of words with different suffix endings and use modal verbs to compose lines of poetry.

Select figurative imagery for use in poetry composing similes and metaphors to describe different seasons of the year

Lesson One : Word Corrections
Investigate how to identify the correct spelling of different words with cial and tial suffix endings to match rules including for some words that are exceptions

Lesson Two : Spring Sentences
Practise writing sentences using modal verbs to describe the possibility or certainty of some of the special events that might happen during the spring season of the year

Lesson Three : Weather Seasons
Practise selecting vocabulary words to use in personification phrases to describe the weather that can be experienced in different seasons of the year

Lesson Four : Poetry Images
Investigate and record how to write similes and metaphors to use in lines for a poem comparing the four seasons in the year to some other objects, ideas and feelings

Lesson Five : Poetry Verses
Explain and model how to select and structure some special vocabulary word phrases to use in an extra verse for a poem describing the season of summer
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Times Tables Sums
Identify and recall facts in different times table to use when completing multiplication calculations indicating matching questions and products
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Earth in Space
Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the Solar System by using practical models and researching information
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Times Tables Games
Learn and recall facts in the multiplication times tables to utilise when playing some games to match calculation facts and products
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Football Report
Research and write a non-chronological report presenting facts and information about one of the countries participating in a football tournament