Christmas World
This geography scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas by following special customs and traditions that reflect religious and secular stories. The class can compose recounts and reports to make comparisons and highlight differences.
Explore how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas by following a range of special customs and traditions that reflect religious and secular stories
Lesson One : Festival of Santa Lucia
Plan and hold a school procession to explore and illustrate some of the special ways that Christmas is celebrated by families in Sweden
Lesson Two : Christmas in Germany
Research and write a recount about what might happen when visiting relatives in Germany to describe some of their special Christmas traditions
Lesson Three : Italian Christmas Calendar
Record and sequence some of the special events and traditions that can illustrate how Christmas is celebrated by families in Italy
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Times Tables Division
Practise using facts in each of the times tables to support the division of pairs of numbers when solving a range of problems
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Football Teams
Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world