Lesson Two – Family Celebrations
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify, record and sort some different dates that feature throughout the year to match a range of different special family events and occasions.
The class can name and sort calendar dates into order by their day and month before adding their own dates to build a sequence of special times of the year.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, record and sort some different dates that feature throughout the year to match a range of different special family events and occasions
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to identify and record different dates in the year to events and occasions and a set of cards for support ability levels to match and sort different dates for special times in the year.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort different dates in the year to match special events and occasions.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record different units of time using calendars and convert and make comparisons between times in days, hours, minutes and seconds. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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