Foundation Stage : Curriculum Topics : Journeys : Lesson Two – Family Visits


This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and describe some of the different journeys that can be made to a range of locations by families. The class can make lists to match a range of locations that their family could visit on a special day out.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and describe some of the different journeys that can be made to a range of locations by families

Learning Objectives

Know about similarities and differences in relation to places. Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Learning Outcomes

I can describe ways to travel to locations that are near and far. I can say how different forms of transport are the same or different.

Family Visits

Teaching sequence to help the children select and describe some of the different journeys that can be made to a range of locations by families

What Transport

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify places that can be visited using different forms of transport

Visit Locations

Activity cards to help the children identify and describe some of the journeys that their family could make to different places

Visit Lists

Template to get the children to record transport and activities to match a specific location that they can visit with their family

Family Visits

Interactive activity to help the children select and describe some of the different journeys that can be made to a range of locations by families

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and describe some of the different journeys that can be made to a range of locations by families

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