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School Stories
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod. The class can role-play how to support visitors to the classroom.
Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod
Lesson One : New School
Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters
Lesson Two : School Friends
Use a story with a familiar setting to identify initial phonemes of matching groups of words
Lesson Three : School Words
Use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school
Lesson Four : School Cupboard
Read and respond to a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words
Lesson Five : School Visitors
Role play events and activities that might happen in a school and identify initial sounds of matching cvc words
- Butterflies
Investigate, describe and compare some of the different butterflies that can be found living in the school grounds - Caterpillars
Produce a model of a mini-beast to explore some of the different creatures that live in the school grounds - What Butterfly
Identify and describe the similarities and differences that can be seen between different species of butterfly - Seaside Subtraction
Calculate and record the difference between pairs of numbers to ten by counting back to show numbers of items sold in a shop at the seaside