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Lesson Six – Holiday Postcard

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to compose a postcard to a friend describing a visit to a seaside on holiday to make comparisons between other places. The class can describe and compare a holiday at the seaside with other locations that they might visit with their families.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to compose a postcard to a friend describing a visit to a seaside on holiday to make comparisons between other places

Learning Objectives

Identify and describe places in the local and wider environment. Make comparisons between physical and political geographical features.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify and describe different environments in the local and wider environment. I can say how specific locations are the same or different.

Holiday Postcard

Teaching sequence to help the children compose a postcard to a friend describing a visit to a seaside on holiday to make comparisons between other places

Holiday Places

Shared reading text to help the children identify and describe some of the experiences that can encounter when visiting different places on holiday

Holiday Postcard

Template to help the children select and compose a recount of a family holiday visit to a seaside location

Holiday Postcard (support)

Template to help the children select and compose a recount of a family holiday visit to a seaside location

Holiday Postcard

Interactive activity to help the children compose a postcard to a friend describing a visit to a seaside on holiday to make comparisons between other places

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to compose a postcard to a friend describing a visit to a seaside on holiday to make comparisons between other places

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