Key Stage One : English : Extra : Family Fireworks

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to select special vocabulary for sights and sounds to use when composing poems describing different fireworks used by families on Bonfire Night. The class can combine vocabulary words to build lines for a poem describing different fireworks.

Select special vocabulary for sights and sounds to use when composing poems describing different fireworks used by families on Bonfire Night

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Lesson One : Firework Colours

Practise using the conjunction and to list descriptions of firework colour shades in sentences

Lesson Two : Firework Lists

Create lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe sounds made by different fireworks on Bonfire night

Lesson Three : Firework Party

Select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party

Lesson Four : Bonfire Night

Select and use vocabulary to describe sights and sounds that might be experienced on the fifth of November.

Lesson Five : Firework Show

Review and perform poems about Bonfire Night by adding musical sound effects and illustrations

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