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Lesson Three – Santa’s Suitcase

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays. The class can try composing their own sentences to list things that could be inside Santa’s holiday suitcase.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays

Learning Objectives

Joining words and joining clauses using and when writing sentences. Drawing on what they already know or on background information.

Learning Outcomes

I can join pairs of words and clauses using the conjunction and. I can use what I know and what I have read to find words to describe objects.

Santa’s Suitcase

Teaching sequence to help the children use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays

Suitcase Sentences

Template to help the children write a sentence using the conjunction and to list items that might be needed by Santa for a specific holiday

Holiday Items

Activity Word bank to help the children select vocabulary to use in sentences with the conjunction and to list items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays

Santa’s Suitcase

Interactive activity to help the children use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays

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