Back To School Autumn Short Term Lesson Plans Reception to Year 6

14 weeks of short term plans

Great for cutting and pasting into your own personal school timetable.

I’ve included a sample week in the visible upload. The zip contains the lot.

sample year 2. Register Activity
Chn finish work from Meet Your New Teacher day.

9am: Input: Welcome the children to their first day of year 2! Talk about how we were feeling before coming into school, did we get very much sleep last night? Share with the children how you were feeling too!
Introduce the chn to the text of the week: First day jitters by Julia Danneberg. Read the story together and discuss the twist at the end. (Ask questions throughout)
T focus for morning: x2 groups of 6
L.O. To use features of a non-chronological report
W.I.L.F
I can…
Include a heading
Use subheadings to organize my writing
Talk about the difference between facts and fiction
(All about me) Chn create a 3D profile, including a self-portrait drawing of their head, to be used for display. Chn complete section boxes all about their family, friends, hobbies etc. Cut out the sections and arrange them inside the folded top. Put together the body parts on colored backing card, ready for the head to be attached later. Label with name sticker.
9am: Input: Quickly recap the story for this week and remind ourselves of the main character, how she was feeling and why?
Introduce class bear, explain that he was also feeling very nervous about meeting new chn and starting year 2. Display a page from (bear’s) diary, ask the chn to highlight the adjectives they can see. (perform an action when they hear an adjective word)
T to highlight them in a colour as they read.
Explain the independent challenge is to match up the adjective words to the different emotion cards.
T focus for morning: x2 groups of 6
L.O. To use adjectives
W.I.L.F
I can…
Use capital letters and full stops
Use first person
Use commas between adjectives
Check my sentences make sense
(Writing it in the present tense) Chn to write a short diary entry about how they were feeling the night before they came back to school, include adjectives to describe how you were feeling.

*Have Monday’s 3D profiles out on a table to finish off.

TA focus for first thing: To assess SPP chn against current targets, make notes and set up folders for works to begin.