Introducing Diwali to pupils, including a hyperlink to the BBC story of Diwali. Ends on Rangoli patterns (follow up activity to create own patterns).

A main activity for year 1 to introduce the concept of time connectives. Children are able to move the sentences around and insert an appropriate time word. Higher ability work is on the IWB slide; MA and LA have worksheets to continue this work.

Children are given a paper pizza and ingredients and are asked to either follow the instructions to make their pizza (LA), insert time connectives to help the instructions make sense (MA) or write their own instructions. LO. - Understanding and interpreting instructional texts. Reading instructions and recognising features of instructions. Success Criteria - I can read instructions. I can follow instructions. I can understand features of instructions, including time words.

This is a simple IWB show to introduce the topics of Time Connectives by showing time connectives and allowing the children to drag the sentences around and insert an appropriate time word. Children should also look at when they need to add full stops or take capital letters out of the sentences.

A short worksheet to reinforce the differences between statements and instructions. Children have to colour in which boxes contain instructions before writing two instructions of their own.