Writing - Season Poetry - Spring - Easter - Lesson 6 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is spring. Many detailed pictures are attached of spring as a season and its association with the Christian festival Easter. Many slides and pictures of Hot Cross Buns, Baby animals, Easter eggs and the Easter Story Video. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing a poem about Easter. There are 15 slides. Learning Objective: To learn an Easter poem and begin to write their own.

Writing - Season Poetry - Spring - Similes & Alliteration - Lesson 5 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is spring. Many detailed pictures are attached of spring as a season, spring weather, spring rain spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and snowdrops, wildflowers, gardening, nest building, and baby animals. Click on the link on the first page, and slowly discuss the imagery on the slides. Children will learn what a simile is and how to use them in a poem about spring. Children will also learn about alliteration. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing a spring poem with similes & alliteration. There are 63 slides (mainly imagery). Learning Objective: To write a spring poem with similes and alliteration

Writing - Season Poetry - Spring - Acrostic Poem - Lesson 4 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is spring. Many detailed pictures are attached of spring as a season, spring weather, spring rain spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and snowdrops, wildflowers, gardening, nest building, and baby animals. Click on the link on the first page, and slowly discuss the imagery on the slides. Children will learn what an acrostic poem is? Children will then create a word mat using the letters S, P, R, I, N and G to later make an acrostic poem that spells Winter. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing an acrostic poem. There are 63 slides (mainly imagery). Also included in this resource pack is a filled word mat, a blank word mat, an acrostic poem template and an example of a SPRING acrostic poem in the powerpoint. Learning Objective: To write a spring acrostic poem.

Writing - Season Poetry - Spring - Descriptive Poem - Lesson 3 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is spring. Many detailed pictures are attached of spring as a season, spring weather, spring rain spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and snowdrops, wildflowers, gardening, nest building, and baby animals. Click on the link on the first page, and slowly discuss the slides using different descriptive words to add more details that will be essential in their poetry. Try using detailed words for inspiration and encourage discussion of some photos to share descriptive words (rain- wet, moist, clean, fresh). Children will use work produced in lesson 2 (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12888978) to start writing a descriptive poem using their completed Senses Star. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing a descriptive poem. There are 62 slides (mainly imagery). Learning Objective: To write a descriptive spring poem.

Writing - Season Poetry - Spring - Senses Star - Lesson 2 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is spring. Many detailed pictures are attached of spring as a season, spring weather, spring rain spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and snowdrops, wildflowers, gardening, nest building, and baby animals. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to create a senses star. The purpose of the senses star is to encourage children to use their senses to create a list of relevant words to expand enrich their work. There are 61 slides. Learning Objective: To create a senses star using imagery and audio.

Writing - Season Poetry - Spring - Class Poem - Lesson 1 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is spring. Many detailed pictures are attached of spring as a season, spring weather, spring rain spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and snowdrops, wildflowers, gardening, nest building, and baby animals. Also discussed in the lesson, What is Spring? What reminds you of Spring? Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to recite the class poem to perform. The discussions throughout the lesson are also part of the task for lesson 1. There are 19 slides teaching slides and pictures. Learning Objective: To learn a spring-based poem.

Writing - Season Poetry - Winter Festivities Poem - Lesson 6 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is winter. Many detailed pictures are attached of snow, snowball, snowman, snow angel, snow fights, snow covered park/mountains, fireplace, hot drinks (hot chocolate), snow in the city and snow in London. Also discussed in detail are the non-religious winter holidays and religious holidays that often occur in the winter months (Hanukkah, Christmas, and Diwali). Children will learn about these religious holidays and a special item often associated with each holiday (Christmas tree, Mince pies, Menorah, Latkes, Sufganiyot, Diya/Diva lamps and the many different foods eaten on Diwali). There 3 poems each associated with a particular religious festival. Also included in this powerpoint is a non-religious poem about the winter holidays. These slides can be edited to include or exclude certain elements to suit different classes. This lesson can be a stand alone lesson however I would recommend teaching the previous lessons (in my shop) to help children understand how to write a poem as the quality of their poetry will depend on the children’s ability. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to write a poem associated with the winter holidays or winter festival There are 37 slides ( imagery and teaching slides) . Also included in this pack are 5 different writing outlines. Learning Objective: To write a poem about the winter holidays.

Writing - Season Poetry - Winter - Similes & Alliteration - Lesson 5 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is winter. Many detailed pictures are attached of snow, snowball, snowman, snow angel, snow fights, snow covered park/mountains, fireplace, hot drinks (hot chocolate), snow in the city and snow in London. With mention of the religious holidays that often occur in the winter months (Hanukkah, Christmas, and Diwali). Click on the link on the first page, and slowly discuss the imagery on the slides. Children will learn what a simile is and how to use them in a poem about winter. Children will also learn about alliteration. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing a winter poem with similes & alliteration. There are 40 slides (mainly imagery). Learning Objective: To write a winter poem with similes and alliteration.

Writing - Season Poetry - Winter - Acrostic Poem - Lesson 4 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is winter. Many detailed pictures are attached of snow, snowball, snowman, snow angel, snow fights, snow covered park/mountains, fireplace, hot drinks (hot chocolate), snow in the city and snow in London. With mention of the religious holidays that often occur in the winter months (Hanukkah, Christmas, and Diwali). Click on the link on the first page, and slowly discuss the imagery on the slides. Children will learn what an acrostic poem is? Children will then create a word mat using the letters W,I,N,T, E and R to later make an acrostic poem that spells Winter. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing an acrostic poem. There are 35 slides (mainly imagery). Also included in this resource pack is a filled word mat, a blank word mat, an acrostic poem template and an example of a WINTER acrostic poem in the powerpoint. Learning Objective: To write an acrostic winter poem

Writing - Season Poetry - Winter - Descriptive Poem - Lesson 3- KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is winter. Many detailed pictures are attached of snow, snowball, snowman, snow angel, snow fights, snow covered park/mountains, fireplace, hot drinks (hot chocolate), snow in the city and snow in London. With mention of the religious holidays that often occur in the winter months (Hanukkah, Christmas, and Diwali). Click on the link on the first page, and slowly discuss the slides using different descriptive words to add more details that will be essential in their poetry. Try using detailed words for inspiration and encourage discussion of some photos to share descriptive words (snow- cold, soft, freezing, fluffy and crunchy. Children will use work produced in lesson 2 (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12886531) to start writing a descriptive poem using their completed Senses Star. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to start writing a descriptive poem. There are 34 slides (mainly imagery). Learning Objective: To write a descriptive winter poem.

Writing - Season Poetry - Winter - Senses Star - Lesson 2 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is winter. Many detailed pictures are attached of snow, snowball, snowman, snow angel, snow fights, snow covered park/mountains, fireplace, hot drinks (hot chocolate), snow in the city and snow in London. With mention of the religious holidays that often occur in the winter months (Hanukkah, Christmas, and Diwali) Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to create a senses star. The purpose of the senses star is to encourage children to use their senses to create a list of relevant words to expand enrich their work. There are 33 slides. Learning Objective: To create a senses star using imagery and audio.

Writing - Season Poetry - Winter - Class Poem - Lesson 1 - KS1/KS2 With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own. The season focus for this lesson is winter. Many detailed pictures are attached of snow, snowball, snowman, snow angel, snow fights, snow covered park/mountains, fireplace, hot drinks (hot chocolate), snow in the city and snow in London. A class poem is also included in the powerpoint and in word format (ready to print). Also discussed in the lesson, What is Winter? What reminds you of Winter? Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to recite the class poem to perform. The discussions throughout the lesson are also part of the task for lesson 1. There are 27 slides teaching slides and pictures. Learning Objective: To learn a winter-based poem.

ESOL - Entry 1 - English - All About Me - Lesson 5 - Jobs English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country. ESOL classes can include areas such as survival English, functional language, specific speaking and listening skills, and sociocultural information. The purpose is to support learners whose first language is not English, helping them gain the communication skills needed to progress in the workplace, education and beyond. The focus for this lesson is learning how to describe their job or dream job. This lesson discusses a variety of jobs including teacher, doctor, plumber, solicitor, cleaner, stay-at-home mum/dad, nurse, waiter/waitress, gardener, retail worker, delivery driver and cook/baker with mention of other jobs. Students will learn how to describe their job and dream job. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and worksheet as shown (two pages). There are 22 slides. Learning Objective: To learn how to describe a job or dream job.

ESOL - Entry 1 - English - All About Me - Lesson 4 - Hobbies & Interests English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country. ESOL classes can include areas such as survival English, functional language, specific speaking and listening skills, and sociocultural information. The purpose is to support learners whose first language is not English, helping them gain the communication skills needed to progress in the workplace, education and beyond. The focus for this lesson is learning how to express interests and hobbies. This lesson discusses what interests are and covers a range of hobbies (reading, writing, yoga, arts, crafts, hiking, sports, cooking, gardening and playing musical instruments). Students will learn how to express what they enjoy doing in their free time. Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and worksheet as shown (two pages). There are 20 slides. Learning Objective: To learn how to express interests and hobbies

ESOL - Entry 1 - English - All About Me - Lesson 3 - My Family English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country. ESOL classes can include areas such as survival English, functional language, specific speaking and listening skills, and sociocultural information. The purpose is to support learners whose first language is not English, helping them gain the communication skills needed to progress in the workplace, education and beyond. The focus for this lesson is learning how to introduce family members (mother, father, children, sister, brother, cousin, daughter, son, nephew and niece). Students will create their own family trees and discuss the members of their family. Do you have any children? How many people are in your family? Do you have any siblings? Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and worksheet as shown (two pages). There are 15 slides. Learning Objective: To learn how to introduce family members

ESOL - Entry 1 - English - All About Me - Lesson 2 - Where are you from? English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country. ESOL classes can include areas such as survival English, functional language, specific speaking and listening skills, and sociocultural information. The purpose is to support learners whose first language is not English, helping them gain the communication skills needed to progress in the workplace, education and beyond. The focus for this lesson is learning how to pronounce countries and nationalities. Students will discuss where they are from. Where are you from? What is your nationality? What language(s) do you speak? Can you share an interesting fact? (extension) Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and worksheet as shown (two pages). There are 16 slides. Learning Objective: To learn to say countries, nationalities and talk about where they are from.

ESOL - Entry 1 - English - All About Me - Lesson 1 - What is your name? English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country. ESOL classes can include areas such as survival English, functional language, specific speaking and listening skills, and sociocultural information. The purpose is to support learners whose first language is not English, helping them gain the communication skills needed to progress in the workplace, education and beyond. The focus for this lesson is learning how to introduce one’s self. How to ask questions related to personal information and how to respond. What is your name? What is your surname? How old are you? Where do you live? Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and worksheet as shown (two pages). There are 16 slides. Learning Objective: To learn how to self-introduce. To practice asking introduction questions