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LEARNINGOBJECTIVES

Teacher ledactivity

Childinitiated

activity

Resources

Vocabulary

ASSESSMENTPOINTS

29.01.08(Tues)

Wheredo I live? Where do other pupils live?

  thatall pupils have a personal address and that they travel toschool

30.01.08(Wed)

Whereis the school? How do I get to school?

  theirsense of place in relation to home and school

  todescribe a route

01.02.08(Fri)

Whatcan we see in the streets around our school?

  torecognise some of the physical and human features in theirlocality

  tounderstand some of the ways in which the features are used

05.02.08(Tues)

What areour immediatesurroundings like?

  todescribe the features of the local environment

  toexpress views on the features

  thatchanges occur in the locality

06.02.08(Wed)

How do people spendtheir leisure time?

  aboutthe need for leisure activities and the types of facilitiesavailable

08.02.08(Fri)

Arethere any changes taking place in our area?

  howplaces change for better or worse over time

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/where_we_live/eng/Introduction/default.htm

Starter

Types of homes what type of house do children live in?

Main session2

Deliver letters why do our houses need numbers?

Plenarygame

Quiz types ofhomes

AT END

How do you travel toschool?

Complete table aswhole class.

Print and add totheir files.

(Didnt doyesterday)

How do you travel toschool?

Complete table aswhole class.

Print and add totheir files.

We know how youtravel to school now but what about the route you take to get toschool.

Things to thinkabout:

- Roads (do youcross any?)

- Buildings that yousee

- Rivers

- Parks

- Places

Show my route toschool and talk through it describing features.

Brainstorm differentfeatures in the school locality. List them on the board.

P Mountains,River, Valley

H Farms, Shops,Houses

Explain that thesefeatures can be divided into groups physical and human.

Physical made bynature

Human made bypeople

Go through sheettogether and decide on groups.

Children to completehuman/physical sheets

Map where thechildren live on the enlarged map.

Talk about:

  thetypes of buildings we have in the local area

(church,houses, shops, school)

  different types ofland (shops concrete, park grass etc)

Brainstorm

And describing wordsfor places

(Adjectives canthey remember word?)

What makes a nice ornasty place?

Brainstorm ideas andgive examples.

How could we improvesome of the nasty places?

(Make a newplayground, more grass, less traffic etc)

How can we find outabout what people like to do in their leisure time?

Interview each otherin pairs/small groups about own interests.

Where do you do_____?

Feedback what didyou find out?

Make a classquestionnaire (type it up) to find out what Mrs Delaney likes to doin her leisure time.

What qs can weask?

When shall we askher?

Who will ask whichquestions?

Will we rememberthem or write them down?

Worksheet

Write address anddraw a picture of home.

Write labels forhomes. HA to write sentences.

Earlyfinishers

Use Lego, shapes andmultilink to make a house. What type of house did you make?

Children to drawtheir route from home to school.

First on awhiteboard and describe route to partner show a few to class togive ideas/give help.

Then draw route onpaper and label as much as possible.

Children to completesheets to show the features that they see on the way toschool.

Sheet

Draw a nice placeand a nasty place why are they nice/nasty? What features do youlike/dislike?

Why?

Choose person thatyou dont normally work with spend 10 mins doing what one personlikes to do, then swap.

What activities didyou do?

Did you enjoylearning about something different?

Worksheet

Lego

Shapes

Multilink

IWB

Whiteboards

Pens

My route toschool

Address

Travel

Buildings

House

Flat

Bungalow

Journey

Travel

Near

Far

Route

Features

Locality

Area

Human

Physical

Features

Attractive

Unattractive

Buildings

Shop

Houses

Park

Playground

Books fromlibrary

Beads tothread

Puzzles

Games

Paper

Sand

Computer

Children:

  knowtheir own address

  understand thesignificance of each line of their address

  represent thevarious types of travel on a simple graph

Children:

  draw amap showing their route to school

  recognise whereplace are

Children can:

  identify a clearsequence of features seen on their way to school.

  Usecorrect vocabulary to describe features.

Children can:

  use arange of words and pictures to show their views on the quality ofthe environment

  knowabout changes in their locality

EVALUATION/COMMENTS