Activity: Write, The, Then, Them, They, There

Week 1

WARM UP. /

Resources

Rhyming cards
Objective. To practise rhyming words
Activity
Play card game

MAIN LESSON

Objective

To know some features of poems

Resources

Smart board-
(Mon. spring –poetry)
Pcm. A weeks verse of children

Curriculum links

Whole Class Work

Recite poem January brings the snow. What do the children notice? Show on IWB/smart board and highlight rhyming words. Point out how there is a new line for each sentence.
Recite Monday’s child is fair of face. Show on IWB/smart board highlight rhyming words.
Show Monday’s child is red and spotty by Colin McNaughton
Compare the two poems.
Model poem worksheet.
Vocabulary: verse, rhyme, couplet, lines, alternate.
Higher / Re-write new verse and choosing a missing word.
Middle / Read the verse and choose a missing word with two suggestions.
Lower / Work together on IWB to finish the poem

Plenary

Recite red and spotty poem for skipping game to emphasise rhythm with poem.
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Miki McManamon

Week 1

WARM UP. /

Resources

Individual whiteboards
Objective Practise high frequency words.

Activity: Write, the, then, them, they, there.

MAIN LESSON

Objective

To build vocabulary
To express word in movement.

Resources

Candles, health and safety (matches, sand, water).
2-simple
Digital blue video cameras.
Fire video backdrop

Curriculum links: ICT, Music, P.E.

Whole Class Work
Remind class they are going to make a collection of fire poems at the end of the unit. Discuss the work on the ‘Fire of London’ and show painting on IWB. Say that we are going to and mind-map some ‘fire’ words, thinking about the heat and movement of fire.
Turn lights off and light candle. Children observe closely. Talk to partner to describe what they see/feel.
Use 2-simple to mind map words for heat and movement.
Remind class how to use video cameras.
Vocabulary. Dramatise, dance, sequence, level, position.
Higher / Children work in mixed ability pairs to choose a fire movement/sound word to dramatise, practise and perform.
Video each others dance.
Middle
Lower

Plenary

Perform dances to class in front of animated fire backdrop. Video some dances.

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Miki McManamon

Week 1

WARM UP. . /

Resources

IWB wed
Objective: To practise sentence construction.

Activity

Show incorrect sentences, children sort out.

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To examine vocabulary.
To make appropriate choice of sound words. /

Resources

IWB wed-videos
2-connect
Musical instruments/sound objects, 2x5 table for sequencing.

Curriculum links: ICT, Music.

Whole Class Work

Show children some of drama /dance videos and ask for evaluations.
Try to guess child’s matching movement words.
Show yesterdays words on 2-connect for temperature and choose child to order. Repeat with another child. Were choices different?
Show fire and firework videos. Mind map sound words. Choose words to express in sounds. Model filling in a table 5x2 with moving words on top line.
Vocabulary loud, soft, repeat,
Higher / Children work in ‘learning’ groups of three to choose one child’s dance to sequence. Fill in ‘moving’ words in top line of table. Choose instrument for each word. Fill in word/picture of instrument under each ‘moving’ word on table. Practise playing/saying sequence.
Middle
Lower

Plenary.

Perform sound poems to class and video on example.
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Notes

Miki McManamon

Week 1

WARM UP. /

Resources

Picture of jumping child
Objective: to practise using verbs
Activity
Show picture of child jumping. Children choose appropriate verbs.

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To recognise alliteration. /

Resources

Pcm 105,107, Matching initial sounds to complete a sentence.

Curriculum links

Whole Class Work

Read out poem emphasizing initial phoneme. Look at poem on the board and ask children if they can think of what alliteration could mean. Highlight same initial phonemes. Can this help when writing a line in a poem?
Vocabulary alliteration, emphasize, phoneme.
Higher / Choose words to go with a variety of animals
Middle / Choose words to go with a variety of animals
Lower / Match lines of alliteration

Plenary

Make alliteration sentences for own names.
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Miki McManamon

Week 1

WARM UP. . /

Resources

Objective: to practice rhyming families.
Activity
Play clapping game going around the class adding rhyming words.

MAIN LESSON

Objective

To use onomatopoeia /

Resources

Metal fettle poem

Curriculum links

Whole Class Work

Remind class of Wed. Lesson.
Read poem Metal fettle. Point out sound words. Use some objects to demonstrate sounds from the poem.
How could we use this in a fire poem? Show images of different kinds of fire on smart-board fire poems Fri. Choose a fire word for each picture.
Show firework video clip. Show different kinds of fireworks and modelling writing sound words (onomatopoeia).
Vocabulary onomatopoeia,
Higher / In set groups sort out sets of words to go with different fireworks. Try to think of some of your own.
Middle
Lower

Plenary

Share work.
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Notes

Miki McManamon

Week 2

WARM UP. /

Resources

Sets of dictionaries.
Objective: Practise using a dictionary
Activity
Pick out words for class to find.

MAIN LESSON

Objective.
To mind map words for colour, light, shape of a flame. /

Resources

Candle-health and safety
Word art
Pastels
Coloured paper.

Curriculum links: Art

Whole Class Work

Remind class last week’s work on movement and sound words. Tell class that today they are going to focus on the colour and shape of fire. Turn out lights and light candles. Ask children what they see. Blow out flame and watch the smoke rise. Make flame shapes with hands and body. What does this shape remind you of? What colours do you see in the flame? Use 2-connect to mind-map shape and colour words. Choose an interesting ‘fire’ word and model writing on board changing letter shape/colour to match word meaning.
Vocabulary shape, wide, thin, tall, pointed, colour.
Higher / Work individually to make a word picture of a ‘fire’ word
Middle / Work individually to make a word picture of a ‘fire’ word
Lower / Work individually to make a word picture of a ‘fire’ word

Plenary Get into groups of three to make mini poem with own words. Try out several sequences of words and practice performing them. Perform to class.

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Miki McManamon

Week 2

WARM UP. /

Resources

whiteboards
Objective: practise writing like.

Activity

Writing on individual whiteboards in joined writing.

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To begin to write a fire poem.
To use powerful verbs and adjectives /

Resources

2-animate/2connect
last weeks video clips
smart board
word banks, blu-tak

Curriculum links: ICT, art

Whole Class Work

Remind class of previous work by showing sample dance/sound videos. Remind children of powerful use of rhyme, alliteration and onomatopoeia (sound words).
Show fire animation work from last weeks ICT lesson and ask children for suitable words. Model writing one line of poem.
Vocabulary poem, line, rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia.
Higher / Work in pairs to create a fire poem on own flame animation. Save in own folders
Middle / Work in pairs to write fire poem on printed flame pictures. Word banks with movement, sound and visual words to cut and stick with blu-tak
Lower / Work with TA to make a group fire poem using 2-animate on IWB.

Plenary

Share group fire poem with class.
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Notes

Miki McManamon

Week 2

WARM UP. . /

Resources

whiteboards
Objective: To practise writing sh
Activity:
Use ‘sh’ at beginning and end of words.

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To listen to fire poems and recognise use of features.
To edit and add detail to won work /

Resources

Bonfire Dragon poem
Laptops
2-animate fire pictures

Curriculum links

Whole Class Work

Remind class of poetry work so far. Ask what can make a good poem. What have you learnt about poems?
Read out Bonfire Dragon.
Explain that the poet has made us experience the fire by writing about it as though it was a dragon.
Look at text and ask children to highlight powerful words or phrases.
Draw a dragon and label eyes, claws, mouth, breath, skin. Which lines or phrases make you think of the skin? Repeat with other parts of the dragon.
Vocabulary: simile, like
Higher / Work in pairs to write a dragon fire poem
Middle / Work in pairs to write own fire poem on own flame animation save in own folders
Lower / Edit and copy out group poem on flame pictures

Plenary

Practise reading poem together.
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Miki McManamon

Week 2

WARM UP. / Penpals, own whiteboards
Objective: To practise ‘fl’ words
Activity
Use Penpals handwriting programme.

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To perform a poem /

Resources

printed copies of work.
2-animate
paper copy of children’s poems
Bonfire poem

Curriculum links: Drama

Whole Class Work
Read Bonfire poem. Discuss how to read each line, practise reading together adding expression, changing voice, volume, speed.
Vocabulary
Higher / Practise reading own fire poems aloud. Perform to another pair
Middle
Lower / Work in pairs to create a fire poem on own flame animation save in own folders

Plenary

Record some performancesof own poems on a tape recorder and listen to them again.

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Miki McManamon

Week 2

WARM UP. /

Resources

IWB- listening games
Objective: Practise listening skills
Activity
Work in teams to play listening games

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To become familiar with other kinds of poems /

Resources

Poetry books

Curriculum links ICT

Whole Class Work

Read out other fire poems to class, Show large poetry book and let children choose poems to share.
Children work in pairs to skim through some poetry books and choose one.
Vocabulary
Higher / Children choose a poem to read to a partner. Tell partner why they have chosen it. What features in the poem do they recognise?
One Pair of children Design a cover for the e-poetry –book.
Middle
Lower

Plenary

Share completed ‘Fire Poems’ class e-book.
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Miki McManamon

Wednesday P.M.

WARM UP. /

Resources

Word programme
Objective: Practise using shift to make capital letters
Activity
Write own name as many times a possible in one minute

MAIN LESSON

Objective
To make a simple animation /

Resources

2-Animate

Curriculum links Literacy

Whole Class Work

Remind class on previous work on animation-Making a balloon grow and burst.
Moving a Billy Goat across a bridge.
Model how to use spray tool to draw flames in a bonfire in frame 1.
Copy to odd frames 3 and 5
Copy to frame 2 and make changes by adding more flames in different colours.
Copy to frames 4 and 6.
Point out odd and even frames.
Make changes to any of the frames to develop the animation.
Vocabulary Animation, sequence, frame, copy, spray.
Higher / Make own animated fire picture and save in own folder.
Middle
Lower

Plenary

Share completed fire animations.
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Notes

Miki McManamon