Leaf - Sandra Dieckmann

This is a sequence of English work aimed at KS1. It focuses on inference and retrieval of the text. It looks at the skills of persuasion to encourage the animals to be kind to the Polar bear, Newspaper skills for the children to begin to write their newspaper reports based on a strange sighting in the Forest. Children learn about headlines, quotes and the main body of a news paper. The powerpoint is followed and the resources to go with each lesson is provided. There is no planning sheet as I plan through the powerpoint and each lesson is clearly visible to the user.
The bundle also contains my Geography work with the enquiry question “Is the temperature the same everywhere you go?”

It covers the KS1 objectives:
Locational Knowledge:
• Locate the North Pole (Arctic) and South Pole (Antarctica)
• Identify Arctic (around the North Pole)
• Identify Antarctica
• This links to naming continents and oceans.
• Understand they are the coldest places on Earth
Place Knowledge
• The polar regions are often used as the contrasting non-European area required in KS1.
• For example:
• Comparing a UK town with a settlement in the Arctic
• Comparing weather, homes, clothing and animals
The topic also has a focus on Climate Change, introducing children to what it is and the effective it is having on the environment. We are focusing this on the Arctic and the impact Climate change is having on the Polar bears and their habitats – linking this back to the text leaf.
We also look at the effects of plastic in the ocean through the book Alba