ANY BOOKLISTS HERE ARE FOR THE OLDER WEEKLY PLANS – they are NOT for the new Flexible Blocks which have their own booklists accessible here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/flexible-blocks-booklists/
Flexible Blocks
English: Our flexible English puts the teacher in control. Plan a sequence of lessons tailored to your class. Find out about the advantages of English blocks.
Reception English Plans (Set A)
Hamilton provide Reception weekly English plans (below). English blocks based on the new 2019 Early Learning Goals will be coming from September for 2019-20. We will be phasing out the plans, as we believe our blocks will offer you all of the same advantages and more. Find out more about the timetable for Hamilton's Early Years English.
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Use the Animated Tale The Baby and the Rocket to introduce children to information texts. Compare facts and fiction. Make a large rocket and use photos of the construction to write instructions. Lots of activities for children to investigate both planets and rockets.
Children listen to two stories Beegu by Alexis Deacon and Laura’s Star by Klaus Baumgart, they make predictions, express opinions and compare, giving reasons for preference. Children investigate the characters and use speech bubbles. An Animated Tale further inspires children to create their own alien characters and write sentences.
Read several poems from Space Poems Chosen by Gaby Morgan and use them to initiate discussion about stars and moon and to write a poem. We’re Off to Look for Aliens by Colin McNaughton inspires creative work on aliens. Explore rhymes, play games and make things.
Read Q Pootle 5 Nick Butterworth to children who then prepare for their own Space Party and write invitations. They explore the structure of lists and simple instructions and write some recipes for the party. Children have fun cooking, painting and making decorations, party plates and models.
Use Don Quixote Animated Tale to learn, act out and retell the story. Create character profiles for kings and princesses, make a variety of castles, role-play, dress a knight and create a 20-mattress collage. Write own version of Don Quixote and compare traditional tales.
Children explore information books about castles, What Were Castles For? (Usborne Starting Point History) by Phil Roxbee Cox, indentifying features. They write captions, letters in role, produce Trump cards and a class information book about castles. Fun activities include juggling, building castles from sand, Lego and cake, and making a jester's hat.
Share Dragon Machine by Helen Ward and stimulate children to write own version. Children explore different dragons and create dragon profiles, then look at stories that contest role stereotypes. Activities include making dragons using various media and dragon footprints.