Symbols help us to remember

On everyday items symbols represent and signify things we want to identify and/or remember.

Teaching Outcomes
To use examples from their own lives to describe the passing of time; to use symbols to represent these events and look at symbols in use generally today; to start a time line.
To design and draw an appropriate symbol to represent their special memory from S1

Children will:

• Understand how a timeline works.
• Recognize and identify symbols in everyday use.
• Design own symbol.

This session does not need any provided resources.

• Items which symbolize important events, e.g. wrist bands, pin badges
• Zig zag book for each child already folded
• Small square of white card to design own symbol and pens
• For time line: long line suspended safely across classroom and pegs
• Cards for time line: current year and photo of current class, year current class born

Songs naming the days of the week – YouTube clip
How to make a simple zig-zag book from nurturestore.co.uk
Images of symbols we use every day from google.com