Planning and Activities
English Year 1 Summer Wellbeing
Kites, Stars and Rockets
The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.
Recognising, naming and expressing feelings (suggested as 5 days)
You Will Need
Essential Text
How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffer
Essential Poems
Kite (in resources)
Star Light, Star Bright (in resources)
Recognising, naming and expressing feelings (suggested as 5 days)
Planning and Activities
Group Readers
Owl and the moon
This is a story about an owl hunting for the moon and eventually finding it! Each page has a few lines of simple decodable text so that children are encouraged to read several sentences.
You can purchase printed copies of this Group Reader from Hamilton Education.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy
Thad Goes to the Moon by Ruth Merttens and Jackie Abey Hamilton Animated Tale
Essential Poems
The Alien by Julie Holder (in resources)
The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson (in resources)
Optional text for Day 5
Alone: A Story of Friendship in the Darkness of Space by Scott Stuart