Planning and Activities

Get festive with Let’s Celebrate! (Debjani Chatterjee & Brian D’arcy). Explore, write and perform celebration poetry. Revise word classes and prepositions for time, place, cause.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
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Texts
Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy.
Poems used from this book
Celebrate by Valerie Bloom
Ice Festival by Brian D’Arcy
The Chinese Dragon by Catherine Benson
Diwali by Debjani Chatterjee
Harvest by Joan Poulson
Harvest Festival by Simon Fletcher
Optional texts:
Any other children’s celebration or festival poetry books
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Texts
Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy
Poems used from this book
Harvest Festival by Simon Fletcher
On Buddha Purnima by Bashabi Fraser
With TA/Tutor
TA/Tutor materials are not being created for this Block of learning.
Back to Lockdown?
Home Learning packs are not being created for this Block of learning.
Texts
Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy
Poems used from this book
Ice Festival by Brian D’Arcy
Moon Cakes for Trung Thu by Mandy Coe
On Buddha Purnima by Bashabi Fraser
Websites
Online rhyming dictionaries
https://www.poetry4kids.com/rhymes/
https://www.rhymezone.com/
With TA/Tutor
TA/Tutor materials are not being created for this Block of learning.
Back to Lockdown?
Home Learning packs are not being created for this Block of learning.
Texts
Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy
Poems used from this book
The Chinese Dragon by Catherine Benson
Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda
Optional texts
Any other children’s festival poetry books.
With TA/Tutor
TA/Tutor materials are not being created for this Block of learning.
Back to Lockdown?
Home Learning packs are not being created for this Block of learning.
Texts
Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy
Poems used from this book
Poe-Tree for Arbor Day by Sue Hardy Dawson
St Patrick’s Day by Brian D’Arcy
Hallow’een by Jill Townsend
The Christmas Pudding by Anonymous
Websites
Mr Fletcher Poems
Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems
Madtail Miniwhale
Short Story Time
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