Passport to the world- An Island Home

Katie Morag Stories

Summer term

Science

Plants – Variation and Classification. Living things in their environment. Learning how to grow vegetables

PE

Gymnastics– (make islands from apparatus and travel in different ways from one piece to the next.) Athletics

Art/DT-

To make an island To weave to make a

tartan pattern To wrap a parcel To make food

following recipes from Katie Morag books.

Printing Picture frames – for

drawings of their own imaginary island home

Making homes in forest school – using knots to stabilise structures.

Literacy- links to Narrative unit-Stories by the same author

To read and discuss a selection of Katie Morag Books

To discuss and build up character descriptions Hot seating of characters To explore settings for the story To learn vocabulary related to buildings/

transport/ landscape To develop speech using speech bubbles writing scripts between characters To make own story map To write own Katie Morag Story To learn poems about islands, sea, boats in

rhyme time. To learn riddles from Katie Morag’s book. To write sea poems- word process To research and make a leaflet about Stannington To write a postcard/letter to Katie Morag To write questions they might like to ask ,about

living on an island To address a parcel To write instructions for the food they have made.

Maths

Weighing ingredients Weighing parcels To measure distance

travelled by vehicle made

To carry out a traffic survey and record results using ICT

Multiplication and division

RE-

Places of worship

Assessment –

Narrative Story on Katie Morag Leaflet on Stannington Sea Poems To write riddles and short stories To compare and contrast life on an island

and the mainland trough research, reading and discussion.

Year 2 - SATs

PSHE

Healthy eating and lifestyles. (look at potential ways to make a sustainable lifestyle on Morag’s island)

Geography

Locating places on a map Comparing island life with that of Stannington