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Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
SCHEME OF WORK: NON-TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 4)

LESSON: 53 (Language Arts 10) MAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS: Language Arts THEME: World of Knowledge
WEEK: TOPIC: Year in, year out CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Creativity and LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Adjectives and verbs about

the seasons
Innovation

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES
In this lesson, pupils will create and perform an action song about seasons
Main Skill Main Skill in groups. A copy of the Differentiate learning according to
Language Arts 5.3 Language Arts Seasons song (see the needs of your pupils and
Express an 5.3.1 Pre-lesson next page) and a class. Please see the seven
imaginative Respond 1. Choose an appropriate pre-lesson activity from the list in the copy of the words on differentiation strategies listed in
response to imaginatively and introduction that suits your pupils’ needs and interests and that will the board or on a the introduction. Please also
literary texts intelligibly through introduce the topic of warm and cool seasons. handout consider the following:
creating simple Lesson delivery You could ask more proficient
action songs on 2. Teach pupils to sing the Seasons song words to the tune of Frère pupils or groups to create a
familiar topics. Jacques (see below). second set of actions for their
Other imaginative 3. Ask them to choose actions for the song and perform the song again song if they finish quickly.
responses as with the actions.
appropriate. 4. Elicit the pattern of the song from pupils:

Complementary Complementary  Name of season x2
Skill Skill  Adjectives x2
Speaking 2.3 Speaking 2.3.1  -ing verbs x3
Communicate Narrate very short  With our friends x2
appropriately to a basic stories and 5. Now put pupils into groups of 4–5 and ask them to choose new words
small or large events and actions for the song, and to practise their song. They can choose
group a song either about the warm season or the cool season if they prefer.
Post-lesson
6. Pupils perform their songs with actions for their classmates.

Use the tune of Frère Jacques to sing the lyrics. You can change the words to become about cool season.

Seasons song
Warm season, warm season. Sunny and hot! Sunny and hot!
Swimming, sailing, swimming, sailing,
With our friends, with our friends.

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