Video: Composition: Holiday checklist

﻿Hello. My name is Leanne, and I'll be a teacher for this lesson. Today, we're thinking about holidays. And we're going to be doing some writing today, making a list of different things we would need to take with us if we were going on holiday. After we've made our list, we're going to work together to pack our bags. Find a comfortable space where you know you can work and let's get started. For this lesson you will need: An empty bag or suitcase, different items from your holiday list. You can collect these later on if you like. I'll give you time later on in the lesson. A pencil and paper to make your list. Press pause while you get things ready. To get ready for today's lesson, find a quiet space to work away from any distractions. Make the area a suitable working space. Make sure all your resources are nearby. But don't worry about the items that you will be packing, you can find those later on. Use a familiar reference to prepare the learner that the activity is going to start. This could be a symbol, a sound or a song. Press pause while you get things ready. It's time to look, listen, and learn. For this lesson, we're going to be making a holiday packing list. Once you've made your list, you can find the items and then get ready to pack them. So let's get started making our writing frame for our packing list. This is what your writing frame should look like. At the top, we can write, "My Holiday Checklist" and then you need different columns for the different items that you're going to be packing. So I have used clothes, because we need to take clothes when we go on holiday and then I've got a little column next to it so I can tick it off when I add it. Then I've got personal care items. Things such as a toothbrush or a hairbrush. And then, I've wrote the journey in my next column. Sometimes we travel for a long time to go on holiday. It could be in the car, on an aeroplane or on a train. So, on the journey, you might want things to play with or different things to do. So I added a column for, the journey. So now it's time to make your writing frame. Pause this slide while you get things ready. Hello. So you should all have your writing frame ready to make your holiday checklist. This is my writing frame. I have got three columns to fill: Clothes, personal care and the journey. I'm going to start with clothes. For this activity, if you watch me first, I'm going to make my holiday checklist. When I've finished, you can pause the slide and then you can make your holiday checklist. So clothes. On my holiday, I'm going to take a hat. So take your pencil or pen, and you're going to write or draw, hat into the clothes column. Hat. Can we sign together? Hat. Well done. For my holiday, I think I'm going to pack a towel. Towel. Can we sign together? Towel. Towel. Now, personal care. I think for my holiday, I'm going to pack, sun cream. Can we sign together? Sun cream. Sun. Cream. Sun cream. I think for my holiday, I will need, a hairbrush. Can we sign together? Hairbrush. Ready? Hairbrush My journey, when I'm travelling to my holiday, I think I would like, a Teddy. Can we sign together? Teddy. Teddy. For the journey, I would also like a book. Can we sign together? Book. Well done. Book. So now, this is everything I want to pack for my holiday. So when I've packed it and I've put it in my bag, I'll tick it so that I remember that it's inside of my bag. Now, you can pause the slide and you can start making your holiday checklist. You can write with the support of an adult, or you can draw different things that you want to pack today for your holiday. Now that you've finished your holiday checklist, you need to look for those items and put them all together in one place. Find your bag as well. And then we're going to pack our items. Now you should have all of your holiday things ready to be packed. And you should have your bag. We're going to do my turn, your turn. So I'm going to go first and I'm going to pack my holiday bag and you can watch me. Are you ready? Right. For my holiday, I need shoes. These are my black shoes. I can put my socks inside my shoes. Now they're easier to pack. I'm going to put my black shoes inside my bag. What's next? I need my sun cream. So I'm going to pack my sun cream and put that inside my bag. Next. This is my red tee shirt. I'm going to fold this up and I'm going to put it in my bag. I've packed my tee shirt. I really wanted to take a book. Here's my book. I'm going to put it inside my bag. What about a Teddy for the journey? This is my favourite Teddy and on the journey I can cuddle my Teddy or I can play with my Teddy. I'm going to put my Teddy inside the bag. I think I might need a hat in case it's sunny. Here's my hat. I'm going to put my hat inside my bag. I think I need one more thing for my holiday. If I go swimming, I'll need to wear a costume. This is my stripey costume. I'm going to put it inside of my bag. I think I've finished packing for my holiday. So now, I need to zip up my bag all by myself. I'm sure I can do that. There we go. Now I have packed my bag. It's time for you to pack your bag. Remember to tick off your holiday checklist as we go. And also remember to think about if you could put items inside other items or on top of other items. See if you can squeeze it all safely into your bag. Have fun packing. To make this lesson easier, you can use symbols or pictures rather than words to support the learner. You can collect the items for your holiday before making the list, so the learner can see what they are adding to their list. To make the lesson harder, you can describe the items you are packing. Who do they belong to, and what do they look like? For example, "This is Ben's red jumper, "and this is mum's blue hat." For more ideas of things you can do, now, our lesson is finished. You can make a holiday schedule. Have pictures of activities ready and sequence the days of the week. What activity do you want to do on each day? So that's the end of our lesson for today. I want to say a big thank you for taking part in my lesson and a huge, well done for all the learning that you've achieved today. So, I'm going to say goodbye, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your learning with Oak. We would love to see your wonderful work. So please ask a parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

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Lesson summary: Composition: Holiday checklist

In this lesson, we will be creating a checklist for a holiday. We will be using items found around the home. We will then pack a bag using positional language. This lesson requires full adult support.

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