Assembly Power Point Template
Share your experience with the whole school with this easy-to-use template
Listening and Talking:
- Discussion topics and Rules for Listening
- Listen to a wide range of stories about chicks – big books, fiction, Non fiction,
see Books to read
Early Years:
- Observation,Discussion & Craft
- Finding the missing letter
- Similarities and Differences
- Word Find 1
- Word Find 2
- Word Find 3
- Class Diary
- Chicken Little (with activities)
- ‘Chickies’ (A Chick Story Power Point)
- Books to read (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Big Books)
Early Years Poetry:
- Baby Chick
- Finger Plays
- Five Little Eggs poem
- Five Little Chickens rhyme
- Ten Fluffy Chickens
- This little chick rhyme -colour
- Five Little Chickens poem
Tools for Writing
Sounds, Letters and Words
- Make up labels and label parts of the incubator and brooder box with temporary labels. (See ‘Word Banks‘ for sample.) Discuss with the children words such as light, warmth, eggs, wings, beak, feathers, comb etc.
- Sequence pictures from basic ‘life cycle’ poster (photocopy, enlarge, cut out and use as a game.)
- Initial sounds
- Initial letters
- Short Vowels
- Blends (sh, ch, fr, fl)
- Unscramble the Words
- jumbled words
- Alphabetical order
- Match the words and pictures
- Spot the differences
- How many words
- Dictionary activities
- A-Z of chicks
- Collective Terms
- Gender – families
- Similes
- Crosswords And Word Searches
- Complete the sentences
- Following directions
- Sentences
- Making Sentences
- Animal verbs
- Plural nouns(basic)
- Plural nouns
- Proper Nouns
Finding, Organising and Using Information
- Mini Diary(basic)
- Student Diary
- Class Diary
- Children could write about the changes that are occurring by creating a special diary (see example basic and extension or a wall chart)
- Note-taking for a Report (two samples provided)
- Write a Report on the chicks Note layout and presentation (sample provided)
Thinking skills:
- Discussion topics – See Science
- Planning your thinking
- Concept map
- SCAMPER thinking skills
- SWOT analysis
Creative Text
- Write Rules and Duty Roster for programme
- See “Poems” page for a wide range of poems.
- Encourage students to write about the eggs in the classroom (Writing Samples)
- Writing following Reading
- Speech Bubbles
- Chick description
- Suggest names for your chickens. Students to give reasons for their suggestions –
See Proper Nouns - Fiction writing ideas
- Write a story – see chick border
- Thumbprint Chicks
- Rebus
- Give a Recount of your time with the chicks
- Write stories about chicks e.g. concertina mini book or mini book fold
- Create a ‘Media Release’ for either your school newsletter or even for the local paper.
- Write a daily ‘Radio Broadcast’ to update the school on the chicks
- Descriptive writing
- Write An ABC story
- Write a “letter of thanks” to your teacher/headmaster/headmistress for letting you have the chicks and/or complete the
Letter to Farmer Brown
Reading
- Word banks
- High frequency words and Early Years Booklets…..
- On the farm 1
- On the farm 2
- On the farm 3
- ‘Chickies’ A Chick Story Power Point
- Books to read (Fiction, Non-fiction, Big books)
- Collect and share lots of chicken stories
- Students can read and complete their own “I’m Not Lazy” and “Adventures of Hilary Hen” book to take home
- “The Living Egg Book” book
- Reading Activity
- Use books to find useful and interesting information