A resource used when learning how to write invitations in my year 1 class. All resources are linked to our Peter Pan theme. For the first lesson we looked at what needs to be included in an invitation and the children investigated existing party invitations and then wrote notes on what they were going to include in their own. The following day the children used the reminder sheet to help them to turn their notes into a proper invitation. This pack contains a lesson plan and powerpoints for the two days as well as writing frames and help sheets.

A follow on lesson used with year one after teaching adjectives and what they mean. This pack contains a power point with recaps what makes a sentence and then moves on to using adjectives to improve my sentence. This then leads to three differentiated activities with the necessary resources included in the pack. LA are to copy the sentence and add an adjective, MA are to add adjectives and check for the correct punctuation and HA are to extend sentences using and.

A range of different 20 minute GP&S activities for year 1. Each activity has a title slide, a whole class activity or teach section and an independent task which may involve a group discussion or independent writing. This powerpoint covers when to use capital letters, using commas between adjectives and in lists and nouns and pronouns. Some of these activities have been created to recap areas which have already been taught and others are to teach new things.

A week’s worth of whole class reading for the Smartest Giant in Town for year 2. Focusing only on the retrieval domain. All activities are differentiated.

A resource made to recap writing compound sentences with year 1. We have previously learnt about coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences but revisited them before learning about complex sentences. The powerpoint and activity is linked to the Julia Donaldson stories as we are currently writing stories based on books by other authors. I have also included an activity where children are to match the two main clauses and turn them into a compound sentence.

A presentation and visual resource when teaching year 1 children about the subordinating conjunctions; when, if, that and because. Before introducing the lesson we recapped what we knew already about conjunctions and their purpose. The main activity was for the children to rewrite the sentences on the last slide and underline the subordinating conjunctions. I stuck the complex sentences stickers in the children's books as a reminder of complex sentences and what we had learnt about subordinating conjunctions.

A lesson on time interval problems for year 1. The powerpoint presentation recaps what the children already know about intervals of time and the clock and then asks them to solve a word problem on the board using their clocks and circular card folded into halves and quarters. Also included are differentiated word problems for quarter, half and full hours. The LA problems start from o'clock whereas the HA start from various points around the clock.

A range of different resources used to teach the children how to use 'but, however and on the other hand' within a sentence. Contains starter and main teaching activity as well as a lesson plan.

A resource created to be an aid on tables when year 3 children were using persuasive writing. Includes sign to go on the lid of the toolbox and pictures of tools to stick the persuasive techniques on. I bought cheap plastic boxes to create the toolboxes with,

A resource used for year 3 children when looking at time. The resource was created to get the children to think about different time intervals. The activity comes with question cards which ask the children to look at the different trains on the time table and work out how long it has taken for the trains to get from the station to the North Pole. The questions range from working out time intervals within and over an hour. The questions are differentiated with some asking the children to identify which train left at a certain time and others to work out the shortest and longest journey. The timetable and tickets are both Polar Express themed.

A resource designed to get children excited about grammar. The idea of the game is for children to investigate what happens when we add a suffix to words. One person is to read the word out to their two team mates who must use a fly swatter to choose the options relating to what they must do before adding the suffix to their words e.g. double the letter before it or remove a letter. The first to guess right gets to keep the word card. If children are struggling they can choose one of the magic clue keys to help them.

A range of resources to help children to come to terms with different angles. I created angle eaters so that the children could first investigate the angles that they could find around the classroom. Once the children had found a range of different objects containing right angles I used the alien angles display to get the to think about obtuse and acute angles. After investigating these with the angle eaters we moves on to labeling and sorting different angles and the angles within shapes.

A pack of resources used when teaching year 3 about the rainforest when covering a biomes topic. This resource was used in conjunction with the book 'Charlie Small'. The packs of information were put into shoe boxes so that each group could investigate a layer of the rainforest independently, as a result the information is differentiated to allow different abilities to access the information. When I carried out this lesson I also included magnifying glasses and different toy animals to bring the learning to life. The children used this information to create a group presentation about the layer of the rainforest they had been investigating.

A presentation and resource created to help year 1 children to edit their work, include conjunctions in their writing and use a range of interesting sentence starts. At the end of the activity I asked children to look at the success criteria they had included in their work and rate whether they deserved 1, 2 or 3 stars, I then asked the children to stand in groups depending on how many they had included, the children were then given another opportunity to fix their work.

A lesson created to get children to think about things that are living, dead or were never alive in line with the new national curriculum. Lesson was created for KS1. The pack contains a powerpoint presentation which is easy to follow with a starter activity which children can do on the carpet or at their tables where they can discuss their thoughts. Also included is a table for the children to investigate living, dead and never alive objects around the school and then place in the correct column.

A lesson created to teach year 1 and 2 about homophones and near homophones. Can be used as a 20 minute grammar session or whole lesson depending on the depth you want to go into. Pack includes a lesson plan, a powerpoint presentation and the homophones hunt activity.

An activity created to teach children about the Taj Mahal during our India topic. Children were asked to think about what they already knew about the Taj Mahal. They were then to sort the facts into those that they thought were about the Taj Mahal and the ones that weren't. For the children's independent activity they were to colour in the picture of the Taj Mahal and then answer the questions on the board underneath the picture.

A lesson plan and activities created to teach children in year 1 about adding money and finding different coins that equal the same amount of money. This pack contains a lesson plan, lesson starter and differentiated activities along with a powerpoint.

A resource used to teach year 3 place value. This folder includes two files. The first is a starter where the children must order the 3-digit numbers printed on trains. Also included is an activity where the children must partition the 3-digit numbers printed on the trains into hundreds, tens and ones. Also comes with a blank set of trains.

Children are to solve the four fact families by working out what number the emojis could represent.