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Ms B's Classroom Resources

Just hoping to make the lives of all educators, new and experienced, a little bit easier :)

Just hoping to make the lives of all educators, new and experienced, a little bit easier :)
Year 3: Art planning - Georgia O'Keeffe
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Year 3: Art planning - Georgia O'Keeffe

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This bundle includes 6 lesson plans and resources to support the learning of artist Georgia O’Keefe. Children will learn about the artist, her use of natural objects, colour and style before collecting their own natural resources to use as inspiration for their own artistic piece inspired by O’Keeffe. Lesson 1: To understand and recognise the work of Georgia O’Keeffe Lesson 2: to understand and locate natural objects and to record our observations Lesson 3: To create sketch books to record observations and use them to revisit and review ideas. Lesson 4: To improve mastery of art techniques using a range of materials Lesson 5: To use sketches and swatches to create a large painted study Lesson 6: To evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design Lesson 7: To explore a range of starting points for practical work (extra lesson not related to the unit) Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? 4 PDF presentations to support the first 4 lessons of the unit. This unit is easily adaptable for other year groups.
Year 5/6 Art plan: Ancient Greek Vase using clay.
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Year 5/6 Art plan: Ancient Greek Vase using clay.

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This bundle includes 6 lessons and resources to support Art and Design skills based learning. Skill: To explore ‘slab’ technique to make a sculpture/model Lesson 1: To investigate the style of vase created in Ancient Greece Lesson 2: To design a vase in the Ancient Greece style Lesson 3: To explore and understand a range of clay techniques Lesson 4: To select appropriate clay technique for a desired outcome, including how best to include additional features Lesson 5: To paint an object using appropriate an appropriate colour scheme Lesson 6: To make suggestions how my design could be improved Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes
Year 6: Performance Poetry Planning (2 weeks)
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Year 6: Performance Poetry Planning (2 weeks)

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This bundle includes 2 weeks of lesson plans and resources to support the learning of Performance Poetry. Children will read and perform a selection of poetry before writing their own, which they will then perform to an audience. SPAG covered: onomatopoeia, personification, similes and metaphors. Lesson 1: To read and discuss a wide range of poetry Lesson 2: To understand how to use tone, intonation and volume to convey meaning Lesson 3: To understand how to use tone, intonation and volume to convey meaning Lesson 4: To understand how to use tone, intonation and volume to convey meaning Lesson 5: To identify types of figurative language Lesson 6: To use simile and metaphor in writing Lesson 7: To use onomatopoeia to create an effect Lesson 8: To use personification to build imagery Lesson 9: To draft and write, drawing on reading and research Lesson 10: To improve writing by editing and making changes Lesson 11: To confidently perform my own composition Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? No
Year 5 Spelling Starters - ei or ie?
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Year 5 Spelling Starters - ei or ie?

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5 slides that can be used as spelling starters/early morning task work to help embed the ‘ei’ or ‘ie’ spelling rules. Teacher planning notes included for all slides. Includes: identify the correct spelling different sounds true or false? wordsearch dictation
Year 5/6 Creative Curriculum Planning - Greece
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Year 5/6 Creative Curriculum Planning - Greece

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This bundle includes 9 lesson plans to support the learning of Greece: Ancient Greece, how Ancient Greece has influenced modern culture and Modern Greece. Lessons focus on History, Geography, Computing as well as English and Maths - there is even a Food Technology tasting session! Children, as a class, could create a ‘Floor Book’ to demonstrate their learning. Please see my other listing for a clay Art unit linked with the topic of Greece. Lesson 1: To show what we know Lesson 2: To create a fact-file about Modern Greece Lesson 3: To investigate and interpret the past Lesson 4: To understand chronology Lesson 5: To create a glossary of Ancient Greek terms Lesson 6: To find out about the religious beliefs of Ancient Greece Lesson 7: To experience and test different foods linked with Greece Lesson 8: To create a collage based on Ancient Greece Lesson 9: To plan a budget holiday to Greece Lesson 10: To plan and create a silhouette for a Greek vase Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? No
Year 6: Significant Authors - JRR Tolkien (2 weeks)
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Year 6: Significant Authors - JRR Tolkien (2 weeks)

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This bundle includes 2 weeks of lesson plans and resources to support the learning of Significant Authors. Children will focus on The Hobbit by the award winning author, JRR Tolkien. They will enjoy learning about and creating their own author fact-files, creating their own ‘hero’ character profile and experiment with writing descriptive phrases before writing their own fantasy story. SPAG covered: adjectives, conjunctions, parentheses, colons and semi-colons, dialogue. Lesson 1: To know about the life of a famous author Lesson 2: To develop writing by understanding how authors develop plot Lesson 3: To develop writing by understanding how authors create characters Lesson 4: To develop writing by understanding how authors create characters Lesson 5: To develop writing by understanding how authors create setting Lesson 6: To write more complex sentences punctuated correctly Lesson 7: To develop writing by understanding how authors create setting Lesson 8: To plan writing, using the appropriate form Lesson 9: To plan writing, using the appropriate form Lesson 10: To draft and write narrative Lesson 11: To write dialogue, punctuated correctly Lesson 12: To draft and write, selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary Lesson 13: To edit and improve writing Lesson 14: To review the unit Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes
Year 6 Autobiography Planning (1-2 weeks)
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Year 6 Autobiography Planning (1-2 weeks)

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This bundle includes 6 lesson and ideas for texts support the learning of Autobiographies. Children will read a selection of autobiographies before planning and writing their own. SPAG covered: fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinate clauses, relative clauses, colons, semi-colons and dashes. Lesson 1: To identify features of an autobiography Lesson 2: To create cohesion Lesson 3: To draft and write by using devices to build cohesion Lesson 4: To draft and write by using devices to build cohesion Lesson 5: To write using the features of an autobiography Lesson 6: To evaluate and edit making changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? No
Whole School Assembly (Primary)
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Whole School Assembly (Primary)

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The Ungrateful Crocodile Whole school assembly (primary) with slides and a script to accompany it. A reflective prayer is also included. Moral Value - to help others without expecting anything in return.
Year 2: Autumnal Celebrations Assembly
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Year 2: Autumnal Celebrations Assembly

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A 4 page script to use as a class assembly. It has been divided into 42 speaking parts but you can use this as you wish (I had 30 children in my class and divided the speaking parts appropriately). Alternatively, an adult could read the script and just have some child participation. A costume list is also included.