Ideal for teaching year 1 children about fullstops, exclamation marks and question marks. The children can read these sentences and place a peg on to the correct punctuation mark.

When learning number bonds to ten a fun maze activity works a treat. It is differentiated by one maze having two paths to get to the end and one maze has one path to get to the end. The aim is to start in the top left corner and the children have to colour or circle all the sums that make ten all the way to the bottom however, they can not go diagonally they have to use the for boxes that touch i.e Forwards, backwards, left or right. This works great a quick plenary activity to see how well your children know their number bonds to 10.

Get the children identifying the shapes around school. It is differentiated for different abilities, take groups of the children with a clipboard around school and complete the table. A fun active way to get the children involved in their learning.

A good activity to get children moving about hunting for adjectives indoor or out. There are two options it can be used for lower ability or higher ability. A fun way to get adjectives into the children learning making it active.

This is a quick and easy way to find out how much your children already know when they first come into your class. It includes: *Naming the letters of the alphabet in order (upper case and lower case) *Naming common 2-D and 3-D shapes. *Reading numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals. *Counting in multiples of 2's, 5's and 10's. You can tick or highlight the correct answers allowing you to spot the children that may need a little bit more support with certain parts or common areas of development.