Can you help Santa to find out which elf stole the reindeer’s carrots?
Santa provides five suspects and the children must complete a range of multiplications to crack the clues and find the culprit.
This resource achieves National Curriculum outcomes:
Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number
and challenges some learners to
Multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number.
This resource comes with the suspects, codes with answers, clues for the children to answer and an answer sheet.
This lesson challenges the children to apply their mathematical knowledge in a fun activity that won’t feel like a maths lesson.
Linking to Year 5 unit of Food, Glorious Food! This persuasive writing unit introduces persuasive writing about healthy eating and Fairtrade products.
By the end of the unit, children will be encouraged to write a persuasive text, persuading an audience to use Fairtrade products.
This resource includes:
Teaching slides and resources for the following lessons-
To identify what a persuasive text is
To respond to a persuasive text
To compare and contrast persuasive media
To identify the structure of persuasive writing
To identify the language of persuasion
To find examples of persuasive language.
Each lesson is split into a starter, following an i-model, and a main activity.
i-model:
Immerse
Imitate
Innovate
Invent
Improve
For the Jesus is special unit in the Year 1 curriculum, these slides explore gift giving, what it means to give a gift and how Jesus is a special gift from God.
The slides come with assessment opportunities and links to videos to support children’s understanding.
Homophone and near homophone matching cards.
Children are given a range of questions and definitions and the children must try to match the correct homophone. This can be completed as a game or class work.
Editable Admit one assessment tickets.
Children explain one thing they enjoyed about the lesson e.g. the use of manipulatives to support their learning and one thing they still struggle with. This encourages children to take ownership for their own learning and become self-reflective individuals.
Edit each admit one tickets Learning Objective so you know which lesson the children are self evaluating.
This helps you, as an educator, on what your next steps need to be and if whole class or group interventions/recaps are needed to support understanding.
This was highly successful in my Year 6 classroom.
Gingerbread man division activity.
Encourages children to divide 55 by 5. This practical activity will get children talking and having fun without realizing they are doing division in Maths!
Ingredients for Friendships worksheet.
Includes opportunities for children to discuss:
How do we make friends?
What makes a person a good friend?
How do you show you are a good friend?
Draw a picture of you being a good friend on the label of the recipe jar.
This activity can be used in RE and PSHE, alongside other areas of the curriculum.
cm and m conversion questions based on (cross-curricular link) to the book ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ by L. Frank Baum.
These mathematical questions challenge the children through fluency, reasoning and problem-solving questions of conversions (in line with National Curriculum aims).
The resource is differentiated for all ability levels and clearly signposted on the sheets for this.
Year 6 Classic Fiction English Unit on the book ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ by L. Frank Baum.
This unit contains detailed lesson plans and resources needed to complete a unit of work on this book.
The unit is based on the children creating a new chapter in the book, where they will design a new character and setting in Oz, which Dorothy will meet as she follows the yellow brick road.
These sheets allow students to explore how to add tone to their drawings and 3D objects.
Great for demonstrating where light would hit and getting in correct terminology in lessons.
Hexagon percentages tarsia puzzle.
Children must calculate the percentages of a number and find the corresponding answer, once they do they will match the sides up and try to form the hexagon shaped puzzle.
This can be completed individually, in pairs or as a group.
It challenges children to apply their knowledge in an engaging activity.
Art stations for around the classroom based on adding tone in students artwork.
These slides are to be printed and placed throughout the classroom where children will rotate around by travelling and developing a new skill at each station.
Can you help Santa to find out which elf stole the reindeer’s carrots?
Santa provides five suspects and the children must complete a range of multiplications to crack the clues and find the culprit.
This resource achieves National Curriculum outcomes:
Multiply a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number
and challenges some learners to
Multiply a 5-digit number by a 2-digit number.
This resource comes with the suspects, codes with answers, clues for the children to answer and an answer sheet.
This lesson challenges the children to apply their mathematical knowledge in a fun activity that won’t feel like a maths lesson.
This resource explores people’s roles in and out of the workplace.
Contains a PowerPoint and activity that looks at the roles the children might have, the teacher’s role, and the role of professionals such as police officer, doctor etc.
This encourages the children to explore how we know what a professionals role is, such as their uniform and the impact this has on us, e.g. it makes them approachable, deters crime, we are aware they are there to protect us.
The worksheet activity encourages the children to write some of these ideas down next to the professional.
Year 1 Design and Technology Robots Unit.
This resource contains all the contents for Year 1’s Robot unit in Design and Technology (DT) unit.
This pack contains:
lesson plans with resource list, assessment opportunities and links to the National Curriculum
teaching slide (1x for first lesson as remaining are child led)
inventors booklet
hooks- letters from a robot
This unit has been taught to a Year 1 class and they loved receiving letters and being able to design, test and evaluate a range of materials for their robots.
This pack gives children the opportunity for ownership and a love of learning, whilst achieving the aims of the National Curriculum.
This game of match is based on Year 5 homophones and near homophones.
Children must match the picture to the definition of a range of homophones and near homophones.
This will assess children’s understanding of the definitions of a range of homophones, such as steal and steel.