I have uploaded my 2 week resources for Handa’s surprise, with the end outcome of the children writing a recount of Handa’s journey. This unit will suit all abilities of children within year 1 and 2, with lots of these resources already being differentiated. The resources include a reading text and 2 reading lessons (retrieval and sequencing), writing resources, word banks and structure strips.
Supporting teaching slides are available
I am sharing my Year 1 Fast Maths which aim to build speedy fluency skills. They build up skills each week using the White Rose timetable. There are 6 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page). The sheets including number and addition questions.
To match my Handa’s Surprise resources, I have uploaded my teaching slides. These include a 2 week unit journey with reading and writing lessons. The slides follow our school format for visuals, where we share the journey and success criteria (and prior knowledge), we then have a ‘My Turn’ slide where the teacher solely model/teach the skill, ‘Our Turn’ where the children join in and help me, ‘Your Turn’ where the children practise on their own so you can conduct AFL, followed by the tasks and a review/reflect.
I have uploaded my Year 1 Fast Maths for Summer 1 which aims to consolidate and increase Maths fluency . We follow White Rose and so all content follows their timetable, with recaps. Maths questions include number, shape and addition/subtraction/multiplication/division skills, as well as varying other units. The pack includes 6 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page). Please note, some weeks only have 4 Fast Maths due to Bank Holidays!
I have uploaded my Year 1 Fast Maths which aims to consolidate and increase Maths fluency. We follow White Rose and so the content is relevant to taught units. Maths includes number and addition/subtraction skills alongside some shape and money questions. The pack includes 6 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page).
I have uploaded my ‘How To Catch A Star’ instruction writing unit which lasted for 2 and half weeks with my mixed Year 1/2 class. The jounrey includes reading lessons (Vocabulary, Retrieval ahd Sequencing Vipers), SPaG for both Yr 1 (capital letters and full stops) and Yr 2 (adverbs with a recap of adjectives and nouns). Along the way, ‘Going Deeper’ challenges aim to push greater depth children. The pack also includes an end piece of paper to support layout and presentation.
I have uploaded my 3 week Bog Baby unit which includes SPaG, reading and writing lessons leading towards writing instructions on how to catch a Bog Baby. Differentiation of tasks is evident. VIPERS reading sessions include prediction, inferring and retrieval, with some ‘stand alone’ reading lessons included away from the topic.
I have uploaded my Year 2 Fast Maths which aims to consolidate and increase Maths fluency, starting with a recap of Summer Term Year 1 Maths and then Year 2 Autumn Term content. Maths includes number and addition skills. The pack includes 6 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page).
To accompany my Week 2 Fantastic Mr Fox Teaching Slides, here are the resources. They include:
-Grammar and writing tasks (including question marks, sentence structure and plurals)
-Spelling
-Whole class reading (retrieval lesson)
These resources were taught to my Year 1 class in Summer term, but could be suitable for Spring too.
I have uploaded my Year 2 Fast Maths for Summer 1 which aims to consolidate and increase Maths fluency (in the run up to SATS!). We follow White Rose and so all content follows their timetable, with recaps. Maths questions include number, shape and addition/subtraction/multiplication/division skills, as well as varying other units. The pack includes 6 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page). Please note, some weeks only have 4 Fast Maths due to Bank Holidays!
I have uploaded my Year 1 Fast Maths for Spring 2 which aims to consolidate and increase Maths fluency . We follow White Rose and so all content follows their timetable, with recaps. Maths questions include number, shape and addition/subtraction/multiplication/division skills, as well as varying other units. The pack includes 5 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page). Please note, some weeks only have 4 Fast Maths due to Bank Holidays
Use these ‘starter’ activities to get your children used to answering a variety a maths questions in an arithmetic way. The questions are mostly designed to recap past learning (taken from the White Rose timetable) as well as teach a few new aspects that come up on assessments (money). There are 12 of these activities, designed to be used once a day.
I have resourced some activities that allow year 1 to develop their addition skills with numbers to 10. The activities are differentiated and colour coded: B tasks (basic skills needed in red), A tasks (advancing/applying skills in orange) and D tasks (deep understanding in green). These are planned alongside the White Rose Scheme.
I have also uploaded the pre/post assessment to match as a separate document, so these work alongside the resources.
Here are my teaching slides to accompany week 2 resources for Year 1’s adventure, Fantastic Mr Fox. You will find cross curricular, differentiated slides including Writing and Reading lessons. Used alongside my resources, there is a weeks worth of lessons here.
I taught these sessions to Year 1 in the Summer term, but could be delivered in Spring.
Here are my Year 1 Fast Maths worksheets for Autumn 2 (we follow White Rose so content is in line with their scheme). There are 6 weeks worth of sheets her with a range of Maths questions aimed at consolidating skills as well as increasing fluency.
To accompany my Week 1 Fantastic Mr Fox Teaching Slides, here are the resources. They include:
-Science (animals)
-Grammar and writing tasks
Whole class reading (vocabulary lesson)
Cross curricular Maths (half and whole)
These resources were taught to my Year 1 class in Summer term, but could be suitable for Spring too.
I have resourced some activities that allow year 1 to consolidate their addition, subtraction and number knowledge. They also aim at recapping shape and measurement. As the tasks go on, they focus of early arithmetic methods and general number knowledge.
Here are my Year 2 Fast Maths worksheets for Autumn 2 (we follow White Rose so content is in line with their scheme). There are 6 weeks worth of sheets her with a range of Maths questions aimed at consolidating skills as well as increasing fluency.
I have uploaded my Year 2 Fast Maths which aims to consolidate and increase Maths fluency. We follow White Rose and so all content follows their timetable. Maths includes number, shape and addition/subtraction/multiplication/division skills. The pack includes 6 weeks worth of daily Fast Maths sheets (2 per page).
I have uploaded my 3 week Literacy unit that I used with my Year 1 and 2 children in Spring term. Using the online picture book ‘Rosie’s Glasses’ from GetEpic, we wrote a narrative about Rosie’s world transforming from dull and boring to bright, vibrant and colourful. The pack includes 3 reading lessons (based on the VIPERS scheme) and 4 writing sessions including SPaG appropriate for Spring Term with Year 1 and 2. The final week focuses on writing with already made word banks and success criterias.