The following plan will go through these lessons:
I can understand what a myth is and identify their themes and features.
I can compare and contrast different versions of a Roman Myth
I can use drama to empathise with characters in a story
I can explain when to use possessive apostrophes in character descriptions
I can understand the general structure of a myth.
I can plan the characters and setting for my own myth.
I can use adverbials to open my myth.
I can use conjunctions in my myth.
Lots of fun to introduce the topic of Romans. Made for year 4 but can easily be adapted. Includes smart notes, differentiated resources and activities.
used as a stimulus for writing a job application
Spy Kids stimulus
Smart notes goes through a process of thinking about what the children’s skills are, what experience in secret agent work they have done before (imaginative thinking) and shows appropriate letter structure.
This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class.
Can be easily adapted.
It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters.
Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs)
Lesson 2: Use paragraphs
Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2)
Lesson 4: Create a shared plan
Lesson 5: Create a shared write
Lesson 6: Create an independent plan
Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias)
Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work
Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)
This unit of work is inspired by the planning of Power of Reading. Some lessons are the same but I have adapted it to include a writing cycle. The writing cycle supports students by including a grammar lesson, a planning lesson and then the writing lesson.
Power of reading week 1
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Eagle poems)
Power of reading week 2
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Letters)
When referring to the names Amari and Nala, my class gave the characters name so we knew who we were referring to throughout the story. Amari is the farmer’s friend who comes to visit the farmer and is shocked by the eagle. Nala Amari’s wife.
Lessons included are:
Lesson 1: Read and respond to the story ‘Fly Eagle Fly’
Lesson 2: Identify effective vocabulary
Lesson 3: Create a storyboard for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 4: Visualise and draw a setting
Lesson 5: Build a bank of vocabulary to describe an eagle
Lesson 6: Identify and use expanded noun phrases
Lesson 7: Gather information about eagles
Lesson 8: Create a plan for a poem
Lesson 9: Write a poem about an eagle (this can be extended to edit and publish)
Lesson 10: Understand a character’s feelings
Lesson 11: Understand a character’s perspective
Lesson 12: Identify powerful vocabulary
Lesson 13: Answer questions about a text
Lesson 14: Write a book review for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 15: Identify and use prepositions
Lesson 16: Gather information about South Africa
Lesson 17: Create a plan for a letter
Lesson 18: Write a letter (this can be extended to edit and publish)
4 Lessons based on shadow work of Kumi Yamashita.
Learning objectives include:
Analyse the work of Kumi Yamashita
Develop shadow skills and sketching skills
Create art inspired by Kumi Yamashita
Analyse my work
Lessons include practical work with activities like getting mathematical 3D blocks out and torches/lights to create shadows.
In this unit of work you are downloading 15 lessons. Each lesson comes with a Powerpoint presentation. The number of lessons can be extended if you decide to add a ‘edit and improve’ session and a ‘publishing’ session on produced pieces of work.
This unit is inspired by the Power of Reading unit for Hot Like Fire by Valerie Bloom. The book is not needed as all resources needed from the book have been typed up and provided into the download unit.
Learning Objectives are as follows:
PART 1:
Session 1: to annotate a poem
(exploration of ‘Grandma, Bandana an’ me’ and ‘How to ask for a hamster’)
Session 2: understand language used in a poem
(translating the poem ‘De Familiar thing’ from Jamaican dialect to English)
Session 3: Understand the meaning behind words
(dramatising the poem De Bread Van’)
Session 4: Identify the difference between poetry and prose
The following sessions follow a writing cycle which allows build-up to a piece of writing/
Session 5: understand and annotate a poem (‘The People Next Door’)
Session 6: Identify and use conjunctions
Session 7: plan a responding letter (to the invite to dinner that is given to the audience in the poem ‘The people next door’)
Session 8, 9 and 10 can be a writing session, editing session and then publishing session.
PART 2:
This part of the planning unit is exploring and writing with inspiration by Valerie Bloom’s ‘The River’ poem.
Session 1: Explore a poem (The River by Valerie Bloom and then 'Life is Like a River by Patricia Walter)
Session 2: understand rhyming patterns
Session 3: Create my own rhyming poem (inspired by the river poems)
Session 4: Create a drama piece
PART 3
This part of the planning unit is about creating poems about chocolate, using the learning and inspiration that has been covered int he last two parts.
Session 1: Use onomatopoeia and alliteration
Session 2: Use rhyming couplets and expanded noun phrases
Session 3: Experience chocolate for our poems
Session 4: Plan our poems
This will then lead onto a writing session, editing and publishing session.
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Created for Year 4 but easily adaptable.
Included are the worksheets/questions for the whole book.
2 per page - easy to print and trim.
All objectives based on the reading VIPERS
This unit if work is inspired by the NCETM unit of work for Year 4 - Unit 2 - Numbers to 10,000
Most resources and slides are made by myself but some high quality activities have been clipped from NCETM and White Rose.
The objectives covered per lesson are as follows:
Know what 1000 is made up of (representations up to 1000)
Use knowledge of 1000 to explain and measure conversions
Add multiples of 10
Add multiples of 100
Use knowledge of 1000 to add and subtract
Compare numbers to 10,000
Identify and estimate numbers on a number line
Round to the nearest 1000
Round to the nearest 100
Apply rounding to problems
Add and subtract four digits
Know how many 25’s and 50’s make 1000
This unit of work cross-teaches many topics in maths and includes a lot of capacity and measure problems.
Each lesson follows the lesson slide structure of:
Revisit
Address misconception
Vocabulary
Focus
Talk Task
Guided Practice
Deepen
Next steps (if it aimed to be a lesson that goes into books, which most are)
This is a unit of work that is inspired by the planning from NCETM Year 4 Unit 5.
The learning outcomes that the NCETM state are covered in this unit if planning are as follows:
1 Pupils represent counting in sevens as the 7 times table
2 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of seven
3 Pupils use their knowledge of the 7 times table to solve problems
4 Pupils identify patterns of odd and even numbers in the times tables
5 Pupils represent a square number
6 Pupils use knowledge of divisibility rules to solve problems
In this unit of work the learning objectives are the following:
Revise column method for + and -
Count in and multiply by 7
Solve 7 times table problems
Identify patterns of odd and even numbers in times tables
Identify square numbers
Find divisibility rules
Find divisibility rules
Each lesson follows the Powerpoint slide structure of:
Revisit
Address Misonceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
TalkTask
Deepen
Independent Practice
These lessons follow a mastery approach and have been commented on by OFSTED as being a great tool for great maths teaching.
Print-outs are provided.
The following elements are mastery teaching are used throughout:
stem sentences, generalisations, high-level vocabulary, the slides allow for a ping-pong approach, clear and varied visual representations, opportunities for using resources etc.
Worksheets provided follow the structure of: Fluency, Problem-solving and Reasoning to ensure progression.
3 of these lessons are not intended to be in books and do not come with ‘next steps’ but the rest do. This is to allow next steps and progress to be een within books for that lesson.
Here are 16 lessons with tasks that go up to Chapter 6 of the book.
Each Powerpoint consists of the following slides:
Revisit
Talk Task
Vocabulary
Focus
Deepen
Independent Activity
Exit Pass
This was aimed at Year 4 pupils but could be easily adapted. The planning goes over a few lessons per chapter so it can be studied in depth. My class loved this book and enjoyed the tasks that we did based around the text.
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Lesson 1: Analysis and looking at the work of Alice Bailly and Pablo Picasso. Info about the artists with key questions to answer based on their work.
Comparison task.
(For KS1, this can be done whole class and stuck into books. KS2 independent work)
Lesson 2: Children explore cubism skills by understanding what cubism is and drawing a selection of random objects through a cubist lens.
Lesson 3: Children explore wool painting and have an opportunity to explore different patterns and styles of wool painting.
Lesson 4: Children create their own cubism self-portraits. They add a section of wool painting to the art.
8 Lessons based on Sweden, all with activities.
Most of these lessons comes with PowerPoints to accompany. There are some lessons where a PowerPoint is necessarily needed so there are teacher comments on the activity sheet on what to do - some require using atlases or Google Maps.
The lesson learning objectives are as follows:
Design my own Swedish Darla Horse (art based - can be turned into a sequence of lessons easily and an art final product)
Compare England and Sweden on a map of the world.
Compare Swedish to English houses
Locate key landmarks on a map of Sweden
Identify Human or Physical Geographical features of Sweden
Why do 90% of Sweden live in the south?
Answer questions about Sweden
Compete in a quiz about Sweden.
2 of the resources are taken and adapted from Twinkl but the rest are my own created for my Year 4 class when we did a Geography unit on Sweden.
Here are 8 lessons which goes from page 1 up to page 53 of the book.
-Read the book to the children/Children read the chapters stated.
Children complete the activity for the lesson.
Answers included for easy marking.
Made and completed for Year 4.
Easily Adaptable.
This uses the stimulus video of Alma.
The Smartnotes document goes through the short film step by step with key questions to think about and promote creative, descriptive writing.
Can be used flexibly throughout KS2.
This is a unit of work for three History lessons on Ancient Maya.
They include:
The Mayan creation story
Mayan Gods
What were Ancient Mayan homes like?
There are a range of activities such as drawing, designing, researching and creating a fact file.
Created with Year 3 and 4 in mind.
This unit comes with a Powerpoint for each lesson and attached resources. I have provided SEN/EAL word banks within this unit if work too. Many of the lessons have simplified and differentiated worksheets and tasks for significant SEN and EAL pupils.
There are 13 lessons provided but this can be extended to 19 lessons if you follow my notes below.
Week 1:
Lesson 1: Illustrate the opening of Iron Man.
Lesson 2: Use conjunctions
Lesson 3: Use similes
Lesson 4: Write from Hogarth’s point of view (when he first sees Iron Man)
Lesson 5: Write a diary entry from Hogarth’s point of view
Week 2:
(structured writing cycle)
Lesson 6: Plan a diary entry (More structure for the next diary entry which is about when Hogarth traps Iron Man in a deep hole)
Lesson 7: Write a diary entry
I then used the rest of this week to finish writing, edit writing and publish writing which took this to a whole week)
Week 3:
Lesson 8: Collect impressive adjectives to describe the scrapyard
Lesson 9: Create a piece of art inspired by the scrapyard
‘Extra SPAG lesson expanded noun phrases’ taught here.
Week 4:
Lesson 10: Identify and use similes and metaphors
Lesson 11:Plan a suspenseful horror poem (WAGOLL provided)
Lesson 12: Write a suspenseful horror poem
I then used the rest of week 4 to finish writing, edit and improve, and publish.
I taught this to a Year 4 class but this can be used from Year 4 - Year 6.
This will support children in knowing how to cope with loss and exploring this and strategies to support them. Included in this are the tasks and links to stories on Youtube so you do not need the physical book yourself.
Here are 3 high-quality lessons on decimals which is intended to follow on straight after the children have been taught a unit on fractions. A unit of fractions is available in my TES shop.
The following learning objectives are covered:
Lesson 1: Compare decimals
(this is a practical lesson with plenty of visuals and explorative activities)
Lesson 2: Order decimals
(this lesson compares and orders decimals using a variety of contexts such as measurement)
Lesson 3: Identify decimal equivalents to fractions
(this is a practical lesson with matching activities)
Each lesson Powerpoint follows the same maths lesson structure of:
Revisit
Address Misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Task
The ‘Independent Task’ slide has a ‘Now, Next, Last’ visual to promote children’s independence in completing their tasks.
The Powepoint is infused with STEM sentences, different representations, practical activities, fluency, and reasoning tasks.
#decimals #decimalsfractions #fractions #year4 #NCETM #mastery #unit #
9 weeks worth of homework!
Each week consists of two sets - one for on track learners and one for ‘SEN’ learners. The SEN homework is slightly more visual and goes through the KS1 spellings. The on-track homework takes spellings from the Year 3/4 government spelling list.
The homework is intended to be printed double sided with a times table task on one side and spellings on the other.
The homework has the due date written on the top of the page which is due in on Fridays but this can easily be amended.
#homework #timestables #multiplication #spelling #year3 #year4