A selection of ppts & worksheets to support topic of 'Visiting a Church&'.

A few resources - blank body; label body parts; senses; growing up - sequence pictures; my day - sequence pictures; babies

6 pictures to cut out, order & colour. (Goes with resource ‘The Christmas Story - Colouring é Writing Booklets’ see http://www.tes.co.uk/SEOHandler.ashx?storycode=3009606épageType=ResourceDetailétitle=The+Christmas+Story+-+colouring+%26+writing+booklets ) Ranges from pictures only to separate sentences to match pictures - write own sentences Pages 1, 2, 3 (3 could be enlarged to A3) to be cut out é stuck onto sheet 4. Pages 5 é 6 go together. Or children to stick pictures/sentences on ½ landscape A4 sheet folded in 3 to make a zigzag book, children to write numbers 123 on front 456 on back.

Powerpoint - minibeasts photos A4 photos - minibeasts Activity sheet - minibeast hunt.

I’ve used this booklet for the past 7-8 years & find it works really well. The information is collected in the first 3-4 weeks, shared with the parents é used to plan individual programmes of learning. It fits onto 3 x A3 sheets. It’s linked to this thread: http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/Resource.aspx?resourceId=2163

Bits & pieces to support food topic. Food 1 Soup, design a cereal box, buns recipe, invitation to teddy, pancakes, thank you prayer, favourite breakfast/lunch/tea, healthy diet/snacks, dangers in the kitchen, salad bar. Food 2 Jelly, dentist appointment card, Arcimboldo, favourite fruit graph, menu, tasting baby food, sorting/matching food cards. Food 3 Where does food come from?, Monster Munch picnic lunch Gingerbread man Template, character cards, children’s individual booklet, links IWB 1 Look at how artists use fruit in their pictures. Provide chalk pastels. Ask the children to select é arrange 3 pieces of fruit to make their own still life compostions. Encourage them to choose colours to match the fruit describing the shades e.g. ‘sunny’ yellow. Look at light/shadows. 2 Sort the food into their food groups 3 After preparing vegetables for a ‘self-service salad bar’ children record their likes/dislikes. 4 2 Provide ‘dentist appointment cards’ in the role play area. Introduce as a whole class/group lesson first.

A powerpoint of the story

Mothers’ Day Gift ‘A box filled with love’. After showing the children a special wrapped box (mini smartie box) tied with ribbon we say that there is something very special inside. Can they guess? There is a poem attached – You never can unwrap it. Please leave the ribbon tied. Just hold the box close to you, It’s filled with love inside. Bring out the filled smartie boxes & shake. Oh dear there is a problem – they should be empty! What shall we do? (love their reactions). After eating the contents they put their ‘love’ inside the empty box (again this is lovely to see – some blow inside, others take handfuls of ‘fresh air’ out of their mouths). Quickly close the box é wrap. We’ve found that pre-cut adhesive ‘wrappers’ are best. We were lucky enough to be given iridescent silvery sticky backed paper which was ideal as the children ‘rolled’ their boxes over the paper é it stuck. We used the ribbon that comes with the bows you find at Christmas. Attach the poem.

Very simple booklets about the birth of Jesus. We use the first two to practise handwriting (each letter being formed correctly on the board first). The faces are blank so that the children can add their own expressions – in other words I can’t draw faces!! Book 1 has starting dots to show the children where to start each letter. Book 2 has big sentences and lines. Book 3 is a colouring book with sentence to read. Book 4 has pictures and blank spaces for the children to attempt their own writing. Other topics covered: Festivals and celebrations.

Simple Powerpoint showing the life cycle of a frog.

A mixture of activities & resources. Recording the weather/weather race/weather man. Light/dark é black/white Keeping warm - animals, ourselves. (dressing pin man, hats, poem ‘On a winter’s day’) Seasons - A4 sheet of tree in different seasons é activity sheet Snowman poem é cut out. Other topics covers: Seasons and weather.

A very simple poster that shows the 3 primary colours as paint brushes (2 above each pot) & the new colour each one makes. Also a couple of activity sheets to let the children record their findings if they wish.

A simple book which the children complete during the first term during small group work. Lots of opportunities for speaking & listening to each other. Fits onto 5 x A3 sheets.

As the title describes, except one is purely a lovely background drop, ideal for Nativity.

Children’s zig zag book to go with Winter/Weather 1 - Poem ‘On a winter’s day’ & IWB activity. (Couldn’t fit this onto the other upload as it was full)

Year 6 to Reception All classes move to their new class at the same time & Year 6 goes into Reception. They ‘go back in time’ & play, paint, construct etc. and at the end of the session they make a ‘Time Capsule’. Box of smarties/raisins - eat contents while remembering 3 vivid occasions in their time at primary school & jotting them down on a piece of A5 paper. They discuss the various times with their friends. I’ve seen them write their signatures, phone numbers & e-mails on the back of each other’s sheets & exchange a little tokens to put in their box. They fold their papers, put them in their box & seal with sparkly sticky backed paper. On the front they stick a little card with tells them ‘Do not open until 2008’ (when they’re 21!!)

Selection of A4 & A5 handprint borders

'Thank you for my drink of water.' Ben drinks his water & thanks the glass but the glass replies that he shouldn't thank him as he only held the water - he must thank the one who gave him the water. So Ben thanks the ...tap ... é so on. The water cycle simply illustrated é ending with Ben thanking God for his drink of water.

If you have access to the internet there is a lovely art idea based on Arcimboldo - making a face out of fruit & veg.

Simple body shape

Y1 Seasons PPT showing the 4 seasons and the weather/features usually associated with them. Chn were given a sheet showing 4 bare trees and asked to use coloured pencils to make each tree match its season. They were then given 4 weather ‘stamps’ (rain, sun, wind, snow) and asked to choose the season that they would usually find each type of weather. Seasons song.