Each week, I like to give my children a new comprehension to 1) check their understanding and 2) immerse them to different text types. While studying poetry, I discovered that many children found it difficult to decode the meaning behind poetry. This resource contains: *A poem. *Questions to check understanding. *An answer sheet. The poem chosen is one of my favorites as it’s about bullying so it can tie into other lessons/discussions that arise in the classroom. It’s written by an Irish author, so there are 2 or 3 phrases included that children may not understand. This is a fantastic opportunity for them to use their reading skills to read back over the sentence and try to work out what the word means. A really enjoyable poem and it can also be sent home as a homework activity. Overall, children will gain an understanding of the meaning behind the poem and they will be encouraged to form opinions on a poem, which is something a little bit different. I hope you enjoy this resource as much as we did!

In this topic, children will need to know two different models of the solar system: The geocentric model and the heliocentric model. Included: *A detailed lesson plan. *An informative Power Point presentation to be used alongside the lesson. *A prior and post lesson assessment to check for understanding. *Role play labels to ensure children understand the positioning of the planets in this model. *Preview of this product to inform you how I use some of these resources. Please leave a review to let me know how you and your class got on with this resource.

This is a weeks worth of planning, resources and presentations based on imaginary settings. Children will be creating their own imaginary world in which they will need to know inside out to write about. To make it more interesting, children will need to pretend that they are Horrid Henry entering their own imaginary land. I taught these lessons this week and they worked very well. Children loved creating their own worlds in which they could bring Horrid Henry into it. There is planning stages to these lessons also which allow children time to edit their worlds for the ‘big write’ at the end of the week. Included is: Powerpoint on Frontal Adverbials Planning sheet Model Plan Powerpoint for reference Scaffolding sheet Success Criteria for stick in (checklist for children while writing). Detailed, differentiated plan.

An introduction into the Vikings. It’s very exciting lesson as it involves role-play and physical moving around the classroom to “spy” on the Vikings. My class got a lot out of it.

This package includes a lesson plan and a wealth of images and templates to carry out 4 different art activities. We spent the full day focusing on art from different artists such as Picasso Monet Romero Britto and many more. The learning objective is: How do I create different tones of one colour using different media, exploring shape and pattern? Success Criteria: I can discuss the work of artists. I can mix paint to create different shades of blue. I can keep the colours clean by using a clean brush to mix. I can make an observational drawing I can combine pastel colours to create an illusion of colours mixing. I can create a repeating pattern using tone to add depth. Children will create 4 different art pieces using many different techniques all based around our theme of the colour blue.

Shared/Guided Reading lesson based on the story ‘Journey to Jo’Burg’. This was used to inspire these kids and completely engage them with the story. My idea is for the starter, display three questions (see planning) and get them to write their answers in groups on post-it notes. Then stick them up on the IWB on a picture of South Africa (also in resources). This will engage them straight away with the text and what’ll happen. Then you’ll move on to explaining that the idea is to focus on what a dilemma is and what it is in this chapter. (The chapter is linked on the planning and you can download it as a pdf). The children should have a hard copy in front of them and together you will make a success criteria of what a good, interesting reader sounds like. Get them to critique you reading in a boring way. Children to sort pre-made laminated statements into positives and negatives about going to Jo’Berg. In groups children will then engage in a conscience alley (role-play) to thrash out both sides of a dilemma. You can do it as a whole class or small groups either. Children really get into the story this way and feel they’re helping Naledi choose her dilemma. Great, engaging lesson. Really enjoyed it!

10 higher level thinking questions for deepening understanding and developing mathematical language Having studied in a course based on AFL strategies, I have a new found love (so to speak) for asking higher level questions during lessons to evoke discussion between students. The more they discuss concepts, the deeper their understanding will grow. With this in mind, I created these colourful cards to be cut, laminated and given to my year 4 class once a week to create ‘colourful’, intentional discussion. As we are all aware, there are many different types of learners, and children remember 90% of the information that teach someone else. Therefore, by engaging in critical thinking in maths, they will essentially be “teaching” their partner why their reasoning is correct through having to “prove” it to them. My class adored this and the intentional discussion kept them engaged in the task for much longer as they had to get their personal opinions across. If you have any questions or would like to see more of these resources, please leave a review.

If you are teaching your class about myths or simply just want a comprehension activity that is SLIGHTLY different from the norm, then this resource is for you. Included: *Text *Questions to check understanding (inc ordering events, decoding meaning etc) *Creation Station- where children create their own labyrinth. *Adjective Alley- children create amazing adjectives and phrases to describe the minotaur. *The New Minotaur- children will get their creative juices flowing and create a Minotaur of their own, perhaps even half human, half unicorn. An enjoyable, creative way to check and extend children’s understanding of what they’ve read. Also an excellent addition to your myths topic, if you’re teaching it. Check out: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/myths-understanding-the-features-11943412

Making Connections is a very valuable skill to teach in Guided Reading. Children learn to connect what they read to themselves, another text and the wider world, helping them to understand the text on a deeper level. Most of us tell the children that a good reader “makes connections”, but for the most part, only a handful of the children actually know what this means. This resource will explicitly teach your children how to make connections with what their reading to themselves, another text and the wider world. This resource can be used with ANY text. It teaches the SKILL of making connections and that can be applied to fiction, non-fiction and poetry. What’s included A detailed daily PowerPoint to structure the lessons and encourage children to engage in child talk/cooperative learning. Making Connections support cards- to provide children with the sentence stems in order to be successful when structuring a connection. Summarising Tweet template- to ensure children have understood the text read on a basic level before engaging in making connections. Children are challenged to include the main events, main characters etc in 280 characters. Making Connection activity Sheets. I hope this resource is useful for you. Please leave some feedback and let me know how these lessons went. I’d love to hear from you.

Philosophy 4 Children is being taught across the UK to teach children fundamental skills such as: critical thinking. reasoning skills. empathy. team work. In this pack, I have included: Philosophy Display Cards Philosophy lesson plan: recycling Philosophy lesson plan: friendships Philosophy Powerpoint: recycling Philosophy Powerpoint: friendships A document on how to teach philosophy. I have been teaching Philosophy lessons for a whole term now and the difference it has made in children’s problem solving skills in friendship issues, aswell as mathematical problems is amazing! We spend an hour a week on P4C and it’s the children’s favourite lesson. Some of them have come out with some cracking conclusions too: “Crying is an expression of your truest emotions. The body takes over from the mind”. I mean WOW!

BACK TO SCHOOL!!! (Already?) One of my main goals on day one is to build relationships with the children and leave them go home on the first day feeling happy and safe in their new classroom environment. The idea behind this resource is that each child write a nice comment on their peers’ jigsaw pieces, so that by the end of the lesson, each child has a nice comment from everyone in the class. I then plan to cut the jigsaw pieces out and display them in the classroom for the year, for children to refer to anytime they wish. It also gives you an opportunity to set expectations for a more “busy” lesson, i.e. silent when walking around the room/no running/no pushing etc. Included is: The activity sheet A short powerpoint explaining how to engage in this activity! Please leave a review and let me know how you got on

More Guided Reading Resources- I’m hooked! This week’s product is a week’s worth of inference slides based on 5 different pictures. Inference skills are a form of higher order thinking, which children struggle to understand through words. Take the words away and encourage them to develop this skill through pictures! For more information about using the Whole Class Guided Reading approach, see my website:www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com Act fast, download now, as it won’t be free forever! Included: 5 slides with different pictures 4 questions daily to support inference skills 4 sentence scaffolding daily to support the structure of sentences Copies of each picture to stick in the books. If you have enjoyed this product, please let me know in the comments below! Rebecca :)

A fun filled ‘back to school’ activity centered around children applying for classroom jobs! Children will be shown (by powerpoint) what each job entails and what type of characteristics they need to have for each job. The aim here is to get to know children’s personalities: Who is a leader: who is shy: who is outspoken: who is a decent writer etc. Plus it beats a ‘my summer holiday recount’ right? Also another way to reinforce classroom expectations at the beginning of the year, i.e. what each child is expected to do as a responsibility to their classroom. Included is: 14 page PPT outlining each job and explaining the activity Job application form with scaffolding and images Class Jobs posters (as seen in the cover image) Please do leave a review to let me know how you got on

This resource includes a detailed, differentiated plan, activity resources and an interactive notebook file to use as a support throughout the entire lesson. This lesson is a step-by-step guide in how to plan a fair test. It relates to the materials topic as it is questioning different materials and their properties at mopping up spills. Children are encouraged to make up their own scientific question, which promotes a scientific enquiry, heightening the engagement during this experiment. Children will learn how to write up an experiment and revise terms such as fair test.

This lesson involves an exciting experiment to understand the terms: *dissolve *solute *solution *solvent *soluble Children will work in mixed ability groups and conduct 3 different experiments to see which factors have an influence on dissolving. It worked fantastically in the use and understanding of the scientific terms listed above. Children will then feedback to the class about what they discovered from their investigation and as a class we will conclude as to which factors effect dissolving most. This lesson comes well resourced with: *a step-by-step guide, for each group, in how to conduct their experiment along with the equipment needed. *Key Vocabulary for reference or display purposes. *Flash cards explaining the terms for low ability or visual learners. *A detailed lesson plan *An interactive notebook file *Post/prior assessment tool Overall, a very enjoyable lesson which allows the children to learn and understand the scientific terms in a practical way. Please leave a review and let me know how you and your class liked this resource.

Whole Class Guided Reading Resource based on Newspaper Reports! These activities aim to engage children with Newspaper Reports, while working on the important Reading Skills, such as: Summary Asking Questions Inference Explanation Previous Knowledge This Guided Reading resource focuses primarily on the reading skills this week and not on children’s fluency. I decided to give a strong focus on comprehension this week to see where my children were with the different reading skills. As these Guided Reading resources are hands-on, I spent a day on each activity and really explicitly taught that skill. The children worked in groups of 4 and had to justify, explain and discuss their answers with their peers. Thus deepening their understanding of the skill taught that day. Guided Reading can be taught in many different ways, but Whole Class Guided Reading in mixed ability pairs is the way I approach these lessons and it has allowed ALL children to make progress. For more on how I teach it, see my blog: www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com More products like this: Whole Class Guided Reading: Newspaper Reports Whole Class Guided Reading: Little Red Riding Hood Whole Class Guided Reading: Poetry Please leave a review and let me know how you get on.

A weeks lesson plan introducing children to non-chronological reports. Speaking and Listening is incorporated into these lessons also by allowing children to pretend they are news reporters. Children will be taught how to 'hook' their readers in and write in factual sentences.

Ah, the World Cup is upon us again and if you’re like me, you’ve been trawling through the internet looking for something to keep the children: Engaged Purposeful Learning about the countries involved This project is part of a growing bundle in preparation for the World Cup 2022. Check my store regularly for more additions to the project. This particular activity pack is 16 pages of fun activities related to the World Cup. In this pack, there is: Design your own jersey activity. Design your own football boots activity. Design your own skyscraper to add to the Doha Skyline. Research facts on countries involved in the World Cup. Get to know each flag in each group of the World Cup. Football drills through a maze. Colouring pages and MUCH more. This can be done as a whole class lesson, in pairs, as a homework based project or as an early finisher task. It’s up to you! All that’s needed is a copy of the booklet/pages required for each child. I hope you and your children enjoy this lesson. I’d love to hear from you all :) Check my site: www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com for more ideas like this or my Instagram. Other products like this: Qatar: Maths Lesson Qatar: Art Lesson

Enjoy some fun Maths activities by engaging the children with the World Cup 2022. The country of Qatar is getting ready for 2022, so why shouldn’t we? A mathematical activity to engage children with converting units of measure (World Cup Theme). Lesson Plan included. Familiarise the children with the layout of the stadiums. Children must measure the distance between a letter and a stadium. Then because 1cm=35 minutes, they must then calculate how long it would take to get to said stadium. For example: How long will it take A to get to Lusail stadium? Using your ruler, measure the distance from A to Lusail stadium. If it’s 7.6 cm- round to the nearest whole number which is 8cm. 1cm = 35 minutes so 35 x 8 = 280 minutes =4 hours 40 minutes Children must then fill in a table with their findings. A fun activity for the whole class. Please let me know what you and your class thought of this resource- I can’t wait to hear your thoughts. I have included a map of Qatar with the football stadiums.

Ah, the World Cup is upon us again and if you’re like me, you’ve been trawling through the internet looking for something to keep the children: Engaged Busy This project is part of a growing bundle in preparation for the World Cup 2022. Check my store regularly for more additions to the project. This particular strand has a music focus! The children will listen to and discuss the Qatari National Anthem (links and translations included). The aim is for them to rate its effectiveness and compare and contrast this National Anthem with their own. Following this, children will then create their own anthem based on either: Their class Their home town Their football club In this pack, there is: An explanation page. The lyrics to the Qatari National Anthem Rate and Review page- where children rate the anthem. Brainstorm page- children collate ideas for their own anthem. Anthem Writing- the children have lined paper to write their own anthem. This can be done as a guided lesson, in pairs, or as a homework based project. It’s up to you! All that’s needed is a copy of the National Anthem from the country you currently live in, in order for the children to compare and contrast. I hope you and your children enjoy this lesson. I’d love to hear from you all :) Check my site: www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com for more ideas like this. Other products like this: Qatar: Maths Lesson Qatar: Art Lesson