This is a two-week Writing Root using Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. Children discover a letter that is about being yourself. They make statements about their dreams and wishes before sharing the text. They explore verbs and use these to write commands that form instructions for being a mermaid. As the story unfolds, they predict, write in role and sort inferential statements. They create and advertise carnival costumes before moving to music as the creature they’ve decided to become. Finally, they look at the features of a poem before writing their own poems based on the idea of movement, being who you want to be and using verbs in their infinitive and progressive forms. Phonics for reading and writing is embedded as is punctuation for KS1.

This is a three-week Writing Root using Billy and the Beast by Nadia Shireen in which children create their own version of the Billy character and use them to defeat a terrible beast intent upon boiling up animals into a terrible feast. During the sequence, they write a ‘day in the life of’ in the form of a summary, emails to give advice, recipes and then create their own version of a Billy and the Beast story.

This warm-up power point is intended to be used as revision for Key Stage 1 pupils. The games and activities on these slides can be used one at a time as introductory activities or as lesson starters. These activities are ideal for reinforcing previous learning - why not do one activity every day?

Roman Numerals revision worksheet for year 4.

Count objects to 100 and Read and Write numbers in numerals and words.