Growing: An Early Years Lesson Plan for an SEN Class This resource provides a comprehensive, adult-led lesson followed by engaging, guided play activities for an early years class with special educational needs (SEN). The topic is growing, and all activities are designed to support a range of skills. The lesson plan includes detailed instructions and prompt cards to set up various learning stations, offering guidance on what each station is about and how adults can best support students. The resource is fully supported by visuals created with Boardmaker, which aid in communication and comprehension for all learners. Skills Focus Students will be working on the following skills throughout the lesson and activities: Mark Making: Using different tools and materials to create marks. Tracing and Copying: Practicing tracing or copying various writing patterns. Gross Motor Skills: Copying large, gross movements. Fine Motor Skills: Engaging in finger play through songs.

On this PowerPoint Pupils can build and type sentences about the PJ Masks.

On this post you can find: photos of the props I used photos of my pupils workbooks with their completed work. More specifically, photos of 2 worksheets: i) differentiated worksheets for learning the names of the characters, ii) colourful semantics activity for describing a photo that is part of the story.

For this particular story lesson, I prepared the following resources: PowerPoint Presentation (I used ‘animations’ to present the information in ways that capture my pupils’ attention by creating pauses in order to allow for comments and questions) Core board with fringe vocabulary Story Props 4 different worksheets to use 1 per week, all differentiated according to pupils needs.

The lesson consists of 3 parts yoga poses. First pupils get ready by getting their yoga mat and taking their shoes and socks off. Then, leading adult models one yoga pose at a time, and pupils copy. breathing. Pupils learn and practice and breathing exercise. relaxing. Give out pillows to pupils and set 5 minutes timer for relaxation. Essential oils can be used during this time. At the end of the session, pupils tidy up by spraying and wiping their yoga mats.

A games lessons for the interactive whiteboard

This is a games session where pupils take turns to play a game on the Interactive Whiteboard. Afterwards, pupils can say what games they liked and did not like, as a way to express their pupil’s voice.

A games session where pupils take turns to play music games on the Interactive Whiteboard

In this games session pupils take turns to choose and play games on the IWB.