A basic treasure map activity, useful for teaching co-ordinates in Year 2 or 3.

This is an exciting activity for children of all age and also links to the instructions part of the Literacy framework. Fill up some jugs with dilute orange, blackcurrant, lime, and water, as substitutes for the disgusting ingredients.

Can be done as a worksheet, but I personally cut up the sheets, place them in differentiated boxes at the front of the class, and get the children to write their answers in their books. Once a child has done one problem, they can go back to their box and collect a new one.

Time problems using a range of time tables.

Presentation for children to try and work out which materials are natural and which are not. All materials are hyperlinked.

To be done with balancing scales, the children have a selection of classroom items to compare to 1kg. They must then estimate/predict/guess whether they will be heavier or lighter than 1kg before testing their results. The document can easily be changed where you feel appropriate. My lower attaining children really enjoyed this activity.

I have a G&T child in my Year 2 class, who constantly needs extra challenge. This was a great activity for him to work on whilst the other children got to grips with the basics of o'clock and half past.

Can be done as a worksheet, but I personally cut up the sheets, place them in differentiated boxes at the front of the class, and get the children to write their answers in their books. Once a child has done one problem, they can go back to their box and collect a new one.

A pretty basic worksheet in which children, rather than simply dividing a number to get the answer, have to work out what the missing numbers are in the number sentence. 3 levels of differentiation.

While the rest of my Year 4 class worked on doubles, my HA group developed their skills further by multiplying 2 and 3-digit numbers by four and then eight. They then moved on to word problems that involved the same skills.

Encouraging children to use speech marks - transfer what the Twits and other characters are saying from their speech bubbles into sentences that use speech marks.

A brief history of Argentina and its favourite people.

This word document is a set of various aliens, half of which are green. This will give children the chance to classify objects according to one criterion (green or not green), which you could then progress to using two criteria (boy or girl, 2 eyes or more, etc). You can play with the data in any way you like.

Here are a selection of powerpoints to introduce the children to the Vikings. They are mainly for discussion and can be a starting point to build a lesson around. There are also a couple of art activities here too.

A very clear set of posters for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Perfect for early November, my poem actually looks like a rocket. It could be used to support chn in making their own visual poetry or, with such interesting onomatopoeia (spelling?), can be used as a performance piece (adding actions, sounds, etc)

I printed off these slides for my lower attaining Year 4 children. They were then able to physically draw around the number of presents each child would receive and work out how many children there were.

Worksheet identifying nouns in groups of words, phrases and sentences.

Differentiated problems. A variety of events start at the same time but finish at different times. Can the children work out how long they last for?

Contains a weeks planning, interactive whiteboard tutorials and worksheets.

Converting between cm and mm (WORD PROBLEMS) in the context of a Spider Olympics (Long Jump). There is a presentation with a short story and then some word problems to do together. Also, I have uploaded a sheet of differentiated word problems that I cut out and allow children to collect and tackle. The easiest problems are in the left hand column, the most difficult are on the right. Best for Y4 or 5, but could still be done at Y3 or even with struggling Y6s.