Children find golden tickets in their book and pretend they visit the ‘Chocolate Room’. They describe what they did and felt using the 5 senses from watching a video and using role play. Good to up level writing with adjectives, verbs, adverbs, punctuation, openers, conjunctions and similes. A very fun and complete lesson with a model shown, pics for lower children and vocabulary mats. Used in Year 2 but the success criteria can be adapted for age group/ability. Potentially very good for observations.

Suitable for Year 2 and key stage 2. Three differentiated worksheets, starter, extension, plenary and plan. The extension is food webs and the starter is children trying to order a food chain. Plan provided. Also looks at how changes in numbers to one part of a food chain affects the rest. Answers to worksheets provided.

CHALLENGE word problems included at the end for early finishers. After that they can write their own word problems. There are BLANK TEMPLATE sheets which you can draw the hands/write the times below depending on the needs of your class, after printing the sheets or editing the documents on the PC. The Word versions for the blank templates are attached (which are easier to edit on the computer) but since it was exported, it may need tidying up. One of the sheets is for writing the time. The other sheet, the children will draw the hands for a given time. Start with o’clock, then half past and quarter past. Next look at quarter to. Then build up to minutes past the hour in five minute intervals and finally minutes to the hour.

Answer sheets provided. Brutus questions are the easiest, then Scipio with Caesar the hardest. The differentiated word problems are an extension. Go through the presentation as the teaching input. Point out how you build up Roman numerals only using the digits available. Stress from the input that some numbers are harder as you can’t do 9 as VIIII or 40 as XXXX; you have to do less than the next biggest number. If there is a smaller numeral before a bigger numeral then say it is that much less than the bigger numeral. Essentially say this is as you can’t have four of the same numerals together. Also point out that you use the least numerals possible so you don’t write e.g LL=100 as C=100 which is quicker. The numerals go up to M as 1000. You may want to trim the worksheets into the different sections if you feel they are too much as a whole page.

Suitable for Year 2 and above. You can skip the lesson starter (recapping different animal groups) if you have less time and/or only make the highers do the harder worksheet and not both. Children learn how to identify animals by following a branch/sorting diagram by answering yes or no questions. Two worksheets provided, all start with the easier one then move on to the harder if you have time. The challenge is children explain why we need/use sorting and branch diagrams. An extension is children write similarities and differences between two animals from the pictures or their own. Plan provided. For the plenary children think of potential animals for yes and no questions and vice versa.

This can work with paints, pastels, colour pencil or chalk. Basic steps are provided as well as a link to one example on you tube that models an example of how to do 'MOM'. The video is around 15 minutes long and you have to skip an advert. You may have to skip past some parts to speed up the input. Examples are provided on the page that can be shown on the main whiteboard or printed off for tables. A very fun activity that will engage pupils and can be differentiated by amount of detail/extras, font style, length of word and the background. Templates are provided for lower ability children.

It contains objectives for the end of year 2. Can be used as a worksheet for revision, but as it covers a large area, it is also suitable for assessment. Two pages on topics like spellings, basic punctuation, verbs, possessive apostrophes, plurals, word classes, prefixes/suffixes and contractions. The harder questions/topics are towards the end which may be useful for differentiation. As speech marks and possessive apostrophes are more for KS2 I put them at the end so they can be removed if required.

A generic two page writing frame template that can be used for any experiment that changes one variable. Sheets come in two pairs; the first two have more advanced terminology for older children. One out of two templates has scaffolding questions to help that can be used for differentiation. The second two sheets labelled 'Younger' have slightly simplified vocabulary for younger or less able children. Edit the terminology if you find it appropriate. If children run out of space to write just cut out the section, stick it in and carry on writing in books or paper. Furthermore children could just write out the subtitles shown in their books themselves, using the sheets as an example to copy.

Plan is provided. The Powerpoint provided is the teacher input that is to be gone through with the children on the carpet. Please print the ‘3 Golden Rules’ for children on their tables as this will help them so much in this difficult topic (Trust me from experience!). Continually refer to these 3 golden rules. There is also a plenary provided with missing number questions and a word problem. There are differentiated worksheets: LA= lower ability, MA= middle ability, HA= higher ability. The extension has missing number problems and word problems using the inverse, as well as explaining your problem solving.

Answer sheets provided. Full lesson with teaching input (powerpoint), 3 differentiated worksheets (HA is higher, MA is middle and LA is lower ability). One of the presentations is Word in case you want to edit it. Three extensions are provided looking at symmetry in capital letters in the alphabet, drawing own symmetrical shapes, symmetrical patterns and symmetry in a circle. A circle has an infinite amount of symmetrical lines. The circle symmetry and symmetrical patterns with squares are also the plenary. The circle had an infinite number of lines of symmetry as long as the lines are straight and go through the centre point. Note an oblong has 2 lines of symmetry in a cross pattern but NOT diagonal symmetry. Use rulers (see through better) to draw the lines of symmetry and mirrors to check if shapes have symmetry. If they do the mirror would create the exact original shape. When investigating symmetry in the triangle, square, pentagon and hexagon the pattern is the number of sides is equal to the number of line of symmetry. This can be prompted by telling children to rotate the shapes a little bit first. For the triangle and pentagon you have to start at each corner and go straight down into the middle of the line below. See http://slideplayer.com/slide/8961826/27/images/4/Line+Symmetry+in+the+Alphabet.jpg for the answers to alphabet symmetry in capitals.

Children look at the pictures to write the 'ear' word that they are of: ear, tear, spear, beard and fear respectively. Then they write a sentence below using one or more of the 'ear' words. Good for applying.

Children read the text and look for words with ‘oi’ or ‘oy’. They underline, circle or highlight the words in the text and once all are found, write them below in the table. Using different coloured highlighters for the two graphemes worked really well for my pupil to make it fun and more memorable. Doing it in pairs could be fun. Children apply the words in sentences below.

Plan provided. Children start by obeying lots of commands from the teacher. Then they have to spot the command verbs as a class. For the worksheet children find the bossy verbs in a short extract about a mother telling her child what to do. Then they pretend to be a teacher and make up their own sentences using bossy verbs.

Mostly 2 digit and 2 digit numbers with some crossing over the tens. Both numbers have ones. There are differentiated word problems, challenge problems and templates for children to explain their method. Poor writers can verbally explain their answers. These problems can be used to practise one subtraction method or a variety (number lines, partitioning, hundred squares etc). The numbers can be edited if you for example wanted to practise just subtracting tens or increase/decrease the numbers for different year groups. This is a full lesson with a starter, plenary and plan fully resourced; the presentation sheet contains a starter, questions to go through together as a class and plenaries. Each child has one sheet with the problems being trimmed individually to be stuck in and answered. LA- lower ability, MA- middle ability, HA- higher ability.

Suitable for year 2 and key stage 2 but may need to be adapted for particular age group. Five lessons on rewriting the story, describing the setting, comparing and describing characters, alternative endings and comprehension questions. The first retelling lesson could be done as role play instead of writing. Medium term plans and resources provided. Most lessons have extension questions.

I have attached the Word presentation in case you want to edit the input, the pdf is also attached in case of compatibility issues with Word. These worksheets also get children to work out different possible answers in a word problem, explain the rounding rule and has a challenge in children creating their own problems. Differentiation is whether the child does the 10, 100 or 1000 worksheet. During the input you can keep the higher ability children on the carpet for rounding to 1000 as required. A plenary with word problems is provided.

Originally designed for Year 2. Children measure in cm only in the first lower (LA) worksheet but both cm and mm for the higher (HA) worksheet. The second set of lines include halves of a cm so point out this is .5cm or 1/2cm. Model starting at 0cm on a ruler. A pattern spotting challenge question is included where children try to see how you get from cm to mm (cmx10 for mm). The challenge question can be stuck in books. For halves with mm point out e.g. 1.5cm=15mm (more for higher ability).

Mostly 2 digit and 2 digit numbers with some crossing over the tens and use of number bonds. Both numbers have ones. There are challenge word problems and templates for children to explain their method. Poor writers can verbally explain their answers. These problems can be used to practise one addition method or a variety. The numbers can be edited if you for example wanted to practise just adding in tens or increase/decrease the numbers for different year groups. This is a full lesson with a starter, plenary and plan fully resourced. Each child has one sheet with the problems being trimmed individually to be stuck in and answered.

A powerpoint quiz with 30 questions and an extra research question at the end on Wonders of the World. The first 20 questions are multiple choice but the last 10 no choices are given. Answers are provided on separate slides that can be gone through together as a class.

Looks at alternative spellings of the long i sound using igh, i_e, y and ie. Good for applying after teaching.

Two differentiated sheets; the first sheet is for less able children and the 'MA/HA' sheet is for more able children. The sheets though do partially self-differentiate. Most suitable for around Year 2 to Year 3 age but can be adapted. Children fill in the missing numbers for the sequences and write the rules below. Referring to times tables may help and tell children to work out the differences between numbers next to each other in the sequence. Mention descending or ascending sequences. Sequences mostly go up and down in 10s, 5s, 4s, 3s and 2s. Children can make up their own sequences and get a partner to guess the rules. The Challenge has a doubling and halving sequence. The last sequence is the Fibonacci sequence where you add the previous two numbers to get the next number. The sequence before that adds 1 then 2 then 3 etc.