A visual aid perfect for supporting sentence building in Year 1/KS1. The children in my Year 1 class love these! These Lego themed cards can be stuck to tables, added to an English display board or pinned up somewhere in your learning space to support children. Making them Lego themed means you can use actual Lego alongside them to make it a practical and visual representation of building a sentence: The foundation brick is green to signal ‘go’ to make sure each sentence starts with a capital letter. The top brick is red to signal ‘stop’ to end each sentence with a full stop. Middle bricks: add detail to make sentences more exciting (not every sentence needs all 3 middle bricks) I have included some different colour way options and a blank one to customise.

A presentation to be used in Year R for an understanding the world topic or link to healthy eating. Ask children to name the healthy food the caterpillar eats. Talk and discuss the life cycle of a caterpillar, this works well if you have real life caterpillars to use in the classroom and discuss what stage the caterpillar are at and what will the next stage be. Get the children to draw their own life cycle and write the words with support they can then make their own butterfly as shown at the end.

PowerPoint for teaching words containing phase 4 sound 'ow'.

Activity sheet, children colour in the items with the 'j' sound in them. Blank sheets for making their own, go round the classroom and draw things in make their own 'I spy' for each other.

Laminate and cut out the different pieces. Children choose a lily pad as their starting number then choose a waterlily as their number to jump back. Provide children with a number line to support them and encourage them to use their frogs to jump back along the number line. There are some blank pieces that can be laminated and written on to mix up the numbers and extend some children with higher numbers or to be used for addition or that children can write their answer on to create a number sentence with the other pieces.

Bingo grids with images of items containing phase 4 phonics sounds including: j, v, w, y, zz, qu, z and more. Call out the words and children cross them off on their grids, could laminate them to make them reusable. Children have to listen carefully for the sounds in the words. Great to use as a revisit of sounds and the children in my class loved playing it!

Short sentences for children to read and then draw. Long and short 'oo'.

Laminate the images and cut them out. 5 people for each bus. Put the people in the windows on the bus then roll a dice, can you take that many people off of the bus. If you roll 6 discuss why you can't take 6 away from 5. Can start with less than 5 people on the bus too.

Activity - cut along the lines up to the middle column to create lift up flaps then stick the middle column on to a piece of card and write the answers under the flaps. Bee - laminate and create a reusable resource to write a range of doubles on it or just for addition.