A re-telling of the traditional tale. 'One day, the farmer planted a turnip seed...The sun shone and the rain fell, and under the ground the little seed began to grow...It grew...and it grew...and it GREW!'

What hatches from an egg? Does a chick? Or a lamb? Or a rabbit? Or a frog? And what about a spider? A ladybird? A fish? An alligator? Or even a snake?

Whole class assessment grid for up to 30 pupils, for assessment against the updated EYFS age-banded development/learning statements. Covers age bands 16-26m to ELGs at end of EYFS.

I put the F1 Red SEAL 'Going for Goals story of 'The Sunflower' onto PowerPoint, and featured our class puppets to tell the story. This is now much more accessible for my children with EAL & SEN. 'Then, one Saturday when Sam was playing by the sunflower, something fell on his head! It was one of the sunflower’s petals. He went to the flower and tried to out it back but more fell off. Grandad said, It’s nearly Autumn and the sunflower is getting old.

This is a simple re-telling of the traditional tale for Foundation Stage children in Picture book format. 'When Jack climbed to the top, he heard a terrible noise. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! It was a Giant rushing home for his tea... 'Fee, fi, fo, fum! Watch out everyone! HERE I COME!' I followed it up with a class re-enactment of the story: we planted 'magic beans&' and the children came in to find a &';giant beanstalk' ( tree from the Reception area!) and a golden egg on the floor. Who left the egg? What was inside it? Where was the Giant?

This PowerPoint is an introduction to the Chinese New year festival, aimed at Nursery, Reception & Foundation Units. It shows how children celebrate the New Year and explains some of the customs and traditions. What is your Chinese Birth Sign? Why do Chinese families sweep their houses clean before New Year's Day? What is in those red envelopes children are given? What foods do the family eat for their special New Year's meal? And why must the kitchen god&'s lips be stuck together with sweets?

This is designed to introduce Chinese New Year to a mixed class of Reception and Y1. It covers all aspects of the festival-Chinese horoscopes,New Year customs, Lucky Money envelopes, parades and lion dancing, family foods and parties, and fireworks. If you want to add Chinese traditional stories to your topic- look at http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/chinese-fables/load.htm? Cbeebies also has a great story on the Chinese horoscope told with shadow puppets.

This PowerPoint is an introduction to the Chinese New year festival, aimed at Nursery, Reception & Foundation Units. It shows how children celebrate the New Year and explains some of the customs and traditions. What is your Chinese Birth Sign? Why do Chinese families sweep their houses clean before New Year's Day? What is in those red envelopes children are given? What foods do the family eat for their special New Year's meal? And why must the kitchen god's lips be stuck together with sweets?

An introduction to weddings. Why do people get married? What happens? What does a wedding look like? Who takes part?

A re-telling of a tale told traditionally during Diwali. A greedy, selfish Queen loses her prized pearl necklace- and the honest washerwoman who returns it, asks as a reward that her house is the only one in the Kingdom to be lit on the night of Diwali. The goddess Lakshmi blunders around in the dark and finally makes her way safely to the washerwoman's house...

This is a set of clues that can be changed to fit your environment. We ran our treasure hunt from the KS1 playground to the Hall and then into our F2 Outdoors play area. We covered PSRN (positional language like in front of etc; & finding items from directional clues), CLL (story sequencing) and KUW (place- features of the local environment) and had a lot of fun! The idea is adapted with thanks from Bubblegummy's Gingerbread Man Outdoor Treasure Hunt, on TES shared resources.

These gingerbread men cards are decorated with the matched number of buttons or sweets. I also used them to support counting- children counted out glass gems and placed them over the sweets. There are also some smaller versions to laminate and use in the role play. I hid a large one in the garden, and moved it between sessions. The children spent a considerable time at the begining of each session looking for him! (Illustrations adapted from sparklebox).

This PowerPoint is an introduction to the Chinese New year festival, aimed at Nursery, Reception & Foundation Units. It shows how children celebrate the New Year and explains some of the customs and traditions. What is your Chinese Birth Sign? Why do Chinese families sweep their houses clean before New Year's Day? What is in those red envelopes children are given? What foods do the family eat for their special New Year's meal? And why must the kitchen god&'s lips be stuck together with sweets?

The PowerPoint shows animal/bird homes: Whose home is this? A robin with eggs; a hegehog; squirrel & kits; a crow; a swan with eggs; a mouse and her babies; a rabbit with hers; ducks and duckings. The final slide shows children building dens in the woods.

I have used the PowerPoint as a talking point for Foundation Stage classes, to support sharing their Bonfire Night experiences (this was particularly effective with a class with a high number of children with EAL) ; and, with background music from Handel's Water Music, as inspiration for painting & creative work. The last but one slide recaps current safety rules.

This Powerpoint looks at the traditional foods served on New Year's Day. The Kitchen god Zhang reports back on New Year's Eve to the Jade Emperor on whether the family have been kind to each other. Just to make sure they get a favourable report, the family smear sweet cakes on the lips of the kitchen god. This tells the story behind the custom.

Display resource explaining the Hindu Festival and how a child celebrates it. It also includes a addition counting rhyme for Early Years

Count out and match gems or small counters to the numbered gingerbread men- or use as a number line for display. An extended version (0-20) of my original idea.

An adaptation of an old favourite addition rhyme, with permission given to share it by its creator, Julie Addison.

A repeating pattern song. What other fireworks can children think of to add to the song? What noise would it make? What action could they make up to show it?