Worksheet for Early Years/Reception/Year 1
Differentiated for 3 ability groups to help consolidate understanding of counting in 2s.
Included an editable Word document and a PDF.
Sort Hot and Cold
Early Years / Year 1 / Foundation Phase
Worksheet and word mat included (Word document can be edited & PDF copy)
Photocopy the worksheet as A3.
Lower ability - cut and stick pictures in the correct place
Core ability - draw pictures and staff label drawings
Top ability - copy and draw pictures and label independently using word mat
Our genre was instruction writing.
Each task is differentiated.
Introduction - use a big piece of sugar paper and ask the children to tell me what to write. We talked about the features that we needed to include (title, numbered points, pictures to illustrate what happened).
3 tasks - Instructions to make bread, instructions to plant potatoes, instructions to plant onions
MAT - copy from a model/word mat/independent writing
Top group - use a word mat to find the correct bossy verb. Fill in the gap. Draw pictures to illustrate each step.
Middle group - cut out each step and stuck them in order. Draw pictures to illustrate each step.
Bottom group - I took photos of each activity and they cut them out and glued them in order. A member of staff wrote what they said about each picture.
Reception
Foundation Phase Second Language Welsh
Welsh translation for food
Focus on the question ‘Wyt ti’n hoffi …?’
Includes:
Word Mats x2
Splat Cards - A4 (laminate, then place them on the ground. Shout ‘wyt ti’n hoffi …?’ Children need to listen, understand the command and jump on the correct picture)
Flash cards - include food and question ‘wyt ti’n hoffi…?’ (used in role play area for shop keepers etc. Also used for pairs/snap)
Colourings of food - Welsh vocabulary included
Year 1 Welsh sentence patterns - Ble est ti? Where did you go?
Powerpoint - contains vocabulary and sentence patterns. We read through it daily.
Word mat - this was used for independent writing. We also cut out the words and pictures and played snap and pairs.
Worksheet - I used this for my lower group. They matched the vocabulary to the picture. My other groups used the word mat to write sentences in their Welsh books. My top group wrote with who… gyda fy mam (with my mum) etc.
Year 1 - Theme of Superheroes.
Read the story Supertato.
DT project - design and make a Supertato. We used the TASC wheel to structure the project.
Letter from the Evil Pea - I left ‘bad messages’ from the Evil Pea around the school. Whoever read these messages turned bad. My TAs were mixing up all of the toys, and sitting on the tables. The children were in shock at first! Then, someone decided to make posters that had good messages on them to turn everyone back good. We focused on what ‘good’ and ‘bad’ meant.
My Year 1 class worked in groups to complete a TASC wheel.
Contains the powerpoint we used to discuss the different sections of the TASC wheel.
Also contains the worksheet they used to design their dinosaur.
We printed out the TASC wheel from A4 to A3 for each group to work on.
Y Tywydd - Worksheets, Flash cards and Help Mat
The Weather
Second Language Welsh
differentiated worksheets
flash cards
help mats with sentence patterns and vocabulary
Early years - sorting the seasons autumn & winter.
Lower ability - Draw a line to match the picture to the correct season.
Middle ability - cut and stick the pictures into the correct season.
Higher ability - draw and label the pictures.
I’ve attached editable copies & PDF copies.
Print out the A4 worksheet then enlarge it to A3.
Year 1 Science Topic - Light
3 Differentiated Worksheets - Lower, Middle and Higher Worksheet, plus a word mat.
Children needed to discuss sources of light during the introduction. Then, we sorted the pictures of sources of light into two hoops, whether they were natural or man-made. We then completed the worksheets.
Chinese New Year - Food Tasting - Recording Sheet for Reception
Foundation Phase Second Language Welsh
Focus - bwyd - ‘Wyt ti’n hoffi…? Do you like…?’
Differentiated 3 times
Bottom group - listen to the question 'wyt ti’n hoffi …?" and colour the happy or sad face
Middle group - listen to the question, and answer ydw or nag ydw for the smell, look and taste.
Top group - same as middle group, but describe the food.
Included Word document (Editable) and PDF.
Tally Chart of Favourite Pet
Early Years Numeracy / Maths
Whole class task
Children vote for their favourite pet.
Discuss recording votes as a tally chart.
Count the votes and write the number in the last box.
Editable Word document is included, as well as a PDF.
My Reception children designed a sign to go in the yard.
Our topic was about friendship. The children wanted to make a ‘Friendship Stop’ for those children who didn’t have anyone to play with at playtime. If they stood near the sign, other children would notice that they didn’t have anyone to play with, and would invite them to join in with their game.
I took their designs to a company that made the sign for us.