Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments - Reception
Differentiated worksheets
lower ability - cut and stick pictures of instruments under the correct heading
middle ability - my children wrote over yellow pen
top ability - copy from a word mat/attempt to spell words independently
Year 1 topic - Dinosaurs
Ice experiment worksheet - I froze dinosaurs in balloons. The children chose where to put them inside and outside of the classroom. We predicted which dinosaur egg would melt first and why.
Various letters from ‘Dino’ - our cuddly toy who sent us letters and gave us challenges to complete throughout the topic.
Maths worksheets - non-standard units. All differentiated. Templates are provided, which need to be cut out. I made dinosaur footprints in our outdoor area using soil.
Discussion writing - we talked about whether we would like to have a dinosaur as a pet today. Differentiated worksheets/templates to help children structure their for and against opinions.
What happens next - YouTube Video - my children watched the video and talked about what may happen next. They wrote the end of the story in their writing books.
3 Differentiated Worksheets - Reception/Early Years
What’s that sound?
1 - 4 sounds
2 - 6 sounds
3 - 8 sounds
I had a feely bag with different instruments and classroom resources inside. I used one resource at a time. I shook the bag for the children to listen to the sound. My lower ability children drew pictures and I scribed for them (listen to 4 sounds). My middle group drew pictures and initial sounds of what they thought the sound was (listen to 6 sounds). My top ability group drew pictures and spelled phonetically (listen to 8 sounds). MAT wrote in full sentences.
I used some instruments such as bells, drums, a triangle; as well as classroom resources such as pencils, rulers, crayons. Children thought that pencils sounded like claves. They also thought wooden building blocks sounded like claves. We talked about the material that they are made out of. I also used crisps, marbles, and numicon shapes.
Reception
Our topic was minibeasts.
This pack includes The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Story Writing Template
Top group - wrote independently.
Middle group - copied from a model.
Lower group - over wrote my writing (yellow felt pen).
Enhanced Provision Activities include:
Finger painting the body of the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Measuring how high the bug jumps with non-standard units - cubes, counters etc.
Measuring the minibeast using non-standard units - cubes, counters etc.
3 differentiated worksheets - PDF and editable word documents.
Lower ability - draw a line to correct statement
Middle ability - either cut and stick or draw a picture to sort sources of light and non-sources of light
Higher ability - sort sources of light and reflection
I print out the A4 worksheet then enlarge it to A3.
Enhanced provision activity mats
Early Years / Reception / Year 1
1 more and 1 less - laminate the sheets and encourage children to use objects (cubes, counters, compare bears) to find 1 more/1 less.
Outdoor learning - laminate the sheets and encourage children to find natural materials to find 1 more/1 less than the number in the middle of the table.
Worksheet - roll the dice and add 1 more/take 1 away and record your answer
Worksheet - count the pictures in the centre column, then add 1 more/take 1 away and record your answer. To differentiate for MAT children, can they write the number. To make it easier, children can record answers using drawings.
Worksheet - use the number line to record 1 more or 1 less than the number.
Worksheet - circle which picture has more/less
Editable Word document & PDF copy provided
Early Years Maths
Numeracy Provision
Cut and laminate the patterns in strips.
Provide plastic / real coins for children to make repeating patterns in the maths area.
Challenge children to make their own patterns.
2D Shape Scarecrow
Early Years Maths / Numeracy
I usually do this task in Autumn Term as part of our topic ‘Harvest’.
Children need to cut out 2D shapes.
Glue 2D shapes to make a scarecrow.
Then children need to colour in a block diagram to show which / how many shapes they have used.
I’ve included the Word document (editable) and a PDF copy.
Sorting Food - Bwyd - Welsh
Children will sort healthy and unhealthy food that the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate
Children can cut and stick pictures
Children can draw and label the pictures, using a Welsh dictionary
Print page out as A3.
Included a Word document which can be edited, as well as a PDF document.
Reception Activity - Science Experiment
We cut an apple up into quarters. We talked about cutting it in half, and having 2 pieces, then half again, now we have quarters, 4 pieces altogether!
We put one in water, one in oil, one in vinegar and the other ‘air’.
We put them in the cupboard for 4 days then looked at at them to see if there were any changes in appearance, texture or smell.
Second Language Welsh - Foundation Phase/KS1
Includes the following sentence patterns:
What did you see?
What are you wearing?
What is the time?
Where did you go?
Which colour?
Can I have…?
Which number?
What do you like?
Do you like?
What is the weather like?
How are you?
My reception class discussed rules and what was ‘fair’ and ‘not fair’ / ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.
We cut out the sentences and matched them to either ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. We discussed each one first and re-wrote them to be fair.
We spent the morning watching videos on BBC clips, and reading facts about woodland animals.
We then talked about WOW words to describe how they looked etc. We used this worksheet to record our answers.
Sort woodland & non-woodland animals into a Venn diagram.