Counting in 5s Differentiated worksheets board game - counting in 5s year 1 numeracy

At the start of each term, I will assess children's sounds. Reception Foundation Phase Assessment

Includes a powerpoint to introduce herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. I then made dinosaur poo using oats and brown paint. To make herbivore poo, I added leaves and twigs. To make carnivore poo, I added pasta shells as bones and fur. To make omnivore, I added leaves twigs, pasta shells and fur. I left 6 foil wrappers around the classroom for children to work in groups to investigate. They used magnifying glasses to investigate further, and they had the worksheet on a clipboard.

Differentiated sheets Early Years/Reception/Year 1 A skeleton table to help children to plan all elements of their story. Word mat included to help children generate ideas. An editable Word document is included, as well as a PDF copy.

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.

Bossy Verbs - Instruction Writing - How to Make Fruit Kebabs Reception Language, Literacy and Communication Differentiated - fill in gaps, cut and stick pictures in order, write sentences independently

We wrote sounds on cups/milk lids. We laminated these mats and children had to match the inital sound to the picture.

I put different challenges up every week for my Reception class. Funky fingers Fine manipulative skills

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.

De Bono's Thinking Hats poster - 6 hats

Flashcards of story settings Foundation Phase Choose a flash card from a bag to help with story writing

x2 worksheets Positional language year 1 - next to, below, above, between, under etc. Turns - whole, half and quarter turns - cut and stick activity

My Reception children spent half a term learning about caterpillars and butterflies. We learned Makaton actions to the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We watched a makaton video on YouTube. My class wanted to use some of the actions for the minibeasts, and then chose their own actions for other parts of the story. We learned Makaton actions for minibeasts - Mr Tumble CBBC video on YouTube. We painted the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We used this script which includes the songs that we used. We found all of the songs on YouTube and learned them during snack time. The class assembly lasted 10-15 minutes.

Feelings Flash Cards PSE P4C Foundation Phase

The Red Dragon Story - Y Ddraig Coch Powerpoint of the story

Reception Phonics Early Years Literacy Sort CVC words into a table, -at, -og and -et

Compare and contrast pictures of rooms in a house and rooms in a castle Rec/Y1 Cut and stick castles Dragon Tales - Cornerstones

Roll a Sound - Phonics Game Reception

Y Tywydd - Worksheets, Flash cards and Help Mat The Weather Second Language Welsh differentiated worksheets flash cards help mats with sentence patterns and vocabulary

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.