An excellent end-of-year maths/art project for Year 3 children. In this task, children are challenged to create their dream island for the summer holidays. This project is designed to cover the following areas in the Year 3 curriculum: • Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes • Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits • Continue to become fluent in adding and subtracting amounts of money • Recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of turn • Solve one-step and two-step questions using information presented in tables A full lesson plan, differentiated activity sheets, an island template, answer sheet, project booklet, and a completed example island are included. All images courtesy of www.clker.com

Children are tasked to design an informative and persuasive pamphlet about why incoming year 2’s will love year 3! This is a good way to recap fun projects children completed in various topics throughout year 3 and use persuasive techniques to convince incomers that year 3 will be the best! Makes for an excellent end-of-year activity that can be drawn out over 1-3 lessons, as well as an excellent display board! Included: - Full lesson plan with starters and differentiation - Planning sheet for children to fill in during input and discussion - Colourful and helpful Smart Notebook file to accompany the lesson - Example pamphlet to give some ideas and inspiration - LA pamphlet template with pre-drawn boxes and sentences - Links to the English and D/T curriculum for LO and planning purposes All images courtesy of www.clker.com

Focusing your topic on a country this term? Use this pack of 5 handy printable sheets to help children understand and choose subject-specific vocabulary for a variety of activities. Sheets may be modified for your particular lesson, and it is suggested that you laminate these, as they are multi-use. Included are 5 country description sheets: 1) Africa 2) The U.S.A 3) South America 4) Canada 5) Australia & New Zealand Each sheet includes examples of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and also includes 16 sample sentence chunks for children to use if they are stuck for ideas while writing. ***SET 1*** (BEACHES, FORESTS, CITY, WOODS, etc) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/setting-description-pupil-resource-pack-11061253 ***SET 2*** (Rainforests, Romans, Gods and Goddesses, Cold Climates) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/setting-description-pupil-resource-pack-2-11169703 ***SET 3*** here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/setting-description-pupil-resource-pack-3-11554800 All images courtesy of www.clker.com

Pack of 5 handy printable sheets that children can look at to help them choose subject-specific vocabulary for a descriptive writing activity. Sheets may be modified for your particular lesson, and it is suggested that you laminate these, as they are multi-use. Included are 5 scene description sheets: 1) Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age 2) Weather 3) World War I and II 4) Robots 5) Fairytales Each sheet includes examples of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and also includes 16 sample sentence chunks for children to use if they are stuck for ideas while writing. ***SET 1*** (BEACHES, FORESTS, CITY, WOODS, etc) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/setting-description-pupil-resource-pack-11061253 ***SET 2*** (Rainforests, Romans, Gods and Goddesses, Cold Climates) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/setting-description-pupil-resource-pack-2-11169703 All images courtesy of www.clker.com

A set of worksheets geared towards Y3 and 4 children to be given out at the beginning of the year to assess the quality of children's punctuation choices and general writing style. Sentences are geared towards the Minecraft game. Included in the pack: 1 LA Worksheet - focus on full stops, capitals, and proper nouns 1 MA Worksheet - focus on proper nouns, commas and a few speech marks 1 HA Worksheet - focus on all of the above + exclamation marks and question marks 1 Answer sheet

You have been transported to a snowy world of ice, magic and wonder! But where are you? You need to look for clues first. This Christmas activity pack is designed for children in KS2, geared towards Year 3 in particular, although could be given to a lower-attaining Year 4 or 5 set. The activities can be used on their own to supplement lessons, or as part of the Christmas kingdom story. Included: • A 55 page colourful, interactive Smart Notebook storybook that display the progression of the story, including some modelled examples of the activities, some answer pages, and some extra story detail pages • 13 Christmas-themed activity sheets. 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 are differentiated in 3 ways (LA, MA, HA) • Total number of activity sheets: 29 • 1 document that includes all answers for all sheets (including differentiated sheets), and 1 optional modified sheet corresponding to Activity 2 Excellent for that last week before the Christmas Holidays to revise maths concepts and have fun! All images courtesy of www.clker.com, www.pixbay.com, https://commons.wikimedia.org/, or from the Free Public Domain (Files made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.) Any other images are referenced and properly sourced/attributed within the Notebook document.

Pack of 5 handy printable sheets that children can look at to help them choose subject-specific vocabulary for descriptive holiday writing. Sheets may be modified for your particular lesson, and it is suggested that you laminate these, as they are multi-use. Included are 5 holiday-themed vocabulary sheets: 1) Halloween 2) Bonfire Night 3) Christmas 4) Valentine's Day 5) Easter PACK 1 (including castles, cities, outer space, pirate ship/island, dinosaur world, forest, and beach/holiday scenes) AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/setting-description-pupil-resource-pack-11061253 PACK 2 (including Rainforests, Romans, Gods and Goddesses and Cold Climates) AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/topic-specific-vocabulary-sheets-for-creative-writing-11169703 Each sheet includes examples of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and also includes 16 sample sentence chunks for children to use if they are stuck for ideas while writing. All images courtesy of www.clker.com

Quick grammar quizzes that test Year 4, 5 and 6 children on their knowledge of relative clauses, plurals, past and present tense verbs, capitalisation and more. Can be used as a starter activity, 10 minute GPS (SPAG) warm-up, or a plenary after a revision lesson. 3 come in the pack (including answers to all), but they can easily be modified to fit your class, ability and requirements.

This lesson pack teaches children about the climate and weather of Antarctica. It teaches children about the different climate zones in the world, how the movement of water contributes to Antarctica's climate and precipitation, and about Antarctica's position in relation to other countries as well as the sun. This lesson is suggested for a Year 3 or 4 class studying topics such as: Antarctica, cold climates, weather-related topics, and Christmas-themed lessons relating to snow and cold weather. Included in this pack: - Climate of Antarctica whiteboard file (SmartBoard notebook) filled with pictures of Antarctica, tables, charts, detailed maps, and question/discussion prompts - An interactive starter game to hook children using "cold" vocabulary - A detailed lesson plan with a starter, main teaching, activities, a plenary, and templates to use during the lesson - A blank climate zones map for children to colour in All images courtesy of www.clker.com

This art pack will teach children how to create a watercolour background, with a focus on blending colours gently, using broad brush strokes, and achieving a soft effect with paint. The lesson then has children sticking down a black skyline to contrast the watercolour background. This 2-part activity works well with a class who are not familiar or completely confident using watercolours, or who need some practise. Suggested for Year 3 classes and older. Included in this pack: - Skyline Watercolour powerpoint, with examples of watercolour paintings and discussion questions - Templates of skylines - In-depth lesson plan, including starter, main, activity steps, and a plenary - Contrasting images of a watercolour lighthouse vs oil paint lighthouse, for discussion - Step-to-success checklist for children (SEN modification) All images courtesy of www.clker.com and www.pixabay.com.

A set of 3 differentiated worksheets with written numbers. Children need to read the number in words, then work out what each number is in digits, and circle the largest one. Designed for Year 3 or 4 classrooms. LA: Tens and ones ONLY MA: Hundreds, tens and ones HA: Hundreds, tens and ones in a MIXED UP order ANSWERS INCLUDED

An 11-page booklet containing various number-related maths worksheets. Perfect to use as starter activities, plenary sheets, extra work, or early finisher tasks. The pack includes: - A place value digit puzzle - Multiplication investigations involving combinations of numbers and estimations - Number bond revision sheets - Fill-in-the-blank number bond revision questions - Various worded problems using all 4 operations - Estimating answers worksheets - A rounding numbers worksheet - Short multiplication practise worksheets Suitable for any KS2 maths class (works best with Y3, or as a revision tool for LA Y4 chn) ANSWERS NOT INCLUDED All images courtesy of www.clker.com

A fun whole-class game to review and revise the Year 3/4 spelling list. These sheets include all of the Year 3/4 National Curriculum words from the spelling list in a fun whole-class "I Have, Who Has?" game format. Each word is listed in alphabetical order, with the clues below the list of words. (The clues are in order with the alphabetical word list.) Each document includes 40 of the words from the list (except the 3rd document, which has the final 23) and 40 corresponding clues. Instructions for how to play "I Have, Who Has?" can be found here: http://www.humbleisd.net/site/Default.aspx?PageID=26771

An excellent start of year quick assessment tool to see if children can write coherent sentences. This activity is differentiated 3 ways and challenges children to rearrange a set of words into a readable sentence, focusing on basic sentence structure and the ordering of words. Example: to cakes in bake . I kitchen the love Children need to put each word in the correct order to unscramble the words properly. Excellent for SEN children who struggle to string words into a sentence, and to encourage the use of capital letters and full stops. ANSWERS INCLUDED

Perfect start-of-year worksheet to see if children can correctly identify mistakes in a sentence and re-write them accurately. Differentiated 3 ways; each one begins with a challenge (more simple sentences) and works up to a mega challenge (longer sentences with more complex corrections to be made). LA: Focus on mostly on full stops and capitals - a few commas and question marks MA: Focus on full stops, commas, question marks - a few exclamation marks and speech marks HA: All of the above + spelling mistakes ANSWERS INCLUDED

These sheets give children some ideas for how to start a catchy sentence in the dilemma or resolution stage of their story, and also allows them to customise each sentence to fit their particular story or writing style, as many children in KS2 can find it tricky to transition from writing a build up to a dilemma in a story. Helpful also for Y5/6 SEN children who require prompts or written examples to aid with idea and sentence generation. EXAMPLES from the sheets: • ________ turned the corner and began sprinting as fast as __________. • There were ____________ all around me. Puzzled, I walked towards the __________ to investigate. • We were relieved that _____________. With smiles on our faces, we headed back ____________. • After putting up a good fight, they were unable to ______________.

A detailed pack outlining the steps for building an Ancient Roman temple. The pack includes: - Detailed lesson plan - Engineering Pack (one per group) - Step-by-step instructions on how to build the temple - Pictures and annotated diagrams, showing how each step should look - Materials list - Templates for the columns and pediment - Checklist for the children to follow - A picture of the completed project (taken in my own Y3 classroom when we did this activity) - Project feedback rubric Suitable for all ages in KS2. Photo on page 5 of the document is my own. (Copyright © 2015 by V. Crossan). All other pictures courtesy of www.clker.com.

This haiku writing pack introduces children to writing a haiku using the 5 senses. Using an ocean theme, children will learn what a haiku is, generate descriptive and sensory words about oceans and seas, plan their haiku using a structured organiser, then write a creative haiku about the ocean. Included in this pack: - Bright and colourful IWB (Smartboard notebook) with HD images of the ocean, waves, and cliffs to stimulate the senses - Detailed lesson plan, including a starter and plenary, with discussion questions - A structured organiser for children to plan and organise their ideas - A modified SEN (or LA) organiser with pictures, larger font, and more accessible language - Links to required sound clips All images courtesy of www.clker.com and www.unsplash.com