This resource is on the theme of minibeasts. The teachers notes explain how each set of loop cards are used and how they are different. It is similar to other loop cards or follow me games but counting minibeasts and revising addition and subtraction. A fun way to practise reading numbers and counting and reviewing addition and subtraction through listening and speaking. Student learn to read ‘I have’ and ‘Who has?’ to start the game. The cards can be used in small group sessions or whole class sessions. **Preparation: Laminate, print off and cut round coloured borders onto card paper. ** This resource has now been updated to include 7 sets of loop cards. The borders are different colours so that the sets are not mixed up. Teachers Notes (3 pages) Total Download: 66 pages (2 large cards on each page) Includes US spelling - ladybird/ladybug Please see preview pane. Learning objective: Counting and reinforce number recognition. To review addition and substraction You may be interested in the free minibeast subtraction loop card: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/minibeast-loop-cards-i-have-who-has-subtraction-cards-12296014

This comprehensive resource pack is on the theme of minibeasts, bugs and insects to help children count, add and to begin to write number sentences (calculation). **It takes the learner from the early stages of counting through to writing and calculating number sentences. ** It introduces the + and = symbols. 78 Slides of Presentation on all the lessons - Includes whole class activities and plenaries. The some slides have animation where the children can count along with the numbers as they ‘float in’ above the minibeasts. Also includes: 5 Lesson Plans: All contain learning objectives and outcomes, starter activities and plenaries. Lesson 1: Counting and cut/paste activity on counting. Lesson 2: Adding groups of minibeasts to obtain a given total Lesson 3: Introducing the plus and equals symbol – to add groups - children progress to writing number sentences. Lesson 4: Children begin to calculate – number sentences using + and = symbols. Lesson 5: Children work out numbers - Worksheets and extension worksheets. Worksheet/activities on all the lessons. Laminate digit cards and the minibeasts cards for practical activities. The learning objectives are in the lesson plans. You may be interested in: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/counting-and-progression-to-subtraction-work-lesson-plans-1-5-presentations-activities-eyfs-ks1-11308712 All resources are printable/editable. Updated to include US Size worksheets Thank you for visiting my shop!:)

39 Slide PowerPoint Presentation on sound and the practical tasks children can undertake. The Teacher’s Note sets out how you can introduce the topic and suggestions on how to organize the activities and list resources needed. You can organize a carousel system (different workstations) - so each table deals with a different aspect on sound or you can do a whole class lesson on one aspect of sound week by week, ending the term on a sound carousel for assessment. The resource comprises: PowerPoint Presentation – Review Work on sounds and contains background information on how the piano, guitar and wind instruments work and how we hear. Teacher’s Notes (3 pages, excluding credit page) 14 Activity Cards (You can laminate for durability), cut out for each table. The cards contain questions to prompt the children to carry out their tasks. There are ready-made investigations sheets and sample investigations sheets. Numbered Table cards Vocabulary cards (See preview pane) Worksheet on How We Hear Worksheet on Volume and Pitch Experiments: Vibration involving moving objects- e.g. children can experiment with a tuning forks and water and ping-pong balls, rice on drums. Sound and Pitch - e.g. use empty bottles filled with different levels of liquid to produce different pitches and also blow horizontally along the edge to produce sounds similar to wind instruments; and/or experiment with guitar strings –shortening and lengthening the string to produce different sounds; Listening devices - experiment with different string telephones by changing variables such as type of string and material of cups; Blocking Out Sound activities- Children can make ear defenders out of margarine tubs packed with different materials or they can wrap the sound source like a buzzer or alarm clock with different materials to see which is best at muffling the sound. Optional - Musical Instruments - Children can make musical instruments or use the ones they may have made in previous lessons - to adjust how they use it or even make it better - can experiment with various aspects of sound. Outside activity - How sound gets fainter as you travel further away - Use a sound source like a buzzer. There are instructions to make a simple balloon drum, a packing tape drum, comb kazoo and a guitar. US Version Available. Goes well with: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sounds-how-humans-and-animals-hear-musical-instruments-our-voice-plans-presentations-activities-11242250

UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES MAY 2019 There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations. Worksheets and practical activities for whole group teaching. Please see Preview Panes. The pack consists of: -Sound and how sound travels including sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume; -The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens; -How we hear; -How some animals hear; -How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and -The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc. 19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3 audio) Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds. Activity: students are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other students decide on vocal sound effects to add. Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity. Lesson 3 - This is more practical and students plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc. Lesson 4: This is about how we ear (also video youtube link - Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid). There are worksheet activities and Listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations. Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Students: make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning how sound travels to the ear via the string attached to the plastic cups. Students test different cups and length of strings. Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities: Students work with a partner to complete their worksheets with missing words. Lesson 7: Investigation - Explores sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source - Sounds for Kids All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves. All lessons contained in a .zip file - PowerPoint, PDF and MS Word files. This is a US version. Please see UK version Thank you for visiting my store.

UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES - May 2019 There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations . Worksheets and practical activities for whole class teaching. This resource is about:- -Sound and how sound travels to include sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume; -The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens; -How we hear; -How some animals hear; -How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and -The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc. 19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3) Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds. Activity - children are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other children decide on vocal sound effects to add. Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity. Lesson 3 - This is more practical and children plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc. Lesson 4: This is about how we ear. Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid). There are worksheet activities and listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations. Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Children - to make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning about how sound travels to the ear via a medium. Children also investigate sound via different types of cups (sizes, material) and the length of the string). Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities- children work with a partner to complete their worksheets which contain missing words. Lesson 7: Loud sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source - All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves. Files: PowerPoint, MS Word and PDF. US Version Thank you for visiting my shop.

This resource contains data and graphing relating to pictograms, bar charts, block graphs and tally charts and tables. It also includes lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and worksheet activities. In line with the NC 2014 - Making and using pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables. There is a PowerPoint Presentation on each lesson. Lesson Plans contain:- Oral/Mental Starters Main activities Plenaries (Recap session) Lesson Plan 1: Pictograms - Children read and create pictograms - Differentiated worksheet activities and question sheets. Lesson Plan 2: Children create and read block diagrams- worksheet activities on block graphs and question sheets. Lesson Plan 3: Children read and create tally Charts and data tables. Children will incorporate what they have learnt so far tally and read tables in order to create a pictogram and block graph. - Differentiated worksheet activities. Lesson Plan 4: Bar Charts (vertical and horizonal) - Children read and answer questions on bar charts and learn to interpret them; produce a bar chart from a table - Zoo Animals. Surveys on Favourite Fruit, Flavours of Ice cream, Favourite Pets , How Children Travel to School and Favourite Vegetables. Worksheets and Presentations are editable and printable. Resources 1 and 2 - Best to print off, laminate and cut out for repeated use. Now includes PDF versions. US version https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pictograms-block-graphs-tally-chart-tables-bar-charts-presentations-worksheets-11233470 You may be interested in: St. Valentine-themed Data Handling Resources: Tally Charts, Tables, Pictograms, Block Graphs, Bar Charts , Presentations, Worksheets and Activities

This resource relates to Easter and contains 5 flexible lesson plans with PowerPoint Presentations for each lesson. The Easter story is finally told in lesson 5 - You can start with any lesson. 1. Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday -Literacy link on Instructions for making pancake and what Shrove Tuesday means for some Christians. Worksheets - Sequence pictures (differentiated) 2. Why Christians celebrate Lent and the meaning of Ash Wednesday (3 worksheets) 3. Why we eat Easter eggs and hot cross buns and their link to Easter. (2 worksheets) 4. 3 Special Days in Holy Week (Palm Sunday/Maundy Thursday/Easter Friday (2 worksheets) 5. The Easter story Part 1 and 2 told via Presentations -whole class activities included and worksheet. The story is told by Granddad Joe and Calvin asks some questions. There is also some narration. Worksheets and activities on all lessons. All editable and printable. Hope you enjoy this resource.

This reading comprehension product contains a short reading text on PowerPoint for whole class reading and comprehension questions. Lesson Plans and differentiated worksheets/tasks. Please see Preview Pane for sample worksheets and slides. Aimed at and suitable for Kindergarten/Grade 1 and ESL/EFL/ELA students. This resource can be used in whole class and group setting and for one-to-one teaching. The Learning objectives and outcomes are in each lesson plan 1-5. **English Language Arts lesson plans for 5 days focusing on the text. ** 22 Slides: PowerPoint Presentation Reading comprehension questions - listening/speaking and reading/writing Scrambled sentence activities - differentiated tasks involving capitalization and using end punctuation. Word work focus on the prefix ‘un’ - making new words and gap filling exercises. Grammar work on the simple past - regular and common irregular verbs. Answer sheet for worksheet 1 and self-correction sheet for worksheet 2 (Lesson 4) Writing sentences Composition - Writing a story based on Zack’s Unusual pet Opportunity for computer work/non-fiction work on finding information about animals not usually kept as domestic pets. Worksheets and activities - differentiated. There is a Past Tense Verb Table for information/visual display for printing off in PowerPoint. Displaying regular and irregular past tense verbs. Resources editable and printable. File Type: Word, PowerPoint and PDF Formats contained in a zip file - all files in one folder.

Updated to included b/w worksheets and number lines clipart. This mixed bag maths resource pack contains:- 5 Flexible Lesson Plans 5 PowerPoint Presentations. Number line 0-10 Number line 0-20. Worksheets to go with each of the lessons Content of lessons: Lesson 1: Addition with number line up to 10; extension up to 20 for more able children. To use number line to work out addition sums. Lesson 2: Subtraction with number line up to 10; extension to 20 for more able children. To use number line to work out subtraction sums. Lesson 3: Money activities - recognising coins and using exact value to pay for items. Extension work adding two items together up to 20p. To recognise coin values and use exact coins to pay for items. Lesson 4: Counting in twos. Worksheet activities on this. Gap filling number sequences and counting in two worksheets. Counting in twos - money worksheet 2p. To recognise number sequences and count in twos. Lesson 5: Simple word maths problem for children to solve. Worksheets differentiated. To solve simple maths problems using addition or subtraction operations. Learning objectives, starter activites and main lessons are in the lesson plans. US Version https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mixed-bag-math-addition-subtraction-to-20-money-skip-count-by-2-solve-math-problems-5-lessons-11153912 Thank you for visiting my shop:-)

Aimed at Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1. This English Language Arts resource includes:- PowerPoint Presentation on all the lessons - the reading text is on PowerPoint with audio. Optional - click on the icon to listen to the story. Presentation for whole class teaching including whole class exercises. Also includes:- English Language Arts Plan contains 5 lessons focusing on the short story (lesson starter and plenaries). Activities:- - Reading comprehension questions - involves speaking/listening and reading/writing. - Capitalization and punctuation at the end of a sentence - Sentence activity - Sorting jumbled words (word scramble) used in the story - Focus on use of adjectives to write interesting stories - Writing simple sentences - Creative writing activity - Labeling pictures using adjectives - Reading texts and illustrating - Word search - Differentiated worksheets and activities All resources are editable and printable. Addresses: CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RF.1.A CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RF.1.4 and RF.1.4.A CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RL.1.1 CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RL.1.2 CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RL.1.7 CCSS.ELA.Literacy.W.1.3 CCSS.ELA.Literacy.SL.1.2 CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L.1.2 CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L.1.2.B CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L.1.1.F File Type: Word and PowerPoint All images royalty free from Microsoft clipart.

This themed pack relates to harvest festival. The pack is divided into Four sections. The topic contains:- Teachers’ Notes PowerPoint Presentations Four lesson plans - Why we celebrate, the harvesting of crops culminating in the harvest festival service and the meaning of the hymn We Plough the Fields And Scatter the good seeds on the land. Worksheets and activities for children to do. In lesson 3- making a harvest festival card - the children plan/draft how they want their cards to look on plain white paper and then should be a given sugar paper or cardboard to make their card for display or to take home. Alternatively - There is an empty ‘My Harvest Basket’ activity worksheet which children can draw in or cut out/paste pictures of fruit and vegetables. Lesson 4 - The harvest hymn is optional - linked to music and I have included a Youtube link for the music accompaniment. Overall Objective: To understand why many Christians and some non-Christians celebrate harvest festival in autumn. Thank you for visiting my shop:-)

NOW UPDATED WITH WORKSHEETS - May 2019 The resources are for visual display around the classroom and can also be used as flashcards to teach days and month sequencing. Days of the week display title Days - Monday to Sunday display Months of the Year title Months of the Year display - January to December The four seasons display title The seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn/Fall, Winter Editable Birthday Wall display The birthday wall display is also on a PowerPoint Slide so you can type in your student’s name and print off. Alternatively, you can print off the PDF format and use blu tac or velcro and stick the student’s name on the birthday display. Create a seasons table - for example, in autumn lay out leaves, acorns and a harvest basket. In addition, there are worksheets to go with the displays. Days of the week – 4 worksheets Students cut and glue the days in the correct order. Jumbled days for students to unscramble and then write the days in the correct order. Students then answer the questions on the second part of the worksheet, e.g. What days do we call the weekend? Students read simple sentences that contain days of the week and then cut out and glue the strips in the correct order. Students write own simple sentences about what activity they do after school each day. To differentiate the activity, I have prepared a sheet with just pictures and activities on them which some students can choose and cut out to stick onto their worksheets and use the words to create a simple sentence. Months of the year - 5 worksheets Students cut and glue the months in the correct order. Months of the year poem – You can read aloud the poem to the students and ask them questions on it. It is also on PowerPoint. You could ask them if the months are in the correct order. Which months have 31 days? Which month has 28 days? Work at the table: Students can work together to read the poem and answer the 5 questions. On this worksheet, students trace over months and then list them in the correct order. In the last column they write the number of days in each month. Sorting months worksheet – Students write the months under the correct seasons. The last task is to write the month their birthday is in. Differentiated worksheet – students sort the months by cutting and gluing the months into the correct seasons on the wheel. There are two questions to answer. Thank you for your interest:-)

This literacy resource includes:- PowerPoint Presentation on all the 5 lessons. The lessons focus on the short reading text. - Whole class teaching activities; - reading comprehension - listening and speaking; - story sequencing activity; - work on speech marks in sentences; - speech bubbles; - work on contraction of common words using the apostrophe - e.g. we'll; - Add speech marks in text; - Writing composition - finishing the story. All resources can be adapted. You may be interested in other reading comprehension packs: Reading Comprehension Packs All images are royalty free accessed from Microsoft clipart.

This literacy resource includes:- - PowerPoint Presentation on all the lessons - the reading text is on the Presentation for whole class teaching including whole class exercises. Literacy lessons for a week focusing on the short story: - -reading comprehension questions - capital letters and full stops - jumbled sentences/words - choosing a correct word in a sentence - acting out the story (reading the dialogue) - dictation (writing simple sentences from memory) - Composition - re-writing the ending of the story - Worksheets and activities - Audio of the story within PowerPoint All the worksheets can be adapted. File Type: Word Format and PowerPoint Presentation. You may also be interested in Reading Comprehension Packs. Reading Comprehension Packs All images royalty free from Microsoft clipart.

This science resource covers half a term’s work. <strong>Aimed at: Keystage 1 </strong> <strong>Seven flexible detailed lesson plans with worksheets and activities. </strong> The only preparation is gathering the resources for the practical experiments. All the PowerPoint Presentations support whole class and group teaching. You can even print off a relevant slide and use as a worksheet. Lesson 1: To know different materials have different properties. Lesson 2: Identifying commons materials - observational drawing and labelling properties. Lesson 3: To know a range of materials used in a variety of ways. Lesson 4: Different objects can be made from the same material. Lesson 5: Testing which material is waterproof for a raincoat. Lesson 6: Predicting and testing which material is magnetic. Lesson 7: Predicting and testing which metal is magnetic and why. 43 Flash cards to use as teaching aid and for word wall - editable in word and also pdf format with blank cards Two word searches with solutions. File Type: PowerPoint and Word Format Thank you for visiting my shop.

This resource now includes new worksheets and updated presentations. This science unit on plants and flowering plants and life cycle of a bean plant and sunflower comprises 6 lessons. There are 6 PowerPoint presentations, lesson plans, and differentiated worksheets. Teachers Notes (2 pages) Content • Lesson 1 PowerPoint re: Flowers (17 Slides) with whole class activities. • Lesson 2 PowerPoint re: Bean Plant (14 Slides) with whole class activities. • Lesson 3 PowerPoint re: Fruit and their Seeds (10 Slides) with whole class activities. • Lesson 4 PowerPoint re: Practical lesson on planting a bean to grow a bean plant (6 Slides) • Lesson 5 PowerPoint re: Life Cycle of a Sunflower (12 Slides) with whole class activity. • Lesson 6 PowerPoint re: Seed Germination (11 Slides) with whole class activity. • 6 Flexible lesson plans outlining learning objectives, and main activities. PowerPoint slides are referred to in each lesson plan. • Differentiated Worksheets for each lesson Lesson 1: Looking at different plants that flower and understand that grass and trees are plants. There is a flower hunt activity and a practical activity of different kinds of seeds. Two activities in Lesson 1 - Going on a Flower Hunt. - My Seeds Sheet activity - Students look at 4 types of seeds and draw the flowers of that seed - example sheet included. Lesson 2: Know parts of a plant – Definition of words; Sequencing and labelling a bean plant and labelling a flower - Writing activity, cut and paste sequencing, ordering sentence strips in the correct sequence of a growing plant worksheets. Lesson 3: Fruits and their seeds. Learn that many fruits contain seeds. Observational activity (2 worksheets) - drawing fruits and their seeds. Label an apple; choose correct words to label pictures; Match up whole fruits to their halves by drawing lines. Lesson 4: Children grow their own bean plant - Activity based. Monitor growth. Ready-made recording worksheets; My Bean Plant Preparation write-up. Lesson 5: Learn life cycle of a sunflower, and sequencing growth. Worksheets: Labelling a sunflower; Cut/paste activities; Writing activity – looking at a life cycle illustration and describing it in words; Sequencing sentence strips. Lesson on Seeds: Life cycle of a seed and some information on mushrooms which do not grow from seeds. Students also learn about different types of germination. Worksheets: Recap Quick Question Sheet (Students can work individually or in pairs); Text on seed germination life cycle cloze activity – students read and fill in the gaps using words from the word box. Please see US Version Thank you for visiting my shop:)

The tutorial notes on the birth of Jesus and why Joseph had to go to Bethlehem can be speaking/listening. It also explains the anger of King Herod, the joy of the shepherds and the Wisemen. The summary notes can be adapted for comprehension worksheets. Short introductory PowerPoint presentation I have uploaded 3 sets worksheets for children to work in pairs to complete cloze activities - that way strong readers can help the weaker readers. Simple activity - Children draw presents for Jesus and label and complete a mini word search. Sort jumbled sentences - Answer key included Learning Aim: To understand why we celebrate Christmas. You may be interested in the full story on PowerPoint (34 Slides) and in PDF Format and additional worksheets. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-story-nativity-birth-of-jesus-presentation-worksheets-12224259

There is some basic information about the Crimean War - opportunity for children to research more and how it prompted two pioneering nurses to go to the Crimea to use their nursing skills. Please adapt Information Sheet to suit needs of pupils to complete the missing information in Worksheet 1. Worksheet 2 is Cross-curricula - Geography link - See how many countries the chn can label by comparing Worksheet 2 with labelled map of the world. Literacy link - children choose adjectives to describe the nurses and write sentence using 'because'.

This is a minibeast science topic that can also be used in maths for presenting data in a block graph. Feel free to adapt worksheets. Pictures of minibeasts obtained from the kidspuzzlesandgames website, pixabay public domain images and clipart. Thank you for visiting my shop:)

Labelling the 4 countries of the UK - Flag of St George, St Andrew, St Patrick & the Welsh Dragon - The Union Jack Flag to colour in. Differentiated Worksheets - Unscramble the four cities and correctly match them to the countries. There is basic information on the UK and the development of the UK flag together with worksheets. Please adapt to suit lessons. The cut/paste activity has been taken from Curriculum Bank (Scholastics) - Geography KS1 Text. I have not included Southern Ireland as part of the UK. The location of Southern Ireland is shown so that educators and children can see where Northern Ireland is located. New editable worksheets added and Presentation