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.
Bwyd - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Differentiated
Read the Welsh vocabulary for food, and draw the picture
Label and draw Welsh food that the Caterpillar ate
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.
My Special Place and Church - Religious Education
Early Years
RE
Discuss why a church is a special place for Christians.
Discuss our special place and why we like to go there.
Compare and contrast.
Write a sentence about your special place, and draw it.
Write a sentence about why Christian's go to church, and draw a picture of a church.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Make a pom pom Christmas tree in the enhanced provision.
Use tweezers to put pom poms on the Christmas tree.
Measure the pictures using cubes/counters/lego. Predict how many first, then measure.