Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Introduction to space topic and letter writing.
Letter format for studying how a letter is written.
Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.
An image of children holding hands around the world. Could be used as a starting point for similarities and differences; cultural, or new year discussions
Variety of writing resources to aid Literacy teaching. Letter of apology to the 3 bears, a worksheet with 3 boxes for illustrating the beginning, middle & end of the story, differentiated with lines for the more able to write sentences, and sentences prefilled for less able. Goldilocks dictionary sheets, to encourage alphabetical order, and for children to use when writing the story or sentences.
Simple chromatography experiment to see who wrote a message in pen on some paper. Children to use felt pens on paper in water, to watch the inks separate. Great idea to introduce reverse colour mixing in EYs or colour separation in Science.
We designed our own characters, looking at recounts, character descriptions and then moved onto a simple story and made it into a comic strip. Our superheroes focused on the good qualities they could have, and what human values (love, peace, truth, non-violence and right conduct) they display.
Based on information from the National Maritime Museum's website with images.
Who were pirates, what did they do, how did they live and what can we learn to make ourselves better people?
Quotation on family used to start a topic on families and family trees.
'We are all one family under the same sky.'
Respecting similarities and differences.
An SSEHV (education through human values) lesson on not wasting water.
1. Quotation
2. Meditation on the water cycle
3. Story and discussion
4. Song
5. Activity - completing a personal water usage chart
SSEHV stands for Sathya Sai Education through Human Values, a PSED teaching method in many schools. Based on core human values of Love, Peace, Truth, Non Violence and Right Conduct.
The SSEHV lesson brings on various elements - a quotation to talk about, a warm-up game, a silent sitting/meditation, a story and discussion/questions, a song, and then a game or activity.
This lesson plan has been put together to focus on non-violence, and basic respect of similarities and differences, and what we can learn from the peace loving plant eating dinosaurs.
A PowerPoint written for Reception to cover the Mesozoic era - triassic, jurassic and cretaceous periods. Looking at basic evolution of animals and the changes in the landscape.
Independent/adult-assisted research activity (I used as a week's homework) to use a non-fiction text or internet to research a dinosaur. Using a non-fiction text to locate and use contents page, page numbers and information
Non-fiction book on (pet) rabbits. Designed either to be viewed on the interactive whiteboard or printed and made into a book for shared reading sessions. Could be used as a topic introduction or independent reading.
