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Field Guide of Island Organisms from Kensuke's Kingdom
This 49-page resource has been designed to use alongside Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but can also be done independently of the novel study.
Children will research different flora and fauna existing on an island in the South Pacific, using art skills to make a field guide.
Science curriculum is threaded through the Outcome, with children classifying organisms in different ways and learning about how water and nutrients are transported within organisms, including sea stars, sea sponges, and coral.
The pack includes different graphic organisers, resources for lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and rubrics.
Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and has links to the Common Core.
Digital copies of the files for editing and sharing on digital platforms are available with download.
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Shipwrecked Narrative Writing Linked to Kensuke's Kingdom
This 40-page resource has been designed to use alongside Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but can also be done independently of the novel study.
Children will write their own last chapters to Kensuke’s Kingdom with a focus on using shifts in formality (with flashbacks). If you aren’t reading the novel, you can use the same idea, introducing the idea of being shipwrecked with a drama activity (included) before the children write their own narrative ending.
The pack includes different graphic organisers, resources for lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and rubrics.
Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and has links to the Common Core.
Digital copies of the files for editing and sharing on digital platforms are available by following the link provided with download.
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Grammar Dice for Years 3 and 4
This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Year 3 during writing exercises.
Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included.
Adverbs, adverbials, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, conjunctions and prepositions are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England document.
There is also a link provided to an editable file, should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.
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Grammar Dice BUNDLE - Key Stage 1 with Years 3 and 4
This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stage 1 as well as Lower Key Stage 2 during writing exercises.
Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included.
The grammar on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
For Key Stage 1: suffixes, contractions
For Years 3 & 4: adverbs, adverbials, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, conjunctions and prepositions
A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.
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Mission to Mars: Design a Mission Badge (e-Textile)
**Updated with new graphics
This 21-page resource has been designed as an introduction to a study of a Mission to Mars. Children will research different mission badges before designing, making, and evaluating their own.
This Outcome uses Lilypad e-textiles, but the same curriculum objectives can be covered with the use of littleBits, circuit stickers (Chibitronics) or with twinkle lights that have been cut and joined to copper tape and powered with a low-voltage battery.
Digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Mission to Mars: Build an Ecosystem (Persuasive Writing)
**Updated with new graphics and Google extension
This 55-page resource is meant to be a critical thinking objective where children learn about ecosystems while considering what they would need to survive on the planet Mars.
Children will learn about ecosystems, habitats, and communities before learning about keystone species and writing a persuasive text about which ecosystem should be brought to Mars.
Digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available by following the link provided at download.
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Punctuation Dice for Key Stage 1 and Years 3 and 4 BUNDLE
This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Years 1-4 during writing exercises.
Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included.
The punctuation on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2.
Key Stage 1: singular possession, commas for lists, full stops, capital letters, exclamation and question marks
Years 3 & 4: speech marks, apostrophes for plural nouns, and commas after fronted adverbials
A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.
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Working Scientifically with Slime for Years 1 & 2
Including objectives from Key Stage 1, this pack has children participate in different Design and Technology activities with working Scientifically related to designing, making and evaluating their own slime.
Base slime recipes are provided - the slime can be made ahead of time for the children to evaluate, or the children can participate in the recipes to reinforce their understanding of fractions (halves).
A link to a digital file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw is available with download.
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Working Scientifically with Slime for Years 3 & 4
Including objectives from Lower Key Stage 2, this pack has children participate in different Design and Technology activities with working Scientifically related to designing, making and evaluating their own slime.
Base slime recipes are provided - the slime can be made ahead of time for the children to evaluate, or the children can participate in the recipes to reinforce their understanding of fractions (halves).
A link to a digital file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw is available with download.
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Digital Stickers for Assessment at Christmas
Use a visual form of assessment that the children can see in real time as you comment on their online work using Google Apps.
This resource has been created to use in the assessment of online resources across the curriculum. **24 Christmas themed digital stickers **can be added from the zip file link provided with download.
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Working Scientifically with Slime for Years 5 & 6
Including objectives from Upper Key Stage 2, this pack has children participate in different Design and Technology activities with working Scientifically related to designing, making and evaluating their own slime.
Base slime recipes are provided - the slime can be made ahead of time for the children to evaluate, or the children can participate in the recipes to reinforce their understanding of fractions (halves).
A link to a digital file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw is available with download.
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Working Scientifically with Energy Bites for Years 5 & 6
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Reading Workshop Tracker for Years 3 and 4
This pack is designed to use to track progress in Reading Workshop.
There are pages for tracking spoken language, reading, and writing curriculum objectives taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s English Document.
This pack includes the different objectives for
Year 3 and Year 4 with sheets for real time progress tracking and sheets to send home to parents for follow-up. Evidence can be included on the sheets as QR codes of audio or images for conferencing.
A link is also provided should you want to keep the files on Google Drive or share through a platform such as Google Classroom or Seesaw.
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Year 6 Maths: Ratio & Proportion *UPDATED for DEEPER LEARNING
UPDATED with new graphics and HANDS-ON application of ratio for DEEPER LEARNING.
This resource has been made using the ratio and proportion objectives for Year 6 from the 2014 National Curriculum of England:
Solve problems involving relative sizes of two quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts
Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages (of measures, and such as 15% of 360) and the use of percentages for comparison
Solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found
Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
ADDITIONALLY there is a HANDS-ON RATIO & PROPORTION WITH FOOD for children to apply their understanding in context with cookies, pancakes, and pizza dough.
The pack can be used for reinforcement, in Maths centres for review, Morning Maths work, as well as for home learning tasks.
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Vikings: Monastery Invasion BUNDLE
This BUNDLE allows children to learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England - and the 793 CE attack on Lindisfarne in particular.
The persuasive text can be written from the perspective of a Monk or a Viking, and is meant to persuade (or dissuade) their audience - either Monks or Vikings - from trading with or plundering a Monastery.
The narrative text can be written from the perspective of a Monk or a Viking during the raid of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in North East England in 793 CE.
In the past, I have introduced this lesson dressed as a Monk in a Monastery with the lights off and candles lit. I play audio in the background of Monks singing (link provided) before acting frightened at the arrival of Vikings coming ashore (link provided).
An editable digital link for sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Vikings: History Study
Children will look at the history of Vikings in the UK as well as their importance.
They will look at their impact as well as impressions through different sources before using chronology to analyse changes over time.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Vikings: Battle Modifications with littleBits
Children will look at the history of Viking warfare and weapons during their invasion of the UK. Children will then design their own defence or weapon modification with littleBits based on a Viking design.
In the past, I have introduced this lesson dressed as a Monk at Lindisfarne with the light off and candles lit. I play audio in the background of Monks singing before acting frightened at the arrival of Vikings coming ashore.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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Vikings: Design a T-Shirt & Explanation Text
Children will look at different symbols significant to the Vikings and will design a tshirt including the symbols. They will then write an explanation text that describes the different symbols included, as well as the reasons for the design choices.
In the past, this unit has worked really well at the end of a Viking study, where the children can show off what they’ve learned.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
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A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge. It bundles A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study with a STEAM pack about designing and making a horror movie trailer using light and shadow.
Updated for deeper learning with additional tasks for character analysis, literary motifs, themes, and extracts from the text.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. Reluctant to accept her appointed destiny as vessel for a coterie of her ancestors, she escapes. As she flees the pursuing Fellmottes across war-torn England, she accumulates a motley crew of her own allies, including outcasts, misfits, criminals, and one extremely angry dead bear.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Background information on the historical context (English Civil War), Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Puritans, King Charles, Lambeth Palace, Traitor’s Gate, witchcraft), and a STEAM enrichment activity where children investigate, design, make, and evaluate their own books according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology and Science objectives.
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Survival Invention BUNDLE (STEAM with Explanation Text)
This 66-page resource has been designed to use alongside Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but can also be done independently of the novel study.
Children will read about different survival inventions before building one and writing an explanation text about how they work. Alternatively, children can design, make, and evaluate their own survival invention before explaining how it works.
The pack includes different graphic organisers, resources for lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and rubrics.
Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and has links to the Common Core.
Digital copies of the files for editing and sharing on digital platforms are available with download.
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Beyond the Bright Sea Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk. It bundles Beyond the Bright Sea Novel Study with a STEAM pack where children create the foods mentioned in the novel.
Updated to include additional activities for the literature portion of the novel study
ABOUT THE NOVEL: The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family.
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar.
Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn’t until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger.
Vivid and heart-wrenching, Lauren Wolk’s Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes:** Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities** (includes character studies and plot studies), **Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks **related to content of the novel (tides, crows, Captain Kidd, starfish, dolphins, clams, leprosy, nor’easter), and a STEAM Extension with food technology (vegetable soup, rabbit stew, breads (plain, molasses, cornbread), butter (plain, apple), beef jerky, clam chowder, gingersnaps, mussels, tea biscuits, lobster cakes, spice cake, flapjacks).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.