This PowerPoint will make a fantastic introduction to you Separating Materials lesson. The students are offered to make Dinosaur Soup only to discover they put too much of one of the ingredients and they have to separate everything and start again!! Make it as easy or as difficult as you can - most of the text is editable - change the ingredients, the quantities, the objectives, add your own keywords. For a more challenging task - ask students to separate sand from salt or water from the sand/salt solution. Suitable for KS2/ early KS3 The PowerPoint consists of 10 slides including the cover and my credits slide. It also comes with a worksheet for recording the investigation and the equipment used.

Turn the popular trend into a useful reading tool for your pupils. Children spin their fidget spinner and read as many words on the list as they can until it stops. High Frequency word lists included for Year Reception, Year 1 and 2 , Year 4 and 5. Year 3 children can use the Year Reception and Year 1 and 2 worksheets. A total of 10 worksheets included. Ideal for 1:1 or small group sessions. Specifically tailored to the UK curriculum.

Halloween Maths Challenges KS2 Treat your kids to some Monster Maths this autumn! This is a colourful and fun set of 31 Maths challenges that can be used as starters / plenaries / task cards to make your lessons more fun in the run up to Halloween. A lot of topics covered, including : measurement, time, shape, sequencing, basic operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, logic puzzles, open ended questions and word problems! Suitable for KS2. The set is saved as a .pdf document and can’e be edited. However, if you have any suggestions - do drop me an email that you will find at the end of the document. Each task is on a separate A4 landscape slide. If using as task cards - just choose a multiple setting on the Printing page. Answer page included. Enjoy this fun Maths set and keep an eye out for more exciting resources from HoppyTimes. Thank you for your interest!

This is the 6th set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following words of the list - interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute. The activities are same as in Set 1 and include : page 1 - mini word lists page 2 - Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check activity pages 3 -7 - Word flash cards (2 per page of A4) pages 8 - 9 - Word search (with answers) page 10 - Make a sentence activity page 11 - 12 - Missing words activity (with answers) page 13 - iPad spelling activity page 14 - credits More sets will appear shortly. Each will include at least 5 spelling activities, plus mini word lists and flash cards. These will later be combined into a bundle. If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times

This is set 8 in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the 10 words of the list - popular, position, possess(ion), possible, potatoes, pressure, probably, promise, purpose, quarter. The activities are the same as in set 3 and tailored to the new set of words. They include : page 1 - mini word lists page 2 - Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check activity page 3 - Dial a word activity pages 4 - 8 - Word flash cards (2 per page of A4) pages 9-10 - Word search activity (with answers) page 11 - Silly sentences activity page 12 - Word shapes activity page 13 - credits More sets will appear shortly. Each will include at least 5 spelling activities, plus mini word lists and flash cards. These will later be combined into a bundle. If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times

Christmas Maths Mystery Fun differentiated activity for the holiday season - a Christmas Maths Mystery. Children solve a number of mathematical problems to help Santa find the elf responsible for a mishap in the Christmas workshop. Great Christmas Maths revision tool with a number of topics covered - basic operations, time, times tables, etc. 3 versions included - easy, medium and hard. Suitable for KS2. The resource has 7 pages (6 for the activity and 1 with Hoppy Times’ terms and conditions and solution). Thank you for your interest in my products!

A set of 8 bookmarks with a Super Hero theme. Good quality images from Melonheadz. Just print and laminate for durability! Thank you from Hoppy Times :)

A set of 24 task cards covering an important skill of finding 10 / 100 more or less of a number through using reasoning skills. 24 worded problems in total, where the children can also practise their addition and subtraction skills. The task cards could be used with base ten blocks, hundred squares, etc. for support of understanding. Bright and colourful Robot theme throughout. Answers included.

The resource contains 24 task cards which you can use with your students to practise determiners. They are suitable for the upper primary and can also be tailored to the Secondary curriculum. Great preparation tool for assessments (e.g. SATs, tests). Included is the poster with types of determiners (articles, quantifiers, demonstratives, possessives, ordinals, numerals). The task cards are based on the students being familiar with the types of determiners. Answer key and recording sheet included.

A set of 3 differentiated worksheet for finding a perimeter of a 2D shape. Includes whole numbers and decimals. Measurements are shown in centimetres. Suitable for Yr 4, Yr 5

A system of rewards designed to be used with a whole class. No money required. Just print the different coupons available and give them out to the children. Can be used as individual rewards for various achievements – reading at home, following the school rules, as game prizes, birthday gifts, the choice is yours! Can be organised in a catalogue folder (front cover and larger images also included for all the 10 prizes). Coupons included: music break; house points; round of applause; show and tell; pen pass; read aloud to the class; desk swap; teacher's assistant for a day, etc.

RE Easter Story bundle, comprising 5 resources/ activities. For KS1/ lower KS2 Included: 14 Poster cards (slightly less than A5 size) - Jesus, angel, disciple, Mary, cross, etc. Easter word search 8 Colouring pages Bingo cards Easter story board game Great for the last few weeks before the Easter half term. Feedback is greatly appreciated. All my resources have been proof read but if you do spot a mistake, please let me know and I will correct it promptly.

Maths Murder Mystery (KS2 Addition/ Subtraction) Turn your Maths revision lesson into a fun activity by solving a mini murder in space mystery . Great revision tool for addition and subtraction: finding the difference, missing numbers, adding decimals and numbers with powers, solving worded problems, subtracting from a zero, inverse. Can be used in mixed ability pairs, with G&T groups or as revision/ prep for SATs. Colourful graphics, can be printed in black and white with no quality lost. The resource has 3 pages (2 for the activity and 1 with my terms and conditions). Thank you for your interest in my products!

A set of cute times tables bookmarks (1-12). Each times table includes a colour version; a black and white version and a black and white version without answers for pupils to fill and colour in. The resource contains 36 pages. The bookmarks are a great tool to consolidate the knowledge of time tables and can be used over and over again. Just print and laminate for durability. Also great for prizes, rewards, homework, the choice is yours! Thank you for your interest in my products! Hoppy Times

This is set 7 in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the 10 words of the list - natural, naughty, notice, occasionally, often, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps. The activities are the same as in set 2 and include : page 1 - mini word lists page 2 - Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check activity pages 3 -8 - Word flash cards (2 per page of A4) pages 9 - 10 - Word search (with answers) page 11 - Make a sentence activity page 12 - 13 - Circle the correct spelling activity (with answers) page 14 - Spelling Rainbow activity page 15 - credits More sets will appear shortly. Each will include at least 5 spelling activities, plus mini word lists and flash cards. These will later be combined into a bundle. If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times

Celebrate Chinese New Year in your classroom with this easy and fun craft and writing activity suitable for KS1 / lower KS2. Start by reading a story about the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, then introduce the main activity – making a Zodiac wheel. Children cut out the wheel and animal cards which they then glue to the wheel and colour or decorate it. Finish off with a quick writing task – children draw or colour (both versions included) their Zodiac animal, read about its strength and weaknesses and say if they agree with the descriptions. The resource is in .pdf format , not editable (29 pages including the cover and credits page) and includes: 1. The story of the 12 Zodiac animals. 2. Zodiac Craft instructions 3. Zodiac Craft 4. Zodiac writing activity (individual pages for each Zodiac animal) The resource has been updated up to the Year 2026 (with lowest year now being 2003) You might also be interested in Chinese New Year

A set of 40 Maths task cards for your students to practise an important skill of using column addition to add together two 2-digit numbers. Calculations with and without exchange included. For KS2 Student sheet and Answer key provided. Thank you for your interest. HoppyTimes

This listing is for a set of 40 task cards for your students to practise an important skill of using column addition to add together two 3-digit numbers. Calculations with and without carry over included. For KS2 Student sheet and Answer key provided. Thank you for your interest. HoppyTimes

In this resource, you will find over 80 question stems/ pupil prompts that could be used during Guided Reading sessions. Was created to follow the Reading Rainbow scheme (COLOURFUL REMINDERS FANTASTIC) but can be adapted to be used with any guided reading lesson to promote deeper thinking and good reading behaviours.

Christmas Quiz Task Cards A fun and educational Christmas quiz suitable for children in KS2. Contains 28 cards that can be cut out and put around the classroom for a Christmas scavenger hunt or just given out as table task cards. Bright, child friendly graphics and clear precursive font. Answer sheet and response sheet included. Happy Holidays!