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Early Years activities - worksheets, ideas for the provision, outdoor learning, literacy, numeracy etc...
Sorting Food - Bwyd - Welsh
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Sorting Food - Bwyd - Welsh

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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.
Ice Melting Science Experiment
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Ice Melting Science Experiment

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Make observations Differentiated worksheet - lower group - cut and stick pictures - middle group - draw pictures - higher group - draw and explain pictures Science Foundation Phase Melting ice
Questioning - Knights
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Questioning - Knights

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Rec/Y1 Discuss knights. Generate questions about their role and what they looked like etc. Children record their answers on this worksheet.
Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments
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Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments

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Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments - Reception Differentiated worksheets lower ability - cut and stick pictures of instruments under the correct heading middle ability - my children wrote over yellow pen top ability - copy from a word mat/attempt to spell words independently
Year 1 Assessments
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Year 1 Assessments

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Recognising capital letters - highlight the letters that they recognise. Easy indicator of what letters to work on. Reading zero to twenty. Tick when children are able to read these key words. I do these assessments at the end of each full term. I then make groups of children to focus on similar sounds/numbers. There is also a differentiated follow up maths worksheet for children to practise reading the numbers zero to twenty.
Numeracy Worksheets for Year 1
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Numeracy Worksheets for Year 1

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Sorting 2 digit and 3 digit numbers to 50 and 100 - differentiated. Split up teen numbers. Left as a template, as I wrote my own numbers to differentiate. Addition and subtraction worksheet/challenge for maths area - independent task. Differentiated addition and subtraction worded problems. Money - make a spider diagram of all the ways you can make 15p and 50p. My year 1s used numicon shapes. MAT started using multiplication, such as 5 lots of 10p make 50p (5x10=50).
Dinosaur Poo Experiment
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Dinosaur Poo Experiment

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Includes a powerpoint to introduce herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. I then made dinosaur poo using oats and brown paint. To make herbivore poo, I added leaves and twigs. To make carnivore poo, I added pasta shells as bones and fur. To make omnivore, I added leaves twigs, pasta shells and fur. I left 6 foil wrappers around the classroom for children to work in groups to investigate. They used magnifying glasses to investigate further, and they had the worksheet on a clipboard.
Apple Experiment - observe changes over time
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Apple Experiment - observe changes over time

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Reception Activity - Science Experiment We cut an apple up into quarters. We talked about cutting it in half, and having 2 pieces, then half again, now we have quarters, 4 pieces altogether! We put one in water, one in oil, one in vinegar and the other ‘air’. We put them in the cupboard for 4 days then looked at at them to see if there were any changes in appearance, texture or smell.
Making patterns - Reception
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Making patterns - Reception

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Actions and Instruments - Children used the flash cards to make a pattern with actions. Children took turns making the pattern for the rest of the group to make. Use 2D shapes for children to follow a pattern also. Repeating Pattern Snakes - My children used their fingers to paint a pattern on the snakes. My top group were encouraged to make 3 changes.
Instruction Writing - How to play a triangle
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Instruction Writing - How to play a triangle

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Early Years - Reception Writing Template Genre - Instruction Writing How to play a triangle. Our topic was music/sound - ‘What’s that sound?’ Introduction We had a letter from Y2 asking us to teach them how to play a triangle. We played the triangle. We wrote instructions as a class on an A2 piece of sugar paper. 3 Differentiated worksheets Top group - write sentences independently - word mat to help with tricky spellings. Draw pictures of each step independently. Middle group - fill in the missing bossy verb (word mat included but you can add your own). Lower group - cut and stick the pictures and writing in order. They were able to order the numbers.
Listening Experiment - Reception
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Listening Experiment - Reception

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You will need to get 4 pots. Put 1 pasta shell in one, 2 in another, 3 in another and 4 in the last one. Label them a, b, c, d. The children will need to shake the pot and predict how many pasta shells there are in each pot. They will then open the pot to see how many shells are in the pot, to compare their prediction with the result. Reception Early Years Experiment Music Predictions x3 differentiated worksheets
Reception - Recognise Numbers to 10
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Reception - Recognise Numbers to 10

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Reception - Recognise Numbers to 10 Highlight/tick the number as you show your child flash cards. Write/type your children’s names along the left side of the table. I also use this to assess number formation. I make notes about reversing numbers or poor formation in the comments box.
Counting 1p and 2p Coins
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Counting 1p and 2p Coins

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Counting 1p and 2p Coins - Reception Numeracy DIfferentiated worksheets x4 My Reception children counted the coins in the purses and put the answers in the price tag.
Welsh Book Review - Early Years
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Welsh Book Review - Early Years

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I send this worksheet home with Tedi Twt’s story sack every Friday for the weekend. The children write the name of the Tedi Twt book that they read, and answer the questions. We share the worksheet and talk about Tedi Twt’s weekend on Monday during news.
Floating or Sinking - Harvest Vegetables
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Floating or Sinking - Harvest Vegetables

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Reception Science Experiment Float or sink? As part of our harvest topic, we carried out an experiment to see which harvest food floated or sunk to the bottom of the water tray. Top group - made predictions before carrying out the experiment Middle group - drew pictures on a table to illustrate the outcome Bottom group - circled the food that sunk.