Complete planning and resources for 5 lessons focused on writing the opening of a newspaper report based on the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. For children in years 3 and 4. Planning for 5 days, differentiated 3 ways, daily teacher presentation in Smartnotebook and powerpoint Daily literacy starter activities also included, guided reading, homework suggestions and display templates. All materials included. Only a copy of the book ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes is needed in addition. Please note: This download is the third part of a 6 part scheme of work. The additional weeks or whole scheme is available as a bundle at a discounted price in our shop. Each week starts with a reading comprehension lesson and builds up to a piece of extended writing at the end of the week. I have found this to be a highly effective way of teaching and ensuring progress. We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook @ExcitEd Teachers for updates and freebies.

We are ExcitEd to share a 1 week literacy unit for LKS2. Children working in year 3 and 4 will write a book review of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. (This is week 6 of a 6 week scheme of work built around The Iron Man. The complete half term of work is available as a discounted bundle in out TES shop.) Complete planning and resources for 5 lessons focused on writing a book review with specific attention placed on the use of paragraphs and apostrophes for possession. Included with this download: Detailed Planning for the week. Daily PowerPoint lesson presentations including starter activities and lesson plenaries. Reading comprehension with a teachers answer sheet. Worksheets and activities for each lesson. Only a copy of the book ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes is needed in addition. All lessons are differentiated 3 ways using the TAF statements for LKS2. Daily literacy starter activities are also included - This week we look at using apostrophes for possession. Lesson 1 is whole class reading comprehension which ensures that children are familiar with book reviews as a text type. This lesson also acts as a ‘hook’. Children will be excited to offer their own thoughts and opinions. Lesson 2 looks at the text type in more detail and children are required to think about and identify facts and opinions about the book. Lesson 3 introduces the use of paragraphs and both supports and challenges children with their use of these. Lesson 4 allows children to plan their own book reviews using a planning frame which will include facts, opinions and support children in their use of paragraphs. Lesson 5 is an independent writing lesson where children use the skills they have developed over the week to write their own book review of The Iron Man. This resource is part of a bigger scheme of work based on the whole book. The whole scheme is available as a bundle at a discounted price. We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook @ExcitEd Teachers for updates and freebies.

We are ExcitEd to share a wonderful Mother’s day assembly celebrating all the mother figures in our lives. This assembly is best suited to KS2 and lasts approximately 20 minutes. This download includes: An easy to follow script. A powerpoint presentation to add images to your assembly Entrance and Exit Music embedded into the PowerPoint. An original story all about an amazing animal mother - The Killdeer bird. This story is professional read allowed and the audio is embedded into the PowerPoint. Follow us on Facebook for updates and freebies.

We are ExcitEd to share, one week unit of outstanding literacy lessons for LKS2 - Year 3 and year 4. Focusing on developing children’s use of ambitious vocabulary with the outcome of a question and answer poem about food. Easy to follow and adapt to your class. Includes: Five full lessons All planning linked to the English National Curriculum, and driven by TAF targets. Step by step, easy to follow plans. All digital resources, including differentiated worksheets and activities. A PowerPoint presentation to accompany each lesson. Suggestions for guided reading. Dyslexia friendly styling. Reading comprehension lesson. Writing templates for display. Daily starter activities - This week linked to vocabulary. Children will look at the poem ‘Colour’ by Christina Rossetti, this poem will be used as a format model for their independent writing later in the week. The week starts with a reading comprehension lesson and then, over the following days, children will develop their food related vocabulary, using dictionaries and thesauruses. An exciting lesson with snack tasting makes this week fun and interactive. Children will then plan their food poems using the vocabulary they will have developed and finally they will independently write. Outcomes have been fantastic and templates for display allow you to easily share children’s writing success. Hopefully teaching this unit won’t make you too hungry before lunch! We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook for updates and freebies.

We are ExcitEd to share a one week literacy unit focused on writing a diary entry related to chapter 2 of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Planned for children working in years 3 and 4. (LKS2) Download Includes: A detailed weekly plan PowerPoint Presentation for each lesson Daily literacy starter activities Worksheets and printable activities A homework worksheet This week children will start with a reading comprehension lesson which will act as the hook to introduce chapter 2 of this book. In daily lesson starters they will work on using conjunctions to create compound sentences. Additionally, throughout the week children will be encouraged to use these in their writing. We then look at writing in the first person, past tense and sequencing events in the chapter, with work on adding time connectives, before children confidently and independently write a diary entry. **Please note: ** This download is the second part of a 6 week scheme of work. The additional weeks are available individually or as a bundle with 50% off in our shop . We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook @ExcitEd Teachers for updates and freebies.

KS1 Maths - Discovering Fractions. A Maths Investigation Lesson. We are ExcitEd to share this practical and engaging maths lesson especially for KS1. Focusing on introducing fractions. We ask the question ‘How many ways to make half ?’ Children investigate ways to find half of a square in a practical and hands on way. SpoilerThere are 13 ways to find half in our fun maths investigation lesson, but shh don’t tell your class they have to find out for themselves! This download includes: Detailed lesson plan with curriculum links for both year 1 and year 2. Differentiated worksheets for MA,A, LA and SEN Suggested extension task Lesson presentation in SmartNotebook and PowerPoint We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook @ExcitEd Teachers for updates and freebies.

We are ExcitEd to share a fabulous literacy lesson for KS1. Focusing on developing children’s knowledge and correct use of sentences and creating a class book linked to the Usborne touchy feely book ‘That’s Not My Dragon.’ This approximately 1hr stand-alone lesson, has been planned for children working in Year 1 and using the National Curriculum. Although, it would also be suitable for year 2 classes in need of support with accurate sentence writing. TAF statements have been used to differentiate this lesson for children working towards, at the expected level or at greater depth. This download includes: A detailed lesson plan with links to the National Curriculum. A PowerPoint presentation to support the lesson. Printable sentence building cards for use in the main part of the lesson. A printable book page template / Worksheets - differentiated Support Materials - Differentiated word banks and sentence builder cards. Printable dragon colouring images. The objective of this lesson is for all children to write accurate sentences about their own dragons. Most children will then extend their simple sentences with ‘and’ and some will create compound sentences using ‘but’ and ‘so’. The main teaching of the lesson starts with an adult led reading of ‘That’s Not My Dragon’ with the reveal of the teacher’s dragon at the end of the book. This acts as a hook for the lesson. During the lesson, the rules for sentence writing are reviewed and then children are asked to help physically create sentences about the teacher’s dragon using sentence building cards. (Included). To accompany and enhance the lesson a PowerPoint presentation is included. All visuals have dyslexia friendly styling, with a clear and simple format. The lesson plan has also been broken down alongside each corresponding PPT slide in the notes to support lesson delivery. To create your class book, a page template is included. 2 versions, each with a dragon image to colour, but one version with a sentence starter already included and the other without the sentence starter and more space for children to write. Alternatively, separate dragon colouring images are also included if you wish for children’s writing and colouring to be done separately. In their independent work, children working towards the expected standard are supported with a word bank and sentence building cards, similar to the class activity. Support materials are also included for children working at the expected level or at greater depth. These are appropriately differentiated to include a wider range of vocabulary and conjunctions and can be used at your discretion We have found this to be a fun lesson with a fantastic outcome that children often like to revisit when in the class library. We are ExcitEd! Follow us on Facebook for more ideas and freebies. This resource was updated following teacher feedback.

We are ExcitEd to share a firework themed maths project specifically planned for UKS2 (Year 6). Spend an afternoon allowing children to apply their maths skills in this topical, fun, themed lesson. This download includes: A Detailed Lesson Plan PowerPoint Lesson presentation with starter activity and plenary included. All printable resources are included - emails from the council, fireworks price list and planning sheets - Differentiated four ways. Answer Sheets for teachers are also included. For this lesson, children get to take on the role of pyrotechnic event coordinators. They’re going to plan a fireworks display! They will work in teams or pairs and get to use calculators to check their work. This has been a winning formula with my classes. The starter activity is a game called Target 100. Children must add, subtract, divide or multiply a start number to attempt to make 100 or stop anyone else making 100. Children will be given ‘an email’ from a local council asking them to plan a fantastic fireworks display to celebrate an upcoming national event. What an exciting opportunity! In the form of an email from a council events department, children will be given a brief. This sets out details of a budget and length of time that their display must be along with any special requirements which could make this activity more challenging. Along with the email, each team will be given a fireworks price list and a planning sheet. These handouts will support the children in planning their displays and completing the task. Included is also a follow up email from each council which can be used as an extension activity, asking children to calculate prices in discounts are added, or ticket prices for the event. The plenary ends the session with a review of questions about planning a fireworks display. Answer sheets for each differentiated activity are also included to make marking, reviewing and following up this lesson simple. National Curriculum Links: NC2014 - Mathematics - Year 6 Programme of Study. Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison Solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate**** Planned for use around a national celebration, such as Halloween, Diwali, Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, Bastille Day, July 4th or any date when fireworks are set off nationally. ExcitEd Resources bring you effective, fun and creative resources linked to the English Primary National Curriculum. Follow us on Facebook.

Reception teachers, we are ExcitEd to share a fantastic set of activities to welcome children to school on their very first day! Using the book ‘Hey Duggee First Day at Squirrel Club’, we have developed a follow up activity and keepsake certificate that can be personalised and taken home. ( Book available on Amazon ) This download Includes: Lesson ideas sheet with lots of fun ideas for the first day of school and links to additional resources. A hide and seek activity game. Print off the images of the characters and hide around the classroom. A tick sheet is included for the children. First day of school certificate. A double sided document, in either A4 or postcard size, which can be personalised and printed for each child. A first day of school badge image which can be printed as stickers using Avery labels.* Duggee is a great character to use at the very start of the year as most children will already be familiar with him. This familiarity creates a link for children with their new classroom and teacher. A topic that they can all talk about. Our hide and seek activity, uses the characters featured in the story and encourages children to explore their new classroom. This can be a particularly good activity for more timid children. Stickers and certificates to take home make a special reward for children. We are ExcitEd! Follow us on Facebook @Excited Resources for more ideas and freebies.

We are Excited to share a lesson for the 5th of November! A bonfire night acrostic poem lesson, plus a collection of firework themed handwriting worksheets. Planned with curriculum references for KS1 but could easily be adapted and used with KS2 or EYFS. This download includes… A detailed lesson plan including links to the National Curriculum and TAF statements. A PowerPoint Presentation for Acrostic Poem lesson - including starter activity and plenary Acrostic poem writing templates Fireworks handwriting patterns worksheets We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook @ExcitEd Teachers for updates and freebies.

**'It’s Christmas!!!" ** We are ExcitEd to share this fun, Christmas themed, maths lesson which will keep children busy using their maths skills to break the code and find the punch lines for Great Uncle Fred’s Christmas cracker jokes. Light hearted but productive, just what we all need in school in the run up to Christmas. Various addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions have been included, but these can be edited to suit the ability groups within class. This download includes: Lesson Plan Lesson Presentation (in PowerPoint) Pupil Worksheets. 2 versions - mixed ability including all 4 operations or a simple addition ans subtraction only version. Fully editable Microsoft Word version of worksheet Additional jokes for extension work. Teacher’s Answer Sheet A fun and useful maths lesson to fill a Christmas afternoon and get children practising their own strategies for solving various mathematical questions. We bring you effective, teacher made, fun and creative resources for use in primary schools linked to the English National Curriculum. Take a look at our TES shop or follow us on Facebook @ExcitEd Teachers for updates and freebies.

We are ExcitEd to share a fabulous 1 week literacy unit for KS2. This collection of 5 lessons is linked to the Victorians and a child appropriate version of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The outcome of the unit is an independent write of a diary entry written about Oliver Twist asking for more. Children will have the opportunity to develop and refine their sentence structure skills throughout the week so that they may apply these to their writing. This unit has been writing in line with the English National Curriculum for children work in years 3 and 4. TAF statements have been used to differentiate the lessons for children working towards, at the expected level or at greater depth. This download includes: 5 literacy lessons with resources building up to an independent write of an Oliver Twist themed diary entry. A detailed weekly lesson plan linked to the English National Curriculum. A PowerPoint presentation to support each lesson. Daily starter activities - spelling rule related. Printable worksheets and support materials for each lesson. All differentiated Lesson 1 is a reading comprehension lesson that introduces the children to the story of Oliver Twist. An appropriate version of this story is recommended and could be used as a whole class reader alongside this unit. Lesson 2 looks at the correct use of full stops and capital letters. Differentiated worksheets support children in identifying where punctuation should be used in a model diary entry. The features of a diary entry start to be gathered as reference for the children. Lesson 3 is a role-play lesson that will be exciting and memorable for the class. With the teacher in role, children are dished up gruel and anyone brave enough to ask for more is punished!! This is the basis of children’s independent write and often a highlight of the term. Lesson 4 puts the planning in place for children’s independent writing. They will complete differentiated activities on use of the past tense and first person. Lesson 5 gives children the chance to show off the skills they have developed and refined during the week by writing their own diary entry. The plenary looks at editing and improving. We have found this to be a fun unit of work related to the Victorians. The outcomes have been outstanding. We are ExcitEd! Follow us on Facebook for more ideas and freebies.