I am a junior school teacher with 24 year's experience. I love to teach English most of all, but I get inspired by all aspects of the curriculum. In my shop you will find resources covering English, Maths, History, Philosophy, Art and RE and much more!
I am a junior school teacher with 24 year's experience. I love to teach English most of all, but I get inspired by all aspects of the curriculum. In my shop you will find resources covering English, Maths, History, Philosophy, Art and RE and much more!
This was part of a festival topic we did in year 6 where the children imagined going round the UK to different festivals. In the first two lessons the children plan what they would need to take on a trip and design their own vehicle (DT). They begin in Norwich at the Dragon Festival and then move on to Birmingham for the Sikh New Year festival (Vaisakhi). Then they pop over to India! Then return for the Festival of Speed and the Welsh Music festival.The Smart Boards are detailed and can be followed without a lesson plan. Then they travel to Northern Ireland.
This is similar to my other spelling Bee resource, but these the books and word lists that we are doing this year -2014. See my other resource for how to run it.
This Smartboard was designed for the whole junior school to use as the end of term writing assessment. You will need to colour photocopy different STORY scenes and I have included the list of picture books I took mine from in the SB. This was a chance for the children to show off their writing. If you don't know what ISPACE is, it is an excellent tool to use to teach children to vary their sentence structure. (look it up on the net!) PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
Help your children to remember to use the correct spelling in their writing with these bright posters which can be laminated and displayed. Includes saw/sore hear/here right/write because said there/their/they're won/one where/we&'re/were loose/lose, ways to remember because, said and &';ould' words.
These writing tips are posters/reminders designed to be placed around the classroom. They include synonyms for nice, beautiful, don't like, angry and really/very so you can teach children to avoid the most obvious &'every day&'; words. There is also one which encourages them to extend their sentences. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
You need to have Smart board software to access this lesson as it is all on the slides. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! There is a drama activity first where the children act out what they would do if there was an air raid. There are sound effects to play as they do this. Make the classroom as dark as possible. Then there is a structured poem that they can create based on their experiences and what they heard.
This is suitable if you have a Smartboard.The slides take you through the debate. The children do not have to know a lot about WWI. This could be seen as a philosophy, Literacy, PSHE or history lesson. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
You will need a Smartboard. Follow the slides to create a factory poem based on pictures and photographs focusing on the outside features of the factory. The slides take you though how to teach it. Create 5 or more lines following a structure
e.g. The + adjective + noun + verb e.g. 'The callous chimney smoked..&' Then complete the line with a simile (like or as) or something else. This encourages them to use alliteration and personification. Use the useful adjectives sheet to extend their vocabulary. Please leave feedback!
This teaches children how to write 'spine' poems which I learned how to do on a Pie Corbett course. The Smart board explains exactly how to structure it and once you know how to write a spine poem it can be used to describe most things including animal and insects etc. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! I have included pictures of the scare crows to print out and stick in their books with the poem.
This Smart board introduces The Globe theatre and includes photos and interesting facts about it. The children could do some writing afterwards, including some of the new facts they have found out. They could draw the outside or inside the theatre and label it. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
Ask the children to think of some questions to ask Malvolio, for example they could work with a partner to write at least 5 questions in their books. They need to understand the plot of the play.Teacher can hot seat as Malvolio. Use his 'thoughts&' below to help you answer as though you are him. Ask the children to draw him, use the pictures of Malvolio to help them, and write thought bubbles of what he is thinking.Give the vocabulary list (words that you have used) so they can magpie these and reward them if they include a certain number in their writing.
This is fun and quick to play. The simple instructions are on the bingo sheet. They can all have the same sheet. They have to highlight 5 of the verbs but they have to take care as I have included some nouns!
I hope they enjoy it! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
Introduce the artist and his work by using the Power point. There are differentiated reading comprehensions to go with this as we try to put literacy into all our topics. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
Follow the Smartboard-The children pick their favourite Kandinsky painting and then work with children in teams, who also chose the same fave painting as them, to do a presentation to explain why it is their favorite. The SB doc contains vocabulary which you can encourage them to use. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! There is also a maths link on here so they can make a class graph of their favourite painting and answer questions on this.
There are some simple rules to follow which I have included in a word document. You only need one board -the same one- for each child. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! You can change the names on the board to the children you teach. They really enjoy this and it makes grammar a bit more fun!!
This is an ideal way to introduce young children to The Tempest. I have found suitable pictures of the characters and it explains the plot simply. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!
Here is nearly everything you need to hold your own Spelling Bee. The spelling lists relate to famous children's books so it could be held during a Book Week. You will need a microphone. It is also worth having a cup made for each year group and having each winner&'s name engraved on it. We are shortly holding our first one. I think we will put the words from the lists for each year group in separate hats and have rounds where they individually come up and have to spell the word, by using letter names, speaking into the microphone. If you use this let me know how it goes!
A simple game which children enjoy.Play with the whole class. I have made some rules to download to explain how to play it. Please leave feedback if you use it!