Up for your consideration is a PowerPoint lesson introducing ING SENTENCE OPENERS. Contains the warm up activity, rules for adding the ing openers, practice and independent work slides. .ppt format. Most text is editable. 16 slides including the credits slide. Thank you for having a look! 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

Adjectives Roll Grammar SPaG Activity / Dice Game​. Can be played in pairs. Children throw a dice each and combine their score. They then find their score number on the game board and use 3 adjectives to describe the picture. As an extension, the adjectives used can be uplevelled using a thesaurus. Great for KS1/KS2 Thank you for your interest in my products Hoppy Times

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.

A set of 7 posters that give basic information about the rules of using speech. See the cover image for more detail. Contain beautiful illustrations from The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore film. Suitable for KS2.

A set of 24 task cards to practise the use of an apostrophes with possessive nouns, plural and singular. Can be used as a table task or hid around the classroom for a scavenger hunt. Children walk around the room looking for cards, they then read the sentence on the card and turn it into a phrase with a possessive noun and apostrophe. For example - this table belongs to Liam - Liam's table. Recording sheet and answers included. Thank you for your interest, HoppyTimes

The resource follows the National Curriculum guidelines for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar in Lower KS2 (Years 3 and 4) This HUGE set will give you everything you need for your SPaG wall. Included are 22 posters and 26 vocabulary cards on various SPaG topics. Posters: prepositions, root words, suffixes, prefixes, conjunctions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, plural nouns, word families, homophones, direct speech, articles, adverbs, fronted adverbials, pronouns, paragraphs, headings and subheadings, Present Perfect and Past Simple, main clause, subordinate clause, noun phrases, determiners. Can be printed as A4 or A3 (just change the settings on your Print page). The posters can also be scaled down (choose Multiple on the Print page) and used as reference cards - the choice is yours! Thank you for interest in my products! Hoppy Times

Boggle Word Games. 20 in total. Suitable for KS1 and KS2 Give players time (2-3 minutes) to find as many words on the grid of mixed up letters as they can. Students record their words (response sheet included) and score points depending on how many letters the word has. The longer the word, the more points it scores. Great for morning starters, transition or end of day times. 23 pages in total (cover page, 20 boggle games, recording sheet, Hoppy Times t&c page). The file is in .pdf and can not be edited. Thank you for your interest!

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 4) This is the fourth set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following 10 words of the list - determined, develop, dictionary, disastrous, embarrass, environment, equipment, equipped, especially, exaggerate. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity page 4 - Email your Teacher activity pages 5 - 9 - flash cards pages 10-11 - Word Search activity (with answers) page 12 - Roll and Spell activity page 13 - Word change activity page 14 -credits Set1 Set 2 Set3 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

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 5) This is the second set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following 10 words of the list - excellent, existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, forty, frequently, government, guarantee, harass. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity page 4 - Crack The Code activity pages 5 - 9 - flash cards pages 10-11 - Word Search activity (with answers) page 12 - Fill in the Blanks activity page 13 - Word battleships page 14 -credits Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 More sets will appear shortly. Each will include 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

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 6) This is the sixth set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following 10 words of the list - hindrance, identity, immediately, individual, interfere, interrupt, language, leisure, lightning, marvellous. The activities are same as in Set 2 and include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards pages 9 - 10 - Word Search (with answers) page 11 - Make a sentence activity page 12 - Caption it! activity page 13 - Spelling Maths activity page 14 -credits Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 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

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 7) This is the sevenths set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following 10 words of the list - mischievous, muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance, occupy, occur, opportunity, parliament, persuade. The activities are the same as in Set 2. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards pages 9 - 10 - Word Search (with answers) page 11 - Which is correct? activity page 12 - Spelling Rainbow activity page 13 - Word Puzzles activity page 14 -credits Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Set 6 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

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 9) This is the ninth set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are the same as in Set 4 and are based on the following 10 words of the list - restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, signature, sincerely, soldier, stomach. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity page 4 - Email your Teacher activity pages 5 - 9 - flash cards pages 10-11 - Word Search activity (with answers) page 12 - Roll and Spell activity page 13 - Word change activity page 14 -credits For more sets, please visit my shop. Each set includes 5 spelling activities, plus mini word lists and flash cards. If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 2) This is the second set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following 10 words of the list - available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, communicate, community. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards pages 9 - 10 - Word Search (with answers) page 11 - Which is correct? activity page 12 - Spelling Rainbow activity page 13 - Word Puzzles activity page 14 -credits Follow the link for Set 1, which is free. 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