FREE Room On The Broom White Hat Reading Questions - Fact Finding Can Be Fun To Do! Room on the Broom is a great book. I noticed a lack of really fun online Thinking Hat worksheets for this book and I thought I would try to resolve this. It focuses on different aspects of characterisation. I would love to have some feedback about these worksheets.

FREE - Room On A Broom Red Thinking Hat Reading Questions - Thinking About Feelings Is Fun! Room on a broom is one of the best selling children's books on Amazon and yet it has hardly any resources listed on the TES. As obviously lots of teachers and students love this book, I thought I would make it into a series of worksheets. I would love some feedback about what you think about this set of worksheets.

FREE Magic Train Workbook - 16 Thinking Hat Worksheets - Makes Guided Reading A Lot More Fun For All I have decided to build as many Thinking Hat resources as I can for TES readers. I have started by making resources for the fabulous Magic Train book (Published by Barefoot books). I took into account the need for simple text, clear font and I only have used self made resources and public domain resources, I have not used images from the books. I have organised them into sets of three - 3 Red Hat, 3 Yellow Hat, 3 Black Hat, 3 White Hat, 3 Green Hat and 1 Blue Hat. Comments for future improvements welcome.

Get Ready for Adventure! FREE The Magic Train Green Hat Thinking and Reading Worksheets for Creative Classroom Thinking! Are you ready to take your classroom on an exciting journey? Introducing the FREE Magic Train Green Hat Thinking and Reading Worksheets! Green Hat Thinking Activities are not just fun; they spark creativity and imagination by allowing children to stretch, manipulate, and enhance the story in ways they never imagined! Why Green Hat Thinking is a Blast! This engaging part of the reading scheme encourages students to let their imaginations run wild! They have the chance to fill in the missing details that make the story come alive, transforming their reading experience into a thrilling adventure. What’s in Store? Imagine what happens if they miss the Magic Train Home! What if the train suddenly stops working? Where does the train go after dropping off everyone at the end of the story? With these worksheets, students will explore these questions and more, unleashing their creativity and building their critical thinking skills! Let’s Make Reading Fun! Download the FREE Magic Train Green Hat Thinking Worksheets today and watch your students embark on a magical adventure that enhances their reading experience like never before. Get ready for creativity, collaboration, and a whole lot of fun!

Exciting White Hat Thinking Worksheets for Your Class! Hey kids! Are you ready for some fun? Dive into creativity and imagination with our White Hat Thinking Worksheets inspired by the amazing book, ‘The Magic Train’ from Barefoot Publishers! These worksheets are not just any worksheets—they’re your opportunity to explore new ideas and unleash your creative thinking! And if you don’t have the book, no worries! You can still have a blast with the Barefoot YouTube videos! What’s in Store for You? Fun Activities: Each worksheet is filled with engaging tasks that will spark your imagination and get your brain working! Be a Creative Thinker: Use your White Hat thinking skills to explore facts, ideas, and possibilities related to the story. Make it Yours: Teachers can easily modify the worksheets to fit your classroom needs because we want to make learning as fun and personalized as possible! We’d love to hear your thoughts on these worksheets as we work to make them even better for you! So grab your pencils and get ready for a fun learning experience!

FREE The Magic Train Black Hat Thinking Activities - Problem Solving Has Never Been So Fun! Every day I am trying to add some more thinking hat resources I am making for my class to TES. It has been shown that Thinking Hat Questions promote higher thinking and reading skills in children and yet when it came to actually finding lots of these resources on this website, I could not find any and so I am planning to write worksheets each night and share them with everyone. I would love a review of my work and also any suggestions on what other children's books people would like me to add to this collection.

FREE The Magic Train Yellow Thinking Hat Worksheets Make Looking On The Bright Side More Fun! These worksheets were originally written for 'The Magic Train' (Published by Barefoot books). However some of them could easily be used for absolutely any other book. I am building up this collection of Thinking Hat Reading Questions as I want to encourage higher thinking skills in every primary school child but I could not find any instant thinking hat worksheets for books on the Internet. Please comment on these and tell me what other picture books you would like me to write about.

FREE The Magic Train Red Hat Thinking Questions - Helps Put Some Feeling Into Guided Reading I have read everywhere how important Thinking Hat Questions are when it comes to reading. However, when I looked on the TES for lots of examples of other teachers work, I could not find a lot. I have now set myself the task of creating as many Thinking Hat Guided Reading Questions as possible for all the best selling picture books. It is a long term plan and you will need to be patient if this is not the book you were wanting. If you tell me which book you want, I will complete is as my next book. Please review these Red Hat Feeling worksheets and tell me how to improve them.

3 FREE YouTube Year 7 Booster Maths PowerPoint Lessons - Spring Term I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. FREE Maths PowerPoint Year 7 Booster Maths Lessons - Spring Term Lesson 1: Who gets the most? Lesson 2: Fractions on a number line. Lesson 3: Which fraction is bigger? This is a few of the resources I made to help Year 7 students with numeracy. I made them about a decade ago from UK government advice about how to approach different KS3 maths topics. I am sure they still could be useful for covering lessons and passing to a supply teacher.

I have recreated all these videos as both updated PowerPoint presentations and also as YouTube videos for people who don’t like using PowerPoint and are looking for a much more fun, interactive experience in the classroom. Try them today! Here are the details for each lesson: Lesson 1: Making labels for Classroom Equipment Lesson 2: Keeping Score Lesson 3: Scales and Stamps Lesson 4: ‘More’ and ‘Fewer’ Lesson 5: Mental Maths Lesson 6: Simple Addition Lesson 7: Counting Lesson 8: Solving Counting Problems Lesson 9: Beginning Addition Lesson 10: Counting Objects Into Groups Lesson 11: Putting Numbers In Order This resource was made by converting UK governmental advice from around 2000. It will make excellent revision lessons, supply and cover lessons Please leave a comment.

11 FREE YouTube Year 6 Maths Lessons! Perfect for Revision And Consolidation. I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. FREE Year 6 Maths Pack (Spring and Autumn Terms) - Booster and Revision Course. Here are the titles of the FREE Year 6 lessons: Lesson 1: The idea of percentage reductions in shop prices. Lesson 2: Putting percentages in context by looking at special offers on household packages. Lesson 3: Using percentages as a way of comparing different fractions. Lesson 4: The importance of knowing the size of the wholes when comparing percentages. Lesson 5: Giving practice in equivalent decimals, fractions and percentages. Lesson 6: How to convert any percentage to a fraction or decimal. Lesson 7: Number problems using ratio Lesson 8: Ratio and proportion Lesson 9: Find the maximum sum Lesson 10: Investigating Calendars Lesson 11: Examining statistics Years ago I wrote a series of numeracy lessons, based on the SpringBoard 6 materials, but I converted them into PowerPoint. Recently I got an email from a teacher requesting that I share these resources with the world and so here they are! There are perfect for revision, for SATs preparation, supply and cover lessons.

FREE Maths PowerPoint Presentations for DFES SpringBoard 5 (Also Use As Year 4 Booster Lessons) FREE Maths Lessons Content: Lesson 1: Developing your preferred ways of doing multiplication. Lesson 2: The area method of doing multiplication Lesson 3: The idea of 'carrying' when doing multiplication Lesson 4: Developing the area method for doing multiplication. Lesson 5: Using doubling in multiplication Lesson 6: Developing a doubling - and - addition method of doing multiplication Lesson 7: Finding pairs of factors Lesson 8: Division of larger numbers Lesson 9: Division as repeated subtraction Lesson 10: Developing a standard method Lesson 11: Flexible approaches to division. Years ago I wrote series of numeracy lessons which converted all the DFES Numeracy SpringBoard 5 lessons into interactive PowerPoint lessons. I think these will still be great for optional SATS revision also also for covering lessons, or for giving to supply teachers. Please leave a comment.

YouTube Maths PowerPoint Lessons for Year 4 for Spring & Summer Term (SpringBoard 4 Material) I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. This teaching pack includes: Lesson 1: Multiplication facts that link trios of numbers. Lesson 2: Number patterns in multiplication tables. Lesson 3: Partitioning large number to make multiplying easier. Lesson 4: Dividing various numbers by ten. Lesson 5: Using an abacus with decimal numbers. Lesson 6: A mental model of decimal numbers by working with number lines. Lesson 7: Multiplying by 9 Lesson 8: Division by 10 and 100 Lesson 9: Division with remainders Lesson 10: Towards a Standard Multiplication Method Lesson 11: Money Problems This is a PowerPoint representation of the SpringBoard 4 Material the DFES produced a long time ago. I wrote it so that teachers could use it directly on the Projector. These days, I think most teachers will find these resources, as well as excellent optional SATS revision, will also make good supply and cover lessons. Please leave a comment.

Here is a great set of Year 3 Maths teaching resources. I have recently upgraded them to include links to the YouTube Version of each lesson. These could be used to help revise for the KS1 or KS2 SATs tests, as a resource for a supply teacher or simply as something to do at home. Years ago I wrote a wide range of different Year 3 Maths PowerPoint lessons which followed the Governmental guidelines of the time. Free Year 3 Lessons: The topics covered are… Lesson 1: Y3 1 Autumn Place Values Lesson 2: Y3 2 Autumn Ordering Lesson 3: Y3 3 Autumn Add Subtract Multiples Lesson 4: Y3 4 Autumn Mental Calculations Lesson 5: Y3 5 Autumn Mental Models Lesson 6: Y3 6 Autumn Money Lesson 7: Y3 7 Autumn Adding several numbers Lesson 8: Y3 8 Autumn Add subtract 11 or 9 Lesson 9: Y3 9 Autumn Subtraction Bonds Lesson 10: Y3 10 Autumn Addition on empty line Lesson 11: Y3 11 Autumn Solving Word Problems I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. Originally, I was asked to send them to some friends, and so I thought I would share them with all the world via TES. Since then they have been viewed over 40,000 times! This is my most downloaded set of presentations I have ever made on TES.

Teachers no longer only use PowerPoint and so to relfect this, every one of lessons is now starting to come with a YouTube version of the PowerPoint. This also means you can teach a lesson and then directly share the link with your students’ parents, so they can repeat this work again at home. FREE Year 2 YouTube Maths PowerPoint Whole Lesson Resources (Autumn and Spring Terms) Each lesson is complete, and comes with a learning objectives, a warm up, main lesson, an independent learning section and a plenary. Here is a list of the lessons: Lesson 1: Putting the larger number first when adding. Lesson 2: Using ‘Near Doubles’ Lesson 3: Pairs that make 10 when adding Lesson 4: Idea of Difference Lesson 5: Words about Subtraction Lesson 6: Using addition and subtraction with shopping Lesson 7: Identifying Multiples Lesson 8: Making Rectangular Arrays Lesson 9: Multiplication Sentences Lesson 10: The Multiplication Symbols Lesson 11: Number Properties Years ago I made a lot of interesting Maths PowerPoint lessons, and then left them for 10 years in a draw. They have since been viewed over 22,000 times. By popular demand, I have uploaded them as I am sure lots of teachers will find them really useful and will use them. This collection is particularly useful if you need to cover a lesson and need a lesson with no preparation! Please leave a comment.

These have now been upgraded to include an interactive, dynamic YouTube movie in each PowerPoint. This is because I know teachers are moving away from PowerPoint to YouTube and I thought it would be fun to give them the option of being able to use and share this work directly on YouTube. Here is a list of the different lessons in this FREE Year 1 Maths Lessons Pack Lesson 1: Addition and Subtraction Lesson 2: Splitting Numbers Lesson 3: Using Number Lines To ‘Count On’ Lesson 4: Pairs and Doubling Lesson 5: Taking Away Lesson 6: Adding and Taking Away Pairs of Numbers Lesson 7: Numbers to 20 in Order Lesson 8: Writing numbers to 20 Lesson 9: Ordering Numbers Lesson 10: Money Problems Lesson 11: More Money Problems I produced a wide range of different maths PowerPoint lessons at the start of my career. These would make perfect supply teacher lessons or where you need a quick lesson to cover a topic. I uploaded them due to popular demand.