An English activity focusing on capital letters, when to use them and what they look like. The PowerPoint shows the children all capital letters and the children then practise writing the capital letters. Children then write the capital letter to match the lower case letter. The Capital Letter Monster then eats some of the capital letters from the alphabet and children have to identify which letters have been eaten and write the capital letters on their whiteboards. Children are then shown sentences with missing capital letters and have to fill in the missing letters. The children will enjoy the fun element of having a monster eating the capital letters and I have used this in class when children have forgotten capital letters in their written work. Aimed at Early Years and Year 1 children although could be used as part of an intervention for Year 2 children.

An English activity to help children to plan a story in a step by step manner. This activity breaks down story planning into small chunks and enables children to plan each stage of the story. The activity encourages lots of talk and children enjoy sharing their ideas about the story. The activity encourages children to think about and describe their character, the setting and the time of their story. Children then plan the problem, what happens first, then and next and then the solution and the ending. The activity gives children different ideas and demonstrates to children that not all stories need to be the same as we all have different ideas and suggestions. I often take several days to work through this activity and to build story plans with the children and find that rereading our story plans regularly helps children when they reach the writing stage. This activity could be used in Early Years to introduce story planning and oral retelling of a story to the children or in Key Stage 1 to support children with story planning and story writing. For my Story Planning and Story Writing Bundle please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/story-planning-and-writing-bundle-12173585

An English story writing activity to support children when writing a story. Children plan their story using a story plan. This activity then demonstrates to the children how to write each part of their story using the story plan. I use this activity over several days to support children to write their story and will often cover several parts in one lesson with mini plenaries in between reminding children what their writing needs. Children like the little girl who pops up to ask questions to improve the story. The activity could be used in Early Years for orally retelling a story or in Key Stage 1 for writing a story. For my planning activity Powerpoint please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/planning-a-story-12172616 For my Story Planning and Story Writing Bundle please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/story-planning-and-writing-bundle-12173585

A complete Maths lesson for teaching half past in a step by step manner. This interactive lesson focuses on half past. The lesson recaps key terms and o’clock before teaching children how to read half past times. The lesson encourages lots of discussion to ensure that the children understand half past. It includes three differentiated half past worksheets and a short plenary. Aimed at Early Years and Year 1 children however could also be used as a recap lesson or as part of an intervention for Year 2 children. For my o’clock lesson see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/time-o-clock-complete-lesson-12158027

A set of 10 Maths activity worksheets with a Christmas theme. Activity 1 - addition Activity 2 - making 10 Activity 3 - continue the pattern Activity 4 - addition Activity 5 - making 10 Activity 6 - counting and addition Activity 7 - fill in the missing numbers counting in 1s Activity 8 - continue the pattern Activity 9 - subtraction Activity 10 - fill in the missing numbers counting in 10s Aimed at Key Stage 1 children. For Christmas English Worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-english-sheets-12217443 For Problem Solving Christmas Worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-problem-solving-sheets-12217452 For a set of 30 mixed Christmas worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-worksheets-12196605

A set of 10 problem solving activity worksheets with a Christmas theme. Activity 1 - spot and count the objects Activity 2 - compare trees and answer the questions Activity 3 - read the clues and solve the problem Activity 4 - read the clues and add buttons to the snowmen Activity 5 - solve the number sentences and colour the tree Activity 6 - find the odd one out Activity 7 - use the picture to answer the spot it questions Activity 8 - create different jumpers using three colours Activity 9 - find the odd one out Activity 10 - spot the difference Aimed at Key Stage 1 children. For Christmas Maths Worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-maths-sheets-12216277 For Christmas English Worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-english-sheets-12217443 For a set of 30 mixed Christmas worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-worksheets-12196605

A music activity to help children to learn to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on the ocarina. The children first practise playing the different notes with each note having a name to help children to remember them. Children then practise playing the first line of the song on their ocarina, then the first two lines followed by playing the next two lines and then playing the whole song. Children of all ages and abilities can learn to play the ocarina and have great fun making music.

A complete English lesson for introducing adjectives. The Powerpoint explains when to use adjectives. Children are then given the opportunity to think of adjectives to describe objects. Children must then identify adjectives in sentences. The lesson includes three differentiated worksheets and a plenary where children have to identify which word is not an adjective. Aimed at Key Stage 1 children.

A set of 35 time activity cards focusing on o’clock and half past. The activity cards cover telling the time, drawing the time, working out an hour or half an hour more or less, finding the odd time out and problem solving activities. These cards can be laminated for use during Maths lessons or independent activities or can be printed on a smaller scale to be completed and stuck in Maths books. Aimed at KS1 children.

A complete English lesson for introducing conjunctions. The lesson explains what conjunctions are and when to use them. The lesson focuses on and, but, so and because and demonstrates how to use each of these conjunctions. The lesson is interactive. Children must select the correct conjunction to use in sentences and select the correct ending for sentences and make sure that the sentence makes sense. The lesson includes three sets of differentiated worksheets with three worksheets in each set. There is a plenary at the end of the lesson where children must read a sentence including a conjunction and decide whether the sentence makes sense. Aimed at Key Stage 1 children. For my Adjectives and Conjunctions Bundle please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/adjectives-and-conjunctions-bundle-12249820 For my Adjective, Conjunctions and Words Instead of Nice Bundle see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/adjectives-conjunctions-and-words-instead-of-nice-12249824

A complete English lesson covering words that can be used instead of nice. The PowerPoint gives children examples of alternative words that they can use for nice and builds a list of alternative words - this final list could then be printed out for the children to use when they are writing. Children are then given a sentence with the word nice in and they have to replace the word nice in the sentence - children could rewrite the sentence on their whiteboards and replace the word nice or could simply write an alternative word for nice. The lesson includes three differentiated worksheets and a plenary where children have to find the odd word out eg amazing, helpful, caring and explain why it is the odd word out. Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.

A set of 10 English activity worksheets with a Christmas theme. Activity 1 - match the sentences and pictures Activity 2 - match the pictures and words Activity 3 - write a story about the picture Activity 4 - fill in the missing letters Activity 5 - read the short story and answer the questions Activity 6 - fill in the missing words Activity 7 - label the picture Activity 8 - answer questions about the picture Activity 9 - write a story about the picture Activity 10 - fill in the missing words Aimed at Key Stage 1 children. For Christmas Maths Worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-maths-sheets-12216277 For Problem Solving Christmas Worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-problem-solving-sheets-12217452 For a set of 30 mixed Christmas worksheets please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-worksheets-12196605

A Powerpoint all about summer. The Powerpoint shares seasonal facts about summer and includes questions for children to answer. There are also five worksheets about summer for children to complete. The worksheets cover filling in the missing words in sentences about summer, designing a flower, answering questions about the season summer, summer months and drawing a summer scene. Aimed at Key Stage 1 children however the Powerpoint and some of the worksheets could be used with Reception children.

A set of 50 English exit tickets. Exit tickets can be used at the end of a lesson to assess children’s knowledge and understanding. They can be used to assess what the children have learnt during the lesson or their prior knowledge. These English exit tickets can be used to assess children’s knowledge of the Year 1 curriculum. Each ticket contains a English problem for the children to answer. The English problems include spelling key words, identifying when to use question marks, full stops and exclamation marks, adding un- plus other key skills. These exit tickets can be printed and laminated or displayed on the Interactive Whiteboard. Each child could solve the same problem or they could all have their own ticket - this method is useful for differentiating and assessing the English knowledge of specific children. Aimed at Key Stage 1 children

A set of hfw activity cards to practise writing and spelling the first 100 high frequency words. The 100 words are split into ten colour coded groups with ten words in each group. Each word has an activity card for children to practise writing the word and an activity card for the children to practise spelling the word.

A set of high frequency word flashcards covering the first 100 hfw. The words are split into ten colour coded groups with ten words in each set meaning that the class can focus on ten words at a time. Each card shows the high frequency word in different fonts.

A set of 25 Maths Activity Cards to support children when learning about 2D shapes. The activities in this set include drawing 2D shapes, recognising 2D shapes, finding the odd shape out, shape spotting and comparing 2D shapes. The cards can be used to encourage children to discuss 2D shapes using shape related language. These cards can be laminated for repeated use during Maths lessons or could be printed on a smaller scale and stuck in Maths books for children to complete. I have also laminated these 2D shapes activity cards to be completed during Early Work Activities or independent activities so as to reinforce learning about 2D shapes. These activity cards are aimed at Early Years and Year 1 children.

A PowerPoint presentation about being amazing. The presentation explains that we are all amazing and that we all do amazing things every day. There are opportunities throughout the presentation for the children to discuss their own ideas about being amazing and the final slide encourages children to celebrate their own and other people’s amazingness. This presentation could be used as an assembly or during a PSHCE lesson. Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.

A set of 14 colour coded multiplication tests to test for quick recall of multiplications to x12. Each test has thirteen questions to complete and there are two tests for each colour of the rainbow. Each child also has a blank rainbow to colour, they can colour each band once they are secure on that set of multiplications eg red multiplications are x2 and x10 therefore once children are secure at x2 and x10 they would colour the red band of the rainbow. The aim is for children to colour the whole rainbow. These tests cover multiplications from x0 to x12 starting with x2 and x10 and ending with a test of all multiplications. The tests can be used with a timer to check how secure children are with multiplication recall. Children enjoy working their way through the colours of the rainbow and if not secure can repeat tests again and try to beat their previous score. Suitable for Key Stage 1 children and Lower Key Stage 2 children.

A set of counting song cards covering five counting songs. The songs are - Five Little Speckled Frogs Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer Five Little Ducks went Swimming One Day Five Currant Buns in a Baker’s Shop Ten Fat Sausages Sizzling in a Pan Each set of cards contains a picture scene for example a set of shelves or a spaceship and pictures to be cut out for example currant buns or aliens. Children add the correct number of objects to the scene then sing the song and take objects away. There is also a space for children to fill in the missing number or name. These cards can be laminated to use again. Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children