What is a mermaid? Information on Hans Christian Andersen and The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, as well as the Disney animation.

A short PowerPoint to introduce comic strips to children. Looking at the different features such as caption boxes, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, action words. Links well with the topic of Superheroes.

A PowerPoint book all about The Avengers (original line-up). Captain America, Thor, Incredible Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp, and Iron Man. PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

A PowerPoint book all about the original Justice League of America: Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, The Flash & Batman. PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

Topic word cards created to be used in group discussion or a story sack activity, so children can read the words and learn how to write/spell them. Designed to go alongside a topic on Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. Features pumpkin and squash images and well as the animal characters and cooking utensils used. Good for topics on autumn or Halloween

A short introduction to describing pumpkins, both on the outside and inside. Activity inspired by A-Z Teacher Stuff (lessons atoz) to make a non fiction pumpkin book. Children to write words, phrases or sentences to describe the outside and inside of the pumpkin. Can cut orange wool and seeds to stick on the inside of the book to illustrate.

PowerPoint of What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson (apologies about some of the pictures) along with the shared reading prompts from the Scottish Book Trust.\nI created this as the ladybird was just too hard for a whole class of kids to spot from the picture book!

PowerPoint looking at the rhyming names and descriptions of characters. Hairy Maclary, Bottomley Potts, Hercules Morse, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney, Schnitzel von Krumm. Children to attempt to create their own rhyming names and descriptions of differing dog breeds.

A non-fiction PowerPoint all about Pumpkins. Learn about the fruit, how it can be cooked and Jack-O-Lanterns.

A PowerPoint with all of the first 100 HFWs listed in Phase order. Also set up under Custom Slide Show so you can just display one Phase as needed.

A PowerPoint lesson plan designed to be used to introduce children to The story of my name activity/homework. Includes information on how and why names are given. Please see my other resources 'The story of my name' - homework activity and parent letter.

On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. Designed as a printable book or e-book on the IWB. Nice bright illustrations to accompany the poem (some courtesy of linda29 - thank you). Designed to be used with my PowerPoint plan on Nonsense Rhymes and Poems. Please rate the resource.

Thanks to Miss Chief for some content. A 5 day lesson plan PowerPoint based on nonsense nursery rhymes and poems. 3 days looking at On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, focusing on rhyming words, repetition, alliteration.

A homework idea, life cycle of the Phoenix, and a Phoenix myth dictionary. All to support the Hamilton Y1 Literacy plan on Narrative. Please also see my Ppt file on the legend of the Phoenix story to help introduce the concept.

Child friendly APP sheets for Reading Level 1 & 2, Writing level 1 é 2, Numeracy level 1 é 2, Science level 1. A4 sized for assessment folder, A5 sized can be stuck into exercise books for self-assessed APP

Lists of spellings to be stuck into LSCWC books for weekly practice. Week 1 - /ar/ Week - /ee/ Week 3 - /ear/ Week 4 - /air/ Week 5 - /igh/

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /igh/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /air/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /ear/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /ee/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.