This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill. It bundles The Witch’s Boy Novel Study with a STEAM packs about designing and making a catapult and creating a clay pot with which to hold magic. ABOUT THE NOVEL: When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Across the forest that borders Ned’s village, Áine, the daughter of the Bandit King, is haunted by her mother’s last words: “The wrong boy will save your life, and you will save his.” When the Bandit King comes to steal the magic Ned’s mother, a witch, is meant to protect, Áine and Ned meet. Can they trust each other long enough to cross a dangerous enchanted forest and stop the war about to boil over between their two kingdoms? **ABOUT THE RESOURCE: **This pack includes Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (stuttering, witch, goat, wolves, lynx, falcon, gallows), and STEAM enrichment activities where children investigate, design, make, and evaluate their own catapults and clay pots according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology and Art and Design objectives. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable Fib Novel Study. It bundles the novel study with two STEAM packs related to Vikings: Vikings: Design a T-Shirt & Explanation Text and Vikings: Battle Modifications with littleBits. ABOUT THE NOVEL: “What is the Unbelievable FIB?” That’s the question eleven-year-old Prudence Potts discovers on a baffling card no one else in Middleton–except ABE, a new kid at school with a knack for solving riddles–seems to see. Then a mysterious man asks for ABE and Pru’s help investigating mythical beings infiltrating the town, and that’s just the first of many things Pru finds hard to believe. Soon Pru and ABE discover another world beneath their quiet town, where Viking gods lurk just out of sight. And when the pair find themselves locked in a battle against a dangerously clever enemy, they must race to secure the Eye of Odin, source of all knowledge–and the key to stopping a war that could destroy both human and immortal realms. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Thor, Loki, Odin, runes, Vikings), and STEAM enrichment activities where children design Viking battle modifications with littleBits and design a tshirt using Viking symbols. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. It bundles The Girl Who Drank the Moon Novel Study with STEAM packs about designing and making a machine with littleBits; creating your own paper; and making a flip book of Fyrian’s growth. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge–with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . . The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Witch’s Boy Novel Study. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (bog, dragon, geyser, nebula, botany, moon, swallow), and STEAM enrichment activities where children investigate, design, make, and evaluate their own littleBits machines, paper, and flip books according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology, Science, and Art and Design objectives. **Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download. **

This resource has been designed to be done alongside Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but can also be done independently of the novel study. Children will design survival inventions to withstand the environment of a remote island after a shipwreck before studying the organisms on the island by creating a field guide. There are also opportunities for narrative and non-fiction writing. Included Outcomes (also sold separately and in paired bundles): Evaluate a survival invention Explanation text of a survival invention Create a field guide for island organisms Information text about an island organism Narrative writing about being stranded **Link also included to digital file for editing and sharing on learning platforms such as Google Classroom and Seesaw.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill. It bundles The Mostly True Story of Jack Novel Study with STEAM packs about designing and making a book and a science investigation about corn. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . . When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for quite a long time. When he arrives, he begins to make actual friends for the first time in his life-but the town bully beats him up and the richest man in town begins to plot Jack’s imminent, and hopefully painful, demise. It’s up to Jack to figure out why suddenly everyone cares so much about him. Back home he was practically… invisible. The Mostly True Story of Jack is a stunning debut novel about things broken, things put back together, and finding a place to belong. The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Witch’s Boy Novel Study. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (scars, parrot, San Francisco, Iowa, corn, grain elevator, bioluminescence, seeds), and STEAM enrichment activities where children investigate, design, make, and evaluate their own books and design their own science investigation about corn and seeds with variables according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology, Science, and Art and Design objectives. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download. You might also like: The Mostly True Story of Jack Novel Study

This resource is meant to be used by children in Key Stage 2 (English objectives pitched to Years 5 and 6) related to the Ancient Kingdom of Benin. Children will first learn about the art that has made the study of the kingdom significant, as well as the removal of the art by the British forces in 1897 when they annexed the kingdom by force. Children will have to think critically about the art and who has rights to it, before writing a persuasive text that either argues that the British Museum should be able to retain the art, or that the government of Nigeria should be able to have the art back. Sequence of Sessions: - About and location of Ancient Benin - Different examples of art from Ancient Benin - Use timeline to show changes in Benin trading before and after meeting different merchants from Europe - Understand the events of the annexation of the Kingdom of Benin and its art - Use formal language to plan a persuasive writing piece - Incorporate formal language into writing frame for or against returning the art A digital file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw is available by following the link provided with download.

This resource is a BUNDLE (260 pages) of 12 STEAM packs that I have put together for Lower Key Stage 2, all following objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. Some are pulled from other thematic packs, while others are sold as stand alone packs in the Connecting Curriculum shops. They include packs for littleBits, MakeyMakey, Scratch, food, textiles, and light. You can check out all resources offered in my catalogue here: Connecting Curriculum Catalogue You can view the packs sold separately here: Mission to Mars: Design a Mars Rover with littleBits Working Scientifically with littleBits for Years 3 and 4 Design a Video Game Controller with MakeyMakey Working Scientifically with MakeyMakey in Years 3 & 4 Design A Video Game on Scratch Mission to Mars: Design a Mission Badge (e-Textile) Working Scientifically with Cookies for Years 3 & 4 Working Scientifically with Energy Bites for Years 3 & 4 Working Scientifically I can Statements for Years 3 & 4 The Magic Box Poetry Mini-Unit Working Scientifically with Crayons for Years 3 & 4 - STEAM Unit Light Investigation: Design and Make a Light Maze You might also like: All Things littleBits STEAM BUNDLE

This resource is a BUNDLE (444 pages) of 18 STEAM packs that I have put together for Upper Key Stage 2 all following objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. Some are pulled from other thematic packs, while others are sold as stand alone packs in the Connecting Curriculum shops, including textiles, evolution and adaptations, prototyping with littleBits and MakeyMakey, food technology and computer science with Scratch. You can check out all resources offered in my catalogue here: Connecting Curriculum Catalogue INCLUDED STEAM with littleBits Mission to Mars: Design a Mars Rover with littleBits Working Scientifically with littleBits for Year 5 and 6 Vikings: Battle Modifications with littleBits STEAM with Textiles Mayan Civilisation Study - Art & DT Focus (Textiles) Mission to Mars: Design a Mission Badge (e-Textile) STEAM Curriculum Working Scientifically I can Statements for Years 5 & 6 STEAM with MakeyMakey and Scratch Working Scientifically with MakeyMakey in Years 5 & 6 Design A Video Game on Scratch Other STEAM packs Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms Ancient Benin Study: Create a Thumb Piano Design a Survival Invention The Heart - Build an Anatomical Model STEAM with Food Working Scientifically with Cookies for Years 5 & 6 Conquest: Diet of a Conquistador (Science & DT) Working Scientifically with Energy Bites for Years 5 & 6