I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
This resource relates to adverbs of purpose or reason and is a basic introduction to one word or two word adverbs of purpose.
The sentences are simple and uses common adverbs of purpose. Ideal if you want to do a recap of adverbs of purpose.
It consists of posters or anchor charts which you can display and/or use to teach with.
Content:
Teacher Notes
12 Posters or anchor charts
22 Flashcards of adverbs of purpose (single words and phrases)
Set of 4 worksheets with answers
The worksheet activities comprise of
finding and underlining adverbs of purpose;
completing sentences with appropriate adverbs;
multiple choice question worksheets;
writing ‘why’ questions and working with a partner to answer the questions with adverbs of purpose/reason.
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A set of detailed lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations with supporting worksheets for Year 1 and Year 2.
This product is useful if your class is visiting a church. So that the children know what to expect, this resource highlights features inside and outside a church.
UPDATED on 13th May 2019 with 3 new additional activities for early finishers. Worksheets now have answer keys.
Pictures are also in black and white for the children to colour in.
Complete resource with presentations and flexible detailed lesson plans.
The lesson starts off with getting children to discuss where their special place is - a gentle starter to lead into a special place for some Christians.
Lesson 1: My Special Place
Lesson 2: Places of Worship and Special Symbols
Lesson 3: Mains features inside/outside a church
Lesson 4: My Church Visit and activity sheets - ready-made list for children to tick off what they see and draw other features of the church
Lesson 5: Follow- up to Visit - Shared writing and individual writing
Worksheets/Activities for each lesson
Word Search with Solution
List of words relating to the church - select some of the words and ask children if they know the meaning of the word(s). Ask children about some of the tricky words to spell, e.g. aisle. Some words start with 'c' as in cat but has an 's' sound, e.g. candle and ciborium.
Additional worksheets
- Word Church Mat - Children unscramble the 8 words below the pictures and write it out correctly.
- Read and match pictures to sentences worksheet - Children read the six sentences which describe church objects and then trace over the words for each picture, cut out and glue the pictures opposite the sentences.
- Differentiated Alphabetical order worksheets - children write the 10 words in ABC order and then sort out the two jumbled sentences.
Please see preview pane for words on flash cards.
File Type: PowerPoint, Word and PDF
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This maths resource relates to place value: tens and ones. Please note it is a hands on resource and the lesson plan should be used in conjunction with the presentations as there is a lesson starter presentation.
It can be used for reviewing tens and ones or teaching it from scratch, so the detailed lesson plan is flexible.
Some preparation is needed to carry out the activities such as collection of different coloured straws, elastic bands, suggested materials such as counters, unifix cubes; cut out the 1 digit number tiles for the worksheet or you can get children to select two numbers from a pile, write it down and then describe the place value - see 5. in the list below.
This product contains:
Lesson Starter PowerPoint Presentation - Counting in tens from 0 to 100 and back. Also included is the Hundred Square if you need to demonstrate counting in steps or groups of 10.
Main Lesson PowerPoint Presentation (50 Slides) together with lesson plan
Detailed Lesson Plan (Presentation slides are referred to)- Includes whole class and independent activities.
Place Value Grids - tens/ones and tens/units - for practical activities
Blank Place Value Grid
Worksheet and Cut/paste activity sheets for making 2-digit numbers.
Children choose a 1 -digit number from container 1 and another 1-digit number from container 2 to make a 2-digit number which they stick onto their worksheet and describe the number, e.g. 35 = 3 tens 5 ones; 30 + 5.
Children are taken through step-by-step of what a 2-digit number stands for and why we need zero.
Independent work is differentiated.
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You may be interested in:
Place Value: Tens and Ones - Flashcards and Displays
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/place-value-tens-and-ones-units-tens-tower-s-ones-resources-teacher-s-notes-activities-11529070
<strong>This resource is about the lost son parable relating to forgiveness. It is for whole school assembly.</strong>
It contains:
PowerPoint Presentation
Teacher’s Guide on how to conduct the assembly
Playscript of the Parable
Posters for display
Cross-curricular to Religious Studies and Citizenship.
The theme is ‘forgiveness’ based on The Parable of the Lost Son.
Learning Objective: To understand what forgiveness means.
Children are asked why we should say ‘sorry’ and understand the meaning of forgiveness and understanding.
The children are asked about their own experience of getting hurt and wanting that person to say sorry and what it feels like if they don’t apologize.
They are taken through the story and asked questions along the way.
I’ve written a playscript based on the story. You may wish to have a group of children act out the story instead of reading it on the slides. There are questions on the slides for children to think about.
This activity pack contains clock/time resources for practical activities to reinforce learning of time and having fun at the same time.
Just print out bingo cards - whole page size ready to use
Ideally print off the other resources onto cardstock, laminate and cut apart - use again and again.
Editable Call out cards
6 Clock bingo cards – showing o’clock times
20 Clock bingo cards – showing o’clock and half past times
40 Clock bingo cards – showing o’clock, half past, quarter before/after times
5 sets of Domino cards – print off, laminate, cut out - (analog/digital)
Set of clocks - to print off and ideally laminate - can use for time snap and/or sequencing time activity
Practical Activities you can set up for students to play:
Time bingo (analog clocks) use with non-permanent dry-erase pens
Clock sort – e.g. mix up the clocks and students sort clockwise the times from 1 o’ clock to 12 o’clock.
Children can play time snap – Print the larger clocks several times.
Match-up activity - Say a time and the children pick either the word card or the clock that matches that time.
Play clock dominoes (analog/digital)– reinforce reading the time.
Resources are editable.
All resources contained in a folder within a zip file - right click with mouse to open zip file and then open the folder.
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This resource is an addition to my previous pack on telling the time.
There is a PowerPoint Presentation - each slide is referred to in the lesson plans.
All lesson plans contain starter activities and lesson objectives.
This product relates to telling and writing the time using am and pm and digital clocks.
Content:
Lesson 1: Read quarter to times - children will see the long hand points to 9.
Lesson 2: Read the time at 5 minute intervals, e.g. 8.40 pm
Lesson 3: Read 24 hour analogue clock why we use am/pm
Lesson 4: Read 24 hour digital clock and convert am/pm to analogue times
Lesson 5: Time problem questions - Slides on how to approach them.
There are 5 detailed lesson plans on how you can teach the above lessons with the PowerPoint slides for whole class teaching. You can choose what you want to include from the lesson plans.
There are differentiated worksheets for each lesson. The lessons also include practical activities to reinforce the concept of time.
File Type: PowerPoint Presentation, Word and PDF formats
Pack 1 of 2 Resources can be found at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/clocks-telling-the-time-analogue-and-digital-12-hour-clock-11030239
This product teaches division focussing on sharing equally or fairly.
Sharing is usually the first step students embark on when learning division.
Aimed at: Keystage 1, and SEN
<strong>Content: </strong>
PowerPoint Presentation (22 Slides) includes practical activities, interaction of students and learn how to work out sharing problems and how to write number sentences. Also explains what each of the digits mean in a division number sentence and what the division sign means in the context of sharing.
Detailed Lesson Plan- includes learning objectives, lesson starter, main activities and plenary. All slides are referred to in the plan.
Worksheets: -
Activity 1 - 9 pages of cut/paste activities (differentiated) includes completing missing number sentences.
Activity 2 - 9 pages of cut/paste activities (differentiated) sharing between 3 people.
Additional Worksheets 1 and 2 - Solving gummie bears problem.
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This product relates to division focussing on grouping.
The lesson conveniently follows on from sharing equally. The lesson models grouping in a ‘hands on’ way.
Aimed at: Keystage 1, and SEN students.
Content:
PowerPoint Presentation (26 Slides), includes whole class activities, what grouping means and put into real life context, explaining and writing number sentences.
The meaning of the division sign is explained in a number sentence in the context of ‘grouping’.
Flexible detailed Lesson Plan - includes lesson starter (counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, lesson objectives, explains main activities and plenary.
3 sets of worksheets - includes circling groups, describing groupings, and writing number sentences.
File Type: PowerPoint Presentation, MS Word and PDF
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This product relates to the topic on The Good Samaritan.
Aimed at: Keystage 1/2
Curriculum links: Religious education, literacy and PSHE.
Additional worksheets to support children’s literacy skills.
They cover:
Differentiated reading comprehension worksheets. One of the reading comprehension worksheet is in cursive font.
Sorting jumbled sentences so they make sense and adding a full stop
Cloze activity - read text and fill in the missing words using the words from the word bank
Work on homophones - 1. Children write the correct word in the box. 2. Write sentences using the highlighted words.
Includes Answer Sheets.
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**A detailed set of resources with starter activities within the lesson plans. **
PowerPoint presentations to aid whole class teaching.
Lesson 1: Features of a clock and making a clock.
Lesson 2: Read o’clock.
Lesson 3: Read half past the hour.
Lesson 4: To know one hour later and earlier.
Lesson 5: Review o’clock, half past and one hour later/earlier with worksheets.
Lesson 6: Read quarter past.
Lesson 7: 1 min challenge on PowerPoint and My Day worksheet.
Lesson 8: Read 12 hour clock and digital clock.
Lesson 9: Time Word Problems
The lessons can be done in any order depending on what you want to teach.
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Related product: Telling the Time Pack 2
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pack-2-telling-the-time-24-hrs-analogue-and-digital-presentations-lesson-plans-worksheets-11195427
This pack relates to euros and euro cents currency.
Updated 17 May 2022 to include two versions of the original Presentation and worksheets showing the different ways euros/cents are written.
Aimed at KS1/Kindergarten/Grade 1 and ESL/EFL students.
The presentation can be used as follow-up to the first pack and builds upon the skills students have learnt previously. It still uses a step-by-step approach to teaching money but using higher value coins.
This pack contains:
<strong>A comprehensive PowerPoint Presentation (53 Slides) - divided into convenient sections. </strong>
1.Reviewing coins and their values, money exchange and using the 50c, €1 and €2 coins.
2. Using €1 and €2 euro coins. Using combination of coins to equal the value of the one euro and two euro coins.
3. Using euros and cents together - this is explained in the presentation with various whole class activities
4. Giving change from €1 and € 2 euro coins.
The Presentation also includes whole class activities and different strategies students can use to work out money problems. Students also learn to change, e.g. 125 cents to €1.25/1,25€.
**4 Flexible Lesson Plans - contains objectives, plenaries and main lesson. PowerPoint Slides are referred to in the lesson plans. **
Some preparation is required: Laminate the coin sheets, coin cards and price tags for practical tasks at tables.
<strong>Worksheets</strong>
<strong>Lesson 1</strong> - Adding up combinations of euro coins (2 worksheets).
At the Mall (2 worksheets) - adding two items. Extension adding three items.
<strong>Lesson 2</strong> - You will need the coin sheets or you can use plastic euro money. Students draw or use the laminated coins to work out different combination of coins that equal €1. Challenge: Different combination of coins that equal two euros. E.g. 50c + 20c + 20c + 10c = €1
<strong>Lesson 3</strong> - Two-part money activity Worksheets (x2).
Section A - students complete the table; Section B - students complete the addition sums.
<strong>Lesson 4</strong> - 2 Giving change activity.
Students in groups at their table. Students take turns to pick a €1 coin card and a price label. The rest of the students in the group work out the change.
Challenge: Working out change from €2. Students choose one of the yellow price labels.
Worksheets and slides are shown in the preview panes.
File Type: PowerPoint , Word and PDF format. Includes a zip with the 3 versions.
You may be interested in Money Pack 1 - Step by step introduction:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/money-euros-and-cents-presentations-lesson-plans-worksheets-activities-1-11633169
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UPDATED - Includes PDF Format of all worksheets, lesson plans and word search solutions.
This colourful resource is a detailed introduction to teaching split digraphs.
There are 5 PowerPoint Presentations - which includes whole class activities.
<strong>Each presentation focuses on a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e split digraphs. </strong>
<strong>The phonic pack also contains: </strong>
5 lesson plans - slides are referred to in the plans - includes objectives and key questions.
Differentiated activities - filling in split digraph letters, write sentences, word searches, correcting misspelt words (highlighted), e.g. hoem, tiem.
Solution to the word searches
Practical activities making split digraph words on laminated strips.
Split digraph strips, letters a-z, consonant digraphs and consonant blends - to be laminated and cut out.
Flashcards for teaching
Teacher’s Notes
If you only require worksheets only, visit:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/split-digraphs-phonics-worksheets-keystage-1-11589999
Goes well with:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phase-3-phonics-consonant-digraphs-vowel-digraphs-trigraphs-presentations-worksheets-activities-11073647
File type: Power Point, Microsoft Word and PDF
The product relates to a 10 to 15 mins assembly on The Good Samaritan.
Aimed at Foundation/Keystage 1/2.
<strong>Content:</strong>
27 Slides - PowerPoint Presentation - Telling of the parable and what it means to be a neighbour, Reflection - relate to children’s experiences of helping and being considerate and kind to everybody.
There is an optional end of assembly prayer on Slide 27.
Teacher’s Assembly Guide (2 pages) - This guides you through the assembly with extra notes. The slides are referred to.
2 Optional worksheets for post-assembly work. More able writers recount the parable and the second worksheet contains pictures to help recount the parable.
Please see the preview pane.
File Type: PowerPoint, Word and PDF.
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You may be interested in a 1 hour structured lesson on the Good Samaritan:
Presentation, Lesson Plan, Differentiated Worksheet and Cut and Paste Activities
The Parable of the Lost Son - Forgiveness
This maths pack relates to weight/mass lessons aimed at: EYFS/Year 1/2
A practical-based topic - to get children involved in comparing and weighing different objects and using vocabulary related to mass.
Three clear lesson plans:
Lesson 1 - Main Lesson - Comparing two objects
(Starter Lesson: Reviewing days of the week)
Lesson 2 - Main Lesson - Comparing two objects and then introducing a third object to find the heaviest and lightest. There is extension worksheet for the more able to compare four objects.
(Starter Lesson: Reviewing months of the year)
Lesson 3 - Main Lesson - Using uniform non-standard units to find ‘how many …’ something weighs.
(Starter Lesson: Review O’clock times and half hour times)
Each lesson plan contains learning objectives, lesson starter, main activities and plenary - questions to ask and elicit from the children to make them think about how we can find something out.
There are 3 PowerPoint Presentations on each of the topics which includes whole class lesson starters, pictures showing weighing of objects and explanations. The slides are referred to in the lesson plans.
Presentation 1 - 6 Slides
Presentation 2 - 5 Slides
Presentation 3 - 7 Slides
Slides are referred to in the lesson plans.
The main preparation needed is shown on a separate slide:
suggested objects to use for children to carrying out their activities.
Differentiated worksheets for each of the lessons.
Each lesson is 1 hour - you can adapt to suit the level of your class.
Whole lessons now contained in a file.
Extra New worksheets - Updated 20 January 2020:
Worksheet(x5) (cut/paste): Comparing two objects - Children look at the two pictures and then cut out either heavier or lighter to complete each sentence.
Worksheet (x4) (fill in blank space): Comparing three objects - Children look at three pictures and then write the name of the object or animal which is heaviest or lightest.
Worksheet (x4) (cut/paste): Arranging three objects above the words ‘heavy’ ‘heavier’ and ‘heaviest’ and ‘light’, ‘lighter’ and ‘lightest’. Children cut out a set of pictures of their choice and arrange them in the appropriate order above the words. Please see example sheet in preview pane.
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Goes well with: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/numeracy-counting-and-ordering-shapes-and-measures-lessons-1-to-5-presentations-worksheets-10003068
File type: PowerPoint , MS Word and PDF
Images are sourced from Microsoft clipart.
This maths resource relates to place value: tens and ones and is ideal for whole class and small group settings.
Use as a lesson starter, plenary or for a practical lesson on tens and ones.
Aimed at: Keystage 1
It contains resources to enable the educator carry out activities to reinforce children’s learning of place value.
I have suggested 7 activities in the Teacher’s Note. You can adapt to suit the abilities of your students.
The ultimate learning objective is for the students to understand the importance of place value relating to 2-digit numbers.
Included:
Teacher’s Notes (includes description and pictures of activities)
Digit cards numbers 1 to 120 inclusive
Display cards of 1-digit numbers 1- 9 and single block of cubes
Display cards of 2-digit multiplies of 10 - 90 numerals and tens tower blocks
Title cards for tens, ones and units
Cards displaying numbers and words together, e.g. 2 tens to 9 tens and 1 ones to 9 ones (these are also used in suggested activities)
Pictures of tens tower blocks from 1 ten to 9 tens for activities
Tens and Ones to laminate and cut out
What am I? (to be laminated onto card)
Activities:-
Counting in tens using tens tower blocks
Matching activities
Sorting tens and ones
Making numbers with tens and ones
Extension to higher numbers - 20 to 99
Examples of Questions asked
How many tens are you holding up?
Make 12 with tens and ones cards
What does 1 stand for in the 2-digit number 16? What does 6 stand for?
Show different tens and ones and ask What am I?
This can be a standalone activity resource or combine with the tens and ones lesson:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/place-value-tens-and-ones-units-presentations-lesson-plan-practical-activities-11529117
File Type: Word format and PDF
All About Me booklet.
Ideal for Year 1/2, ESL, EFL and EAL students.
Teacher’s Notes included.
Use it during the first week back at school and find out about the children you’ll be teaching and children can find out about each other’s family and interests.
The front page of the booklet, which is editable, comes in 7 border colours: plain white, blue, red, yellow, purple, green and grey.
On the front page is a doodle box for children to doodle away and make their cover unique.
The rest of the pages are for children to:
do a self portrait
write their age
write who they live with
draw the people they live with
write three favourite things they like to do
write and draw their favourite animal, TV show, colour and food
A page about ‘More about me’ - children write a special day they like to celebrate, a place to visit, favourite subjects and what they want to be when they grow up.
Last two pages are differentiated - Children might want to share some news, perhaps what they did during the summer or half term break.
Hope you enjoy using the booklet.
You can use this resource to present in an assembly (10-15 mins) or as a standalone lesson as I have included worksheets.
It is editable to suit learning abilities of your pupils. Remember to ‘Save As’, give a new name to the Presentation before editing.
You can change the date of Mother’s Day as it changes each year.
Content:
• Assembly/Lesson Notes
• 19 Slides – PowerPoint Presentation
• Mother’s Day card to colour in and add additional designs
• Worksheet 1 – Pupils draw four things and write simple sentences of what their mums do for them.
• Worksheet 2 – Pupils draw four things and write simple sentences of what they will do on Mother’s Day to make it special
• Worksheet 3 – Pupils complete a cloze activity.
Please see Assembly Notes – There is pupil interaction.
Meaning of Mother’s Day
Traditional Simnel Cake now linked to Easter
History of Mother’s Day and the ‘Mother’ Church
Children think about how they can make their mums feel special on the day
When USA and Mexico celebrate their Mother’s Day
Geography link – You could ask pupils to locate USA, Canada, Australia, UK and Mexico on the map as they are all on different continents.
Simple Ready-made card This is for some pupils who are reluctant to design a card. See preview pane.
Print off the sheet onto card or good quality paper.
Pupils can decorate and colour in and add their name at the bottom.
Then fold along the line to look like a card.
Second sheet with the heart should be printed on normal paper.
Tell pupils to decorate the sheet with the large heart on and then cut out to stick onto the front of the card.
3 Optional Worksheets to use after assembly or lesson.
Worksheet 1 – Pupils draw four things and write simple sentences of what their mums or foster mum or gran do for them.
Worksheet 2 – Pupils draw four things and write simple sentences of what they will do to make Mother’s Day special. For example, he/she could draw themselves giving mum a tray with breakfast in bed and then write a sentence correctly punctuated.
Additional Worksheet 3 – This worksheet is in two parts.
There is a gap-filling activity with the words in the word bank.
The second part is finding which day of the week is missing and then writing it.
File Type: Editable PowerPoint and Word docs, also in PDF format .
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This resource now includes new worksheets and updated presentations. This science unit on plants and flowering plants and life cycle of a bean plant and sunflower comprises 6 lessons. There are 6 PowerPoint presentations, lesson plans, and differentiated worksheets.
Teachers Notes (2 pages)
Content
• Lesson 1 PowerPoint re: Flowers (17 Slides) with whole class activities.
• Lesson 2 PowerPoint re: Bean Plant (14 Slides) with whole class activities.
• Lesson 3 PowerPoint re: Fruit and their Seeds (10 Slides) with whole class activities.
• Lesson 4 PowerPoint re: Practical lesson on planting a bean to grow a bean plant (6 Slides)
• Lesson 5 PowerPoint re: Life Cycle of a Sunflower (12 Slides) with whole class activity.
• Lesson 6 PowerPoint re: Seed Germination (11 Slides) with whole class activity.
• 6 Flexible lesson plans outlining learning objectives, and main activities. PowerPoint slides are referred to in each lesson plan.
• Differentiated Worksheets for each lesson
Lesson 1: Looking at different plants that flower and understand that grass and trees are plants. There is a flower hunt activity and a practical activity of different kinds of seeds.
Two activities in Lesson 1
- Going on a Flower Hunt.
- My Seeds Sheet activity - Students look at 4 types of seeds and draw the flowers of that seed - example sheet included.
Lesson 2: Know parts of a plant – Definition of words; Sequencing and labelling a bean plant and labelling a flower - Writing activity, cut and paste sequencing, ordering sentence strips in the correct sequence of a growing plant worksheets.
Lesson 3: Fruits and their seeds. Learn that many fruits contain seeds.
Observational activity (2 worksheets) - drawing fruits and their seeds.
Label an apple; choose correct words to label pictures; Match up whole fruits to their halves by drawing lines.
Lesson 4: Children grow their own bean plant - Activity based. Monitor growth. Ready-made recording worksheets; My Bean Plant Preparation write-up.
Lesson 5: Learn life cycle of a sunflower, and sequencing growth.
Worksheets: Labelling a sunflower; Cut/paste activities; Writing activity – looking at a life cycle illustration and describing it in words; Sequencing sentence strips.
Lesson on Seeds: Life cycle of a seed and some information on mushrooms which do not grow from seeds. Students also learn about different types of germination.
Worksheets: Recap Quick Question Sheet (Students can work individually or in pairs); Text on seed germination life cycle cloze activity – students read and fill in the gaps using words from the word box.
Please see US Version
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I have uploaded two sets of lower case letters a to z to be printed onto card paper and laminate.
A lovely addition to your Alphabet/Phonic station.
Aimed at EYFS/Year 1, EFL/ESL students
Children practise moulding dough on top of the letters with dough/ plasticine.
Children practise writing inside the letters with different colour drywipe pens.
Print out as many times as you like - children can draw pictures beginning with the name of the letters.
Opportunity to use as a teaching resource showing children how to form lower case letters.
Hope this is useful.
For forming capital letters see free resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/alphabet-capital-letters-formation-and-recognition-11692819
This resource relates to Easter and contains 5 flexible lesson plans with PowerPoint Presentations for each lesson.
The Easter story is finally told in lesson 5 - You can start with any lesson.
1. Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday -Literacy link on Instructions for making pancake and what Shrove Tuesday means for some Christians.
Worksheets - Sequence pictures (differentiated)
2. Why Christians celebrate Lent and the meaning of Ash Wednesday (3 worksheets)
3. Why we eat Easter eggs and hot cross buns and their link to Easter. (2 worksheets)
4. 3 Special Days in Holy Week (Palm Sunday/Maundy Thursday/Easter Friday (2 worksheets)
5. The Easter story Part 1 and 2 told via Presentations -whole class activities included and worksheet. The story is told by Granddad Joe and Calvin asks some questions. There is also some narration.
Worksheets and activities on all lessons.
All editable and printable.
Hope you enjoy this resource.