Worksheet to explore the themes of ‘trusting in God’ in the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den. Children are able to write ‘what happens next’ in the story whilst also thinking and recording why Daniel could trust God, and what they might have felt being in his shoes. All pictures drawn by me!
Worksheet helping children to practice making the sign of the cross and thinking about what it means. Suitable for lower ability children or EYFS, with stretch challenge for children of a higher ability. Suitable for Reception, Year 1 or Year 2. All pictures hand drawn by me!
Worksheet ideal for KS1 work on seasons and tree types. Children can colour/draw the leaves on deciduous trees through the seasons, and then draw/colour the leaves on an evergreen tree. They then have the opportunity to explain how evergreen trees are different to deciduous trees.
An evaluation sheet for pupils to fill in each week which gets them thinking about their learning, behaviour and what they want to work on next week. Worked brilliantly with my Year 2 class, and great evidence of growth mindset in learning.
Hand-drawn (by me!) engaging, editable worksheet where children can draw Jonah and record what he might have been thinking/feeling inside the belly of the whale. Perfect for KS1 or SEN in older years.
Three worksheets to help children imagine and describe what the Great Fire of London would have felt like. Encourages children to use their senses and imagination to think of adjectives to describe it. Differentiated with varying levels of scaffolding. Picture hand drawn by me.
Notebook, hide-the-verbs activity and worksheet included.
My year one class loved this lesson - I hid the bossy verbs around the playground and the children had to find them all and do exactly as Little Miss Bossy instructs! We came back into the classroom and they thought of their own , recording on the worksheet, then came up with bossy verb sentences in talk partners.
This led very nicely onto our work writing instructions about making Pumpkin Soup (eg. Cut up the pumpkin; boil the soup; blend the soup etc).
LO: to examine the importance of diet, health and exercise for human survival.
Lesson plan, presentation and three activities to teach the importance of diet, health and exercise for human survival.
Activities include:
food and drink picture sort (into groups relating to diet)
fill in the food group pyramid
letter from someone with an unhealthy lifestyle to respond with advice
My year 6 class had a brilliant lesson - very interactive and engaging. Really got them discussing and thinking about what being healthy really is.
Presentation to support Year 2 children in writing a recount about their Christmas Holidays - focusing on the inclusion of conjuctions, time connectives and expanded noun phrases. Includes a model.
PDF and editable version included.
A brilliant teamwork based DT lesson/afternoon for Year 2+. Powerpoint to lead lesson (inc. youtube video link) with design worksheet also attached.
Learning objective: to design and create a model of a bridge.
In lesson children were encouraged to design a bridge individually, then get into groups with big A2 sheets bring their ideas together into one design for makeable model. They then presented ideas back to the class. Finally they had a go at constructing their bridges out of junk modelling materials and rolled up newspapers. We tested them at the end and rated them on appearance and durability!
Children LOVED lesson and pushed their skills in teamwork, problem solving, design and fair testing.
FOUR Lesson powerpoints and then follow up activity ideas (instructions in presentations) for children to have a go at showing adding in different ways. Ideal for year 1 consolidation of adding knowledge. Also includes presentation looking specifically at using the equals sign for the first time.
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Four powerpoint presentations to help support children in phase 6 phonics. This set of presentations moves children onto looking at the long and short vowel sounds, and how we can use these to help us tell when to use the double consonant in past tense spellings (eg. hop goes to hopped, hope goes to hoped).
Three differentiated worksheets encouraging children to think about what thoughts are ‘growth mindset’ thoughts and which are not. The easy activity involves the children thinking of things they can already do and what they want to learn how to do, the middle activity involves cutting and sticking thoughts in the right bubbles, and the harder activity involves children writing down some ‘growth mindset’ thoughts and some negative thoughts.
It was a great PSHE lesson that sparked lots of discussion!
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Three worksheets to support learning in year one on Christian symbols at Christmas. Most worksheets involve matching or filling in missing words, with higher sheet giving children opportunity to explain the significance of two of the symbols.
Lesson worked well, we also had the symbols stuck on the walls around the room for children to spot and discuss in talk partners. They also matched them to the Christmas story as we read it through.
Home drawn icons on a bookmark to help children remember to:
Use capital letters and full stops.
Use finger spaces
Write letters the right size
Can be used at end of writing lesson as a self-checking plenary. Helped my year 2 class out a lot!
Presentation to spark children’s imagination with a starter activity of watching a youtube clip (linked) of fireworks then recording on post-it notes describing words. Also with practice slides for composing sentences to describe.
Three differentiated worksheets to help children record adjectives also included, along with a visual aid for tables.
Four powerpoints that focus on teaching children about the past tense for phase 6 phonics. Children sat on carpet with whiteboards and composed their sentences in pairs or on their own, then went on to do some follow up work in their phonics books.