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.
39 Slide PowerPoint Presentation on sound and the practical tasks children can undertake.
The Teacher’s Note sets out how you can introduce the topic and suggestions on how to organize the activities and list resources needed.
You can organize a carousel system (different workstations) - so each table deals with a different aspect on sound or you can do a whole class lesson on one aspect of sound week by week, ending the term on a sound carousel for assessment.
The resource comprises:
PowerPoint Presentation – Review Work on sounds and contains background information on how the piano, guitar and wind instruments work and how we hear.
Teacher’s Notes (3 pages, excluding credit page)
14 Activity Cards (You can laminate for durability), cut out for each table. The cards contain questions to prompt the children to carry out their tasks.
There are ready-made investigations sheets and sample investigations sheets.
Numbered Table cards
Vocabulary cards (See preview pane)
Worksheet on How We Hear
Worksheet on Volume and Pitch
Experiments:
Vibration involving moving objects- e.g. children can experiment with a tuning forks and water and ping-pong balls, rice on drums.
Sound and Pitch - e.g. use empty bottles filled with different levels of liquid to produce different pitches and also blow horizontally along the edge to produce sounds similar to wind instruments; and/or experiment with guitar strings –shortening and lengthening the string to produce different sounds;
Listening devices - experiment with different string telephones by changing variables such as type of string and material of cups;
Blocking Out Sound activities- Children can make ear defenders out of margarine tubs packed with different materials or they can wrap the sound source like a buzzer or alarm clock with different materials to see which is best at muffling the sound.
Optional - Musical Instruments - Children can make musical instruments or use the ones they may have made in previous lessons - to adjust how they use it or even make it better - can experiment with various aspects of sound.
Outside activity - How sound gets fainter as you travel further away - Use a sound source like a buzzer.
There are instructions to make a simple balloon drum, a packing tape drum, comb kazoo and a guitar.
US Version Available.
Goes well with:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sounds-how-humans-and-animals-hear-musical-instruments-our-voice-plans-presentations-activities-11242250
UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES MAY 2019
There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations. Worksheets and practical activities for whole group teaching. Please see Preview Panes.
The pack consists of:
-Sound and how sound travels including sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume;
-The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens;
-How we hear;
-How some animals hear;
-How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and
-The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc.
19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3 audio)
Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds.
Activity: students are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other students decide on vocal sound effects to add.
Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity.
Lesson 3 - This is more practical and students plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc.
Lesson 4: This is about how we ear (also video youtube link - Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid).
There are worksheet activities and Listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations.
Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Students: make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning how sound travels to the ear via the string attached to the plastic cups. Students test different cups and length of strings.
Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities: Students work with a partner to complete their worksheets with missing words.
Lesson 7: Investigation - Explores sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source - Sounds for Kids
All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves.
All lessons contained in a .zip file - PowerPoint, PDF and MS Word files.
This is a US version. Please see UK version
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UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES - May 2019
There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations . Worksheets and practical activities for whole class teaching.
This resource is about:-
-Sound and how sound travels to include sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume;
-The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens;
-How we hear;
-How some animals hear;
-How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and
-The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc.
19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3)
Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds.
Activity - children are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other children decide on vocal sound effects to add.
Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity.
Lesson 3 - This is more practical and children plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc.
Lesson 4: This is about how we ear.
Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid).
There are worksheet activities and listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations.
Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Children - to make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning about how sound travels to the ear via a medium.
Children also investigate sound via different types of cups (sizes, material) and the length of the string).
Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities- children work with a partner to complete their worksheets which contain missing words.
Lesson 7: Loud sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source -
All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves.
Files: PowerPoint, MS Word and PDF.
US Version
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This resource contains data and graphing relating to pictograms, bar charts, block graphs and tally charts and tables. It also includes lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and worksheet activities.
In line with the NC 2014 - Making and using pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables.
There is a PowerPoint Presentation on each lesson.
Lesson Plans contain:-
Oral/Mental Starters
Main activities
Plenaries (Recap session)
Lesson Plan 1: Pictograms - Children read and create pictograms - Differentiated worksheet activities and question sheets.
Lesson Plan 2: Children create and read block diagrams- worksheet activities on block graphs and question sheets.
Lesson Plan 3: Children read and create tally Charts and data tables. Children will incorporate what they have learnt so far tally and read tables in order to create a pictogram and block graph. - Differentiated worksheet activities.
Lesson Plan 4: Bar Charts (vertical and horizonal) - Children read and answer questions on bar charts and learn to interpret them; produce a bar chart from a table - Zoo Animals.
Surveys on Favourite Fruit, Flavours of Ice cream, Favourite Pets , How Children Travel to School and Favourite Vegetables.
Worksheets and Presentations are editable and printable.
Resources 1 and 2 - Best to print off, laminate and cut out for repeated use.
Now includes PDF versions.
US version
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pictograms-block-graphs-tally-chart-tables-bar-charts-presentations-worksheets-11233470
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St. Valentine-themed Data Handling Resources: Tally Charts, Tables, Pictograms, Block Graphs, Bar Charts , Presentations, Worksheets and Activities
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.
UPDATED: February 5, 2019 with Worksheet 3.
This resource is part of Tell the Time (1) which has now been updated with this Lesson 9 resource. You may wish to buy the complete pack, i.e. Lessons 1 to 9.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pack-1-telling-the-time-analogue-digital-12-hr-clock-presentations-lesson-plans-and-worksheets-11030239
This is being sold separately as there have already been sales before the update.
This is Lesson 9 only and includes:-
15 Slides - Presentation on how to deal with word problems
Lesson Plan
3 Differentiated worksheets on o’clock times, half past and quarter past the hour and later/earlier time problems and now 5 minutes time for the more able.
Worksheet 1 - 7 questions
Worksheet 2 - (2 pages) - 9 questions
Worksheet 3 - (2 pages) - 6 word problems cut/paste activities.
Variety of questions to get the children thinking.
All worksheets, lesson plan and presentation in one zip for ease of downloading.
For personal and single classroom use only.
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 comprehensive resource contains groups of word families /onset and rime.
There are PowerPoint Presentations to teach onset and rime word families which contain:
Whole class teaching via the Presentations , e.g. saying the onset and rime and seeing why they rhyme.
You can extend the lesson e.g. which two pictures rhyme bud/bed/red which can be played with the picture cards.
There is a Teachers’ Guide on suggestions on how to use this resource.
The Picture Cards and Word Cards should be laminated and cut out for continued use.
Lots of activities for children to do:
Matching words to pictures and vice versa with the laminated cut out picture/word cards
Cut/paste activities to sort onset/rime word families
Sorting into boxes - read words below using phonological knowledge to sort words
Write simple captions for the pictures and then color in, eg. rat on a cat, dog on a log using key sight words , a, an, the and on.
Worksheet - write initial phoneme to complete word
Worksheet - write ending of rime to complete each word
Onset/rime covered: -at, -ad, -ag, -an, -et, -en, -eg, -ed, -ot, -og, -in, -ig, -ug, -un, -ip, -ut,
-ap, -op, -ay, -it -ox, and additional resources for -um, -ud, -ob, -ub, -ix, -od, -on and -am
All resources are printable, editable and can be adapted to suit your class.
Learning aim: Recognise and produce rhyming words.
File Type: Word and PowerPoint contained in a .zip file
You may be interested in the bundle:
www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-onset-and-rime-activity-bundle-11576490
CVC word families onset and rime worksheets and PowerPoint Presentations.
You can see sample Presentations and worksheets in the preview pane. All the worksheets have the same format for each onset/rime.
Each of the 7 Presentations contains 17 Slides.
This comprehensive resource contains groups of word families - onset and rime.
<strong>There are PowerPoint Presentations to teach the word families which contain: </strong>
Whole class teaching via the Presentations , e.g. saying the onset and rime and seeing why they rhyme.
You can extend the lesson e.g. which two pictures rhyme bed/red can be played with the picture cards.
There are Teachers’ Guides on suggestions on how to use this resource.
The Picture Cards and Word Cards should be laminated and cut out for repeated use.
<strong>Activities for students to do:</strong>
Matching words to pictures and vice versa with the laminated cut out picture/word cards
Cut/paste activities to sort onset/rime word families
Sorting into boxes - read words below using phonological knowledge to sort words
Write simple captions for the pictures and then colour in, eg. rat on a cat, dog on a log using key sight words , a, an, the ,on and others.
Worksheet - write initial phoneme to complete word
Worksheet - write ending of rime to complete each word
<strong>Onset/rime covered: -at, -ad, -ag, -an, -et, -en, -eg, -ed, -ot, -og, -in, -ig, -ug, -un, -ip, -ut,
-ap, -op, -ay, -it, ox, um, -ob, -ub, -od, -ud, -ix, -on and -am. </strong>
File Type: Word format and PowerPoint held in a .zip file for convenience.
All resources are printable, editable and can be adapted to suit your class.
Learning aim: Recognise phoneme/grapheme connection and produce rhyming words.
Updated to included b/w worksheets and number lines clipart.
This mixed bag maths resource pack contains:-
5 Flexible Lesson Plans
5 PowerPoint Presentations.
Number line 0-10
Number line 0-20.
Worksheets to go with each of the lessons
Content of lessons:
Lesson 1: Addition with number line up to 10; extension up to 20 for more able children.
To use number line to work out addition sums.
Lesson 2: Subtraction with number line up to 10; extension to 20 for more able children.
To use number line to work out subtraction sums.
Lesson 3: Money activities - recognising coins and using exact value to pay for items.
Extension work adding two items together up to 20p.
To recognise coin values and use exact coins to pay for items.
Lesson 4: Counting in twos. Worksheet activities on this. Gap filling number sequences and counting in two worksheets.
Counting in twos - money worksheet 2p.
To recognise number sequences and count in twos.
Lesson 5: Simple word maths problem for children to solve. Worksheets differentiated.
To solve simple maths problems using addition or subtraction operations.
Learning objectives, starter activites and main lessons are in the lesson plans.
US Version
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mixed-bag-math-addition-subtraction-to-20-money-skip-count-by-2-solve-math-problems-5-lessons-11153912
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Aimed at Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1.
This English Language Arts resource includes:-
PowerPoint Presentation on all the lessons - the reading text is on PowerPoint with audio.
Optional - click on the icon to listen to the story.
Presentation for whole class teaching including whole class exercises.
Also includes:-
English Language Arts Plan contains 5 lessons focusing on the short story (lesson starter and plenaries).
Activities:-
- Reading comprehension questions - involves speaking/listening and reading/writing.
- Capitalization and punctuation at the end of a sentence
- Sentence activity
- Sorting jumbled words (word scramble) used in the story
- Focus on use of adjectives to write interesting stories
- Writing simple sentences
- Creative writing activity
- Labeling pictures using adjectives
- Reading texts and illustrating
- Word search
- Differentiated worksheets and activities
All resources are editable and printable.
Addresses:
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RF.1.A
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RF.1.4 and RF.1.4.A
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RL.1.1
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RL.1.2
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RL.1.7
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.W.1.3
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.SL.1.2
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L.1.2
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L.1.2.B
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L.1.1.F
File Type: Word and PowerPoint
All images royalty free from Microsoft clipart.
This product contains a mixed bag of 1 week's math activities.
5 flexible detailed lesson plans with PowerPoint Presentations and worksheets/activities
Whole class activities are within the PowerPoint:-
Lesson 1: Counting and ordering up to 5.
More able counting and ordering up to 10
Lesson 2: Ordering numbers up to 10 and missing number track activities.
Lesson 3: Describing 2D Shapes and activities - shape snap game.
Lesson 4: Adding 1 more and 2 more and worksheets.
Lesson 5: Comparing lengths - long and short, and using the vocabulary longer than and shorter than.
The lessons can be taught in any order. Each lesson plan contains learning objectives and desired outcomes.
In addition to the sheet of circles to make the caterpillars, the circles are also saved as clipart in .png format so that you can enlarge or reduce the sizes.
Addresses:
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4B
CCSS.Math.Content.K.MD.A.2
CCSS.Math.Content.MD.A.2
CCSS.Math.Content.K.MD.B.3
CCSS,Math.Content.K.G.A.1
CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.2 and K.G.A.3
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.5
UK Version
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mixed-bag-maths-count-ordering-2d-shapes-and-measures-5-lessons-presentations-worksheets-eyfs-ks1-10003068
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These worksheets are for pre-kindergarten/kindergarten.
Keywords: penny, pennies, coin, coins, nickel, nickels, dime, dimes.
Children will come across money in real life, i.e. in the candy store or supermarket.
It is an introduction to counting money in pennies up to 10 cents.
There is also a worksheet on counting pennies and nickels up to 10 cents.
Worksheets get progressively harder counting pennies, nickels and dimes up to 20 cents.
Worksheet just on nickels and dimes up to 20 cents.
Learning objectives: To identify the one cent coin.
To identify a nickel
To count up to 10.
To identify a dime
To count up to 20.
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This product contains:-
• Days of the week
• Months of the Year
• Birthday wall display
• Seasons display – Plain color background and background scenery
Print off (you can enlarge them), laminate and display on walls.
You can create a ‘Seasons’ display table and lay out all the things associated with that season, e.g. in the fall (leaves, acorns, Thanksgiving basket).
Birthday wall display (editable) – Just type in child’s name in the PowerPoint Slide and print off.
Alternatively, you can print off the PDF format and use blu tac or velcro to stick the students name on the birthday display.
File Type: Zip folder containing Word and PDF files - just right click on zip file and extract.
All pictures used are in the public domain
This product contains information about Sikhism and what the five Ks symbolizes.
Sikhism is classed as one of the big six of the world religions.
There is a Powerpoint Presentation to support whole class teaching.
The topic relates to a sense of belonging.
Three worksheets - Worksheet 3 also includes a fact finding activity - children can find out more about religion.
This product could be used as a project and create a project display during diwali festival.
Keywords:
kirpan
kesh
kachera
kanga or Kangha
kara
The children will learn about what it means to be a Sikh in the community and what it means to wear the same uniform and the rituals of becoming a Sikh.
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You may be interested in the Sikhism booklet for review and/or assessment:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sikhism-and-the-5-ks-non-fiction-reading-comprehension-assessment-revision-11330056
This phonic resource comprises a PowerPoint Presentation on:
Consonant digraphs - ch, sh, th,ng
Vowel digraphs/trigraphs:
- ai, ee, igh, oa;
-oo (long/short), ar, or;
- ur, ow, oi, er
- ear, air, ure
- Combinations of digraphs- e.g. chair, torch, coach
- Answers in pdf. Reading Sentences
- Wordsearches with answers
- There is a reading text on PowerPoint for whole class reading activity.
- True or false questions on PowerPoint relating to the text.
- Drawing pictures to go with simple sentences.
- Reading text and choosing the correct word to insert in the sentence.
- Missing graphemes and jumbled words activities.
- Reading captions and sentences.
- Blank handwriting sheet - img031.pdf
All resources can be adapted.
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Onset and Rime - 21 sets
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/phonics-onset-and-rime-word-families-rhyme-powerpoint-presentations-activities-and-worksheets-11182862
Making Plurals
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/spellings-writing-singular-nouns-into-plural-nouns-and-vice-versa-presentations-and-worksheets-11177496
This is a follow on from Phase Two: Sets 1 to 5 to complete the alphabet letters and sounds. These phonemes were taught: s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h
b f,ff l,ll ss
Phonemes included in this product are: Set 6 - j v w x and Set 7- y z,zz qu
Whole class teaching in PowerPoint.
Each slide can be printed off and taught in group sessions.
Resources can be used in letter and sound revision to improve reading for blending and segmentation.
- Worksheet exercises.
- Very short reading texts plus tasks.
- Wordsearch
This mixed bag of maths lessons which includes one week’s lesson plan relating to sorting, one less/two less, money worksheets, 3D shapes and subtraction using a number line. Starter activities (oral/mental) before main activities and plenaries (recap session).
Updated 19 June 2019 with animation in PowerPoint, and extra subtraction and money worksheets. There are now PPT slides on sorting fruit and vegetables as a whole class activity.
Differentiated worksheets for each lesson.
A flexible lesson plan for each lesson.
Content:
Lesson 1: Presentation - 12 Slides
Sorting into two sets :-
a. sorting farm and pet animals; Cut/paste activity
b. 2d shapes; and
c. fruit and vegetables
Lesson 2: Presentation - 13Slides
2. Relating less than to taking away;
Worksheets (x3)
Lesson 3: Presentation - 12 Slides
3. Money: Value of coins and adding up;
Worksheets (x5)
Lesson 4: Presentation - 10 Slides
4. 3D Shapes and objects around us
Differentiated worksheets (x4)
Lesson 5 Presentation - 6 Slides
5. Looking at subtraction again using a number line.
Worksheets (x3) - Subtraction up to 12, 15 and 20
You can teach the topics in any order and use them as additional resource.
Please see preview pane.
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This science resource covers half a term’s work.
<strong>Aimed at: Keystage 1 </strong>
<strong>Seven flexible detailed lesson plans with worksheets and activities. </strong>
The only preparation is gathering the resources for the practical experiments.
All the PowerPoint Presentations support whole class and group teaching. You can even print off a relevant slide and use as a worksheet.
Lesson 1: To know different materials have different properties.
Lesson 2: Identifying commons materials - observational drawing and labelling properties.
Lesson 3: To know a range of materials used in a variety of ways.
Lesson 4: Different objects can be made from the same material.
Lesson 5: Testing which material is waterproof for a raincoat.
Lesson 6: Predicting and testing which material is magnetic.
Lesson 7: Predicting and testing which metal is magnetic and why.
43 Flash cards to use as teaching aid and for word wall - editable in word and also pdf format with blank cards
Two word searches with solutions.
File Type: PowerPoint and Word Format
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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