A word mat designed to support writing about the growth cycle of a bean. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and labels for different common beans and a diagram of the growing cycle.

A simple minibeast riddle powerpoint. Print out 2 or 4 to a page as reading and matching cards. Spider, frog, butterfly, slug, snail, bee, millipede, ladybird.

A simple print, cut, match and stick jigsaw on the internal organs of the body. Two versions - one labelled with some of the organs inside the main torso (lungs, heart, liver, stomach and intestines) , and one without labels.

PowerPoint version of my previous SMART notebook file. 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. Also some words on pumpkins as display title Suitable for topics on autumn and Halloween

A song found in my Dodo pad about plants and flowers. Sung to the tune of The Periodic Table.

Developmental milestones for: Sight Hearing Grasping

Information on how a newborn develops. Useful when studying a topic on babies.

Poem by Christina Rossetti. I used as part of a Minibeasts display, drawing out the human values of different minibeasts, and how we should look after them

A labeled picture of a germinated bean plant; as well as an unlabeled picture with labels to match.

Cakes & cake tray templates to print on card & laminate. Useful for adding & subtracting to 6 with a dice. Designed for 4 players, each player has a different cake type.

A big book to be used in a variety of ways: a) At the beginning of the year, when talking about Ourselves - similarities & differences b) Thinking skills c) Speaking & Listening discussions

Worksheet to help children hear onset and rime families with CVC words

Poem written as part of shared poetry. Explores issues of self-care and responsibilities.

Basic assembly script written about a boy who always shouts. Eventually no-one wants to be his friend, so he learns to talk quieter, although sometimes a loud voice can come in useful!

Assembly script based on Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley. The story is based on a Chinese child who is new to the class and doesn't speak much English. He feels withdrawn as everyone has a special talent apart from him, until he shows the class how t

Based on information from the UK's National Maritime Museum's website with images. Who were pirates, what did they do, how did they live and what can we learn to make ourselves better people?

Quotation on family used to start a topic on families and family trees."We are all one family under the same sky."Respecting similarities and differences.

Quotation that Peter Parker aka Spiderman learnt, "With great power must also come great responsibility." Designed to be used as part of a PSED lesson on heroes and superheroes, focusing on non-violence, responsibility and helping others.

SSEHV stands for Sathya Sai Education through Human Values. Based on core human values of Love, Peace, Truth, Non Violence and Right Conduct. The SSEHV lesson brings on various elements - a quotation to talk about, a warm-up game, a silent sitting/meditation, a story and discussion/questions, a song, and then a game or activity. This lesson plan has been put together to focus on non-violence, and basic respect of similarities and differences, and what we can learn from the peace loving plant eating dinosaurs.

A PowerPoint written for Pre-Kindergarten to cover the Mesozoic era - triassic; jurassic and cretaceous periods. Looking at basic evolution of animals and the changes in the landscape. Appropriate for Early Childhood Education (Pre-K and younger). ECE-SC, ECE-SC-na