A sheet designed for the child to draw an image of one of the farm animals in the story. To sound out and write the sound that that animal makes in the story.\nA nice short follow-up writing activity to a drama based lesson, based on the story What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson.

An overview of the festivities of May Day, goddess Flora, May Queen and garlands, Maypole and dancing and Morris dancing.

A simple PowerPoint introduction to Diwali. Children watch a video, listen to the Ramayana story then find out ways in which Hindus celebrate.

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

An ActivPrimary flipchart introducing weather symbols and forecasts. Includes a weather chart to record the week's weather.The worksheet is for children to cut and stick or draw weather symbols on a map and then write a forecast. This could then be put under the visualiser at the plenary for children to become weather presenters!

A simple VCOP word mat to assist with report writing on Nelson Mandela.

An assembly/tutorial PowerPoint on author Toni Morrison and poet Derek Walcott. These literary geniuses have been chosen this year as they have both received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

As so many of my F1 pupils are coming in still working within the 22-36 month development band, I thought I'd make an additional set of these Learning Journey assessment cards with the statements taken from Development Matters 2012.

4 images of zoo animals in a 'cage&'. To be laminated and hole-punched, or stuck onto thick card and small snips at the top and bottom edges made. The children can then lace a thread or weave some string/wool, depending on their fine motor ability. Their lacing/weaving will become the bars of the cage.\nPlease also see my other Dear Zoo and zoo animal themed resources.

F2 Reception medium term plan on plants and animals. PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW. Content covers planting seeds, why humans needs plants and animals, life cycles and Easter.

Simple addition with number bonds to 6. A worksheet with boxes for children to make marks or draw pictures; and then record the number sentence.

Posters for a zoo-themed role-play area.

Differentiated handouts. Children to add 'ing' and make a verb

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

2 or 3 black shapes overlapping each other. Children to guess what 2D shapes they can see. Shapes animated to move apart.

Differentiated powerpoint for Phase 3/4 group teaching. 1. Blending for reading words including pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

Learning to read and write the ar phoneme - differentiated for a mixed Phase 3/4 group.\n1. Blending for reading - words\n2. Oral segmentation\n3. Segmentation for spelling words\n4. Reading sentences

Differentiated PowerPoint designed to cater for a mixed Phase 3-4 group. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

A PowerPoint lesson plan based on our Creative Writing week on The Mystery Eggs.\nThank you to Denver Art Museum for the main outline of the lesson, linking conversation to the painting Dream of Arcadia.\nIf you like this, please rate the resource, and look at my other resources - thanks xx

A set of motivational quotations on PowerPoint thanks to Pinterest. Useful for PSHE/SEAL lessons as well as Philosophy and class inspiration.