3 weeks literacy planning linked to the story 'What the Ladybird Heard.' for year 1.

This is a 3 week plan related to the little mermaid for Rec/year 1 children. Includes making a lost poster, retelling story, describing characters, describing a setting, invitations, postcards and writing a new story.

2 weeks of planning linked to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar.' Includes Literacy and Numeracy activities for Early years and plans for the other areas of the classroom. There is also some worksheets and some are included in the free resources section e.g pictures to match retelling the story and counting worksheets.

This is a class assembly I used with year 1 children. It has information about castles and then the children act out their own fairy tales.

A literacy/phonics lesson for Reception children which I used in autumn term on the story Room on the Broom. I used this for a lesson observation which was graded outstanding.

This 2 weeks planning is linked to the Gruffalo. There is Lit/Num plans - 2 lessons for each week and skills planning for the other areas of the classroom. There is also a couple of worksheets.

Flipcharts including 5 pictures to match each sound. Each picture has a phoneme box underneath. I use these during phonics teaching- I show the pictures related to the sounds we are learning then everyone writes matching word on their own whiteboard or on the flipchart.

Planning for phonics for Early Years. Mainly phase 2 plans using magnetic letters. Includes 2 weeks of new sounds then a recap week.

4 Literacy lessons for Early Years on the text 'The Little Red Hen.'

4 Literacy lessons for Early Years on the text 'The Enormous Turnip.'

4 Literacy lessons for Early Years on the text 'Owl Babies.'

This is an assembly I used with Year 1 children. We share information we have found out about different minibeasts then act out the story 'The very greedy bee.' Songs are from cbeebies or out of the ark -minibeasts CD

Literacy planning for Year 1 linked to the story 'The Very Greedy Bee.' Includes story writing, labelling, letters and invitations. Also an outdoor lesson.

A weeks plan linked to dragons, Children find signs of a dragon in the outdoor area, They then discover an egg and write about what it could be. A witness also spots the dragon so children write interview questions and then a report about what the witness saw.

Literacy planning linked to the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' for Reception.

Literacy planning used with Reception/Year 1

Pictures to retell the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' to match worksheets in 2 weeks planning.

This is an outdoor lesson plan I recently used with Nursery children and was graded as outstanding. It involves retelling the story, counting and building animal homes using natural materials. Also included is some photographs for ideas for the animal homes and some photos of the homes we made.

I use these sheets to send home each week after we have been learning a new sound. The sheets include a matching exercise for each letter then an opportunity to practise tracing over the letters for handwriting practise.

I used this assembly with Year 1 children and we shared the story 'The Little Mermaid.' We also shared facts we had found out and the children acted out their own story and sang seaside themed songs and poems.