Lesson plans for Early Years on the text What the Ladybird Heard

Some activities we used in Early Years linked to the story 'The Papaya that Spoke' using talk for writing. Children used actions to retell the story, made story maps then innvoated the story to create a new story 'the strawberry that spoke.'

Planning for Nursery children using the text The Little Red Hen. Includes literacy and numeracy activities, other area planning and ideas for child initiated play.

Some ideas for maths and literacy activities for early years using the text 'mad about minibeasts.'

Literacy and Numeracy ideas which I used with Nursery. Also some topic plan ideas and plans for the other areas of the classroom.

Activites and planning ideas I used with the text Aliens Love Underpants. Includes making aliens out of 2D shape and colouring pants and socks in repeating patterns

A block of maths planning for Reception children.

A block of maths lessons for Early Years or Year1

Worksheet used with Early Years children. Children to double spots and write the corresponding answer.

Numicon count and Match sheet linked to treasure coins.

Literacy and Numeracy planning linked to the text A Fish who could Wish for Early Years

A block of maths planning for Early Years or Year 1

A block of maths planning for Early Years or Year 1

A block of maths planning for Early Years or Year 1

Clues and letter for children to go on a Gingerbread man hunt around school. Includes, cloakroom, staffroom, office, dinner hall, gym, music room, story chair, outside and back to Nursery. Also included is labels for the envelopes as each time we found a clue we counted and matched the correct number to the buttons on the envelope.

A block of maths planning for Reception children

Some Literacy planning I used with EY's and worksheets. Also topic plan and some maths worksheets.

A few activities we are using in EY's for a spooky week. Links to Funnybones and Room on the Broom stories.

Activities linked to the story Jack and the Beanstalk which we used in early years. Also we wrote a new story we're going on a giant hunt and retold this story in the outdoor area and using story trays. maths incudes counting beans, adding beans, patten beanstalks, measuring beanstalks, ordering leaves on a beanstalk. literacy includes retelling both stories, describing the giant and making story maps.