Handout for children to note exciting; interesting descriptive words; thinking about all their senses; to say what life in the trenches was like; working towards writing an imagined letter home from the trenches.

Handouts and activities, with planning to link to Katie Morag topic, differentiateed activities for children to show their understanding of physical and human features of a landscape. Children choose which activity they would like to do - color coding a drawing of Katie's Island, cutting and sticking different pictures of features into the correct column on a table, or using a sheet of useful words to write their own sentences to explain the difference between the two types of feature.Two other activity sheets are on here to use with this lesson as well, under physical / human

word problems about monsters, children have to draw the monsters and write the maths story (mms) or sum underneath.

Simple now and then sentence writing activity for children to compare entertainment 100 years ago and now at the seaside. Second page has images for ideas; some may provoke discussion. Children can either choose two favorite / images to cut and paste on page 1 or copy them into the image boxes.

when you enter this little room consider yourself one of the special members of a group who enjoy learning

A simple assembly ppt to work through. You will need a cd with the hymns on (Thank you Lord for this new day) and (He made me) and a way to play seaside, forest and thunderstorm sounds: I am using a free white noise app on my Iphone with a docking station. Also a selection of sensory natural items for childen to explore (sand, waterm leaves etc).

Poster with non fiction text common features, vocabulary and examples.

Simple sheet with opportunities for sentence writing and drawing labeled diagrams to explain what a habitat is and how an animal can be suited to a particular habitat.

Key things to remember when writing a letter and how to organize it.

Handout to provide evidence exploring how characters and actions can suggest character traits.

simple story map for children to plan their writing on, picking out important events from the story and choosing wow words to put in their writing.

A simple PowerPoint with basic facts about pointillism and Seurat; to be a starting point for children's own work.

Venn diagramSorting materials based on properties such as transparency into a Venn diagram.

Pictures, headings and sub headings, with basic information for children to learn about non-fiction / information texts. Frog page also has a basic labeled diagram.

simple handout with activities to show children's understanding of odd and even numbers.

Good for planning out what to write, including key events and words.

Print and laminate capital letter ice cream cones and lower case ice cream scoops. Children can play games matching the correct pairs, also useful for display.

Simple activity sheet for children to do first thing in the morning, show what they know about a number, 1 more, 1 less, 10 more 10 less, half, double etc - you put the number on the board.

A simple powerpoint exploring abstract art and in particular the expressionistic work of Keith Garrow. Aiming to inspire children to be bold with shape and texture. Leads into collage, paint and printing work well.

Picture made of shapes for students to label angles