Topic of green fingers in our local environment, children created front cover by using different shades of green paint on their finger to make an image of a plant.

Topic web example for Numeracy, ICT, DT and Science

Pictures of old toys with key vocab

Used as assessment for non-fiction writing.

A checklist (which can easily be changed). I used this for information texts. Adapt for any topic. Children check their own work and stick the checklist next to the work in book. Thank you :)

1. Rubrics grid can be adapted for most subjects and for self or peer\n\n2. Target sheet to be stuck into front of worksbook. New target written in and smiley plus date given when achieved\n\n3. Example reflection sheet after lesson - can be adapted for any subject

Here are some normal and some silly sentences. Children work together to sort them into silly and non-silly.

Using to recap with Year 2 but can be used for Year 1.

Differentiated Letters and Sounds plan for oa and o_e

Format can be used by changing ideas in boxes. Example of mindmap for literacy topic.

Describe the change in bread when it is toasted and predict what will happen when frozen.

Some bits and pieces I have used in German Club. Pippi to colour and colours for Pippi go together as an activity.

A start to comparing language style. Children given Donaldson books and fill in table group or individual work. Differentiated 3 ways: repetition, repetition and rhyme and various languages.\n\nCan obviously change the photos by copying and pasting different pictures in.

Stories by the same author. Different sentences/phrases typed up from Julia Donaldson books: A squash and a squeeze, Sharing a shell and Follow the Swallow.\n\nMy class really enjoyed spliting them into groups. SOme chose 'people, animal, object&' others chose to group sentences according to punctuation or language.\n\nThey were allowed to chose whether to use a venn diagram (hoops on floor) or large carroll diagrams I made up. \n\nI used this as a start for thinking about similarities and differences in books by the same author.

Choose various shoes and predict whether or not they will be slippy. Then create a ramp using table and chair and allow children to let go of shoe, time it. Work out most slippy shoe.\n\nNext part of experiment, wrap table in different materials. Which material helps to slow the fastest shoe down?

Simple sheet, cut into three, give purple to working towards, green to working within, blue to working above. They copy sums into their books.

Draw self portrait and add positive labels about my personality. Can also be used for a partner.

Three differentiated sheets for children to order smallest to largest, measure the doors with a ruler, and estimate.

Add capitals and question marks to these sentences.

Used for a lesson on problem solving linked to Sir Walter Raleigh. Chn had these cut up journey times on their table and they found the shortest and longest possible journey times by adding two together.