I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
Lesson 1: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
select and use the right calculation
check our calculations
solve money word problems
find totals.
Mental Warm Up:
Anya has two coins of the same value. What are the possible amounts of money that she could have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be working on finding totals and checking calculations.
Educational Challenges
Choose a drink and another item from the café menu. Choose four possible options. How much would you spend each time?
Choose four different options from the café menu. What is the most and least you could spend?
Lesson 5: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add and use words to do with adding
add a teens number to a two-digit number
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
understand that addition can be carried out in any order
find pairs of numbers that make a given total
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
Play ‘Add the Throw’
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to continue our work on adding teens numbers to a two-digit number.
Educational Challenges
Find pairs of numbers that total 49.
Lesson 4: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
use the words to describe adding
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
know adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit in a circle. You will be given a number card 1–19. Put it in front of you. Let everyone see your card.Can you see whose card added to yours would make 20? Put up your hand. Tell me who has the card you need. What number is on it?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be adding a teens number to a two-digit number by breaking them up into tens and ones.
Educational Challenges
Practise adding a two-digit number and a teens number. Make up some number sentences of your own.
Sort number sentence cards into those which are correct and those which are wrong, using base 10 apparatus.
Practise adding a two-digit number and a teens number. Make up some number sentences of your own.
Lesson 3: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
choose and use correct calculations
check calculations
solve money word problems
find totals and give change.
Mental Warm Up:
What are the different ways I could pay?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to calculate totals and how much change we would need from 50p.
Educational Challenges
Each person must choose two items from the café menu. Who would get the most change from 50p?
If you had 50p to spend on any two items, what would you choose to give you the most change and the least change?
What two items from the café would you have to buy to get exactly 10p change?
Lesson 5: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
make decisions and check calculations
solve money problems
use the appropriate number operation.
Mental Warm Up:
I buy two items that come to a total of 20p. How much could each of the items have cost? Write your answers as addition sentences.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to solve some money problems.
Educational Challenges
Choose two items from the café menu. Put the combinations under headings – ‘Less than 30p’ and ‘More than 30p’.
Find two items that cost a total of 37p, 46p, 47p, 48p and 56p.
Make up some prices for a friend to match to items on the café menu.
Lesson 4: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
check calculations
say what each coin is
solve money problems.
Mental Warm Up:
Find two items that would cost more than 30p in total.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be finding different ways of making an amount of money.
Educational Challenges
Get into pairs with someone from a different maths group.
Find different ways to make 50p.
Use only silver coins.
Record as a ‘spider chart’.
Lesson 5: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective:
recognise and describe how to turn things
recognise half and quarter turns to the left or right
understand the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Mental Warm Up:
What do we know about the number 10? How many ideas about 10 do you have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to learn about things that turn and the different turning movements that are possible.
Educational Challenges
Make four identical tiles. Turn them to make a pattern. Use quarter turns. Describe your pattern.
Make four identical tiles. Turn them to make a pattern.
I have found a way of making Maths revision a lot more fun. I have combined the official question papers and the official marking schemes into a single document. This means you can ask a question, the students show their answers on mini whiteboards and then as a class, you look at the official answers and look at what the students would have scored. As this is a whole class teaching activity, students can work in pairs or small teams and discuss their ideas and strategies together. This really reduces the level of stress as children are able to build on each others skills.
This teaching resource could be used in the classroom or at home. This teaching resource is a lot of fun and will make a difference to your students attitudes to maths. Keep Maths Fun!
Tell me what you think of this teaching resource in the comments box below!
I wanted to create a fun PowerPoint lesson which focuses on using frequency adverbs and also a few fun maths problems. The children are encouraged to write 20 sentences about their lives using adverbs. They then chat about the likelihood of different events happening in their lives.
Here are different complete lessons linked to length, weight and time. There are plenty of teaching resources for the whole year! The perfect set of resources to help students revise at home or at school.
Are you wanting to teach or revise addition and subtraction with your class or at home? Then this is a wonderful set of teaching resources - whole lessons, which will help you do this. Try it today!
Test Your Spelling Skills
Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct
No. 2 – Numbers 1-20
To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line:
Example words
one _________________ _________________
two _________________ _________________
three _________________ _________________
four _________________ _________________
Make target setting an interactive, hands on activity! This ideas is based on a simple 3D square based pyramid net. There is space on each side for students to write down their monthly English, Maths and Social targets. There is also a space for their name and something they learnt in the previous month.
I added the motivational quotes so students appreciate what they are learning towards. I added the positive behaviour system, where the students move around the track each time they achieve their pyramids targets! The harder they work, the faster they move around the track. Lots of fun for everyone!
I have created this worksheet in black and white so teachers can either print them on white paper or onto different coloured papers, the idea being to change the colour of the pyramid every month, so everyone knows which pyramid they should now be following.
Are you looking for spell checking activities? Here some fun look, say, spell check writing activities and also a nice presentation about how to spot common mistakes in written English.
Are you looking for month long celebrations? I have brought together my Black History Month, Walk To School Month, Happiness Challenge, and Big Draw into a single, easy to use bundle.
Here is a fun, multicultural, cross curricular set of resources for Halloween. There are maths resources, different language resources, photos about how people celebrate Halloween and even a phonics sheet about Halloween.
Are you wanting your students to study harder and work smarter? Then these posters and teaching ideas might help them to achieve their real potential. They can use the 3D monthly target to keep focused. The motivational posters should help them keep their dreams in sight, while they can refer to the different learning guides to make sure they remember how to learn effectively.
Year 2 Spring Maths Bundle. In 2000, I was commissioned to write a set of Spring Maths lessons for Year 2 students by a major UK Educational Publisher. The lessons contain the learning objective, a fun starter and a main lesson, followed by suggestions on how differentiate the independent learning part of the lesson using resources commonly found in most UK primary school classrooms.