A simplified version with illustrations. It takes us to the Darling's house in London where Mr. and Mrs. Darling are going out. It finishes as the children fly away to Never Never Land. The text is easy to read.

A simple technique for making up a song using the names of the fruit in the book 'Handa's surprise' It looks attractive too. You could scan them into a powerpoint so all the children can sing or play each others work. This will work with fruit or animals in the topic whether or not you are doing 'Handa&'s surprise'

This resources links language arts and music to teach children how to create their own chants.

Teddy bear poems and an idea for their own poems

What is a glossary. Could we write one?

Simple but useful worksheet with illustrated words to the left for children who find writing and spelling difficult. The finished work looks good for display.

Questions and song making activities based around the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty". In addition you can either watch the you tube video (original source) or download it here and insert it into the PowerPoint. Another link inside the presentation is a link to the history of the nursery rhyme.

How to write information text welcoming visitors to the rainforest or the jungle

Rowan wrote a song about her identity. Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing or song writing, Children love the work of their peers. Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme. Run in slide mode to hear sound.

Firstly, watch and copy the movement of a swan. Then watch as two different dancers perform to Saint Saens ' The Dying swan '. Children dance using ideas from The Swan and ideas from the professional dancers. The video about the swan has directions to focus the attention The video provides a wonderful starting point for descriptive work

This is an animated PowerPoint song that tells the story of a ghost orchestra whose instruments play at night. Although it is primarily a music lesson, there are many ways that writing can be integrated into this lesson as well.

What are contents? What is an index.? Can you write your own ?

How to use a dictionary appropriately and locate the words. After using the information, have students make an anchor chart for the class.

Text and illustrations for Little Red Riding Hood

The video contains edited highlights of the past 3 Olympic ceremonies.Key stage one children could learn what a ceremony is and discover the themes used since 2000. Key stage 2 children can look further into how a mood is created using music and movement or see the lesson plan for designing an Olympic event.The video can be used as a stimuli for movement, poetry, history or dance. II have reduced the size so that you can preview the video by sound if you are not able to use You-tube at school. Note , this video 's quality is poor. and is much better on YouTube.

Children love this song.It's useful if you have a topic on Animals of the UK. It&'s by the Southlanders. Marvelous for rhyming words. Ive added illustrations and lyrics to aid learning the song. Plenty of percussion opportunities after each list of animals -- da da da dum !

The sheets fold into a concertina to make a little booklet for their collection of long sounds. I open the images in windows gallery and print out an 8/1/2 x/11 paper. The sounds are Long a , e , i , o and u. Drawing is encouraged!

I wanted to introduce teeth cleaning and couldn't find a poem anywhere to introduce it, so, I wrote one. Hope you have fun with it!

Children encouraged to focus their attention on different zones of the pictures to develop their setting writing

Children's attention focused on various zones of the pictures to develop their skills at writing a setting.