A resource used when learning how to write invitations in my year 1 class. All resources are linked to our Peter Pan theme. For the first lesson we looked at what needs to be included in an invitation and the children investigated existing party invitations and then wrote notes on what they were going to include in their own. The following day the children used the reminder sheet to help them to turn their notes into a proper invitation. This pack contains a lesson plan and powerpoints for the two days as well as writing frames and help sheets.

A resource used in my year 1 phonics lesson when teaching the children about the different pronunciations for the /ch/ grapheme. Children were to use the pictures to work out what each word said, afterwards we identified the different pronunciations that they found.

A resource created to teach year 1 to use dictionaries. Children recapped alphabetical order and then carried out the starter activity sorting words into alphabetical order. The treasure hunt words were places around the room for the children to find meanings of and write them in their books. Also comes with a powerpoint presentation.

A lesson where children were improving sentences to make a powerful sentence by changing the verb and adjective in the sentence depending on the mood of the story. The pack contains a lesson plan, an activity for the children to complete in their books and the powerpoint presentation to accompany it.

A set of 7 of the Thinker's Keys for year 1 and 2 linked to the book 'Lost and Found' which we used as a topic. The thinker's keys are used to promote a higher level of thinking. The children in my class worked in pairs to complete the different keys and absolutely loved doing it!

A resource that was created for use in year 1 and 2 lesson in Science. The lesson was used for a learning together Science session when investigating materials but can also be used within the classroom with just the children. The children were to think about materials that sink and float, and those which are waterproof and what each of those words mean. The children were then asked to design and label a boat for the boy and the penguin to travel to the South Pole using the 'junk' materials that they had brought in. They were then asked to make their design, test it and then evaluate at the end. This pack contains the powerpoint used to explain what to do for the children and also looked at the meaning of the different words we were talking about. It also contains the experiment sheet.

A class jobs poster to cut out, laminate and stick on the door or wall of your classroom. I stapled each of the jobs to ribbon and hung them up. I wrote each child's name on a peg and moved the pegs each week so that the children could see what their new job was.

A group of resources used when teaching year 1 about different types of animals and their features during our animals and humans science topic. Includes a lesson plan explaining how I used the different resources, a PowerPoint presentation, facts and pictures for the children to investigate and an activity to go in their books. I aimed for the children to investigate and become experts themselves. I had a recording of Peter Pan asking the children for help to discover what type of animal the Neverbeast was as my hook for the lesson. Peter Pan wanted to set a trap for the Neverbeast but wasn't sure where to put it. I also had animal noises playing in the background throughout.

A lesson looking at main clauses with year 1. Children were to look at the words on the board, do they make a main clause? What does a main clause need? For the activity two adult led groups are to make main clauses using the word cards and write them in their books. Challenge- can you add an adjective or two to make your writing more interesting?

A lesson plan, powerpoint presentation and differentiated activities for working out intervals of time. A lesson which was taught towards the end of our first time topic. The lesson was themed around our castle topic and is linked to a jousting tournament and how long the tournament lasted. LA children are working out time intervals for o'clock and half past, MA to quarter past and HA are using increments of 5 minutes.

A lesson plan and power point used to teach year one about adjectives and settings. We had begun to look at the wizard of oz and started looking at adjectives. I explained what they were and the children looked at examples. We then discussed what the setting in a story is and shared ideas about adjectives we could use to describe munchkin land. The children wrote their ideas down on post it notes and then stuck them to the board around the picture.

Reading focus display posters for the classroom with child friendly statements and other details at the bottom if needed such as what to look out for when looking at an organisation or structure related question.

A follow on lesson used with year one after teaching adjectives and what they mean. This pack contains a power point with recaps what makes a sentence and then moves on to using adjectives to improve my sentence. This then leads to three differentiated activities with the necessary resources included in the pack. LA are to copy the sentence and add an adjective, MA are to add adjectives and check for the correct punctuation and HA are to extend sentences using and.

This power point pack contains day by day slides and activities for the first week of the phase 5 phonics for year 1. It contains activities for- ay, ie and ou as well as tricky words looked, called, asked, mr and mrs. Also comes with words to sort into real and nonsense words.

This pack contains a power point and activity for teaching year one how to add two one-digit numbers. The power point uses examples of adding two one-digit numbers using fruit and then asks the children how we would write a number sentence to go with the pictures. The activity is a continuation of this with the children counting the fruit in the picture and writing the number sentence below before writing the answer. The pack also comes with a next step activity where the children are to work out the missing number in the number sentence.

The whole weeks lessons for the phase 5 phonics sounds a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e and u_e. The powerpoint contains activities and chances to introduce the new sound, revisit sounds the children have already learnt, an opportunity to practise reading words containing the new sound and the chance to apply what they have learnt through reading sentences, finding real and nonsense words or writing a word on their whiteboard.

A weeks worth of powerpoint resources for phase 5 phonics. The powerpoint covers the alternative pronunciations: a, y, ch and ou and the tricky words many, laughed, because, different, any, eyes, friends, once and please. The powerpoint follows the introduce, revisit, teach, practise and apply lesson structure and there are opportunities for children to read and write different words as well as sorting different sounds and revisiting the phase 5 sounds we have already learnt.

A lesson used to introduce my year 1 class to the possessive apostrophe (they have already seen apostrophes in contractions) when creating their own fairy tale character ready for a story they are going to write. The pack includes a powerpoint which introduces the children to the possessive apostrophe and then gets them to apply what they have learnt by asking them to choose the correct use of the possessive apostrophe. I then asked the children to create their own fairy tale character using the character description frame. Afterwards we wrote about our character using imaginative description and using the possessive apostrophe. The pack also contains a blooms taxonomy higher level sticker for your early finishers and a writing frame for LA children to use when describing their character.

A whole week's worth of phonics lessons. This resource covers the alternative pronunciations; ow, ie, ea and er as well as the tricky words; water, where, who, again, thought, through, work and mouse. The Powerpoint follows the letters and sounds book and has an introduction, revisit, teach, practise and apply section to each lesson. The revisit is different each day and covers not only practising phase 5 sounds but also looking back at reading previously taught tricky words and spellings.

A year 1 lesson where children are beginning to look at finding more or less than numbers to 10. Includes a lesson plan which includes a starter where children are beginning to estimate and thinking about more efficient ways to count objects. Also comes with an activity where children are to create snakes using more or less than a certain number of dots. The pack comes with differentiated question cards which can be cut out or printed on stickers to put into books or used on the table for the children to make using cubes. The red snakes are for LA, green for MA and blue for HA. The lesson plan also comes with a 'where next' activity which gets children thinking about counting in 5's as well as number order.