An activity created to teach children about the Taj Mahal during our India topic. Children were asked to think about what they already knew about the Taj Mahal. They were then to sort the facts into those that they thought were about the Taj Mahal and the ones that weren't. For the children's independent activity they were to colour in the picture of the Taj Mahal and then answer the questions on the board underneath the picture.

A pack created for the first lesson in teaching measure to year one. The powerpoint is based around the theme of the Wizard of Oz and the children are set an initial problem to solve by Dorothy. The powerpoint then asks the children to think about how they could solve this problem and what we could use to measure lengths and heights. This lesson the children were only using non standard units of measure and the HA children moved on to using rulers the following day. The pack comes with an activity for children who will be working independently as well as a teacher led activity. Both activities are practical and hands on which get the children practising measuring length.

A table or wall prompt to remind children about the uses of connecting adverbs. Comes with examples for each type and the connecting adverbs used within a sentence. I laminated this resource and had it on the table for the children to use when writing.

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 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 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 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 week’s worth of whole class reading for the Smartest Giant in Town for year 2. Focusing only on the retrieval domain. All activities are differentiated.

Activinspire and publisher needed to access. Four lessons around the book aimed at year 2. Covers domains- inference, predicting, retrieval and sequencing.

A lesson plan and activities created to teach children in year 1 about adding money and finding different coins that equal the same amount of money. This pack contains a lesson plan, lesson starter and differentiated activities along with a powerpoint.

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 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 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 resource used when teaching a year 1 class about adjectives. Contains a powerpoint with two pictures of an icy setting to describe, a sound clip to be played when the children are thinking about what they may hear in this setting, a thermometer picture to use as a prompt when thinking about how cold it may be there. I used the resource alongside fake snow and fans in boxes. There are senses spinners for lower ability children as a prompt to get them thinking about using the 5 senses to describe the setting. There are also a range of snowflakes. Blank snowflakes for children to write their own adjectives on to share with the class and others with a range of different adjectives on for LA children to decide which ones would be well chosen and which wouldn't. They are then to match the well chosen adjectives to the picture.

A SP&G lesson on coordinating conjunctions. This was used when teaching my year 1 children what a coordinating conjunction was for the first time. Begins with a revisit of what we know about main clauses and simple sentences and then moves on to looking at coordinating conjunctions. There is an activity at the end of the powerpoint where the children are to choose the best coordinating conjunction to complete the compound sentence.

Whole class guided reading flipchart and activities based on the story ‘Traction Man’. Comes with exerts and differentiated activities. Covers a range of reading skills- inference, prediction and retrieval.

A presentation and resources to last over 9 sessions for the story ‘The Lion Inside’. Each lesson is linked to one of the reading domains. The activities are differentiated and aimed at year 1. You do need activinspire to access these resources.

A lesson on letter writing which based upon our Peter Pan topic. This pack contains a powerpoint presentation and activities. I first read the letter from Tinkerbell to Peter to the children to see what they noticed about the way that the letter was set out, we then looked at a range of other letters and the children used sugar paper to mind map their thoughts. The powerpoint then highlights the different features of a letter and where they can be found. Afterwards the children were given another letter from Wendy to her parents and the children were to identify the features we had been looking at. I have included labels for the LA children to place in the correct place on the letter.

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 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.