A bank of resources, lesson plans and activeinspire flipcharts to use alongside the White Rose guidance for year 1 Block 1 Autumn. Includes differentiated activities for the main lesson, lesson starters and reasoning questions.

Children are to solve the four fact families by working out what number the emojis could represent.

The first lesson for block 1 Spring 1 following the White Rose scheme. Due to the aility levels in my class the first lesson comprises of a warm up where ‘Beaky’ has jumbled up the numerals and words counting to 20 and the children have to move them around so that they are correct. I have then focused the first lesson solely on counting by adding on using the pictures for ‘first’, ‘then’ and ‘now’. This is the only part of the varied fluency included in this pack. The activities are differentiated. LA are to just fill in the sentences using the pictures with colour coordinated words. MA have higher numbers and have to complete the the ‘now’ picture (and in my class will have support) and HA are to complete independently without the colour coordinated words as a clue. I have then included two reasoning questions. I know that there are often problems when opening up a publisher document so I have also included the PDF. I hope it saves you time!

As part of our Wind in the Willows topic we looked at adding the plurals s and es. I cut up items of food and hid them around the classroom to find, saying that Ratty had lost the food from his picnic. I then told the children that Ratty wanted to have a picnic with his friends but he needed a shopping list of what to get. We received a letter from Ratty who explained the rules and watched a video on plurals and recapped. The children were to use their word mat (with pictures) to write a list of how many of each thing they needed. LA children needed to add s or es to words on their sheet. MA had words where no change to the root word was needed e.g. sandwich- 4 sandwiches. I threw in jelly for the HA and we had a chat about changing the y to an i before adding es. There was then a challenge on the board for children to complete. The children wrote their list on notepad paper.

This pack comes with a starter activity where the children are to think about where they live and describe their house and their family. This then moves on to looking about homes around the world and thinking about who lives in the different houses, children are to write a sentence about who they think lives in the different houses or may have lived there at some point in the past. The power point then goes through each of the pictures and explains where the houses can be found and what they are made of.

A range of different resources to use when teaching instructions- examples of unclear instructions, an instructions checklist and key features hunt.

Two week’s worth of whole class reading based around Fantastic Mr Fox aimed at year 2. Each activity is differentiated (usually three ways) and a range of domains are covered. You will need to have activinspire and publisher to use this resource.

Two week’s worth of resources for whole class reading for year 2 based on ‘The Bear and the Piano’. Covers all reading domains. Activinspire and publisher needed to use the files. All lessons are differentiated at least twice.

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.