A fantastic resource pack that includes... Gruffalo sequencing Gruffalo planning Gruffalo PowerPoint

An introduction to Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson. This a great Notebook presentation, introducing children to the Cave Baby story. It focuses on the use of adjectives and retelling the story. There are also some great examples of cave painting art work and a step-by-step guide on how children can create their own cave painting.

A fantastic, tried and tested lesson. Using the intro PowerPoint explore what the life of a servant in a castle would have been like; you could even get children to role play so that they can get into character. Children can then have a go at writing a diary entry from the life of a servant using the beautiful differentiated scroll worksheets and the diary writing frame to help them. If you have any early finishers, why not ask them to draw a banquet table and use the food activity sheet to either draw their own food items on the table, or cut and stick from the sheet.

A fantastic fun and pirate themed resource to support children in using the suffix -er and -est in their writing. Stick the pirate activity picture into children's book. They can then write sentences in their book using the suffixes e.g. Sea Dog is braver than Captain Black Beard. Jack Sparrow is the bravest pirate. etc. Also included is a red pen question to support deepening learning.

A great resource pack to support children in demonstrating that they can recognise and organise letters into the four letter families (curly caterpillars, long ladders, one armed robots and zigzag monsters). Included in this resource pack: A fully animated PowerPoint, to support children in recapping their knowledge of which letters fit into each of the letter families. Sticker sheet for each of the letter families (can be printed on paper and cut out and stuck into books). By sticking one of each of the letter family 'stickers' into thei8r books, children can then organise each of the letters into the correct family. There is a selection of two letter mats available to support children in sorting letters into their letter families (non cursive and cursive). Mastery activity: where children can demonstrate their ability to join letters correctly by writing the section of words given in cursive script.

This is a great resource for the beginning of the year! Find out what the children have retained after the school break, check children starting points, or use them to track children's progress by sampling using a different highlighter for each term. Included in this assessment is phoneme recognition (based on Letters and Sounds Phases), blending and segmenting skills.

This is a really fun and engaging activity. Children can be set the challenge to find as many features of a castle as they can with these wonderful worksheets. Want to save paper, why not print some for a group activity and laminate them so that you can use them time and time again. You could even give children a blank grid and challenge them to make their castle word search.

This is a great way to set your children targets in a clear and child friendly way. Simply discuss with children what they need to work on, select the target that the fits this need and stick it in their book (you could even print them on stickers to save you some time). Included in this pack is also a marking sticker (could be cut out and stuck in too) congratulating children on meeting their target.

Welcome to planet phonics! This is a great PowerPoint to support your children in practising reading real and alien words in preparation for the Phonics screen check. This beautiful PowerPoint has 40 words to practise and includes animated sound buttons.

Everything you need to put on your own Gruffalo class assembly. This fantastic pack includes: Script with parts for 30 children Gruffalo background PowerPoint to set the scene Gruffalo song Gruffalo description cards

Included in this resource pack: An introduction PowerPoint to support children in setting the scene for the Lars stories. Story Sequencing Storyboard template to plan/write own story. A story writing checklist A pack of worksheets with an IWB presentation to accompany some of them. The worksheets included are listed below: Using capital letters and full stops. Comparison language structures. Speech bubbles Writing questions. Sentence structure Write your own sentences with a keyword list Book review templates

An amazing bundle of pirate resources. All of the resources I publish have been tried and tested, Included in this bumper resource pack: Lesson 1 - er and est suffixes. Some beautiful pictures to stick into children's book which will help them to write using the er and est suffixes. This lesson pack also included a red pen question to extend children's thinking further. Lesson 2 (Planning included) Talk like a pirate treasure hunt (differentiated by phonics phase). Children have a worksheet containing a list of pirate words. They will o on a treasure hunt to find the relevant vocabulary card and will read it to find out what the pirate words mean. Lesson 3 (planning attached) Children will create their own pirate glossary. Science - materials (Planning included) Lesson 4 - man-made and natural materials Lesson 5 - Pirate challenge - floating and sinking Lesson 6 - Pirate challenge - Waterproof and absorbent materials Design and Technology - making a pirate ship Lesson 7 - labelling parts of a pirate ship Lesson 8 - Design a pirate ship Lesson 9 - Make a pirate ship (step by step PowerPoint to help) Lesson 10 - Evaluate your pirate ship.