I work in KS2 and love creating engaging lessons and resources for my children, as well as making my classroom a happy and positive learning environment!
I work in KS2 and love creating engaging lessons and resources for my children, as well as making my classroom a happy and positive learning environment!
‘Teacher Noticeboard’ lettering - Harry Potter/Daily Prophet themed.
Includes ‘messages’ and ‘to do’ list sheets, perfect for laminating and popping on your noticeboard next to a dry wipe marker!
Unit of work aimed at Year Three - time.
Differentiated resources for each lesson and lots of opportunity for AFL/talk partner work.
Unit starts with a cold task that can be repeated at the end of the unit.
Children make their own clocks at the start of the unit to help build familiarity.
Before each lesson is a teacher slide with information about each lesson. Lots of extra activities and further extensions/probing questions. :)
Cold Task – Time
LI: To know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month and year.
Success Criteria:
-I know how many minutes are in an hour.
-I can calculate how many hours in a week.
-I can calculate how many days in a month.
LI: To estimate a period of time.
Success Criteria:
-I know what estimate means.
-I can make relevant estimations.
I can justify my reasoning.
LI: I can create and label a clock.
Success Criteria:
-I can label the hands on a clock.
-I know what the marking on a clock are.
-I can represent given times on my clock.
LI: To read and write the time to quarter of the hour.
Success Criteria:
-I know how many minutes are in one hour.
-I can recognise quarter past and quarter to on a clock.
I know that the small hand is the hour hand.
I know that the long hand is the minute hand.
LI: To tell and show the time to the nearest minute using analogue clocks.
Success Criteria:
-I know what the different numbers and hands represent.
-I can explain whether it is ‘past’ or ‘to’.
-I can show the correct time on an analogue clock.
LI: To read and show time on 12-hour and 24-hour clocks.
Success Criteria:
-I know there are 24 hours in a day.
-I know that digital time has hours first, then minutes.
-I can explain what time is shown on a digital clock.
LI: To convert between digital and analogue clocks.
Success Criteria:
-I know the difference between analogue and digital.
-I can explain how to convert between different clocks.
I can successfully read different clock faces.
LI: To solve problems involving time.
Success Criteria:
-I know what the word problem is asking me to do.
-I can use a number line to see how much time has elapsed.
-I can carefully check my answers.
LI: To solve problems involving time.
Success Criteria:
-I can read a timetable.
-I can answer simple questions.
-I can use a number line to solve problems.
Harry Potter themed tray labels.
Including resources, subjects & blank ones. Perfect to be laminated to be used time and time again.
PDF format means they are ready to print and go!
LI: To know the names and order of the planets.
Success Criteria:
I can name all of the planets.
I can find a way to help me remember them.
I can identify and label the different planets.
LI: To learn about the planets in our solar system.
Success Criteria:
I can identify the different planets.
I can research facts about the different planets.
I can present my research in a fact file.
LI: To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system.
Success Criteria:
I know the names and order of the planets in our Solar System.
I can explain the difference between rotation and revolution.
LI: To participate in a debate using my scientific understanding to explain my reasoning.
Success Criteria:
I can form an opinion based on research.
I can share my ideas with others.
I can listen and reflect on other peoples point of view.
LI: To understand about gravity and its effects on Earth. #
A Twinkl PPT for the debate lesson is useful to download if you have a Twinkl account, otherwise different sheets, books, internet for research.
Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit or work looks at a range of skills needed to compose effective non-chronological reports.
Includes an example NCR on Hippogriffs to be used as a model text, hot and cold task unit targets, Smart Notebook slides.
12 lessons in this unit for Non-Chronological Reports. Content can be tweaked to focus on certain aspects of HP.
We used a trip to the Warner Bros Studio Tour to research and collect information about Harry Potter.
You may wish to add an extra lesson or two creating a lesson through research of books/internet to help develop note taking, etc.
Lessons/LIs:
Cold task: To write a NCR.
To explore a non-chronological report (ERIC)
To explore language and structural features of a non-chronological report.
To compose effective and concise introductory paragraphs.
To construct compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
STAND ALONE ‘Extended Write’ - (focus on modal verbs)
To start my sentences in different ways.
To write well structured paragraphs.
To plan a NCR.
Hot Task: To write a NCR. (You may want to do this over two lessons to ensure content and quality).
To edit and improve my writing.
To publish a piece of work.
Reading Folder great to have lots of important information all in one place!
In PDF (not editable), Word and Pages format. Please note - fonts and pages will look different due to font types. Font types used are Shella Clean and KG Second Chances Sketch
I laminate the front and back pages and then bind to make a super little booklet.
Pages include:
Front cover/back cover
Daily reader checklist / frequent reader checklist
Reader checklist (class)
Reading Assessment (key curriculum objectives with checklist per term) - I use one per child.
Guided Reading grouping
Example guided reading rotations
Key texts pages to record key books per term
A song written for my class assembly about the Ancient Egyptians.
Sang to the tune of Uptown Funk, it mentions stages of the mummification process and talks about how Pharaoh’s were the rulers of the land.
Enjoy! x