Hi, I am Lizzie a primary teacher with 10+ years of experience. I love teaching but the thing I hate is that Sunday becomes a work day. I believe that all teachers deserve to rest on Sunday. For the benefit of themselves and their students. Hence the creation of Teachers Love Sundaes.
The resources I create can be picked up and taught straight from. All lessons include key vocabulary, rewind , active learning throughout, problem solving generated learning , stem sentences and so much more !
Hi, I am Lizzie a primary teacher with 10+ years of experience. I love teaching but the thing I hate is that Sunday becomes a work day. I believe that all teachers deserve to rest on Sunday. For the benefit of themselves and their students. Hence the creation of Teachers Love Sundaes.
The resources I create can be picked up and taught straight from. All lessons include key vocabulary, rewind , active learning throughout, problem solving generated learning , stem sentences and so much more !
After their experiences with the big bad wolf, the three little pigs have set up their own building business.
Things keep going wrong in the business and they desperately need your expertise to help them.
All lessons start with children solving a problem that can only be solved using the LO. Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving and having ownership of their own learning they develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding.
Lesson 1 - Naming and identifying everyday materials.
Problem to solve - Shopping list is vague - what materials do the pigs actually need?
Lesson 2 - To know the difference between object and materials.
Problem to solve - Pigs have delivered the materials not the objects.
Lesson 3 - To describe the properties of everyday materials.
Problem to solve - Pigs are arguing over what is the best material for a chair they are building.
Lesson 4 - To investigate waterproof and absorbent
Problem to solve - The pigs have built a house with no roof. What is the best material to build a roof?
Lesson 5 - To sort materials.
Problem to solve - How to sort the items to pack for the new houses.
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Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections.
Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years)
Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task.
Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning.
Colour coding
Blue slides – Reflection
Green slides – Child led
Red slides – Teacher led
Orange slides - Independent application
Thankyou for looking at my resource.
In this lesson children will learn that they are helping the Three Little Pigs set up a building business.
Preparation - Each table will need a set of materials. The teacher will need materials during the input. Each table/partner/individual will need a plastic cup and a pipette.
They will start by rewinding to their previous learning. Children will work through two rewind tasks with a partner. They will identify the name of every materials and then identify an everyday object , its use and the materials it is made from.
Children will be given a problem. One of the pigs has made a house but they have forgotten the roof. Children will use their prior learning from the previous lesson to discuss what properties a roof needs to have. Children will then be taught about waterproof and absorbent.
Children will be introduced to the experiment they will be completing. Although children wouldn’t be completing a full science write up they will be involved and introduced to the stages of an experiment such as the method and the equipment list.
Children will start by making predictions about what materials they think will be waterproof and which they think will be absorbent. Children will be challenged to discuss how they made their decisions through conversation with their partner.
After completing their predictions children will complete the experiment which involves placing different materials on a cup and seeing how much water is left on the surface of the material.
Children will finish by reflecting on their results.
Stem sentences are used throughout to support oracy.
Helping hands - Children will be provided with a scaffold to write up their responses.
Chilli Challenge - Children will think about what further properties the waterproof materials need to be a suitable roof.
Colour coding
Blue slides – Reflection
Green slides – Child led
Red slides – Teacher led
Orange slides - Independent application
Thankyou for looking at my resource.
In this lesson children will learn that they are helping the Three Little Pigs set up a building business.
They will start by being shown a vague shopping list that one of the pigs has been provided with for the hardware store. Children will discuss why the list is impossible for the little pig to shop from. Children will have time to independently think and then discuss with a partner using a stem sentence to support oracy. To help embed material names and identification children will have hidden materials which will be slowly revealed. Children will guess the material again with the support of a stem sentence to support oracy.
The misconception of material vs object will be discussed to ensure children are naming the material in the independent task however this will be discussed in further detail in the next lesson.
Children’s independent task.
Each table in the classroom will be set up as a different hardware store. With varying quantities of materials. Children will need to write the store name, identify the material , name it and write the quantity.
Helping hands - A picture word bank will be provided.
Chilli Challenge - Children will discuss which store would be best to shop at based on the materials they have.
Colour coding
Blue slides – Reflection
Green slides – Child led
Red slides – Teacher led
Orange slides - Independent application
Thankyou for looking at my resource.
In this lesson children will learn that they are helping the Three Little Pigs set up a building business.
They will start by rewinding to their previous learning and identify the name of every materials in Three Little Pigs hardware store. Children will then learn about the mistake (scientific misconception) one of the pigs has made with Mummy Bear’s order. Children will discuss with a partner what mistake they have noticed. The teacher will then bring together observations in a scientific way by explaining that the pig delivered the materials not the objects. The teacher will define and explain the differences. Children will then do a number of examples together were they need to identify the object, the use and then the material used.
Children’s independent task.
Children will find objects around the classroom. They will draw a diagram of the object and as they did a a class identify the object, the use and then the material used.
Helping hands - A teacher supported ‘team’ will go round together finding objects.
Chilli Challenge - Children will identify objects with multiple materials.
Colour coding
Blue slides – Reflection
Green slides – Child led
Red slides – Teacher led
Orange slides - Independent application
Thankyou for looking at my resource.
In this lesson children will learn that they are helping the Three Little Pigs set up a building business.
Preparation - Each table will need a set of materials. The teacher will need materials during the input.
They will start by rewinding to their previous learning. Children will work through two rewind tasks with a partner. They will identify the name of every materials and then identify an everyday object , its use and the materials it is made from.
Children will be given a concept cartoon showing the three pigs debating which material to use to make a chair. The teacher will then bring together observations in a scientific way. Children will be introduced to seven property pairs (waterproof /absorbent have been excluded due to the next lesson having a focus on this)
Children will be introduced to prediction and will do a whole class prediction about the properties of certain materials. After children have made their predictions the teacher will model investigating the properties.
Children’s independent task.
Children will have materials on their tables. Children will create a fact file about individual materials and their properties.
Stem sentences are used throughout to support oracy.
Helping hands - A teacher supported ‘team’ will go round together finding objects.
Chilli Challenge - Children will identify objects with multiple materials.
Colour coding
Blue slides – Reflection
Green slides – Child led
Red slides – Teacher led
Orange slides - Independent application
Thankyou for looking at my resource.
In this lesson children will learn that they are helping the Three Little Pigs set up a building business.
Preparation - Each table will need a set of materials and sorting hoops.
They will start by rewinding to their previous learning. Children will work through two rewind tasks with a partner.
Children will be given a problem. How are they going to sort the items into two suitcases?
Children will learn what is meant by sorting and categories. Children will start by looking at everyday categories such as colour and then build up to embedding their scientific understanding.
Children will independently identify the categories of the two suitcase.
Helping hands - Children will have the words and will fill in the gaps.
Chilli Challenge - Children will think why one material was hard to sort into two groups.
Children will then be introduced to sorting hoops. Discussing the benefits of this over sorting into two groups.
Children will move onto sorting the materials into hoops and recording how they have sorted the materials.
Helping hands - Children will work on a teacher led team.
Chilli Challenge - Children will be challenged to sort into three categories.
Colour coding
Blue slides – Reflection
Green slides – Child led
Red slides – Teacher led
Orange slides - Independent application
