Second Language Welsh - Foundation Phase/KS1
Includes the following sentence patterns:
What did you see?
What are you wearing?
What is the time?
Where did you go?
Which colour?
Can I have…?
Which number?
What do you like?
Do you like?
What is the weather like?
How are you?
Our genre was instruction writing.
Each task is differentiated.
Introduction - use a big piece of sugar paper and ask the children to tell me what to write. We talked about the features that we needed to include (title, numbered points, pictures to illustrate what happened).
3 tasks - Instructions to make bread, instructions to plant potatoes, instructions to plant onions
MAT - copy from a model/word mat/independent writing
Top group - use a word mat to find the correct bossy verb. Fill in the gap. Draw pictures to illustrate each step.
Middle group - cut out each step and stuck them in order. Draw pictures to illustrate each step.
Bottom group - I took photos of each activity and they cut them out and glued them in order. A member of staff wrote what they said about each picture.
3 Differentiated Worksheets - Reception/Early Years
What’s that sound?
1 - 4 sounds
2 - 6 sounds
3 - 8 sounds
I had a feely bag with different instruments and classroom resources inside. I used one resource at a time. I shook the bag for the children to listen to the sound. My lower ability children drew pictures and I scribed for them (listen to 4 sounds). My middle group drew pictures and initial sounds of what they thought the sound was (listen to 6 sounds). My top ability group drew pictures and spelled phonetically (listen to 8 sounds). MAT wrote in full sentences.
I used some instruments such as bells, drums, a triangle; as well as classroom resources such as pencils, rulers, crayons. Children thought that pencils sounded like claves. They also thought wooden building blocks sounded like claves. We talked about the material that they are made out of. I also used crisps, marbles, and numicon shapes.
Reception Worksheets - Cornerstones Topic - ‘What’s that sound?’
Instruction Writing - how to play a triangle PDF
3 differentiated worksheets/activities
Top group - use the writing template to scaffold writing. Children write independently using the word mat to start with bossy verbs. Draw pictures to illustrate writing.
Middle group - Draw pictures to illustrate writing. Children just need to choose the correct bossy verb to include at the start of their sentences. Word mat included.
Lower group - cut and stick activity. Children could draw their own pictures to illustrate the writing for further differentiation.
Spider Web Phonics
Group activity / game.
Each child needs a board and a spider.
Start with the spider in the middle of the board.
An adult will need to shout out a letter. The children need to move their spider to the sound that they hear.
I’ve attached 2 copies - a PDF & and editable Word document to change the sounds
Reception Science Experiment
Float or sink?
As part of our harvest topic, we carried out an experiment to see which harvest food floated or sunk to the bottom of the water tray.
Top group - made predictions before carrying out the experiment
Middle group - drew pictures on a table to illustrate the outcome
Bottom group - circled the food that sunk.
Reception
Our topic was minibeasts.
This pack includes The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Story Writing Template
Top group - wrote independently.
Middle group - copied from a model.
Lower group - over wrote my writing (yellow felt pen).
Enhanced Provision Activities include:
Finger painting the body of the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Measuring how high the bug jumps with non-standard units - cubes, counters etc.
Measuring the minibeast using non-standard units - cubes, counters etc.
Early Years Maths
Numeracy Provision
Cut and laminate the patterns in strips.
Provide plastic / real coins for children to make repeating patterns in the maths area.
Challenge children to make their own patterns.
Early Years / Reception / Year 1
Sort food that is healthy and unhealthy for your teeth.
Print page as A3.
Lower - children can cut and stick pictures
Middle - children can draw pictures, adults can label drawings
Top - children can draw and label pictures independently
Word document (editable) and PDF has been included.
More and Less - Reception - Early Years
Differentiated worksheets.
Worksheet 1
Roll the dice. Then count the dots on the dice. Draw the dots in the middle box. Draw 1 more in the right box. Draw 1 less in the left box. Or write the correct numbers.
To differentiate, children need to use 2 dice and add them together to find the total value. Then find 1 more and 1 less. Or use a foam dice and add your own numbers (e.g 2 -3 digit numbers).
Worksheet 2
Find 1 more and 1 less using a number line.
Fill in the missing numbers
differentiated
0-5
5-10
10 - 15
15 - 20
I printed these out, laminated them in strips. The children write the missing number with a whiteboard pen, lower ability children place a number magnet in the correct place.
My reception class discussed rules and what was ‘fair’ and ‘not fair’ / ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.
We cut out the sentences and matched them to either ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. We discussed each one first and re-wrote them to be fair.
We spent the morning watching videos on BBC clips, and reading facts about woodland animals.
We then talked about WOW words to describe how they looked etc. We used this worksheet to record our answers.
Sort woodland & non-woodland animals into a Venn diagram.