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Early Years activities - worksheets, ideas for the provision, outdoor learning, literacy, numeracy etc...

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Early Years activities - worksheets, ideas for the provision, outdoor learning, literacy, numeracy etc...
Story Writing - Planning your story
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Story Writing - Planning your story

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Differentiated sheets Early Years/Reception/Year 1 A skeleton table to help children to plan all elements of their story. Word mat included to help children generate ideas. An editable Word document is included, as well as a PDF copy.
This is Me in Reception
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This is Me in Reception

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Children will draw a picture of themselves when they start Reception. The picture is added to their learning journey. It is lovely to compare their drawings from starting Reception, to the end of Reception.
Pictures for Sound Boxes
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Pictures for Sound Boxes

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Pictures for every letter of the alphabet. I put these in my sound box at the start of the year. Children add things around the classroom to the boxes. Labels for phase 3 sound boxes
Ice Melting Science Experiment
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Ice Melting Science Experiment

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Make observations Differentiated worksheet - lower group - cut and stick pictures - middle group - draw pictures - higher group - draw and explain pictures Science Foundation Phase Melting ice
Questioning - Knights
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Questioning - Knights

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Rec/Y1 Discuss knights. Generate questions about their role and what they looked like etc. Children record their answers on this worksheet.
Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments
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Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments

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Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments - Reception Differentiated worksheets lower ability - cut and stick pictures of instruments under the correct heading middle ability - my children wrote over yellow pen top ability - copy from a word mat/attempt to spell words independently
KS1 Science - Ears/Hearing Experiment
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KS1 Science - Ears/Hearing Experiment

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Year 1 Science - Hearing/Ears This was a part of our science topic ‘The Senses’. We completed these 3 differentiated worksheets/anticipation grids to activate prior knowledge. Half way through our topic, we completed the ‘expanding statements’ as children had a better understanding of hearing. We then completed the beaker experiement. Children predicted what the beakers would sound like when struck when they were full and empty. We had been learning about low and high pitch.
Toys KS1 - Old and New
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Toys KS1 - Old and New

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As part of our topic on toys, we planned our explanation writing about how a toy car works. We used the skeleton to help us with our ideas first. We also focused on adjectives to describe old and new.
Year 1 Assessments
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Year 1 Assessments

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Recognising capital letters - highlight the letters that they recognise. Easy indicator of what letters to work on. Reading zero to twenty. Tick when children are able to read these key words. I do these assessments at the end of each full term. I then make groups of children to focus on similar sounds/numbers. There is also a differentiated follow up maths worksheet for children to practise reading the numbers zero to twenty.
Numeracy Worksheets for Year 1
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Numeracy Worksheets for Year 1

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Sorting 2 digit and 3 digit numbers to 50 and 100 - differentiated. Split up teen numbers. Left as a template, as I wrote my own numbers to differentiate. Addition and subtraction worksheet/challenge for maths area - independent task. Differentiated addition and subtraction worded problems. Money - make a spider diagram of all the ways you can make 15p and 50p. My year 1s used numicon shapes. MAT started using multiplication, such as 5 lots of 10p make 50p (5x10=50).
Guided Reading - KS1
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Guided Reading - KS1

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I use these worksheets during my guided reading sessions with Year 1. We make predictions about the front cover, then half way through, and then just before the end. We then reflect on what we predicted. The skimming task is differentiated. The focus is on phase 2 and 3 tricky words. My children highlighted the words in different highlighter pen as it was clearer for them to count the words at the end. Guided Reading Literacy KS1 Year 1
Apple Experiment - observe changes over time
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Apple Experiment - observe changes over time

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Reception Activity - Science Experiment We cut an apple up into quarters. We talked about cutting it in half, and having 2 pieces, then half again, now we have quarters, 4 pieces altogether! We put one in water, one in oil, one in vinegar and the other ‘air’. We put them in the cupboard for 4 days then looked at at them to see if there were any changes in appearance, texture or smell.