A lesson plan for the short ‘oo’ sound in Phase 3 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.

LO: To be able to use strong/light movements, developing and adding to their dance. A dance lesson for year 2 class, with full details of the warm up, development activity and cool down. The previous lesson looked at shadowing, now in this lesson the children need to do mirroring. This lesson actually worked really well and children really enjoyed it! I used the song ‘Firework’ by Katy Perry for the warm up, seemed an appropriate choice but you can use any song that you want obviously.

Learning objectives: *To recognise the /ai/ grapheme and be able to sound out its phoneme *To segment and blend /ai/ words for reading and spelling

This is a story volcano planner - one blank, one filled in. The idea is that the 5 boxes that flow around the volcano should help children when they’re planning and writing a story to write effectively. It encourages children to look at the beginning, the build up, the climax, problem, the resolution and the ending. I’d say that this is suitable for all of KS2.

LO: To compare and contrast hospitals before Florence, after Florence and today. A lesson plan for a year 2 class looking at Florence Nightingale and the improvements and changes that she made in nursing and hospitals. This is part of a 4 week Information Text block where the children are writing an information booklet about Florence Nightingale. I’ve uploaded other lessons for this block/activity.

Differentiated shopping cards with prices that can be used for any money lessons. in Numeracy. They’ve been made with Year 2 in mind but can easily be adapted by changing the amounts.

A powerpoint with a money related word problem that was used as a plenary after a money lesson where children had to add coin values together. Can easily be adapted.

Learning Objectives: To understand how an investigation is carried out by taking part in a class investigation and by giving ideas and suggestions about how it could be carried out. To know how to carry out the skill of measurement – distance. To understand that sounds travel away from a sound source and become fainter as they do so. To understand that sounds from different sound sources vary in how far away they can be heard. This lesson gives children the opportunity to investigate how sound changes in relation to distance.

A weeks literacy planning for the first week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at different books by the same author, in this case the Katie Morag books. The week focuses on looking at the books, getting the children to explain their reactions to texts, find differences and similarities between the books etc. and at the end of the week, write a book review.

LO: To be able to use strong/light movements, developing and adding to their dance. A dance lesson for year 2 class, with full details of the warm up, development activity and cool down. This lesson actually worked really well and children really enjoyed it! If you don’t know the warm up and need more details, just send me a message.

This is a lesson plan for a Y2 lesson (also done with year 1) where the children write a recount of Florence Nightingale’s life using a website so that it can be printed. This was part of a 4 week block where the children wrote an information booklet about Florence Nightgale. Learning Objective: To use ICT to write information texts incorporating pictures

A lesson plan for the long ‘oo’ sound in Phase 3 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.

Learning objective: To use units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days) and know the relationship between them. Children estimate how many times they can do an activity in one minute, carry out the activity and record the accurate number. I found that this encouraged children to really consider how long a minute is rather than make random guesses as they did for the first estimate, after that they came up with more more sensible, rational and accurate estimates. Relates to: NC Ma3, 4a, 4d National Framework Numeracy: Block D, Measuring

A weeks literacy planning for the fourth week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at fantasy settings. The week focuses on comparing, contrasting and discussing a range of fantasy settings, creating a magical object to write about, creating a story involving a fantasy setting and magical object, creating a character and profile.

The first introductory lesson to Coasts for Year 5/6 geography. The lesson plan details everything that you will need for the lesson. All recording sheets and activities are included. The interactive whiteboard presentation has a number of pictures as well as teaching points and questions to help with teaching about coasts and sea defence systems. I also have two other notebook files that are coastal pictures but they’re fairly large files and slow to upload but if anyone wants them, please contact me.

Learning Objectives: To make simple notes to writing and plan for writing. A lesson focusing on writing a plan in note form for use in the next lesson so that children can write a recount of Florence Nightingale’s life.

This is a loop game that can be used for the Oral Mental Starter of a maths lesson, focusing on mental addition and subtraction. This was made with year 2 in mind and if the cards are kept in the same order as they print then the numbers will work and not go too high or below zero.

A weeks literacy planning for the third week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at different books by the same author, in this case the Katie Morag books. The week focuses on looking at the character of Katie Morag, putting together a character profile, creating a new character to be a friend for Katie based on what we know about Katie already and planning and writing a story involving their new character.

Learning Objective: To give change using money. 1st Grade math lesson about giving change. The children have to find change for different items when they are paid with using a specific coin. The handouts are differentiated so that different abilities give change from different amounts.

This is a worksheet that asks children to look at a picture and then circle the first letter of what the picture is. All of the pictures are carefully chosen so that the children will know what it is, no point using a cockatiel! The letters on this sheet are chosen o meet Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.