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A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
**This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding balanced equations with addition and subtraction. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles from simple additions to additions over 10 and 20. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros recognizing balanced equations.
Contents:
3 x differentiated complete and mixed Tarsia puzzles.
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Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000
Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters
Long Multiplication Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Long Division
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Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding balanced equations with addition and subtraction including decimals. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles where students must carry and borrow numbers to complete the additions and subtractions, some of which include decimals and negative numbers. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros balancing equations.
Contents:
3 x differentiated complete and mixed Tarsia puzzles.
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles
Balancing Equations (Years 2 - 3)
Balancing Equations (Years 4 -5)
Equivalent Fractions
Fractions of Numbers
Long Division
Long Multiplication Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000
Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column addition with and without carrying including decimals without them even realising they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated decimal addition problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach addition.
Contents:
Diff. 1: Column addition with decimals & without carrying.
Diff. 2: Column addition with decimals & without carrying (more challenging).
Diff. 3: Column addition with decimals & carrying.
Diff. 4: Column addition with decimals & carrying (more challenging).
Check out our Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game here.
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These inverse operation challenge cards will give your students loads of practice using the inverse operation to figure out a variety of word problems (using multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division). You can use these task cards in a variety of ways from placing them randomly around your outdoor space and letting students find them to using them as extension or exit cards.
This pack contains 18 task cards with three levels of differentiation.
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These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs.
Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card.
Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction.
This pack contains differentiated card levels.
Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card).
Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card).
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24 visual volcano vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
24 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 Blank Cards
Vocabulary Included
Active Volcano
Batholith
Caldera
Cinder Cone Volcano
Composite Volcano
Crater
Dormant Volcano
Explosive Eruption
Extinct Volcano
Fissure
Hot Spots
Hot Spring
Lava
Magma
Magma Chamber
Nonexplosive Eruption
Pyroclastic Material
Rift
Ring of Fire
Shield Volcano
Vent
Volcanic Ash
Volcanic Neck
Volcano
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16 visual natural disasters vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
16 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Titlet
Vocabulary Included
Natural Disaster
Beaufort Scale
Cyclone
Drought
Dust Storm
Earthquake
Fault Line
Flood
Gust
Hurricane
Lightning
Richter Scale
Tornado
Tsunami
Typhoon
Wild Fire
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Unlock your children’s imagination with these fun story hooks. This resource will provide inspiration for them to write their very own story and can be a great hook for a big / independent write.
This pack contains 20 pictures of different doors to be used as story starters. The children can start writing imagining that they are stood in front of the door. We have got some clue cards to help those students that may need some direction when writing their stories.
We have had great success using this resources and seen some truly wonderful stories come from them.
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Have fun with math outdoors with this recap activity. This resource contains 16 task cards each with a math task to practice counting, simple addition, shape, and size.
There’s loads of great ways to use these task cards, from placing them around your outdoor space for students to find and complete to simply handing them out for individual, pair, or group work.
Each card has a visual aid to help your early readers.
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Autumn is a wonderful time of year where there are a lot of changes happening. This can be a fantastic opportunity to look at poetry and description. These lessons will get your students looking descriptive language and adjectives to describe the world around them through an acrostic poem.
They will look at adjectives and other descriptive techniques to describe autumn before writing their own acrostic poems.
Part 1: Get the students to go outside to find the most interesting leaf they can. They will then stick the leaf in the middle of the worksheet and write adjectives / descriptive phrases around the outside to describe the leaf.
Part 2: This lesson is all about thinking of adjectives and descriptive phrases to describe Autumn. They must find somewhere outside (ideally around trees) and use their descriptive language techniques to describe the changes happening in autumn.
Part 3: It’s now time for the students to write their acrostic poems using the descriptive language they’ve been looking at. This pack contains a few different poem templates for them to use.
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Why scale up shapes on paper when you can do it on the playground! These task cards will get your students scaling up shapes and drawing them on the playground using chalk. These task cards will give your students lots of practise at ratio & proportion and measuring.
This resource contains 16 task cards which get more difficult throughout. They contain both regular and irregular shapes.
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Using the outdoors as a way to promote a healthy mindset as well as having a brain break from the classroom can have huge benefits on students’ learning and emotional wellbeing. These outdoor mindfulness task cards can be used to give out to students when they are in need of some quiet time or a brain break from the classroom. Each card contains a simple activity that they can complete outside independently with minimal prep.
Each activity is designed to promote a positive mental wellbeing along with a calm mindset ready for work. These cards can also be used very effectively with SEN students that become overwhelmed within the classroom. If safe and appropriate, they can choose a card and spend 5 minutes completing the activity outside before returning to the classroom. This can help them take a minute to calm down and return to a better state of mind.
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A fun Easter maths activity for grades 5 – 6 that consists of 8 differentiated maths puzzles that make Easter themed shapes where children must work out the answers to questions to match the pieces together. This is a perfect activity for fun revision lessons as you are winding down for the holidays!
This pack contains four puzzles that are differentiated 2 ways (8 puzzles in total), which cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Contents:
- Addition puzzle X 2
- Subtraction puzzle X2
- Division puzzle X 2
- Multiplication puzzle X 2
Although each puzzle is differentiated, you can also change the level of challenge by asking the children to work out the answers in their head or by allowing them to write down their workings out.
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Group roles badges and plates that allow you to easily structure cooperative learning / group work so that each child has a specific responsibility that is crucial to their success. This pack includes role plates for the tables as well as badges that they can wear around their neck while taking part in the group work both with descriptions of what the role duties are.
The five roles are:
- Agent Manager
- Agent Time Manager
- Agent Volume
- Agent Materials Manager
- Agent Encourager
When children have a specific role that they are responsible for they seem to be much more focused and more involved in their learning. I normally change the roles each time they do group work so that every child experiences each role.
Contents:
- 5 x job plates with descriptions
- 5 x double sided job badges with descriptions
Adjectives (Pair Cards): Adjectives have never been so easy with our set of 4 adjective pair cards. Engage your children with our fun activities either individually, as a group, or as a class and they will be Adjective Pros before you know it!
Check out our preview to see just how exciting you can make adjectives!
Contents:
- Opposites train - x1 (23 pairs)
- Opposite pair cards pack x 1 (11 pairs)
- Synonym pair cards pack x 1 (14 pairs)
- Who am I? pairs pack x 1 (17 pairs)
This is a great investigation if you’re looking at animal adaptations or the human body.
Children will investigate whether our physical appearances effect our ability to do different tasks, answering question such as ‘do people with longer legs run faster?’ These investigation can then lead onto a discussion about how animals have adapted to be better at things to help them survive.
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Contents:
6 x investigation cards
2 x differentiated investigation plan template
2 x differentiated results table
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This activity develops letter recognition and fine motor skills as your class complete task cards by making letters of the alphabet out of natural materials.Each card comes with visual aids to support learners.
You can give out these cards and ask your class to create the suggested word using the natural material depicted in the card. You can also create your own activities using these cards.
Contents:
A – Z letter art cards
Perfect to be used as a math station, these fun addition puzzles are great for your early mathematicians to practice adding numbers 1 - 15 using dice to help. This pack contains 3 differentiated puzzles, however it can be further differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
3 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles
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Dice Addition (1-15)