A short PowerPoint to introduce comic strips to children. Looking at the different features such as caption boxes, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, action words. Links well with the topic of Superheroes.

Story by Jill Murphy. I designed to make into a book. Lovely story to begin Mother's Day discussions and activities.

Thanks to Miss Chief for some content. A 5 day lesson plan PowerPoint based on nonsense nursery rhymes and poems. 3 days looking at On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, focusing on rhyming words, repetition, alliteration.

Differentiated Phonics PowerPoint designed to cater for a mixed group of Phases 3 and 4. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

A variety of activities taken from different (mainly American) websites on beans. 1. Maths ideas (sorting, matching, counting, capacity and pouring, estimation, time and change, measuring, direction) 2. Growing beans and bean sprouts 3. Collages, songs and music 4. Drama Great ideas to go alongside Jack and the Beanstalk

A set of rhyming number bonds with a fairy-tale theme. Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk, Little Red Hen, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White

A PowerPoint to introduce the topic of robots and machines. What are robots, what do they do, what are they made of and design your own robot of the future. Text content thanks to Idaho Public Television Dialogue 4 Kids.

A non-fiction book on wolves. Designed to support child initiated learning to go alongside topics on forests, animals and traditional tales (red riding hood, three little pigs)

Who were knights, weaponry, armour, coats of arms battles, famous knights and St George

Information on all the main body parts of a fish and what the fish uses them for. I have taken most of the content from vtaide.com and learning parade and made into an easy PowerPoint introduction. Children then will label a picture of the Rainbow fish, either laminated as a matching game, or individually as a writing exercise.

Differentiated PowerPoint to cater for a mixed Phase 3/4 group. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

PowerPoint looking at the rhyming names and descriptions of characters. Hairy Maclary, Bottomley Potts, Hercules Morse, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney, Schnitzel von Krumm. Children to attempt to create their own rhyming names and descriptions of differing dog breeds.

A simple history of the circus beginning with Philip Astley's horse training, moving on to circus acts without animals.

All resources based on Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy 1. 6 pictures in sequential order. 4 differentiated versions for writing a word/caption/sentence. To extend by including a causal connective. 2. To write a list of adjectives to describe a night sky/space setting. 3. Plenary success criteria checklist. 4&5. Differentiated writing frames. 6. VCOP wordmat split up into vocab. connectives, openers and punctuation. Includes picture cues and VCOP superheroes images courtesy of ButterBeer and ilovemarmite.

A PowerPoint lesson plan featuring: 1. Identifying hot and cold items in the home 2. Fire detection equipment 3. Fire safety notices and fire drill 4. Making a 999 emergency services call

Pictorial instructions to make a jam sandwich - ideal for Foundation Stage/KS1.

A PowerPoint on early castles, looking into motte and baileys and then onto stone castles

Based on information from the National Maritime Museum's website with images. Who were pirates, what did they do, how did they live and what can we learn to make ourselves better people?

A matching pairs game using the skin patterns of a tiger, leopard, cow, giraffe, elephant, zebra, snake and peacock. To be printed double sided and laminated. This game links with my other zoo-themed resources.

A PowerPoint written for Infant age children to begin to use PowerPoint software. Learning how to: 1. Insert slides 2. Change the layout of slides 3. Insert images 4. Save the document Can be used for story-writing or non-fiction