A 5-lesson plan PowerPoint on Antonio Vivaldi and his famous violin concertos depicting the four seasons. An audio CD is required to be used alongside this plan. 1. The life of Antonio Vivaldi 2. Spring - representing in pictures 3. Summer - pitch of string instruments 4. Autumn - colour and emotion 5. Winter - bowing and plucking 6. Glossary I hope this is a useful series of plans for a non-music specialist use.

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 PowerPoint designed to be reduced to 4 or 6 to a page and stuck into Learning Journey books for summative assessment. Characteristics of Effective Learning and Areas of Learning statements for Foundation Stage (EYFS 2012) children. I was inspired by a local EYFS teacher and their school's learning journeys to produce these. They will also be laminated and placed onto a ring to be carried by the staff during observations. I hope you find them useful xx

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

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

Thanks to Ilovemarmite and butterbeer for their fantastic superhero characters. I have made a simple PowerPoint presentation to introduce the VCOP superheroes to Year 1 pupils.

Information on Lord Shiva, as well as the Hindu story of the Great River: how the River Ganges came to be. A Hindu creation story involving the Goddess Ganga who became the river to save the earth from burning. Lord Shiva realised the world would be destroyed from the floods, so stood on the earth and took the mighty force of the waterfall, changing the water into 7 streams of water. This water became the Ganges (or Ganga). Thanks to authorstream for some of the information on Lord Shiva.

Double sided wordmat to go with John Burningham's Oi! Get off our train. First side has images of the main characters and some objects in the story, along with words. Second side has some VCOP ideas to go with story writing.

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

Reward chart to be used to record behaviour throughout the day. I have always given a stick if a child gets 5 smiley faces out of 8. Good for pinpointing trends in behaviour (times/lessons etc)

Lesson based on the Sikh story of Duni Chand and the value of generosity. Guru Nanak reminds the greedy Duni Chand that when you die, you cannot take material possessions and wealth with you. Encourages children to act out the story and decide what Duni Chand could have done with his wealth. Also attached a homework sheet for children to explore words associated with generosity. Lesson taken from the Leicester SACRE RE Syllabus KS1 unit of Beginning to learn about the Sikhs: symbols, stories and sharing. Please see my other lessons on the Sikh Gurus and Sikh artefacts and objects.

Game board (to be enlarged to A3) and animal picture and word cards. To be cut and laminated. Children can match the picture/word card to the board in alphabet order. Note that 'X&' is fox (the x is underlined to help) Hope this resource is useful; please rate it if so xx

A non-fiction PowerPoint all about Pumpkins. Learn about the fruit, how it can be cooked and Jack-O-Lanterns.

Topic planner mindmap covering children's experiences of new babies. Activity ideas across the 6 areas of learning, including role-play baby clinic and learning to look after a new baby.

A PowerPoint with all of the first 100 HFWs listed in Phase order. Also set up under Custom Slide Show so you can just display one Phase as needed.

Learning to read and write the ar phoneme - differentiated for a mixed Phase 3/4 group. 1. Blending for reading - words 2. Oral segmentation 3. Segmentation for spelling words 4. Reading sentences

This is a short introductory presentation to the mouse. It is designed for EYFS/KS1 children, although may be appropriate for older newcomers. Introduces how to click, drag and drop. I had planned to use the BBC WebWise Computer Basics website for children to then practise these skills. Please see my other tutorials on how to use Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Windows Explorer for kids. MS Paint tutorial is on the way... Thanks to mouseprogram.com for some of the content.

A PowerPoint based around characters within fairy-tales. Looking into how characters fit into the story mountain, and adjective use to add interest into the story.

Information on the life of Margarete Steiff and how the first teddy bears came about. Why Steiff bears have a button in their ear.