This is a great song I have found to help children understand square numbers. I have made a song sheet to go with this and there are parts for simple instruments too. If you have a Smart Board there is a square numbers lesson related to this too. I have included a link to the song. Enjoy! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Two Carroll diagrams to sort numbers on to. The easier one is 5 times table/not 5 times table even/not even and the second one is the same but this time it is the 6 times table. You can do the easier one all together on the carpet and then the children can do the 6 times table one at their desks. I teach in a set so I can able to give them all similar work. If you have different abilities you could adapt it to the 2 times table for example. Please leave feedback!

Cut up these questions and put on the desks for the children to answer. They can record the answers in their book, making sure they write down the number of the question and use the answer sheet at the end to self mark. For each question they have to use their knowledge of counting in 3s, 5s, and 6s etc to work out how many packets are needed. For all the questions they have to buy extra packets as the number they need to does not fit in perfectly.

This is my simple version of bingo which involves everyone having the same board! They only highlight 4 or 5 of the squares and then get that number of counters. There is a mixture of questions and subtraction vocab such as minus, less, decrease and take away. You give clues by giving the answer to one of the questions or e.g. 'this is the subtraction symbol&'. The first one to have 5 counters on their board is the winner. This is a great way to teach children subtraction vocabulary and can be used as a starter or in the plenary.

Children choose from a list of numbers and have to work out all the multiplication sums that could make that number in total. There is an answer sheet for them at the end and a plenary/reflection sheet. They can only multiply 2 numbers (but you could make it harder by allowing more) and they are told how many possible ways there are. if you use it PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Here is nearly everything you need to hold your own Spelling Bee. The spelling lists relate to famous children's books so it could be held during a Book Week. You will need a microphone. It is also worth having a cup made for each year group and having each winner&'s name engraved on it. We are shortly holding our first one. I think we will put the words from the lists for each year group in separate hats and have rounds where they individually come up and have to spell the word, by using letter names, speaking into the microphone. If you use this let me know how it goes!

A simple game which children enjoy.Play with the whole class. I have made some rules to download to explain how to play it. Please leave feedback if you use it!

I am not an American so please forgive me for missing out really important things on here-America is too great to put it all into one Smartboard! I made this to introduce the children to America. It looks briefly at the flag, maps, the president, famous sports people etc. Make up a quiz on some of the information and then play an American word bingo game. Finally set them a challenge to find out the meaning of American words on the computers in pairs. The first pair to find them all has a prize.

We pretended to go into outer space and set the classroom as up if we were in a rocket. The Smartboard was at the front, as if it were a window on the rocket. This was part of a fun topic we did on Aliens. There is plenty of chance for role play and drama. We ended up landing on a new planet,Kepler B22, and bringing back alien eggs which they had to look after. This lead to lots of drawing and writing when the eggs hatched! They wrote a recount of their trip. We also had a debate:Should we keep the eggs? Try it out-they will love it! Please leave feedback!

The children can click on these links to play a variety of games to help the to fully understand adverbs so that they don't think they all end in ly! The most popular game was the battle ships one. The children are learning grammar and having fun at the same time!!

The children can click on these and it takes them directly to lots of fun online games from various websites. I had all the laptops out for a lesson and they loved it. They are doing so much maths through play! Very motivational.

This is a project designed to last for a week, but it could be longer, where the children can use their imaginations to plan an indoor play area for children with a maths theme to it. As designers they have to think about how a fun indoor area might teach children more about 2D and 3D shape, times tables, capacity and money. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! Encourage them to research on the internet and use maths dictionaries to find out names of harder 2D/3D shapes etc so they are learning new things and consolidating their own skills at the same time.Use the photos to help generate ideas!

My 'Book Factor&' reading competition works best when it is whole school but individual teachers can also run it in their own classroom. Here is everything you need to start it straight away. There is a word doc that explains it all. It really does motivate children to read at home! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

There is a link to the nrich website where you will find the sheet and more information. The starter of this lesson looks at balancing sums , Then the main part of the lesson introduces the maze. They have to go from beginning to end and each number they go through they have to add on to their total and they must have 100 by the end. Please leave feedback!

This is a Smartboard lesson can be used to explain how to work out division sums on a number line. There are 2 levels of work for the children to do on one of the slides. It is for roughly level 3C/3B. Please leave feedback!

The children have a chart with pictures of 3D shapes on and they have to write how many faces, vertices (remember this as the points and there is a point in the letter v) and edges the shapes have. They also have to write or draw pictures of any other objects they can think of which are the same shape.

A Power point to help teach the vowels and when to use an. Learn what the vowels are through a song to the tune of 'bingo was his name&'. There is an activity explained at the end where the children can make a simple book about it.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

We do 'Surprise Writes&' in my school on Fridays, once every half term (usually we do &';Big Write'), where all year groups (Year 3 to 6) complete the same writing activity. The children and teachers do not know what it will be until that morning. This resource links to a TES video story start and there is a link on here. The children LOVED creating spooky stories from this! The idea is that they have very little help when they write so that it can be assessed.

This is a homework sheet which explains how to work out these questions. It also contains some word problems as well. It could be adapted and used in class.

This resource links to my other resource 'Egyptian Adventure Story on Smartboard&'. Once they have learned and imitated that story they are ready to write their own.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! This is a very visual resource with lots of pictures of characters and treasures to help them generate interesting ideas. This resource works best when taught in the style of Pie Corbett (learn, imitate, innovate) The boxing up chart helps them to structure their story in 5 clear paragraphs.