key things to remember when writing a letter and how to set it out

picture made of shapes for children to label angle in, then colour lightly after.

Detailed colouring to explore William Morris's repeating tile patterns.

simple worksheet with activities to show children's understanding of odd and even numbers.

leading up to designing and building our own junk model bridges

simple sheet with opportunities for sentence writing and drawing labeled diagrams to explain what a habitat is and how an animal can be suited to a particular habitat.

simple design sheet

A simple powerpoint exploring abstract art and in particular the expressionistic work of Keith Garrow. Aiming to inspire children to be bold with shape and texture. Leads into collage, paint and printing work well.

worksheet for children to note exciting, interesting descriptive words, thinking about all their senses, to say what life in the trenches was like, working towards writing an imagined letter home from the trenches.

IWB pages to work through to explain the difference between physical and human features of an environment. The last page has lots of different features hiding the words physical or human behind them depending on what they are, as a plenary to the lesson children can come up and say what type they think it s and why, then move the picture to reveal the correct answer.

two more sheets to go with previous ones for this topic. Cut and stick sheet with pictures of physical and human features for children to sort plus drawing od Katie Morag's Island where children are instructed to colour physical features green and human features red. Good differentiation allowing children to choose how they show you what they know.

A simple powerpoint with basic facts about pointillism and seurat, to be a starting point for children's own work.

A simple assembly ppt to work through. You will need a cd with the hymns on (Thank you Lord for this new day) and (He made me) and a way to play seaside, forest and thunderstorm sounds: I am using a free white noise app on my Iphone with a docking station. Also a selection of sensory natural items for childen to explore (sand, waterm leaves etc).

simple revision aid / poster for display

Simple activity sheet for children to do first thing in the morning, show what they know about a number, 1 more, 1 less, 10 more 10 less, half, double etc - you put the number on the board.

With spaces for key features of a good investigation (Question/What I want to find out, Method, prediction, fair testing, results and conclusion.)

Wordsearch currently containing HFWs to extend and support learning in spellings lessons. Children are given their new spellings, practice them in their best handwriting, then find them in the wordsearch. Finally they have to use each word in a sentence to show they understand the meaning.

good for planning out what to write, including key events and wow words.

worksheets and activities, with planning to link to Katie Morag topic, differentiateed activities for children to show their understanding of physical and human features of a landscape. Children choose which activity they would like to do - colour coding a drawing of Katie's Island, cutting and sticking different picutres of features into the correct column on a table, or using a sheet of useful words to write their own sentences to explain the difference between the two types of feature. Two other activity sheets are on here to use with this lesson as well, under physical / human

print and laminate capital letter ice cream cones and lower case ice cream scoops. Children can play games matching the correct pairs, also useful for display.