Celebrate Chinese New Year in your classroom with this easy and fun craft and writing activity suitable for KS1 / lower KS2. Start by reading a story about the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, then introduce the main activity – making a Zodiac wheel. Children cut out the wheel and animal cards which they then glue to the wheel and colour or decorate it. Finish off with a quick writing task – children draw or colour (both versions included) their Zodiac animal, read about its strength and weaknesses and say if they agree with the descriptions. The resource is in .pdf format , not editable (29 pages including the cover and credits page) and includes: 1. The story of the 12 Zodiac animals. 2. Zodiac Craft instructions 3. Zodiac Craft 4. Zodiac writing activity (individual pages for each Zodiac animal) The resource has been updated up to the Year 2026 (with lowest year now being 2003) You might also be interested in Chinese New Year

In this resource, you will find over 80 question stems/ pupil prompts that could be used during Guided Reading sessions. Was created to follow the Reading Rainbow scheme (COLOURFUL REMINDERS FANTASTIC) but can be adapted to be used with any guided reading lesson to promote deeper thinking and good reading behaviours.

A set of 7 posters that give basic information about the rules of using speech. See the cover image for more detail. Contain beautiful illustrations from The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore film. Suitable for KS2.

A set of 24 task cards to practise the use of an apostrophes with possessive nouns, plural and singular. Can be used as a table task or hid around the classroom for a scavenger hunt. Children walk around the room looking for cards, they then read the sentence on the card and turn it into a phrase with a possessive noun and apostrophe. For example - this table belongs to Liam - Liam's table. Recording sheet and answers included. Thank you for your interest, HoppyTimes

This is the last set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the 10 words of the list - strength, suppose, surprise, therefore, though, thought, through, various, weight, woman/women. The activities include : page 1 - mini word lists page 2 - Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check activity page 3 - Crack the Code activity pages 4 - 8 - Word flash cards (2 per page of A4) pages 9-10 - Word search activity (with answers) page 11 - Roll and spell activity (dice required) page 12 - Write it, draw it, use it activity page 14 - Word Battleships activity page 14 - credits The 10 sets will be combined into a bundle shortly. If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 9) This is the ninth set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are the same as in Set 4 and are based on the following 10 words of the list - restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, signature, sincerely, soldier, stomach. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity page 4 - Email your Teacher activity pages 5 - 9 - flash cards pages 10-11 - Word Search activity (with answers) page 12 - Roll and Spell activity page 13 - Word change activity page 14 -credits For more sets, please visit my shop. Each set includes 5 spelling activities, plus mini word lists and flash cards. If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times

Guess Who Guess Who? Board in English and French. Great for practising people’s descriptions, facial features Can be printed as A4 or A3 (without any quality lost). In .pdf (not editable) format. Thank you for your interest. Hoppy Times

A set of 8 (4 colour and 4 black and white) Spring/ Easter Bookmarks. Great as rewards, treats, prizes etc. Use the black and white version for pupils to colour their own, then laminate for durability.

Up for your consideration is this cute writing prompt poster. It will remind the pupils to check their work before submitting it to you. Name & Date; Capital Letters ; Punctuation; Finger Spaces. This product is free, all I am asking in return is to rate the quality of my work, please.

A fun WANTED type poster for irregular verbs.

I have made this little set of 6 role cards that can be used for Literature Circles, Book Cubs or Guided Reading. The job titles are: Word Finder Questioner Image Maker Summariser Predictor and Reader. All the cards come with job descriptions. Just print them out and laminate for durability. Hope you enjoy this product!

A simple reminder to students on how to present their work. DUMTUM - date, underline, miss a line, title, underline, miss a line. Display as a poster or reduce the size and glue in children's books. Please consider leaving a review if you are happy with this free resource. Thank you!

A cute set of 4 Halloween "Reading is a Treat" Bookmarks. Ready to be printed and laminated for durability. Enjoy! This product is free. All I'm asking in return is to provide feedback if you are happy with the quality of my work. Thank you, Hoppy Times :)

Comma Uses Poster A poster outlining the main uses of commas in the English language. Suitable for KS2, great reference for SATs prep, etc. Thank you for your interest. HoppyTimes

Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 1) This is the first set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the first 10 words of the list - accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached. The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards pages 9 - 10 - Word search (with answers) page 11 - Make a sentence activity page 12 - Caption it activity page 13 - Spelling Maths activity page 14 -credits Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 If you like the quality of my work, please consider leaving a rating/ review. Thank you for your interest in my products. Hoppy Times