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

The product would make a great reference chart for basic Multiplication Strategies: arrays, repeated addition, equal groups and number line. The file contains a page of 2 reference charts (ideal for their books); Four A4 sized posters and a matching header. Thank you for your interest!

Great activity for studying Food Chains. Real life photos of animals and plants. 28 cards in total. Can be sorted into producers/ consumers; omnivores/ carnivores/ herbivores; food chains. Tip: why not let the students have a competition and build the longest food chain?! Images included: tuna fish zebra arctic cod slug shrimp shrew shark seal red fox rattlesnake rabbit polar bear plankton owl oak leaf mouse lion human hawk green plant grass frog earthworm dead leaves cow caterpillar blue tit + sun, food chain Just print them off, cut into little cards and laminate for durability. Enjoy!

Science Matter sorting activity for three states of water - ice, water and water vapour. Good quality real life photos (6 per page) that can be laminated for durability. Thank you for your interest.

Adjectives Roll Grammar SPaG Activity / Dice Game​. Can be played in pairs. Children throw a dice each and combine their score. They then find their score number on the game board and use 3 adjectives to describe the picture. As an extension, the adjectives used can be uplevelled using a thesaurus. Great for KS1/KS2 Thank you for your interest in my products Hoppy Times

This is a great activity that can be used in your classroom while studying states of matter. 24 real life pictures contain images of solids, liquids and gases for pupils to study and sort. There are 24 pictures in total, 6 per page of A4. To use as a cut and paste sorting activity in their books, choose "Multiple" in Page Sizing and Handling when printing. Hope you will enjoy this product!

A set of 40 Maths task cards for your students to practise an important skill of using column addition to add together two 2-digit numbers. Calculations with and without exchange included. For KS2 Student sheet and Answer key provided. Thank you for your interest. HoppyTimes

This listing is for a set of 40 task cards for your students to practise an important skill of using column addition to add together two 3-digit numbers. Calculations with and without carry over included. For KS2 Student sheet and Answer key provided. Thank you for your interest. HoppyTimes

Up for your consideration is the board game on the life of Moses (Religious Education) The game needs to be printed on A3 (as too small for A4); it can be then laminated and enjoyed by the pupils year after year. All you need is dice and counters. Great for group work. Suitable for KS1 and KS2

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.

Christmas Quiz Task Cards A fun and educational Christmas quiz suitable for children in KS2. Contains 28 cards that can be cut out and put around the classroom for a Christmas scavenger hunt or just given out as table task cards. Bright, child friendly graphics and clear precursive font. Answer sheet and response sheet included. Happy Holidays!

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

Up for your consideration is a set of 32 Place Value Task cards. Made following Year 4 National Curriculum requirements for Number - Place Value. Can be used as a treasure hunt around the classroom; as table tasks or group work. Suitable for Year 4, lower Year 5 Response sheet and answers included.

These task cards are designed specifically for Year 3 and follow the new guidance for the National Curriculum. Included: Page 1 - front cover Pages 2-4 - find the missing number Pages 5 - 7 - multiplying/ dividing by 10 Pages 8 - 10 - multiplying using partitioning Pages 11 - 13 - problem solving (page 13 includes higher thinking, reasoning problems) Pages 14 - 17 - multiplying using the grid method Pages 18 - 20 - multiplying using the formal written method (short multiplication) Pages 21 - 24 - division calculations (including the formal written method - "bus stop") Pages 25 - 27 - division with remainders Pages 28 - 30 - division word problems Page 31 - terms and conditions, credits Statutory requirements Pupils should be taught to:  recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables  write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods  solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects.

Up for your consideration is a complete lesson PowerPoint on Lent. Suitable for KS2 RE lessons in years 3 / 4. Child friendly graphics, link to video, range of activities including drama, discussions, a game and independent work where children are invited to contemplate the ways in which temptations can be resisted. Teacher’s notes included in the PowerPoint. All the text is editable.

The resource consists of 4 different activities to help reinforce place value by practising placing missing numbers on a 100 square. 21 worksheets (mostly differentiated) and 2 posters included. Please see preview images for more information.

Maths Murder Mystery (KS2 Revision) Turn your Maths revision lesson into a fun activity by solving a mini murder mystery on Treasure Island. Review the four operations, co-ordinates, sequencing and time. Can be used in mixed ability pairs or with gifted and talented groups. Colourful graphics, can be printed in black and white with no quality lost. The resource has 3 pages (2 for the activity and 1 with HoppyTimes terms and conditions). Thank you for your interest in my products!

The resource follows the National Curriculum guidelines for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar in Lower KS2 (Years 3 and 4) This HUGE set will give you everything you need for your SPaG wall. Included are 22 posters and 26 vocabulary cards on various SPaG topics. Posters: prepositions, root words, suffixes, prefixes, conjunctions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, plural nouns, word families, homophones, direct speech, articles, adverbs, fronted adverbials, pronouns, paragraphs, headings and subheadings, Present Perfect and Past Simple, main clause, subordinate clause, noun phrases, determiners. Can be printed as A4 or A3 (just change the settings on your Print page). The posters can also be scaled down (choose Multiple on the Print page) and used as reference cards - the choice is yours! Thank you for interest in my products! Hoppy Times

An excellent way to bring some festive cheer to your Maths lessons with a visit to the Christmas Cafe. Children study the menus (differentiated 3 ways - prices in pence up to 20, prices in pence up to £1, prices in £ using decimals); they then proceed to answer questions on the task cards; alternatively, a teacher can set a budget for the children to spend in the cafe or use fake money and role play. The choice is yours. Great for practising the four basic operations, place value and decimals. Included in the resource: 3 differentiated menus, 24 task cards. If you have a suggestion or spotted a mistake, please do not hesitate to contact me on the email address provided on the last page of the resource. Thank you for your interest in my products, Hoppy Times