Two differentiated worksheets on classifying omnivores, herbivores and carnivores.
Also included class activity - pictures to be laminated/printed and stuck up around forest school area/playground/classroom. Children must go and read what the different animals eat and record whether they are omnivore, herbivore or carnivore on their table worksheet. Worked well with mixed ability pairs!
Three worksheets to help children to recognise and understand objects Christians use for worship (eg. Bible, instruments). Harder task relies on children being able to write sentences about what the objects are and how Christians use them. Middle task asks children to label objects for worship and write about how Christian use them. The lower ability task is a sorting activity where children choose which objects Christians might use and what they wouldn’t.
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Design your own Garden of Eden - children must choose what animals, plant, features would go in the garden of Eden, and the sheet also includes a set of comprehension questions for discussion or written answers about the story of Adam and Eve.
Storyboard to help children demonstrate that they understand what happened in the story of The Last Supper. Children can draw their own pictures to go along with the story and fill in the missing words. As an extra challenge, children could cut up their storyboard and stick it in their books in the right order! Perfect for KS1, and suitable for Catholic Education.
Worksheet giving children the opportunity to record how Thomas might have felt when he witnessed Jesus’ return, and think about what he might have been thinking. ideal for developing a deeper understanding of the story of Doubting Thomas. All pictures hand drawn by me!
Children can work in pairs to plot the journey Mary and Joseph may have taken from Nazareth to Bethlehem and research how long it took to get there and how far it was in miles. Map gives children an idea of the scale of their journey!
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RE worksheet aiming to enable children to sort the people they care about into groups - ‘school’, ‘family’, ‘neighbourhood’ and ‘the world’. They are given a question prompt to discuss or record why those relationships are different to each other. Fits with Catholic curriculum. All pictures hand drawn by me!
Worksheet with a variety of activities to get children to explore what it means to be part of a community - and demonstrate their understanding of what their community is like and what they could do to contribute. Drawing and question prompts make this a nice activity for a mixed ability group.
An evaluation sheet for pupils to fill in each week which gets them thinking about their learning, behaviour and what they want to work on next week. Worked brilliantly with my Year 2 class, and great evidence of growth mindset in learning.
LO: to examine the importance of diet, health and exercise for human survival.
Lesson plan, presentation and three activities to teach the importance of diet, health and exercise for human survival.
Activities include:
food and drink picture sort (into groups relating to diet)
fill in the food group pyramid
letter from someone with an unhealthy lifestyle to respond with advice
My year 6 class had a brilliant lesson - very interactive and engaging. Really got them discussing and thinking about what being healthy really is.
Presentation to support Year 2 children in writing a recount about their Christmas Holidays - focusing on the inclusion of conjuctions, time connectives and expanded noun phrases. Includes a model.
PDF and editable version included.
FOUR Lesson powerpoints and then follow up activity ideas (instructions in presentations) for children to have a go at showing adding in different ways. Ideal for year 1 consolidation of adding knowledge. Also includes presentation looking specifically at using the equals sign for the first time.
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Four powerpoint presentations to help support children in phase 6 phonics. This set of presentations moves children onto looking at the long and short vowel sounds, and how we can use these to help us tell when to use the double consonant in past tense spellings (eg. hop goes to hopped, hope goes to hoped).
Three differentiated worksheets encouraging children to think about what thoughts are ‘growth mindset’ thoughts and which are not. The easy activity involves the children thinking of things they can already do and what they want to learn how to do, the middle activity involves cutting and sticking thoughts in the right bubbles, and the harder activity involves children writing down some ‘growth mindset’ thoughts and some negative thoughts.
It was a great PSHE lesson that sparked lots of discussion!
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Four powerpoints that focus on teaching children about the past tense for phase 6 phonics. Children sat on carpet with whiteboards and composed their sentences in pairs or on their own, then went on to do some follow up work in their phonics books.
Ideal for year 2/3 class to practice accurate estimating and measuring in centimetres as a whole class activity. Worksheet is colourful and engaging, all children were engaged in the lesson and thoroughly enjoyed measuring and estimating!
A powerpoint presentation looking at the irregular past tense verbs in phase 6 phonics. Lots of whole class practice to get the children into the habit of using the spelling rules correctly.
Phonics presentations aimed at whole class teaching of phase 6 phonics spelling rules - this time getting lots and lots of practice using the present simple and present continuous tense.
Worked brilliantly with my year 6 class as they worked in mixed ability groups.
Presentation showing children different climates and where they occur on the world map (discussing distance from equator).
Activity where children label animals and plants with how they have adapted (eg. Polar Bear: thick fur and fat to keep warm, white fur to camouflage).
End of presentation gives children prompts to respond to in books to ensure deeper understanding.
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