Children have to identify how many words begin with B while you take the register.Afterwards, you reveal the words to match the illustrations and the final count. Differentiation. Children could write the word on their whiteboard as well as count. As the words are revealed, they can check. their words.

Add en to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add an to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add it to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add am to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add ad to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add ib to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add ax to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically. Look out for the snoring man !

Add id to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Add the endings ig to initial sounds A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically

Six simple pictures in a PowerPoint or as separate posters, tell in a few words the Christmas story

Add ap to initial sound A four line humorous poem/rhyme to teach the sound and allow the children the experience of reading together .The words have 3 letters and can be learned phonetically.

Teaching B Choose the picture which has a different initial letter and is therefore the odd one out. The final slide animates the odd one out; Children could design their own alphabet frieze or playing cards (for snap) choosing from the pictures on the PowerPoint. .

A simple technique for making up a song using the names of the fruit in the book 'Handa's surprise' It looks attractive too. You could scan them into a powerpoint so all the children can sing or play each others work. This will work with fruit or animals in the topic whether or not you are doing 'Handa&'s surprise'

While the teacher is doing the register, draw or write anything you can see which begins with D. How many do you have ? Afterwards, you reveal the words to match the illustrations and the final count.

Questions and song making activities based around the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'. In addition you can either watch the you tube video (original source) or download it here and insert it into the PowerPoint. Another link inside the presentation is a link to the history of the nursery rhyme.

Use in different ways. Either ask children to find words beginning with B while you do the register and then press the power-point to see the words or use as a lesson about birds or the letter B

While the teacher is doing the register, draw or write anything you can see which begins with C. How many do you have ? Afterwards, you reveal the words to match the illustrations and the final count.

This is a nonsense song about animals having identity problems. The sheep thinks that she’s a car and the cow thinks that she’s a dog. There are parts for the untuned instruments to play along with the melody. I got the idea from the tune Beep beep Ima sheep . I asked LiDeuce Deuce, the composer if I could use the words of the title in my song . Normally I would sell my original songs but I promised LiDeuce Deuce (Tod Bryanton ) that I wouldn’t , hence this freebie. Key stage 1 Pupils should be taught to: • use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes • play tuned and untuned instruments musically • listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music •experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. Included in pack PPT of the animated song with music (Video on YouTube ) Follow up ideas Melody and chords notation A chime bar part notation Chime bar parts pictures Backing track without chime bars Backing with chime bars Vocals