A fun, active game to support children to remember the four countries that make up the UK, their capital cities and the seas that surround them.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘oa’ sound. They’re the Gold family and like to dress in gold to reinforce their ‘oa’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet the Word Wizards, Adi Adverb who teaches children how to recognise and use adverbs in sentences. Angelina Adjective who teaches children how to spot and use adjectives in sentences as well as how to apply suffixes using spell spelling rules. Vera Verb and her ‘helpful’ brother Vic who teach children all about verbs, suffixes and tenses too and Finally Norbet Noun and his newt named Neil who teach children the difference between proper nouns and ordinary nouns as well as teaching them the plural rules. This 198 page interactive powerpoint is all you need to teach year 1 and year 2 about these important word types. Work sheets can be purchased from my shop

self correcting count game 1-10, children count the fireworks and select the correct number, if incorrect they're directed back to have another go. If they get it right they're rewarded with a firework display!

Number rhyme sung to the tune of 10 fat sausages. Explores number recognition, count and one less than. Watch as the Fireworks spin in to view, then one by one go out with a bang. Inspired by Jodyo’s Firework Number hunt

A mat to support solving fraction problems.

An interactive notebook file which explores the coin recognition and value

The Word Wizards are a group of wizards who explain word types and their jobs to children. In this presentation you will meet Norbert Noun and his newt named Neil who together explain the difference between a proper and a common noun and the need for a capital letter. They also explain the plural rules and have some handy suffix spells to help children remember as well as this children learn about noun phrases.

A set of noun word cards. These are useful to use with the Word Wizard activites

An activity to go with the Norbert Noun PowerPoint which explains the spelling rules for plurals.

An end of the term smartboard activity to support a dictated sentence session revising spelling days of the week, the prefix un and suffixes ed, ing, est, es and s.

A selection of Christmas themed number rhymes exploring one less than, click on the numbered reindeer for one less than , move the penguins on to the number line to show one less than and click on the snowflakes to show one less than.

An interactive activity which supports children in hearing rhyme in words.

Celebrate the Jewish festival of Hannukah by lighting this interactive Menorah which also supports children with early addition.

A poster showing the potential learning from the seven areas of the EYFS curriculum and also including characteristics of effective learning and adult engagement. Ideal to display in your learning zones to support parents, helpers and practitioners recognise the importance of exploration based learning.