An initial wander into the world of negative numbers for year 5. I have included the first day's plan for three sets, the learning intention with 'I can' statements and 11 worksheets that get progressively harder. (The hardest sheets have answers too.) This day's work was written for an average year 5 cohort, ranging from A.R.E. year 3 to A.R.E. year 5. The initial set has negative numbers in context with number lines to support, the second set has more abstract calculations branching into reasoning at the higher end and the third set has very complex abstract calculations such as 4 - (-6)-(-8).
Year 3 Summer 2 Spellings
7 weeks of three levels of spelling sheets for year 3, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able) all presented in a cursive handwriting font.
Group 1 links with speed sounds 2 and 3 from WRInc.
Group 2 covers words and rules expected from the year 2 curriculum
Group 3 covers words and rules expected in the year 3 curriculum
Overview of the rules covered by each group each week and an Excel sheet with all the words in.
Also included 20 minute activities:
Cross words for group 2 and 3
Dictionary work for group 2 and 3
Synonym games for group 2 and 3 (takes about 45 mins to go through)
Make your own Wordsearch for group 2 and 3
Wordsearches for group 1
Point point with words from each week for testing
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning/day.
A quick screen print with arrows showing how to press 'file' and then choosing &'save as&'; in the drop down menu in word. I stuck it above the computer table to remind them how to.
Template for stickers (Avery L7163 14 stickers on a page) with the date and WALT with a circle for children to traffic light at the end of the lesson. Saves on writing time and reminds children to traffic light.
A spread sheet with four tabs - the first 100 HFWs, the next 200 HFWs, new statutory spelling list for years 3&4 and new statutory spelling list for years 5&6. Formatted to have 30 names sideways across the top so you can tick off the spellings given/learned/used etc. Only made it for my own use really but figured I may as well share - save someone 10 minutes!
After discovering my new class had poor investigation skills, I set up an investigation to do every week. You'll need to do your own risk assessment (especially for the slime - I got in a science PGCE student to help!) but mostly is silly fun with science to get them excited and making predictions.
There's also an assessment sheet which I gave to all the adult helpers to mark when any child used any of the skills.
(I would recommend a ratio of 1:5 for the gathering of evidence and supporting the overall process)
This contains an A4 page with 3 or 4 questions for every chapter of 'The Secret Mountain&' By Enid Blyton, except for the last four chapters that have blank pages for the children to use their own ideas and prove they have developed an understanding of different ways of showing you&';ve read a text!
The book I used is a dual edition 'Secrets: The Secret Mountain & The Secret of Kilimooin&'. If you use a different version of the book you may need to change the page numbers in the headings.
Good for more able younger readers.
All the questions are linked to AFs.
a pretty font with all the appropriate vocab for adding and subtracting to cut out and stick on the wall or print small and stick in the front of each maths book.
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able) and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
angel
star
present
tree
bells
Christmas
candle
ribbon
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
snowflake
Christmas
December
wreath
reindeer
sleigh
snowman
stocking
holly
gingerbread
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
miraculous
twinkling
mistletoe
ornament
Christmas
calm
generous
joyous
wreath
caroller
Free due to addition of ‘free’ Twinkl wordsearches.
Start by planning the problem effectively and then you’re more likely to have a great story.
Ten clips to show just the main problem of the movies they’re from. To support children’s story writing planning - help them to unpick what a problem can be and how to identify what will help them solve it.
The little mermaid 2) Frozen 3) Finding Nemo 4) Tangled 5) Monsters Inc. 6) Aladdin 7) Toy Story 8) Beauty and the Beast 9) Storks 10) Paddington.
I do not own the copyright for any of these clips, merely the combination and key questions between.
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able).
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words)
key
donkey
monkey
chimney
valley
alley
jokey
kidney
trolley
hockey
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
musician
electrician
politician
magician
mathematician
beautician
dietician (Dietician is a variant spelling of dietitian. The t spelling is used about three times as much as the c spelling.)
optician
clinician
technician
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
ought
bought
thought
nought
brought
fought
rough
tough
enough
thoughtless
Overview of the spellings for this term for each group.
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able).
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words)
love
glove
some
done
come
money
month
cover
dozen
wonder
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
expression
discussion
confession
permission
transmission
admission
expansion
extension
comprehension
tension
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
abseil
caffeine
canoeist
ceiling
conceived
deceive
feisty
foreign
neighbour
perceive
Template spreadsheet for tracking achievement, green for acheived, orange for partly, red for not, grey for absent. you can see at a glance which groups or idividuals are managing or need pushing by their overall achievement in the subject. It's labelled as maths but can be used for any subject.
12 weeks worth of graduated HFW spellings and handwriting patterns. Each document has four pages for differentiated homework.
I used these for a year 2/3 class who covered P6 - L4.
I have used a font that I paid for at home, you may need to change it to your school font.
Only appropriate to use if your school uses the Rising Stars comprehension books for year 6.
I have scanned in each of the texts and questions to guide the children through the comprehension. Each text has a thesaurus challenge which supports children’s vocabulary aquisition.
All PowerPoints have the answers on the last slide so the work can be marked.
I anticipate each Powerpoint will take approximately half an hour to run through.