Reception and KS1 resources

[rubber]

I am awaiting a call to go in and teach the younger children. Can anyone suggest good websites where a days work is planned around a story, song or picture. Thanks

[janeb]

Not sure about any websites but let me know your favourite books and I'll try and think of some
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e.g. any story about farm animals...

Starter - guess the sign – show Makaton signs for various animals and see if the children can guess the animal. Practise the signs together.

Literacy - make folding, zigzag books (in the shape of a barn?). Reception aged children could draw a picture on each page of a farm animal and write the name. More able children could write a sentence about each animal or write a little story about life on the farm. Could inspire creative writing by having a Living Sentence session first.

Numeracy - sheep +
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= 8 – investigate other animal sums.
Make a bar chart of favourite farm animals on the board – children could make their own bar charts according to number of toy animals given to them.

Art - make animal masks or a large farm mural - each child can contribute to a big farm picture by drawing animals.


Guessing game - one child is chosen to come to the front of the class and has a post-it-note or sticker on their back (or written on head band). They have to guess the name of the animal written by asking questions to the rest of the class. Class can only answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’.


Construction challenge - use any suitable construction to make an animal shelter/farm/animal.

Word challenge - during the day, challenge the children to write a list of as many animals as possible on a large sheet of paper.

Action songs - “If you want to be a farmer…” - milk a cow, shear a sheep, ride a horse, feed the chicks, move the hay… to tune of "If you're happy and you know it..." Allow children to make up verses.

Anagrams - as a class, try to rearrange the letters to find the farm animals – e.g. toag = goat

Acrostics - Year 1 and 2 -write the letters for the words ‘farm animals’ vertically on a piece of paper and ask children to write an animal or farm related word for each letter

[rubber]

Thanks Jane thats brilliant. How kind of you to help me out. Will pm you for some more
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s when I have looked in my book box.

[rubber]

Hi Jane I seem unable to send you a pm. Is it because I am a new user?

[janeb]

I have no
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but why don't you just post so that other people can share
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s too?
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[rubber]

OK here goes then:
In my book bag I have:

Jack & Nancy (Jungle theme)
Mrs Armitage on Wheels
Isabellas Toybox
The Jolly Postman

Any nursery rhyme
Any traditional tale

Would appreciate some
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s for reception, Y1 and Y2. I seem to particularly struggle with maths
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s linked to themes.

Thanks

[janeb]

Originally Posted by rubber
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I seem to particularly struggle with maths
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s linked to themes.

I wouldn't worry about always trying to fit everything into the theme as it can be very forced!
However, most themes could lend themselves to counting or addition/subtraction - i.e. count nursery characters, add sets of animals etc. Also pictograms, tally charts or bargraphs can always be tied into a theme.

The Jolly Postman is a super book - I love it
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- and would be a great one to do with EY/KS1.
Quick initial
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s are obvious ones like...

Literacy - writing letters to/from
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tale characters, looking at rhyming words (e.g. words which rhyme with bear...), what would you send to whom and why writing, class story of The Jolly Postman 2 (who might he go to on a different day?)...

Role play/Drama - getting groups to act out parts of the story or what certain characters might do/say...

Art - designing stamps, making character masks, drawing pictures of/designing dream bicycles ...

Maths - bike wheels are circles so have a shape hunt around class to find and record other circles...

etc etc

I'm a bit busy tonight and, in fact, this week but I'll have a think about your books (if nobody else gets there first!) and try to get back to you. Most of the farm animal
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s above could be altered for each theme/book though so if you get stuck, you'll have some
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s.

[aksingh]

Wow, Jane you are so full of
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s! Thank you so much for sharing them so freely. The Jolly Postman is one of my fave books and now I can use it as an excuse to do lots of excellent activities! Thanks
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[crypt25]

On my laptop I have ebooks from Amazon. I have the Kindle Software installed on it (which is free) and I find these ebooks helpful:
Type: 'Phonic Ebooks: Sounds Made Easy' into Amazon's Search which are ebooks that focus on phonics by C.F. Crist.
These ebooks look great and I can hook up my laptop to Interactive whiteboards quickly and easily.

[enrg37]

I cant suggest a website off top of my head but a good book I got which is based around stories is 100 literacy
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s year 1, second hand ebay, it's got a few
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s based around a story which can be adapted and is has worksheets to go with the
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s.

I have also got some good
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s from watching Teachers TV. they have a serious called great lesson
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s I think.