This resource: 1. Emphasizes the four main parts of a plant (root, leaf, stem, flower). 2. Shows lots of plants that you can eat. 3. Helps children realise why animals need plants (for food).

This is a power point display which shows how houses have changed over the years; both interior and exterior. It can be used as 1. An interactive whiteboard resource or 2. Printed and used as a houses timeline or 3. The interior's can be minimised and the children can write a descriptive sentence on each as an independent activity.

I have made a few intervention sheets to make tracking quicker and easier to manage. The aim is daily repetition and gap filling. I am aiming on doing 10 minute interventions with each child: Individual sounds - show sound cards for the child to read and track which ones they know. Red words - written in order of their appearance in RWI books. The children have 3 minutes to read as many as they can. Green words - I decided to use those that appear in the first 100 high frequency words to start with. I have listed them in order of which RWI set they appear in and how many blends they have. Again, the children have 3 minutes to read as many as they can.

Here are three activities that I am using for the free flow tables in Year 1… Reading challenge - Sort the words into Alien and Real. Each word card has a RWI level on so the children know which pile to select (and the cards can be easily tidied away afterwards). If the card has a * on, then this means that it is a challenge card (eg silent k, ce/se word endings, au sound, wh, ph, y word ending). Write a letter to the Alien about the planet earth. This linked to our topic but you could change the focus of your letter if you wanted. Use a cotton bud to paint the correct amount of spots for a given number.