Some activities I used when doing the Gruffalo in Nursery.

Activities to match Jaspers Beanstalk planning for Early Years.

This is a 3 week plan related to the little mermaid for Rec/year 1 children. Includes making a lost poster, retelling story, describing characters, describing a setting, invitations, postcards and writing a new story.

A weeks literacy activities for Early Years linked to Bonfire Night

Worksheets linked to Early Years Gingerbread Man Planning. Children to stick the gingerbread men in order from 1-5, 1-8, 1-10, 1-13 or 1-20.

This includes 3 weeks Literacy planning. Involves making posters, writing a letter, writing a new story, retelling story, acting out a story and writing a script.

Some lesson plans for Literacy and Numeracy which I used over a 3 week block on the story The Three Little Pigs. Also included are some activities and worksheets used e.g speech bubbles, wanted poster and piggy banks.

A selection of activities used in early years linked to the book Dear Zoo. Maths activities include weighing the animals using numicon and literacy activities include using talk for writing actions, drawing story maps and innovating the story.

Planning for other areas of the classroom linked to Under the Sea theme

Literacy and Numeracy planning on the text We're going on a Treasure Hunt.

Planning for other areas of the classroom linked to Under the Sea theme

Ideas for each area of learning for Early Years.

A block of maths lessons for Reception children

A block of maths lessons for Reception children.

Planning ideas for early years on the topic space. Includes ideas for Whatever Next and Aliens Loves Underpants

A block of maths planning for Reception children

A block of maths planning for Reception Children

A selection of homework activities for Reception children. Most of them are maths related e.g going on a number hunt, shape hunt and adding 1 more.

A topic web I used with Early Years children on the topic Animals

Literacy and Numeracy planning ideas for mixed abilities which we used in a Early Years Unit. Also included are some of the worksheets used and activities e.g describing characters, story map template, adding bears, making porridge etc.