This is a unit of work I have planned, resourced and used from the Understanding Christianity scheme of work. This is ‘Gospel’ and it is aimed at Years 3 and 4.
This is a Powerpoint download of the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of Gospel through parables
A focus on understanding what a parable is and this looks at The Thankful Leper and The Good Samaritan. This has a fill in the gaps task about The Good Samaritan.
Lesson 2: Enquire into the idea of Gospel
This focuses on understanding why Jesus told the story of The Good Samaritan and what it means to Christians to be a good samaritan. This has a diary entry writing task about The Good Samaritan.
Lesson 3: Explore ways in which Christians practice Gospel
This focuses on what Christians might do to be a good samaritan and live life how God and Jesus wanted. This looks directly into the charity Christian Aid and what some Christians dedicate their life to. This contains a drawing task.
Lesson 4: Evaluate how Christians can share God’s message
This lesson focuses on rich discussion and writing to answer questions about what kind of world God wants and what kind of world the children want and why. This then goes into an art focus of creating a piece of artwork to encourage others to be kind.
The last slide of this Powerpoint contains ways in which children can express their learning about kindness by suggesting activities they can do to show kindness.
used as a stimulus for writing a job application
Spy Kids stimulus
Smart notes goes through a process of thinking about what the children’s skills are, what experience in secret agent work they have done before (imaginative thinking) and shows appropriate letter structure.
This is a unit of work for three History lessons on Ancient Maya.
They include:
The Mayan creation story
Mayan Gods
What were Ancient Mayan homes like?
There are a range of activities such as drawing, designing, researching and creating a fact file.
This unit if work is inspired by the NCETM unit of work for Year 4 - Unit 2 - Numbers to 10,000
Most resources and slides are made by myself but some high quality activities have been clipped from NCETM and White Rose.
The objectives covered per lesson are as follows:
Know what 1000 is made up of (representations up to 1000)
Use knowledge of 1000 to explain and measure conversions
Add multiples of 10
Add multiples of 100
Use knowledge of 1000 to add and subtract
Compare numbers to 10,000
Identify and estimate numbers on a number line
Round to the nearest 1000
Round to the nearest 100
Apply rounding to problems
Add and subtract four digits
Know how many 25’s and 50’s make 1000
This unit of work cross-teaches many topics in maths and includes a lot of capacity and measure problems.
Each lesson follows the lesson slide structure of:
Revisit
Address misconception
Vocabulary
Focus
Talk Task
Guided Practice
Deepen
Next steps (if it aimed to be a lesson that goes into books, which most are)
Learning objectives:
Identify place value
Use column addition with regrouping
Use column addition with regrouping
Use column addition with regrouping twice
Decide on mental or written strategies
Solve addition problems
Identify minuend and subtrahend
Use column subtraction
Use column subtraction
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with two exchanges
This is the unit of work is the unit I taught my class at the beginning of the year of Year 4 to recap and re-teach addition and subtraction and deepen further into exchanging.
Each lesson follows the lesson structure of:
Revisit slide
Address misconception
Vocabulary (needed for the lesson ie. addend plus added is equal to the difference)
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Practice
The independent practice slide has first/next/last’ sections to encourage children’s independence.
Lesson 1: Analysis and looking at the work of Alice Bailly and Pablo Picasso. Info about the artists with key questions to answer based on their work.
Comparison task.
(For KS1, this can be done whole class and stuck into books. KS2 independent work)
Lesson 2: Children explore cubism skills by understanding what cubism is and drawing a selection of random objects through a cubist lens.
Lesson 3: Children explore wool painting and have an opportunity to explore different patterns and styles of wool painting.
Lesson 4: Children create their own cubism self-portraits. They add a section of wool painting to the art.
Here are 3 high-quality lessons on decimals which is intended to follow on straight after the children have been taught a unit on fractions. A unit of fractions is available in my TES shop.
The following learning objectives are covered:
Lesson 1: Compare decimals
(this is a practical lesson with plenty of visuals and explorative activities)
Lesson 2: Order decimals
(this lesson compares and orders decimals using a variety of contexts such as measurement)
Lesson 3: Identify decimal equivalents to fractions
(this is a practical lesson with matching activities)
Each lesson Powerpoint follows the same maths lesson structure of:
Revisit
Address Misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Task
The ‘Independent Task’ slide has a ‘Now, Next, Last’ visual to promote children’s independence in completing their tasks.
The Powepoint is infused with STEM sentences, different representations, practical activities, fluency, and reasoning tasks.
#decimals #decimalsfractions #fractions #year4 #NCETM #mastery #unit #
9 weeks worth of homework!
Each week consists of two sets - one for on track learners and one for ‘SEN’ learners. The SEN homework is slightly more visual and goes through the KS1 spellings. The on-track homework takes spellings from the Year 3/4 government spelling list.
The homework is intended to be printed double sided with a times table task on one side and spellings on the other.
The homework has the due date written on the top of the page which is due in on Fridays but this can easily be amended.
#homework #timestables #multiplication #spelling #year3 #year4
This uses the stimulus video of Alma.
The Smartnotes document goes through the short film step by step with key questions to think about and promote creative, descriptive writing.
Can be used flexibly throughout KS2.
This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class.
Can be easily adapted.
It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters.
Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs)
Lesson 2: Use paragraphs
Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2)
Lesson 4: Create a shared plan
Lesson 5: Create a shared write
Lesson 6: Create an independent plan
Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias)
Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work
Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)
This unit of work is based off the the NCETM Prioritisation and is created to be Y4 Unit 5 which is called ‘7 times tables and patterns’. This is a clear mastery approach to teaching maths.
This contains 7 lessons on this unit, plus an extra addition and subtraction revision lesson at the beginning. The objectives for each lesson are:
Revise column method for addition and subtraction
Count in and multiply by 7
Solve 7 times table problems
Identify patterns of odd and even numbers in times tables
Identify square numbers
Identify square numbers
Find divisibility rules
Find divisibility rules
Each lessons follows a structure which will support children’s understanding. There is at least one slide on each of the following:
-Revisit slide (prerequisite skills needed or revision of another previously taught skill)
-Address misconception (a slide that is put here to purposely address misconceptions through discussion, solving a problem)
-Vocabulary slide
-Focus (the teaching of the new skill)
Guided practice
Talk task (a problem to discuss)
Deepen (an opportunity to apply the skill to a deeper question or problem)
Independent practice (3 tasks)
Deepen/next steps (these can be used as feedback marking or trickier problems to give the children to deepen their understanding)
This Powerpoint essentially contains two lessons on LGBTQ.
This Powerpoint starts with definitions of LGBTQ+.
It contains information and history of the rainbow flag.
It contains the life story of Jin Xing, a transgender Chinese ballet dancer. There is opportunity to see ballet as a dance that requires muscle and strength with the opportunity of creating short ballet routines in groups.
At the end of the Powerpoint is a link to a story called Roxy the Racoon by Alice Reeves. There is an activity to complete that requires children to invent their own inclusive character for a children’s book.
These lessons were made with Year 4 students in mind but is very open to all ages. It is easily accessible and explains things simply in a way that all children should understand.
Here are high-quality, well-structured maths lessons created by myself as a maths specialist. I have used a variety of resources from NCETM, White Rose, Maths No Problem and other resources available online.
Each lesson has a clear structure:
Warm up
Address Misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Task
Next Step
This unit of work includes:
1 lesson on plotting coordinates (a rounding up/summarising lesson)
2 lessons on translating shapes
2 lessons on identifying angle types
2 lessons on identifying and creating symmetry
Involved are stem sentences, diagnostic questions, reasoning etc.
Independent practice slide contains ‘now, next, last’ key words to break down the tasks for SEN learners.
Tasks can be copied and pasted from the Powerpoint and printed to stick in their books.
I taught this to a Year 4 class but this can be used from Year 4 - Year 6.
This will support children in knowing how to cope with loss and exploring this and strategies to support them. Included in this are the tasks and links to stories on Youtube so you do not need the physical book yourself.