A PowerPoint lesson introducing children to Advent and exploring the symbolism behind it. The slides will take your pupils on an exciting journey exploring the origins of Advent and what makes it important to Christians.
The PowerPoint included information on the Advent season; advent calendars; christingles; advent wreaths and candles;
There are 3 activities included in the lesson:
1. Sequencing the story of Jesus' birth.
2. Exploring the events the local churches hold during Advent.
3. Watching a video about Papa Panov.
There is an independent worksheet that asks the children to circle the symbols of Advent and write a paragraph describing their feelings (anticipation) during the season.
Suitable for KS2
This bundle contains all of my 10 sets of Year 5/6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities. Each set has at least 5 spelling activities plus a mini spelling list and word cards.
Please view each set individually to know more.
If you want to check the quality of my work, please download set 1 for free by following the link /teaching-resource/year-5-6-common-exception-words-spelling-activities-set-1-11982745
If you have a suggestion or spotted a mistake, please do not hesitate to send me an email which is included at the end of each set. Thank you for your interest in my products!
Hoppy Times
Christmas Card Craft (English and French)
I am giving away this resource completely free to say thank you to all my buyers and followers for their support over the last year. Have a fantastic Christmas!
An easy to make Christmas card, all you need is some A4 card paper, access to printer, scissors, glue and colouring pencils.
Suitable for all ages. Wording in French and English. The inside can be personalised with a Christmas message.
Thank you for your interest,
HoppyTimes
Christmas Maths Mystery
Fun differentiated activity for the holiday season - a Christmas Maths Mystery.
Children solve a number of mathematical problems to help Santa find the elf responsible for a mishap in the Christmas workshop.
Great Christmas Maths revision tool with a number of topics covered - basic operations, time, times tables, etc.
3 versions included - easy, medium and hard. Suitable for KS2.
The resource has 7 pages (6 for the activity and 1 with Hoppy Times’ terms and conditions and solution).
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Up for your consideration is a complete lesson PowerPoint on Jesus’ Resurrection. Suitable for KS2 RE lessons in years 3 / 4. Child friendly graphics; link to videos; range of activities including discussions and independent work where children are invited to write what they think happens after we die, what they heard and what Christians believe in . Teacher’s notes included in the PowerPoint. All the text is editable.
Please check my other lessons from the EASTER UNIT series.
French Valentine’s Day Cards
Joyeuse Saint Valentin! This resource contains cards with 5 different designs for children to colour and present to their loved ones on Valentine’s Day. I have also included a fill in the words French poem for more advanced learners. Cards can be printed on A4 cardstock, coloured or decorated.
Thank you for your interest,
Hoppy Times
In this product I've included 2 colourful Cafe shop menus. Prices are in pounds and pence. The second menu shows prices in pence only. Each menu comes with 12 task cards/ worded problems for children to solve. These differentiated activities are suitable for KS2 Years 3 - 5.
Bird Life Cycle Lesson
National Curriculum link: describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird; describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.
The resource consists of:
A 20-slide PowerPoint Presentation on bird life cycles (egg, hatchling, nestling, fledgling, adult)
Birld Life Cycle Posters
Activity 1 (labelling parts of a bird)
Activity 2 (matching the stages to pictures)
Activity 3 (completing a life cycle of either a stork or a robin, internet/ book research required for this; photos included)
All the text in the presentation is editable. Activities are in .pdf format and can not be edited (if you need anything changing or adapting, please get in touch).
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HoppyTimes
A fun set of activities to celebrate Chinese New Year with your KS1/ lower KS2 students.
The resource includes:
Colouring pages
Write your name in Chinese activity
Word search (with answers)
2 Colour by Number activities
2 Chinese New Year mystery pictures (with answers)
It is a .pdf file and is not editable. Please contact me if you want anything changing or have any suggestions.
Please see my other Chinese New Year resources:
/teaching-resource/chinese-new-year-zodiac-craft-and-writing-activity-11800769
/teaching-resource/chinese-new-year-information-zodiac-nian-traditions-history-11800171
World History Timeline Posters
37 A4 posters with focus on British events.
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The posters include:**
King Charles III coronation
Covid-19 pandemic
Olympic games in London
New Millennium
Man lands on the Moon
Queen Elizabeth II coronation
World War 2
World War 1
Victorians
First car
Mary Seacole
Industrial revolution
British Empire and Sea Power
Civil War and Revolution
The Great Fire of London
Stuarts
Tudors
William Shakespeare
Columbus discovers America
Middle Ages
Normans
Battle of Hastings
Vikings
First Viking invasion
Anglo-Saxons
Roman Britain
Birth of Jesus
Romans
Celts
Iron Age
First Olympic Games
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Greece
Pyramids built in Ancient Egypt
Bronze Age
Stone Age
Dinosaurs
If you need to add a specific event or suggest any changes, please send us an email (included on the last slide of the document).
Thank you for your interest
Hoppy Times
Degrees of Possibility Adverbs and Modal Verbs
A PowerPoint lesson on indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs and modal verbs. Suitable for KS2 Year 5 SPaG.
Included are 19 slides with clear explanations and exciting activities for practice. All text is editable so that you can tailor it to the needs of your class.
Thank you for your interest!
Hoppy Times
Great activity for studying Food Chains. Real life photos of animals and plants. 28 cards in total.
Can be sorted into producers/ consumers; omnivores/ carnivores/ herbivores; food chains.
Tip: why not let the students have a competition and build the longest food chain?!
Images included:
tuna fish
zebra
arctic cod
slug
shrimp
shrew
shark
seal
red fox
rattlesnake
rabbit
polar bear
plankton
owl
oak leaf
mouse
lion
human
hawk
green plant
grass
frog
earthworm
dead leaves
cow
caterpillar
blue tit
+ sun, food chain
Just print them off, cut into little cards and laminate for durability.
Enjoy!
Two posters illustrating column addition and subtraction without exchange. Extra versions included with different wording instead of "no exchange" - "no regrouping", "no carry over", "no borrowing".
A4 size, can be printed larger with no quality lost, can also be scaled down and used as reference cards.
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Hoppy Times
Tolerance Value Display
Remind your students about Tolerance with this simple but powerful display kit.
The kit includes: main poster (A4); word cards (x2 per A4 page); Tolerance letters in blue and white ; pictures of the globe and children.
Sizes can be altered when printing. Suitable for KS2/3. In .pdf format (not editable).
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British Values Display
Suitable for KS 1 and 2. A set of 4 maths operations and key words that go with them.
Instant Maths display, just print, laminate and arrange the circles and the key word cards on your Maths board for children to refer to throughout the year.
An editable PowerPoint introducing the doubling consonant rules with suffixes -ed, -ing, -er, -est. 17 slides with rules and practice pages.
Suitable for KS2 (English, SPaG, Spellings)
Up for your consideration is a PowerPoint lesson introducing ING SENTENCE OPENERS.
Contains the warm up activity, rules for adding the ing openers, practice and independent work slides.
.ppt format. Most text is editable. 16 slides including the credits slide.
Thank you for having a look!
Hoppy Times
A set of 24 task cards to practise the use of an apostrophes with possessive nouns, plural and singular.
Can be used as a table task or hid around the classroom for a scavenger hunt. Children walk around the room looking for cards, they then read the sentence on the card and turn it into a phrase with a possessive noun and apostrophe. For example - this table belongs to Liam - Liam's table.
Recording sheet and answers included.
Thank you for your interest,
HoppyTimes
Fronted Adverbials Lesson (English, SPaG)
An introductory PowerPoint lesson on fronted adverbials. Children go on a journey with Harry Potter characters and recap what makes a sentence a sentence; how we can extend sentences; what an adverbial is; what makes an adverbial a fronted adverbial and how to punctuate it. A few practice pages also included. Can be used as a whole lesson.
Suitable for KS2
Fully editable text to tailor to the needs of your class.
Up for your consideration is a complete lesson PowerPoint on Lent. Suitable for KS2 RE lessons in years 3 / 4. Child friendly graphics, link to video, range of activities including drama, discussions, a game and independent work where children are invited to contemplate the ways in which temptations can be resisted. Teacher’s notes included in the PowerPoint. All the text is editable.