Aimed for Year 1, simple sentences and sequencing events by using time conjunctions.
Week 1 - Shared Write - retelling the story.
Week 2 - Independent write - changing the setting and character.
Week 3 - Non-Fiction
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A 2 week English plan and resources based around the book Toys in Space by Mini Grey. Ideal for the Spring term for Year 1 but could be adapted for other terms/year groups.
This resource is a handy A4 sheet with 36 Makaton signs for toys and/or objects.
This resource includes the signs for:
Ball
Doll
Tablet / Ipad
Sand
Sand Castle
Teddy
Bricks
Music
Slide
Swing
Sing
Toys
Messy Play
Paint
Draw
Pram
Spade
Bucket
Nappy
Potty
Dressing Up
Telephone
Playdough
Bubbles
Jigsaw
Football
Fire
Car
Bus
Train
Aeroplane
Tractor
Boat
Bike
Book
Story
Please check out my other Makaton resources to learn more Makaton signs, all with 12 signs to a page of A4 for easy reading.
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Pictures of toys throughout history with a built in timeline to give children a greater understanding of the chronology of time. Includes last 50 years in addition to Victorian, Tudor and Ancient Egyptian. Great as a refresher for older children or ideal for teaching younger children of how things change over decades.
A full four week unit on narrative, inspired by the Lost in the Toy Museum by David Lucas.
Suitable for KS1.
This is a lovely picture book that gives wonderful opportunities for writing for KS1 pupils, and a copy of the book can be viewed on Youtube if you haven’t heard of this text before.
Purchase includes:
4 x editable weekly (five-day) short-term plans
3 x editable PowerPoints for teaching
12 x Day’s worth of worksheets - including editable adapted worksheets for GD, EXP and WTS/SEND pupils (20 worksheets+).
1 x editable suggested example text (sentences) to support teaching
Absolutely no amendments necessary to teach a full four week unit on narrative, featuring grammar foci and opportunities for creative writing.
Planned with a newfound focus on oracy and developing pupils’ ability to orally story-tell, including clear differentiation to support pupils of all ability levels in your KS1 class.
Created by a lover of English with almost a decade of experience working in KS1.
If you do purchase this excellent unit of work, please consider returning to leave a review. Thank you!
toys-past-and-present A history PowerPoint on toys now and then. 90 slides and includes photographs.
toys-past-and-present
includes;
photographs of toys
learning outcomes of lesson
toys from the past
toys now
comparison of toys (difference)
3 Vocabulary slides (brief sentence to discuss example)
discussion topics
checking for understanding
links to History (HASS) - life changes
This lesson has been trialled in my Year One class with success. Please provide a review to let me know how you found it. I hope you enjoy it.
Kind regards, Jennifer
A quick, easy, standalone lesson for pupils in EYFS, key stage one, or working at an equivalent level.
Resources includes a power point and worksheet.
The power point goes through some toys which sink and float, giving opportunities for teacher talk around why thinks float and how to make predictions. The power point also introduces both the first and second activities.
The first activity asks pupils to make predictions based on what will or won’t float.
The second activity asks pupils to put items in water and record which float and which sink, using a visual recording method (cut and stick) to make it EYFS / KS1 / LA / SEN friendly
Aimed at 5 to 6 year olds, this unit covers the objectives for early learning of history. I have used it with Year 1.
The topics help students to
group according to different criteria related to history
understand what evidence is
experience collecting evidence
chronicle the development of toys on a simple time line while developing a concept of where they fit in the time line
and record using a graph, drawings and labels and time lines.
Topics include:
Our Favourite Toys
Finding out about the Past
Toys from different Decades
All children played with Toys!
Years and Years of Toys
Time lines
Each topic starts with power point slides and is followed by a worksheet of 2 to 3 pages. Teachers may also choose to do some of the activities between slides.
**This is an updated version with new, better quality images and a cute table for your students’ books! **
The download includes large images of items, a table to stick the items and the images of the items to stick.
There are 9 old toys
There are 9 new toys
It is downloaded as a folder which includes an editable version and PDF version.
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This resource includes a fully comprehensive PowerPoint ,worksheets/resources catering to a wide range of abilities and a preparation list.
This is the third lesson in a sequence. The lesson can be taught independently without the need for the past or future lessons. This lesson can be picked up and taught straight from however is fully editable.
Children will continue to look at historical sources of evidence. In the first part they will use books to answer questions to help them develop a basic understanding of the Victorian era. The teacher will then substantiate this by providing clear answers to the research answers. Children will have links made with their background research and the focus on toys. For instance, how there were differences between rich and poor.
Children will then learn about Victorian toys through an exploration of actual toys (pictures/videos may be needed if you can’t access Victorian toys),After an exploration of the toys and reflection questions children will be taught about Victorian toys.
Finally, children will complete small steps which will support them to independently make simple comparisons with Victorian and modern toys.
Children will complete either an independent task or an adapted helping hands task drawing comparisons with Victorian and modern toys.
A chilli challenge is provided to broaden children’s learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task.
Lesson examines the purpose of toys and offers a number of different tasks designed to get students to reflect on why we have toys. Adaptable and certainly relevant for the coming festival on Dec. 25 (UK). worksheet could be added.
Multiplication Fortune teller / Chatter Box Toy
Good old fashioned fun multiplication practice x0 to x12.
Also spelling of colours practice.
Black and white printable for the children to colour in.
Can be used as a bilateral fine motor resource, wet play resource, sub/cover lesson or fun homework task.
Booklet including all activities for Mechanical toy 12 week project
Week 1: Introduction, design brief
Week two: Product analysis
Week 3: Motion and mechanisms
Week 4: Types of woods and initial ideas
Week 5: Isometric, manufacturing plan, card modelling
Week 6: Card modelling
Week 7: Health and safety in the workshop + tools
Week 8,9,10,11 : Manufacturing the product
Week 12: Final evaluation of the product
This booklet goes with the Mechanical toy project presentation
Workbook and Lessons powerpoint to support the designing and making of a Pugly Monster Toy. Both resources are editable powerpoints, to add in your school logos, and accompany the free Knowledge Organiser for KS3 Year 7 Pugly Monster Toy.
Workbook with introduction to working safely in the Textiles workshop; observation task and a true /false quiz.
Lesson Slides with past examples of my pupils developed design work and their completed make. This helps to support the planning process, that when we are designing in DT we are planning what we are going to make.
Lesson powerpoint slides support Literacy with spellings and sentence starters for Self assessment activities.
The lesson powerpoint supports the initial design ideas working through to a final developed design idea, they will then make. Annotation of the design idea for textile techniques, materials and components. Developing drawing and annotation skills.
Some of the slides can be printed out as table resources or enlarged as display pieces, these have been duplicated at the end of the powerpoint to highlight them. There is also an extension practical activity for early finishers that hey will be able to work independently on using all the techniques learned. This does not require a sewing machine, but all hand sewn techniques.
Workbook Prototype pages to practise practical techniques for Blanket stitch and sewing on a button. These provide additional AFL opportunities, and support skills building before completing the technique on the final product, raising the level of finish pupils achieve.
This History of Toys knowledge organiser is designed for an EYFS/KS1 Class (year R-2). This knowledge organiser is designed to introduce the children to the topic, encourage independence in learning and provide children with the key information they will learn more about during the topic. The sections included are a toy invention time line, key facts, key vocabulary and lots of useful images and questions.
An Inference-based lesson exploring language and interpretation, using Shaun Tan’s text ‘Broken Toys’. This goes with AQA’s Paper 1 revision for Question 2.
The idea is to discuss more in comparison to writing - you can use mini-whiteboards instead of exercise books as the students enjoy writing on it and then rubbing it clean to start something new. However, it can be easily adapted if you wanted more evidence of written work.
There is a mixture of individual, pair and group work throughout and focuses on the short story in three sections (one page at a time). Students are encouraged to think for themselves and arrive at interpretations and inferences - some really good discussions have come from this lesson.
Currently made for a 90-minute FE lesson, but can be easily adapted.
Useful for an intro to any toy project design, or as a task for childcare. What is a toy sheet? Toy safety? Choke tester (print on A4 to scale) anything that fits inside the center area of the tester would not be suitable for a child under 3 years as this can cause a child to choke. Question sheet? Matching cards? A5 info adapted from Lion mark website.
In order to effectively use this resource you would need to use in conjunction with toy briefs or other resources.
I have used the choke task with health and social care students when discussing child development, and health and safety in the home
Students will talk about their toys. They will write down the names of the toys. They will use these toy names in sentences. They may work independently. After that, students will read the questions and answer them based.