Golden Time ideas and activities - curriculum

Numeracy

1-50 bingo game -  board & numbers

100 grid to print out

100 grid puzzle -missing numbers age 6-8

Adding squares - 10 IW screens (Smart Notebook) & worksheets- mental puzzles for KS1&2

Apple rhyme - count back from 5 - foundation stage

At the races - involves finding half/quarter, lesson plan plus  race card on IW (Smart Notebook) KS2

Card wars - mental addition/place value game, 6-8 years, playing cards needed

Climb the ladder race - + and - game  KS1

Connect 4 - mental maths game for place value KS1

Connect 4 - game using the 4 rules KS2

Count and colour counting to 15

Count to 5 rhyme (Smart Notebook) 2yrs+

Darts -  mental addition game age 6-8

Data handling 3 IW screens (Smart notebook) introductory lesson

Dice challenge - a problem to solve for KS2

Dinosaur puzzle use the clues & a 100 grid to find the missing bones

Doubles hunt a team game for KS2

Doubles to 10 matching worksheet

Doubles to 20 bingo game

Doubles to 30 know doubles of 1-15 a kinaesthetic mental starter

Doubling ladybirds  numbers 1-5

Match the hats - IW (Smart notebook) count to 5, foundation stage

Match the socks ,  whiteboard activity (Smart notebook) & activity sheets foundation stage

Mental maths challenge - a number problem for years 2 & 3

Mental maths Countdown - just like on t.v, yr3+

Number of the week - maths corner activity

Numbers to 10 bingo - boards & cards

Ordering to 20 - lesson with activity sheets

Pick Apples -  mental maths for R & KS1

Safe Cracker -  mental maths KS1

Shape challenge - KS1

Shopping to 10p - KS1 adding and change

Stepping stones mental maths game board and number cards lower KS2

Tangrams - old Chinese puzzle KS2

Time Activities - analogue time worksheets. Draw the times on the clocks - o'clock, half past, o'clock & half past, quarter to, quarter past, quarter to & past, o'clock, half past, quarters, minutes past, minutes toall times, games - o'clock bingo, analogue bingo

Party time - adding on minutes & drawing times on clocks

T.V timetable -digital time word problems

History

 Be an archaeologist - KS2. Read about the burial of a Celtic chieftain & decide what would survive 2000 years later

British History

 Celtic patterns, more Celtic patterns , Celtic swastika patterns, Celtic borders- step by step pictures to make patterns, also good for thinking skills

Celtic Plait border - make it, draw it, model it, age 8+

Celtic wool weaving- KS2

 Illuminated letters - make a quill & write like the anglo saxons

Thaumatrope - Victorian toy

Zoetrope - Victorian toy, 10yrs+

Egypt

Ancient Egypt Crossword

Ankh - easy model to make

Canopic jar - for Egyptian organs

Egyptian inscriptions - make a great display

Egyptian writing paper - portrait*NEW JAN. 2010*

Hieroglyphic message & hieroglyph alphabet  with easy to draw symbols

King Tut's death mask -a recycled replica

Scarab amulet - to make*NEW JAN. 2010*

Tutankhamen sarcophagus model for KS2

What do you know about ancient Egypt? a word puzzle

Wordsearch *NEW JAN. 2010*

Romans

Design a Roman coin template to print out

Roman Britain - cross curricular using eye witness accounts

Roman number grid - up to 100

Roman Shopping - +, x,  total and change

PSHE

Bird Fat Pecker - feed the birds in winter

Find the Leader, spin the plate - circle games

Floating game  a team game for KS1 & 2

Friendship cards - advertise yourself, activity for a new class - KS2

Golden time list  30 names 3 spaces for activity titles/pictures

Golden rules - to print out

Helping hands - monitor system KS1

Land, Air or Water - quick game upper KS2

Lenten Calendar - make small promises in Lent

Nest material  - give birds a hand in spring

Paper Pots - recycle  & grow seeds

This is my life - quiet activity  KS2

Visual timetable  KS1

Literacy

Calligrams - pictures from words KS2

Cheesy Jokes - really bad jokes to print out

Choose an adverb  worksheet

Compound word fun - make a display or book with this activity

Consequences book - a book to make with silly sentences, KS1 lower KS2

Fairy Tale Games-Foundation & KS1

Fairy Tale Lotto game - 4yrs+*NEW JAN. 2010*

Goldilocks finger puppets & props to cut out

Handwriting guidelines - red & blue lines to guide new writers, also on IW

Humpty Dumpty- pictures and rhyme

Incy Wincy - cloze procedure worksheet

Incy Wincy Spider - rhyme to print out, pictures to sequence, match pictures to words

Jack & Jill - cloze procedure*NEW JAN. 2010*

Jack and Jill - picture & rhyme sequencing

 Minibeast rhymes  make silly sentences

Read the rhymes & draw the pictures, a literacy challenge for KS1

Sound Story- CLL & Listening Skills F & KS1 

Story Cube - a 3d book with a model inside

The Old woman in a shoe nursery rhyme

The Three Little Pigs - finger puppets*NEW JAN. 2010*

Tongue twisters - Bitter butter, Moeses toeses, Peter Piper, Swimming Swan, Woodchuck

Winter writing paper

Word wheels - Smart notebook, 10 screens, 5 minute challenges, KS2

Phonics

ch & sh - picture cards and games to play*NEW JAN. 2010*

Initial consonants - 100 pictures & games, no x, KS1, lower KS2*NEW JAN. 2010*

Initial vowel sounds - pictures and games *NEW JAN. 2010*

Long e worksheet on ee and ea spellings

Phoneme certificate- when they know all 44

Silent letters - onset & rime to print out

Silent letters - word cards & game ideas

Silent letter story text level activity

Science

Autumn themed writing paper

Black investigation -what colours make black? KS1 & lower KS2

Blue tit video to download-right click & save

Colour spinner - explore light

Colour trail - 3 cross curricular lessons, science, art, literacy. KS1 and lower 2

Cress Head - grow cress in an eggshell

Flipstick - make a simple moving picture 6years +

kaleidoscope - would link with Toys topic or reflection & mirrors*NEW JAN. 2010*

Minibeast home learning record bugs in gardens

Mini propagator - grow something & recycle at the same time

Nest material for the birds - help the birds  in spring

New life - photos of lambs & foals with captions

Paper Pots - recycle newspaper & grow a plant

Pictures for sequencing - apple and tomato from flower to fruit, Foundation stage

Plants and animals in the local environment full lesson plan and activity sheet, Yr2

Plant lifecycle worksheet KS1 & lower KS2

Seasons pop-out book - lower KS2

Signs of spring - pictures & captions

Weather Chart  - IW (Smart Notebook)

Weather record - KS1, blank to fill in

Window box- recycle newspapers and plastic bags to make a planter  upper KS2

P.E.

Bonfire dance - music, Art & Literacy. KS1 &lower KS2, several lessons

Crossfire game - indoor ball game

Dodge Ball -game for KS1 and lower KS2

French Cricket- an old classic

Floating game  a team game for KS1 & 2

Parachute guide - safe practice

Parachute games - all key stages

Piggies in the circle - ball game

Stop ball - KS1, all you need is a ball

The Bean Game - energetic warm up KS1

Tower game - ball game

D.T

Moving pictures Incy Wincy spider, unit 1a,

ICT

Computer art Mondrian style

Introduction to databases - minibeasts

Rotating patterns - word file, rotate the patterns through 90° turns- lower

Geography

Human & Physical Geography - lesson plan with vocabulary cards. KS2  A.T2a, 3a

Playground Puzzle - game for foundation stage

World Flag Game - listening skills bingo game KS1

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