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✨ What’s Included: This comprehensive pack provides everything you need to teach a full writing unit with model texts, scaffolds, and differentiated activities: 📝 Explanation Writing Model explanation text: Why do volcanoes erupt? Clear writing template for student responses Differentiated writing frames for all ability levels 📜 Recount Writing Example letter recounting the eruption (written to a friend!) Blank letter paper for student writing ⚠️ Non-fiction & Instructional Writing Exa

A selection of easy to use activities including New Year traditions around the world, positive affirmations and setting goals for the year ahead.

A lovely, no prep activity to encourage children to think about gratitude and the people who are important to them.

A great colouring page for older children

Fantastic, no prep activities. Great for theme days. Includes a wordseach, quiz, Gallery of Thanksfullness art activity, our bestselling pilgrim paper doll activity, jigsaws, rules activity, acrostic poem and more.

A selection of mazes on the theme of Thanksgiving to suit different abilities

Create a wonderful poem to mark Thanksgiving. Great for a no-prep sub lesson idea.

A fun, quick activity for children to share their knowledge. Great for paired work or a quick 5 minute filler. Answer sheet included.

Great for a discussion point in groups/paired work or for individual work. What rules would you have for your colony? Extension: can you mark out which 3 of these are most important? (This could form part of a debate) How would you enforce these rules?

Great for a discussion point in groups/paired work or for individual work. What rules would you have for your colony? Extension: can you mark out which 3 of these are most important? (This could form part of a debate) How would you enforce these rules?

A great jigsaw puzzle for children to solve. Great for discussing vocabulary or for a fun 5 minute filler. You could enlarge or print onto A3 paper for larger pieces. This would work better if cut and then the pieces laminated for durability.

A great jigsaw puzzle for children to solve. Great for discussing vocabulary or for a fun 5 minute filler. You could enlarge or print onto A3 paper for larger pieces. This would work better if cut and then the pieces laminated for durability.

A great jigsaw puzzle for children to solve. Great for discussing vocabulary or for a fun 5 minute filler. You could enlarge or print onto A3 paper for larger pieces. This would work better if cut and then the pieces laminated for durability.

A huge bundle including a presentation, quiz, jigsaws, roll retrieval activity, maze, a cutting and sticking activity, 2 diary entries worksheets (can be adapted for the classroom focus e.g. fronted adverbials, past tense suffix endings etc.), rules for the colony worksheet, harvest guided reading extracts and follow up questions, a thanksgiving wordsearch and wordsearch.

Find out what the colonists would have taken with them on The Mayflower and load them into the hold.

Create a diary of a pilgrim leaving Plymouth for The New World.

Create a diary of a pilgrim arriving in The New World.

A useful and easy to use presentation about life on The Mayflower.

A short passage about the first thanksgiving with some follow up questions and some time for creative thinking.

Great for the odd 5 minutes between lessons or as a quick retrieval of knowledge