Page 15 - Supply teacher lesson plans

Poetry

▪ Write an A-Z about their school for the Year 2 children arriving in September.
▪ Alliteration poem, animals coming off the Ark, slithering snakes etc.

MATHS

Counting, partitioning and calculating

o Throwing dice, adding/subtracting numbers mentally, extend to throwing 2 dice, using
Links to digits to form one number, and throwing a third to form another number (e.g. a 6 and a
curriculum 2 thrown = 62, then a 4 thrown, so 62 + or – 4 mentally) then writing them down, extend
written to 2 and 3 digit numbers.
o Invite children to call out numbers between 11 and 99/999 (2 or 3 digit depending on ability)
and write on the board. Firstly get the children to read them out loud to a partner, then
cover them up, you read them, and ask the children to write them in digits/letters, reveal
the numbers and ask the children to order, carry on partitioning them or rounding them, or
repeat above activities with different numbers.
o Number story: tell chn a simple story (child goes to the zoo…) include prices & distances.
Write 1- and 2-step word problems for children to calculate based on the story.
o Jumping to the right/left of a HTU grid: multiplying and dividing numbers by 10 and 100.
Jump physically! Take hops on paper.

Securing number facts, understanding shape

o Introduce a right angle, and ask children to collect right angles around the classroom. Record
findings in book, draw and label: cupboard door, 4 right angles etc. Then show angles
greater/smaller than 90° and repeat as above.
o Give number problems (division using known multiple facts) and work on estimating first,
and then checking. Do same for add/subtraction problems.
o Number machine: firstly give input and operation (6 goes in, machine X 2) (answer 12 is the
output) change operation, then give input, and output, children to work through all 4
operations finding possible functions.
o Recognising reflective symmetry, start with letters, numbers, move onto simple shapes,
Star fillers
then onto seeing symmetry in classroom objects, faces (not symmetrical!)

Handling data and measures

o Telling the time - draw two clock faces on the board, draw hands on for one time, ask
children to read it, invite child to draw hands 15/25 etc. minutes later. Chn draw simple
clocks and either write time by side, or draw another showing set interval.
o Sorting data into lists, tables, diagrams, frequency and bar charts, data could include colour
and size of pencil cases, school bags, favourite chocolate/authors etc.