Page 21 - Supply teacher lesson plans

o Write limericks, explore structure, rhyming patterns and humour first.
o Teacher write a poem on board, children refine and polish it using a thesaurus.

MATHS

Counting, partitioning and calculating

o Mentally add/subtract pairs of 2 digit numbers, investigate methods used as a table/class.
Star fillers Teach a written method on adding/subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers, £.p included. Give
word problems to which they can then apply this method.
o Invite children to call out numbers between 11 and 99/999 (4 digit numbers) 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 them, carry on partitioning them or rounding them, or repeat
above activities with different sets of numbers.
o Go through story of temperature through your day, (in winter!) introducing children to
positive and negative numbers on a number line (thermometer), children to calculate rise
and fall in temperature and write as number sentence.
o Work on multiplication tables to 10 * 10, work on 2-digit doubles and multiplying by 10 and
100. Children to demonstrate their written methods on the board for you, and then use these
to answer questions in books. Also do division, discussing remainders in context of the
question.

Securing number facts, understanding shape

o Using a calculator. Sums and differences of multiples of 10, 100, 1000. Emphasis on
estimating and checking mentally/on paper, and reading calculator carefully (many children
miss the decimal point, give questions to highlight this!)
o Draw a simple graph on the board, temperature in classroom through 24 hours perhaps,
Links to and ask children to solve 1 and 2-step word problems from it. Go through with them
curriculum carefully how to first select important information, then choose an operation, estimate,
work it out and check it.
o Properties of shapes: draw polygons , give a label: a, b, c, etc., and children must classify
according to a set of criteria that they drew up with you (guide them to number of edges,
number of lines of symmetry, number of vertices, parallel lines and right angles.)
o Give children a number investigation, i.e. Gnome has a red, yellow and blue hat, red, yellow
and blue jumper, and a red, yellow and blue pair of trousers. How many different
combinations of clothes has he got?
o Visualising 3-D shapes: draw a structure on the board using a given number of cubes such as
multi-link, and children have to make the shape, and draw it in their books from front, bird's
eye, below etc. Draw another shape using more cubes.

Handling data and measures

o Gather data using tally chart on number of siblings members of class have/number of hours
spent watching TV/doing homework a night etc., and ask children to present not only as tally
chart, but as a table/pictogram/bar chart.