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Watch this spooky scene pdf slideshow with the kids on your computer screen or whiteboard and ask them to brainstorm words, feeling and ideas. A fun way to spark the imagination and inspire some creative writing!
We've got a set of ten spine-chilling photographic posters to print for Halloween - why not use them as part of a spooktacular display with our Spooky Story Word Cards?
Developing a character for a story can be daunting, but these fun character worksheets will help start the kids off. This set is full of spooky Halloween characters - 8 in total, including witches, cats and ghosts!
This lovely poem - The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling - is an excellent choice for children. It's lyrical rhythm and clever, exciting rhyme scheme helps it trip off the tongue if you read it aloud - making it a particularly good one for learning and reciting, too.
This poem, by the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, was published in 1913. It's a little old-fashioned for today's tastes, but it talks about struggle, and growth, and perserverence in the face of adversity. You can put this up on a screen or print it.
The Seedling, by Paul Laurence Dunbar, is an interesting poem about a seedling struggling to grow and survive - a lesson for children who are growing up, from one of the first African-American poets to gain national recognition. This poem was published in 1913.
This simple, anonymous poem - with its accessible, easy language - is an excellent one to provoke discussion about consequences. Children could use it as inspiration for their own poem. The printable below has been designed to look good on screens and whiteboards too.
Here's a photographic poster of a lovely, cheeky chimp to print and put on display. He looks like he is a ready for a conversation, doesn't he? Borderless settings give the best result.
Print out 20 limericks from Edward Lear, complete with his original funny illustrations. The booklet prints onto A4 paper and folds into an A5 booklet. Staple in the middle.
Here are 4 of our own limericks to enjoy with the kids. Print them out or put them up on the whiteboard / computer monitor to read together.
Choose from 4 different printables that are perfect for displaying a final, neat version of your students' own limericks.
Open this slideshow and work through each screen, page by page, with the children. By the end they should have a good understanding of what makes a limerick, and have read through four examples. You can print this slideshow too, of course.
This printable explains simply what a limerick is, giving three different examples for the children to read through.
Here's an interesting worksheet that practises historical research and geography skills too. Can the kids mark the countries that formed part of the British Empire at the start of Queen Victoria's reign and those that formed it in the end?
The kids will enjoy this fun worksheet asking them to recognise the flags of the countries that were part of the British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria. You could try this as a group or class activity to see who can get the most correct answers!
Here's an interesting worksheet to get the kids doing a little research about Queen Victoria. Can the children list Victoria's children, who they married and their children in the table, and then write about why they think she was known as the 'Grandmother of Europe'?
Here's a simple family tree for Queen Victoria, dating back to King George III. Print and use in displays or add to a history lapbook.
"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them." Print and display this poster featuring a quote by Queen Victoria, one of Britain's greatest monarchs.
Queen Victoria had a long and eventful life, so this timeline could get quite full! Do some research then mark down the key events in her life and reign in the correct place...
Queen Victoria loved to write letters, and many of them are still around today. Can the children imagine they are Queen Victoria, and write a letter to her son Edward, the future king, about a visit to Osborne House?