Notes to the Teacher
This warm-up PowerPoint is intended to be used as revision for Key
Stage 1 pupils.
The games and activities on these slides can be used one at a time as
introductory activities or as lesson starters.
These activities are ideal for reinforcing previous learning - why not do
one activity every day?
Wanda the Witch has cast a spell on these sentences to mix them all up! Can
you help Freda the Fairy to write the words in the right order?
I am going to have fish and chips for my tea.
fish have and tea. my going to I chips for am
She skipped across the playground.
across playground. skipped She the
Sam was very sad because he broke his toy.
was Sam his because sad broke he toy. very
The children went into assembly quietly.
assembly The quietly. into went children
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Can you write your own mixed up sentence
for a friend to put in the right order?
Can you write a sentence to describe this picture? Can you use at least three
of the words that are labelled? Don’t forget to re-read your sentence to make
sure it makes sense.
cloud
sun
ball
sea
umbrella
sand
Example: I sat in my deckchair and watched the children play with the ball in the sea.
Can you write a different sentence using different words?
Can you write a sentence to describe this picture? Can you use at least three
of the words that are labelled? Don’t forget to re-read your sentence to make
sure it makes sense.
balloon
cake
cards
friends
jelly
fruit
table
Example: For his birthday he had a balloon, a cake and cards from his friends.
Can you write a different sentence using different words?
Can you write a sentence to describe this picture? Can you use at least three
of the words that are labelled? Don’t forget to re-read your sentence to make
sure it makes sense.
baby
woman
man
banana
checkout
trolley
bread
potatoes
basket
Example: The man holds his baby as he pays at the checkout of the supermarket.
Can you write a different sentence using different words?
Can you follow the road to collect different words and make different
Answers: The girl is hungry. The girl buys a shiny red scooter. The girl
sentences? Don’t forget to re-read your sentences to make sure they makes
buys ten cakes and three ice creams. The girl buys ten zebras for her zoo.
sense. You should be able to make four different sentences altogether.
scooter.
red
ice creams.
shiny
hungry.
three
is
a
and
buys
girl
cakes
zoo.
her
for
zebras
ten
The
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Can you design your own word map or maze for a
friend to complete?
The words of these text messages have got mixed up! Can you change the
order of the words so that the sentences make sense?
Iam
amyet!
waiting
foryou
youstop
at the
are for
I
bus
stophere
butwaiting
you areyou
not
the but
here
not atyet!
bus
Ihome
can’tspecial
wait tocan’t
get home
to getto
eat
dad’s
curry.
eatspecial
I dad’scurry.
wait to
Imy
gotgot
paint
allcoat.
over my
paint
I all
brand
brand new
over coat.
new
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Which
is the right
Can you write your own mixed
up emoji
text message
for aone to
use
message?
friend? Can they put the words
infor
theeach
righttext
order?
Can you fill in the missing word in each of these sentences using one of the
blue jigsaw pieces? Can you write the completed sentences out in full?
She is
my best
friend
she is so
kind to
me.
I bought
a bunch
of flowers
my mum.
I like the
colours
blue
pink.
My dog
is very
old
he can’t
go on
long walks.
so
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for
because
and
Click on a duck to put the words together to make a sentence.
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spider h
a s _____
e i g h t ____
legs.
A ______
legs.
spider
A
eight
has
___
t i n y _____
B i g _____
t r e e s ____
g r o w ____
seeds.
f r o m ____
from
trees
tiny
Big
grow
seeds.
_I ____
____
ith
l o v e __
chess w
t o ____
p l a y _____
__ ______
sister.
my
play
I
with
love
sister.
my
chess
to