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

Can you write your own mixed up sentence for a

Show answers 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.

sun cloud

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
fruit

jelly 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 bread

potatoes
trolley
checkout

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 sentences?
Answers: The girl is hungry. The girl buys a shiny red scooter. The girl buys ten
Don’t forget to re-read your sentences to make sure they makes sense. You should be
cakes and three ice creams. The girl buys ten zebras for her zoo.
able to make four different sentences altogether.

red scooter.

ice creams.
shiny
hungry.
three
is
a

and buys girl

cakes

zoo. her for zebras ten

The

Can you design your own word map or maze for a friend
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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?

I am waiting for you at the

am yet! are for you stop I
bus stop but you are not Ihome
can’tspecial
wait tocan’t
get home
to getto
the but here waiting you not
here eat dad’s
curry. eat special
I dad’s curry.
wait to
at busyet!

I got paint all over my brand

my got paint coat. I all brand
new
over coat.
new

Can you write your own mixedWhich

up textemoji is thefor
message right one to use
a friend?
Show answers for each text message?
Can they put the words in the right 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 she is so I bought a

my best my mum.
kind to bunch of
friend me. flowers

I like the pink. My dog is he can’t

colours very old go on
blue long walks.

because
so for and

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Click on a duck to put the words together to make a sentence.

A_ ______has
spider ___ _____
eight ____
legs.

legs.
eight
spider has
A
Big___ _____grow
trees ____ ____
from ____
tiny _____
seeds.

from tiny

trees grow Big

seeds.
I_ love
____ __
to ____
play _____
chess____ __
with
my______
sister.

love
play my

I to
with sister. chess