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Witch’s Cauldron

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells. The class can use the conjunction and to list pairs of ingredients for potion and write expanded noun phrases to describe ingredients.

Select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells

Lesson One : Potions and Spells
Identify and record how a witch might use a range of potions to cast different spells using conjunctions to link pairs of matching sentence clauses

Lesson Two : Witch’s Kitchen
Practise using the conjunction and to co-ordinate pairs of matching sentence clauses about some of the special things that a witch might use when making a potion

Lesson Three : Potion Ingredients
Investigate how to select and use adjectives in noun phrases to describe some of the special ingredients that can be used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Lesson Four : Potion Recipe
Explore how to sequence and adapt a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell to achieve a specific outcome or effect

Lesson Five : Cauldron Potion
Practise selecting and composing a set of instructions for a witch to follow about how to make a potion using special ingredients to cast a spell
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