Hand Signals > Hands up! In my class, I taught the children to use hand signals to communicate various needs including needing the toilet to needing help. This has cut down on shouting out, interruptions and has even supported the children’s communication and independence! If you want to know more about how (and why) I use hand signals, feel free to read my blog post! Note: These hand signals were made using a paid resource from Lidia Barbossa’s clip art so I haven’t included all the available hand signals!

I’m rolling out all the hits today! My Timetable Cards… but editable!! I realised that my cards were a bit… limited considering that I made them for my classroom so here are an editable version so you can add all the little bits that are unique to your classroom. Include in this download are a range of icons including those used in my original timetable card download as well as some others that may be useful to you. Basically, if it looked vaguely like I could use it in a timetable, I included it. Another print on card, laminate and cut resource, this can be ready for your classroom in no time!

The resource is Year 1 High Frequency Words written on wolves. I made the resource for my class to have a ‘wolf hunt’ as part of our Three Little Pigs Unit. The blank wolves are from Sparklebox

There’s a lot of debate around using PowerPoint in lessons, it’s a bit like marmite but for me, having slide provide a sense of routine and structure both for me and the children. I find that having the same thing on the board helps to set the day and start transition between lessons. Here are the Daily Slide I use every single day with my class! This PPT Set include: Morning Work Slides Morning Meeting Slides Break Time Slides Lunch Time Slides Hometime Slides Blank Slide for editing! The fonts used in these slide are KG Blank Space (available free on 1001Fonts) and LetterJoin (KG First time in Forever is a free alternative with a similar look)

Hello. Thanks for stopping by! Hope you like what you see! These ‘meeting Numbers 1 to 10’ Display Sheets can be used to display on a maths working wall or even laminated to use as part of a Maths Rotation or even just to have for students to relate back to during lessons. Each sheet has a ditty that can be used to teach EYFS to write the numbers as well as the numbers in a dotted font for tracing. There are also nine different ways to show each number that children can practice independently or under direction. Write it Trace it Draw it Ten Frame it Roll it Numicon it Base Ten it Stack it Domino it

Here’s a lovely display pack for teaching 2D Shapes in EYFS! Each sheet has an image of the shape, the name of the shape and characteristics on the shape in EYFS friendly language. This download includes 6 Shape Posters, one for each of the basic shapes; Square, Rectangle, Circle, Diamond, Semicircle and Triangle, and can be used as displays or to scaffold learning in the classroom.

Here’s a template in made to help me label and organise all my evidence for the teaching standards. A simple template to use for printing on Post It Notes that can then be attached to evidence and ready to file! This download includes 1 blank template for placing Post Its, 2 sheets with the Standards and lines for making notes and guidelines for using the templates.

This is a phonics review game, that can be used to practice the phonetic sounds or even just for students to practice in a fun way. This resources has 42 circular tiles with a letter or CVC word on them as well as 6 KABOOM tiles. There are also blank tiles for you to create your own tiles depending on which stage you’re working on. The Sassoon font is embedded into the PowerPoint for you to use to create your tiles with a font that is key to letter recognition and formation .

Here are some game I made for a whole class phonics session. Since the children were all at different levels, we looked at the sound we all know in different ways such as alien words or speed reading No laminating needed! Either print one per group or pair or display on the board and let the children play with the interactive board pen :)

A freebie for everyone! A lovely poster for you to decorate your classroom. It’s editable for you to change the colour of the children to match your schools uniform and personalise it a little. The fonts are embedded but are NOT editable.

For use in both EYFS and Key Stages 1 and 2, here’s my lesson planning template shown on my Instagram. This lesson plan template is what I used when planning my interview lessons or one off activities. The lesson planning templates is ideal for writing in detail about lessons where you are not familiar with the class allowing you to keep a detail record of the resources you will need. The template has the following sections: Lesson Information Resources Starter Main Input Main Activity (Continuous Provision for EYFS) Plenary TA Support Notes This download includes both a PDF version for writing on directly or an editable version for typing onto. Please note the fonts are embedded but titles are not yet editable.

Anyone else as excited to get into their classroom as me!? Being an NQT, I’m terrified of forgetting something crucial or being unprepared in my NQT year so I’ve put together a Classroom set up checklist and once I started, I couldn’t stop there!! In this download, you get: one ‘general’ classroom set up checklist filled with all the things I’m doing, in the order I’m doing it three blank checklists for you to fill in (classroom set up, first week of school prep, weekly lesson plan prep) I hope these help you with classroom set up and help your NQT week to smoothly!!

Thank you for stopping by!! I made this product as a way to monitor the behaviour in my classroom and I’ll be using it in September with wooden pegs that the children decorate! There are different variations of the last card as the original was quite specific to my classroom so make sure you select the page you want before printing! Features of this product: Clear Font for visibility in the classroom Hole Punch spaces outlined Easy to assemble Low colour to save ink Please read the note included for more details and assembly tips.

I have so many resources from last year and wanted to share them to clear my hard drive! haha These are some visual instructions of how to use your brain break area (or calm corner!)

Levels of Understanding for your children to self assess with before or after a lesson

[EDITED] Changed ‘Miss Lewis’ to a general ‘my teacher’! Apologies! forgot to amend that! Please redownload if you’ve got it! A simple worry web to aid children in communicating their worries and needs to you.

For us with Goodnotes or another digital planner

Some pastel green plant themed desktop wallpapers with motivational plant themed quotes! Use in my classroom this year as I had a green/ nature/ plant theme!

In this download is a file containing 37 slides that can be duplicated and rearranged to create a teaching presentation! I often (I mean, ALWAYS) use these to keep myself organised and on track during the day. The slides include: 2 slides containing video timers and icons to use in the Powerpoint. A selection of 8 morning slides A selection of 5 lesson slides (in blue, green and purple) 7 content slide to add videos, text or images for whole class teaching 2 Transition slide for break/ lunch and end of day! This presentation was created in response to my Instagram and there’s a video showing how I made it on my Youtube Channel (@oshierusensei) if you need and tips and tricks! Hope this is useful!!

Here’s my Back to School Freebie ’ My Exciting Summer’. This is a simple writing activity that can be used from EYFS up to Year Six for students to either write about their summer or engage in some creative writing and create their own exciting summer. It’s been differentiated on 4 levels Just a drawing space for EYFS or Y1 (LA) A drawing and blank writing space for EYFS or Y1 (LA) - pictured A drawing space and a small lined writing space for EYFS (MA) and Y1 (LA) A drawing space and a larger lined writing space for EYFS (MA) and Y1 A half page drawing space and a half space writing space for EYFS (HA) and Years 1 (MA) - pictured Of course, this is just a rough guideline and these templates can be used across the Primary Key Stages