A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
A series of fun lessons with resources linked to code breaking and maths for KS1 but easily adaptable for EYFS or KS2. Perfect for end of term activity!
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A Powerpoint aimed at KS1 but easily adaptable for KS2 which contains a series of fun lessons linked to code breaking and packed with lots of maths activities. Perfect for end of term or for a whole school maths day!
A range of maths activities and code breaking linked to Traditional Tales aimed at KS1 or KS2 with editable activity sheets. Perfect for end of term!
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A fun Christmas Quiz for KS1 which has 5 rounds including Powerpoint, handouts, quiz answers and certificates for the winners. Round 1 is guess who, round 2 guess the object, round 3 is Christmas movies, round 4 is gifts related to the 12 days of Christmas and the bonus round is naming characters from Frozen, Snow White's dwarves and Santa's reindeers. Happy Quizmas!
A fun Christmas activity for KS1. Children use the top secret code to find the punchlines to a selection of Christmas cracker jokes! There are 24 jokes included in this pack. Ideal as a stimulus for your own class Christmas joke competition too!
A collection of five PowerPoints and four activity sheets that can be used to reinforce phonics during the festive period. Visit Santa's workshop and help the elves by making a list of all the toys (editable) or have a go at scribing the gifts from 'my true love' during the 12 days of Christmas. Could be used as an informal assessment tool to review sounds taught.
This is a collection of 13 'Topic Takeaway' menus used to enhance homework and extend learning outside of the classroom. Topics covered include: All about me, Traditional Tales, Fire, Seaside, Toys, Olympics, Art, Animals, Famous people, Extreme Earth, Flat Stanley and India. There is an editable template also included for your own ideas.
This assembly which was used with a Year 2 class is based on an episode of Wish You Were Here. Flat Stanley travels around the globe reporting on different countries with help from the people he meets on his travels and the cast back in the studio. It includes singing, dancing (performing the Haka!), speaking in french, Kung Fu punctuation and lots of amazing facts!
Three Powerpoints to introduce or reinforce positional language. EYFS
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A fun game played in pairs to reinforce fluency with times tables. Using a paperclip and pencil to make your spinner, children take it in turns to spin 2 numbers and multiply them e.g. 10 x 2 = 20 they then find the answer and claim that square by colouring it in their chosen colour or covering it with a counter. If the square is already covered miss a go! The winner is the player with the most squares at the end of the game.
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Curious Science Investigators: Can the children decide which object was used to break the caretaker's window? Powerpoint to introduce activity then you need to set out your objects (e.g. rubber duck, woollen gloves, football, brick etc) for children to investigate using the recording sheet. I extended this activity by inviting the children to become Curious Stem Inventors (label included) by giving them a brown paper bag containing objects such as a lollipop stick, an elastic band, a straw, paperclip, marble, newspaper etc and challenging them to invent! Also included is 'Bend me, Shape me' record sheet to investigate the properties of materials and extension activities.
Get your class talking about science! I made BIG books and put my class into science 'cells' (labels for big books included e.g. Brilliant Bulbs, Terrific Test Tubes) and at the start of each lesson I give the class a science-themed question to discuss. The children each use a different coloured felt-tip pen to record their ideas on a page in their Bright Ideas BIG Books. Included in the pack are BIG questions such as What are our bodies made of? What If's e.g. What if there were no plants in the world, PMI's (i.e. give me a positive, a minus and tell me something interesting!) such as what if your bones were made of jelly? Odd One Outs and Chain Reaction. This is a great pack (that will last you all year!) to get children thinking, talking, predicting, justifying and debating science in a fun way! A couple of bonus extension ideas and some review cards are included too.
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This bumper pack contains PowerPoints and fun interactive activities to reinforce word groups (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs) capital letters, commas, apostrophes for possession, coordination and subordination, exclamatory sentences and the four main sentence types. There is also a SPaG Scoot game which includes SATs style questions covering all areas of the SPaG curriculum.
A collection of activities to reinforce reading skills including using film clips for inference, mystery neighbours, what's in the teacher's bag and fairytale gifts as well as a range of book corner (or book club) tasks. This pack also includes reading material for a Fairytale Estate Agents and a fun book trail!
A bumper collection of problemsolving and reasoning activities covering all areas of the KS1 maths curriculum. This pack includes 'Deal or No Deal', a money coding task, fairytale problems and many more activities that investigate number and measures.
Three Powerpoints and associated ideas and links to promote activities in the outdoors. Also included is a fun PowerPoint all about Holes - perfect if you are looking for a new topic! Why not head straight outdoors on a 'Hole Hunt!'
A selection of adaptable maths, reading and writing challenges for children to complete independently - set up a challenge area and leave them to learn! This bundle also includes estimating activities and positional language PowerPoints linked to popular stories.
