I am a teacher, having taught for 22 years.
I worked mainly in Early years, but also taught in year 1, and 2. I have produced several resources over the years and have recently created my own website Erinella.com where you can find my teaching resources. Im also on Facebook Erinella.com
I am a teacher, having taught for 22 years.
I worked mainly in Early years, but also taught in year 1, and 2. I have produced several resources over the years and have recently created my own website Erinella.com where you can find my teaching resources. Im also on Facebook Erinella.com
Children love investigating their environment and the great outdoors.
Why not take your children on a minibeast hunt? This resource is ideal to attach to a clipboard and to go on a minibeast hunt around your setting. Children can use the pictures to help find different minibeasts.
Children love to get their hands on anything to do with baking.
This recipe is a great hit with children. This is the best simple recipe for children to make their own ice-cream.
This product consists of two downloadable files with seven different activities related to missing numbers between 0-20.
This colourful resource is ideal for finding out whether children can find missing numbers within a line of numbers.
These useful RWI inspired stickers can be used when teaching Set 3 RWI sounds. They can be used as a reminder to the child and parent of what sound has been taught during that day. Plus a reward that can be given to each child to show that they have been successful during the lesson.
This product is also useful for the teacher or teaching assistant to see what sound each child had been learning during their phonic lesson, if they’d been to a different member of staff. It’s a quick visual prompt that can be used to test them throughout the day, and target during ‘pinny time’.
Are you after large numbers to display in your classroom environment? These large numbers are a great resource to show children the numbers and their values. They can be laminated and re used.
Each number has the following:
*Numicon
*Multi link cubes
*Dice
*Domino
*Number block character
*Tally
*Ten frame
*Fingers
*Number line
All children like to learn about how things grow. This product contains two sheets for them to complete, linked to the life cycle of a plant.
The colourful sheet encourages children to talk about the different stages and what happens at each stage.
Understanding the parts of the human body is an important thing for children to learn. Singing songs like ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ is a good start, as well as lots of games like ‘Simon said’, will help consolidate children’s.
This product can be used to check children’s understanding of the different parts of the human body. It is bright and colourful and consists of two sheets. The fist having words to assist the child and the other excluding words.
Topic – Toys
Children love to investigate items, so why not encourage them to investigate materials toys are made from. This resource is a great tool to encourage children to develop their speaking and listening skills. It gives them opportunities to look at, touch and talk about different toys and what materials they think they are made from. It creates great social opportunities, and allows you as a teacher to develop their language skills, and understanding of different textures and materials.
There are three different sheets for the children to record their findings. You could also add observations of the children’s discussions to show their understanding.
This 4 page resource consists of the tricky words found in phase 2-5.
This activity can be sent home for children to practice reading each phase. Once they know the word they can colour. It can be used as an assessment tool to show words children know.
Each phase is coloured a different colour so it’s easy to follow.
Linked to the story ‘Whatever Next’, by Gill Murphy, this product is a great activity to encourage your pupils to think about what they might take with them if they were to get aboard a space rocket and fly to the moon.
This product consists of two pages:
Writing template – so children can write about their visit to the moon.
What would you take to the moon – a basket in which the children can write about what they’d take.
This is a good communication activity, allowing pupils to discuss what items would be best and why.
This 5 page colourful resource can be used when learning about pet animals. It consists of pictures and lines for children to write captions about what they see or know about pet animals.
Animals include:
Rabbit
Guinnea Pig
Dog
Cat
Hamster
Mouse
Lizard
Snake
Budgie
Goldfish
What a great tool when learning phase 3 high frequency words.
These cards can be cut up and used as a visual prompt or even used as part of a game.
When teaching phase 2 high frequency words, I found that sending these cards home really supported my pupils learning and was a great tool to get parents involved.
Are you teaching addition? This 28 page resource consists of 56 different addition sum.
Each can be laminated and used time and time again along with counters. I recommend a different coloured counter or cube for each number, so children can physically add the amounts together using the ten frame.
Are you teaching your children about Chinese New Year and why the years are named after twelve different animals? This powerpoint is ideal as it tells the story and then gives the children 6 questions to answer about the story.
This powerpoint comes with voice over, so children can listen to this independently and not worry about having to read it for themselves.
This resource is a fun way to get children adding amounts together. Children are to work in pairs to compete in a mini race. Each child rolls two dice and moves a toy car along the race track until the reach the end.
Children love to play games so why not allow them to play an addition game?
Are you teaching your children about Chinese New Year and why the years are named after twelve different animals? This powerpoint is ideal as it tells the story and then gives the children 6 questions to answer about the story.
This resource is ideal when teaching PSHE - looking at how we are all different.
I usually play a game before introducing this activity. Starting with children in a circle I get them to change places if they like something. E.g. Change places if your favourite colour is red. Or change places if your favourite food is sausages.
I then get them to see that everyone likes different things which makes us all unique.
A bright coloured resource that can be hung over a washing line to display both sides.
After a way to track what fine motor skills your child is missing? This individual assessment sheet is ideal to show where your child is. With space to add comments.