Do you students need a resource to help support them with their mathematics in class or at home? This maths mat is ideal for children in Year 1. A bright, colourful resource which once laminated can be used time and time again.

This colourful three page resource is great when learning about sea creatures or after reading the Rainbow fish. This resource is differentiated to support different children’s abilities.

The new framework for the early years foundation stage describes the three characteristics of effective teaching and learning as: Playing and exploring: children investigate and experience things and ‘have a go’; Active learning: children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties and enjoy achievements; Creating and thinking critically: children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas and develop strategies for doing things. This observation overview uses the statements from Development Matters 2020. It has been designed to record observations over the year, to give practitioners an overview of how each child learns. The statements from Development Matters 2020 are on each sheet, alongside a space for adults to record their observations of the child. They are colourful and match the Characteristics posters that I have made.

This is a great tool for your children to have next to them during their literacy lessons. Contains all the phase 2-5 high frequency words. The coloured sections are split into the 4 different phases. All tricky words are identified by a little coloured alien. This resource can be displayed around the room to support all children.

Children love seeing the changes that happen around them during the different times of the year. This activity is great for children to show their understanding of what happens to the trees during each season. This product has two pages. The children can draw or paint the leaves, etc, then label the pictures.

These three pages link greatly to emotions. These feeling faces allow children to think about what emotions people express. A great tool to use alongside this is a mirror for the children to use as they think about the different emotions.

Have you been learning about ‘The Rainbow Fish’ or fish in general? This resource can be used in your continuous provision. There are three fish templates to use. I suggest leaving shiny items, coloured paper, paint, etc for children to decorate the fish templates.

This product focuses on four 2D shapes: Square Triangle Rectangle Circle This colourful sheets allows the children to talk about the 2D shapes and decide on which box to glue them into. Lots of opportunities to encourage children to use the correct terminology to describe each shape and it’s properties.

This three page activity includes a colourful picture of a beach scene for children to use and label when writing about the beach. It is a great resource to encourage children to talk about what happens at the beach and what they might see there, including the noises they might hear.

Sometimes seeing everyday objects can really help embed children’s understanding of 3D shapes. This colourful activity allows children to discuss the every day objects and decide which box they are going to glue them into. There are 24 every day pictures of objects for your children to sort through. A great opportunity to encourage them to talk about other 3D shapes they can see around their classroom, school, home etc.

Children will have fun completing this two page activity linked to what they’d find at the fire station. This is a great tool for encouraging children to discuss the kind of objects and people they would find in a fire station environment.

This three page activity includes a colourful picture of a zoo scene for children to use and label when writing about the zoo. It is a great resource to encourage children to talk about what happens on a zoo and what they might see there, including the noises they might hear.

Children will have fun completing this two page activity linked to what they’d find at the library. This is a great tool for encouraging children to discuss the kind of objects and people they would find in a library environment.

These activity sheets are ideal to use in your continuous provision. The four colourful downloadable sheets consist of measuring: Balloons Trees Buildings Ties They can be measured using multilink cubes, a ruler etc.

This product consists of 4 pages with 4 different templates for children to decorate: Lizard Snake Butterfly Beetle This is ideal if children are looking at patterns, textures, or jungle animals/critters. This resource can be used in continuous provision along with a range of art/craft resources, such as coloured paper, glue, sequins, buttons, paint etc…

These useful RWI inspired stickers can be used when teaching Set 2 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’.

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’.

A great way to get children to talk is by giving them a phone. This resource goes brilliantly with a phone – so as well as getting children to talk, this one encourages them to recognise numbers and write messages. The resource consists of three posters, with different characters and their numbers, along with a message template. I suggest that when using this in continuous provision you place a play phone or a phone that no longer works to encourage them to be creative with their messages. Maybe get another child to pretend to phone them and leave a message.

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.

Children just love to watch insects grow – especially the life cycle of a butterfly. This product has two activities for children to complete linked to the life cycle of a butterfly. This colourful product encourages children to think and talk about each stage of the cycle.