Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Labels and captions to use on a Family tree themed display.
I made a large tree, and stuck on the different names people may call family members. A lot of the names are Asian, due to the population of my school.
A board game designed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. Game board to be enlarged to A3. Children to roll a dice and each time they land on a square, pick up a Royal family card. If they land on a crown card, take a Queen card. Queen cards encourage children to take or give away money. To start with 5p in pennies. The winner is the person who ends up with all of the Royal family on their game card. If able, children to then add up how much money they have accrued. Could even extend by asking children to change their coins for the lowest equivalent coins.
A role-play assistance sheet designed to be kept in the topic resource box to help teachers and TAs/NNs set up the role-play area with the kids. Suggested resource list and possible scenarios
A short introduction to describing pumpkins, both on the outside and inside.
Activity inspired by A-Z Teacher Stuff (lessons atoz) to make a non fiction pumpkin book. Children to write words, phrases or sentences to describe the outside and inside of the pumpkin. Can cut orange wool and seeds to stick on the inside of the book to illustrate.
A SMART notebook file to be used to introduce my class to the concept of a Christmas tree festival. We will be creating tree decs based on our class theme of the value of peace through making doves. The content also includes a short history of the introduction of Christmas trees, as well as pictures of different themed trees.
This is easily adaptable to your own needs.
Pictorial PowerPoint poem based on the words from peakie's resource.
To be used as a shared reading exercise and then children to write their own versions, focusing on end rhyming words and onomatopoeia.
Basic assembly script written about a boy who always shouts. Eventually no-one wants to be his friend, so he learns to talk quieter, although sometimes a loud voice can come in useful!
Assembly script based on Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley. The story is based on a Chinese child who is new to the class and doesn't speak much English. He feels withdrawn as everyone has a special talent apart from him, until he shows the class how to use chopsticks.
A nice story/play to do as part of Chinese New Year.
A set of 5 label images for Halloween. Featuring ghosts, pumpkins and candy corn. Suitable for general classroom labelling. Image courtesy of halloweenwallpapers.blogspot.com. Frame shape courtesy of Surfing to Success by Mercedes Hutchens.
A sorting game designed to discuss foods that are suitable and not suitable for dogs, cats, rabbits and birds. Each child to have an animal board. Food cards to be laminated and cut; placed face down in a pile. Children to take it in turn to pick up a food card and decide whether it is safe for their animal to eat. If so, place on the tick column. If they are aware that the food is not safe, place on the cross column. If the food is not applicable for that animal, place the card back down on the bottom of the pile.
iPod/iPad themed activity for transition day. Children to design their own iPod/iPad apps to describe themselves as a person. Could then be used as a first display in the class, ready before they start in September. Differentiated so suitable from EYFS up to upper KS2. Idea taken from Pinterest, but updated to include differentiation across the primary age.
Values in nature display idea. To be used in conjunction with 'Hurt no living thing&' poem by Christina Rossetti.
I had pictures (collage/drawn/paintings) of minibeasts that the children had made, under a flap with a clue to what minibeast it was.
An assembly outline based on the fact that the main religions all pray to one god, just known by different names.
Contains prayers from Christianity, Hinduism and Islam.
