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I am an ex-childminder with Early Years Teacher Status and a teacher in Reception. I have a special interest in Communication and Language, and Number.
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I am an ex-childminder with Early Years Teacher Status and a teacher in Reception.
I have a special interest in Communication and Language, and Number.
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Phonics train -Phase 1 letters and sounds; Alliteration, Initial sounds, Rhyming,
This colourful train will help children practise the essential pre-reading skills of alliteration and rhyming.
Alliteration
The "starting sounds" engines have lost their wagons. Can your children find all three picture wagons to match their engine's starting sound?
Rhyming
The "rhyming" engines are waiting for three rhyming wagons to be coupled on. Can your children use the pictures and words on the wagons to make a rhyming string and complete the train?
Perfect for continuous provision or adult led small group work.
Phonics train - Phase 2 letters and sounds; CVC words, Segmenting for Spelling, Reading captions.
This colourful resource will inspire your train enthusiasts to practise their phonics knowledge.
Ideal for continuous provision or small group work.
Spelling
12 engines with bold and bright pictures of phase 2, decodable, CVC words.
Children sound out the word before using the letter wagons to spell the word and complete the train.
Reading
Short captions represent an important developmental bridge between reading individual words and reading whole books. Children match the decodable, phase 2 captions on the coupled wagons to the correct engine picture.
Phonics train - Alphabet train. Upper and lower case letters, letter names, writing names. EYFS
Now budding train enthusiasts can use the phonics train to spell their own name.
Upper case letters on the engines and lower case letters on the wagons.
Spell any name by joining the wagons to the correct capital letter engine.
Also ideal for teaching letter names and matching upper and lower case letters.
Bundle
Phonics Train Value Bundle- Phase 1 & 2 letters and sounds + alphabet train; alliteration, rhyme, spelling, reading, letter names.
Alphabet
Upper case letters on the engines and lower case letters on the wagons.
Spell any name by joining the wagons to the correct capital letter engine.
Also ideal for teaching letter names and matching upper and lower case letters.
Alliteration
The “starting sounds” engines have lost their wagons. Can your children find all three picture wagons to match their engine’s starting sound?
Rhyming
The “rhyming” engines are waiting for three rhyming wagons to be coupled on. Can your children use the pictures and words on the wagons to make a rhyming string and complete the train?
Spelling
12 engines with bold and bright pictures of phase 2, decodable, CVC words.
Children sound out the word before using the letter wagons to spell the word and complete the train.
Reading
Short captions represent an important developmental bridge between reading individual words and reading whole books. Children match the decodable, phase 2 captions on the coupled wagons to the correct engine picture.
Free Book Bingo - Summer Holiday activity
Inspire young readers with this book bingo challenge.
Available as PDF download or and Editable Word version.
Check out my other resources in my TES shop www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/katypic
Free 30cm Number line with Space Design. Number, Counting, Adding, Subtracting, EYFS/KS1
30cm number line with 2 space designs (Flying Saucers and Stars)
1-10 and 1-20
Ideal for supporting counting on and counting back during adding and subtracting activities.
Find my Space themed nursery rhyme story mat to support story telling, counting and communication and language skills at www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/katypic
FREE Number line/Pictogram to 20 with sweets design. Number, Counting, Maths, EYFS
Free resource with sweet design.
Numbers 1-20 with corresponding towers of brightly coloured sweets.
Ideal for display in a sweetshop role play area or a maths area.
Also available in my shop, Free number line strips to 10 and to 20 in this design.
Check out my other free and premium resources at
www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/katypic
Subitising Photographs: Subitizing, Numeracy, EYFS, Number Recognition, Counting, Estimating
Subitising or Subitizing is the ability to visually recognise how many things are present, without counting.
This collection of real photographs will support children in developing their understanding of cardinal value or “howmanyness”.
A carefully curated set of real world images to appeal to varied interests.
36 real photographs representing the values 1 - 6.
Different arrangements of objects used to strengthen visual memory skills.
Seven different ways to use the resource, instructions included.
Can also be used for counting and estimating.
FREE SAMPLE Numeracy Mini beasts - counting to 5, sequencing, number, EYFS
A small sample of my Numeracy mini beast resource.
Includes the large format leaf cutter ants, numbers 1-5.
Numerals on the ants and matching notches on the leaves.
1:1 correspondance
Counting
Numeral recognition
Matching numerals and amounts.
Sequencing numbers.
For the full resource, see my TES shop.
SATPIN board games; EYFS, Phase 2 phonics, Initial sounds, turn taking.
This board game focuses on the first 6 letter sounds taught in phase 2 phonics, in the “letters and sounds” scheme.
A fun way to practice grapheme recognition and starting sounds of words.
This simple turn taking board game requires a dice or spinner and counters for each player.
Tried and tested with phonics intervention groups this game is loved by children.
Simple, fun and quick to play.
Full rules are included.
Four versions to choose from; full colour, black and white, cursive and non-cursive.
BONUS GAME
Included for free is a bonus pairs game. This game uses images from the board game and can be played solo or with groups for more starting sound / grapheme matching fun.
Understanding Numbers Pack - For children working towards counting out 3 from a larger group.
Designed for use with 2's and 3's but also excellent as a numeracy intervention for reception children.
These 11 research based activities and games are ideal for children working towards counting out 3 objects from a larger group.
Babies can recognise when small groups increase or decrease and these games tap into this innate ability, linking it to the concept of number. By doing so children begin to understand what numbers are for and so learning to count becomes less abstract and more concrete.
This pack contains instructions for 11 different activities and games, some with included printable resources. All based on my Masters research into how children learn to count and tried and tested in the home learning and school environment.
Numeracy Ladybird; Counting, One more, One less, Doubling, Halving, Addition. Fine motor skills.
This versatile and appealing ladybird has been designed to enhance your maths and malleable materials continuous provision.
With 7 differentiated challenges, detailed instructions and printable enhancements; she can transform into 16 different resources as a play dough mat a white board or a paper based activity.
Now includes an editable word version.
5 little ducks story mat; EYFS, communication and language, story telling, counting.
This printable story mat has cute moveable ducks.
This well known rhyme has repeated phrasing and a simple story arch, making it easy to learn and ideal for independent story telling.
Children use the props to tell the story of the baby ducks swimming away from mother duck and disappearing one by one before returning to their mamma.
Also ideal for practising counting to 5 and one to one correspondence.
A4, A3 and A2 printable versions of the story mat and ducks included.