I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
Are you teaching your class about water, rivers or impressive landscapes? Are you looking for some visual support? I have collected together 30 high quality, stunning images of waterfalls for you to share with your class.
This pack contains a 31 Teaching Activity Teacher Guide using these photo flash cards. These activities are quick and fun to do and will improve both your students' memory and vocabulary skills.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different places being shown in each of photos.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about waterfalls.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different types of waterfalls. The students can then discuss if the waterfall is natural or manmade.
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different colours being shown in each of the photos.
This pack contains a 31 Teaching Activity Teacher Guide using these photo flash cards. These activities are quick and fun to do and will improve both your students' memory and vocabulary skills.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about water colour art techniques.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different styles of water colourings. The students can then discuss how each one was created. Did any of them need special techniques?
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.
, BGB 2 is packed with 101 printable worksheets for teaching and improving grammar skills in English. The topics are wide and varied, starting with Essential English worksheets that cover the basics, like the alphabet, days, months, and telling the time; then tenses (a lot about tenses!), then irregular verbs, question forms, word order in sentences, parts of English, uncountable nouns, and so on! If you have used the first BGB, you will know what to expect from this one. Around 25% of the worksheets in this book are closely modelled on activities in BGB 1, for example Full Stops 1 & 2 (pp.68-69).
The material starts off at beginner level, with the alphabet worksheets, then gets progressively more difficult, while staying in Elementary (A1 / A2) level. Only towards the end do things get “tougher”, with articles, conditionals, and phrasal verbs making their inevitable appearance! Don’t worry – all the answers and notes for use are included at the back of this book.
English teachers can use big grammar book 2 in class, although it may be better to use the worksheets for homework and let students focus on speaking and listening and group work – producing language – in class. It is ideal for private study – i.e. homework or self-study – and also for use in online lessons. Teachers can adapt the worksheets in this book, and I would positively encourage them to treat many of the pages as templates for producing their own activities. For example, the sentence building worksheets (from p.60) would be ideal for adaptation, among many others.
I hope you enjoy learning English with big grammar book 2!
Remember, a good understanding of English grammar will open doors of opportunity.
Here are lots of different fun teaching resources for students who are learning to speak English as a second language, or for students who want to revise and improve their understanding of English. This is perfect for both an home or school setting.
FREE Room On The Broom Yellow Hat Reading Questions Makes Positive Thinking Fun!
I noticed that despite this book being a best seller, the schools had very few resources for it and so I decided to focus on providing a set of Thinking Hat reading questions for anyone wanting to complete guided reading on this fabulous book.
Today I have focused on pulling out all the positives from this book. This set of worksheets is easy to differentiate and every child will gain something from it.
Please leave a comment when you have downloaded this set of files.
FREE The Magic Train Black Hat Thinking Activities - Problem Solving Has Never Been So Fun!
Every day I am trying to add some more thinking hat resources I am making for my class to TES. It has been shown that Thinking Hat Questions promote higher thinking and reading skills in children and yet when it came to actually finding lots of these resources on this website, I could not find any and so I am planning to write worksheets each night and share them with everyone. I would love a review of my work and also any suggestions on what other children's books people would like me to add to this collection.
I have been a keen fan of this book for a long time. I was really excited to see as part of the Open Government scheme, I was able to take this book and make it into something I believe is much more user friendly.
When I used the original book with an interactive whiteboard, I was always annoyed at having to skim to the end of the book to show an answer. I wanted it on the next page.
In addition, I have now replaced all the pictured with much more stimulating colourful pictures. I have also taken the time to follow the advice of Dudley council and sorted the different problems into age groups and blocks.
You will notice there is some repetition of problems both between blocks and in different year groups. The students can try the same problem twice at different times, as this is excellent consolidation. It is also an excellent time to suggest students think about how they could change the problem.
How can this be used in the classroom?
This could be used as an assessment at the start or the end of a unit. It also could be used as an emergency set of lessons for any teacher while covering another teacher’s maths classes.
In addition, it is also an excellent set of resources to prepare for different exams. Look at how the students resolve a problem and identify the different ways different students attempt to answer the same problem.
In addition to answering the problems, this is also an excellent time to look into inverse operations. How do we know we have found all the answers? How do we know we have found the correct answer?
I have really enjoyed making these mental maths problems a lot more accessible. I have enjoyed teaching them in a wide range of different classes and I hope that you too will enjoy making maths fun.
FREE The Gruffalo Yellow Thinking Hat Questions Make Positive Thinking Guided Reading Fun!
The Gruffalo is a really nice, feel good book. It is a great book to explore Yellow Hat Thinking questions to their full. These worksheets let you look at the characters, writing postcards home and of course developing a poster about why you liked this book. All these would make fabulous display materials.
I would love to have some feedback from anyone who has successfully used this in their classroom.
I am interested to see if people are interested in my simple Christmas verbs idea. If you are, please leave me a nice comment and suggestions about what other Christmas related topics you would like to see being converted in a series of simple posters.
FREE Stick Man White Hat Thinking Worksheets Make Fact Finding More Fun!
Stick man is the latest book to be converted into a set of Thinking Hats Guided Reading materials. It is another perfect book for my thinking hat materials. It contains all the elements a student needs to develop their higher thinking skills.
I love getting people's feedback on this material.
I have upgraded this PowerPoint lesson as a YouTube video and a PowerPoint to make this lesson a lot more interactive for the classroom and the home. It is a new approach to teaching and I would love your feedback on it.
FREE Maths Reception PowerPoint and YouTube Lesson - Simple Addition - Spring Term
Lesson Objectives:
I can count
I can solve simple number problems.
I am beginning to learn about addition and subtraction.
If you like this lesson, you will really love my FREE Reception Maths Pack (11 Maths Lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-reception-students-6167058
Teachers now use YouTube more than PowerPoint and so I am now developing my resources ton reflect this new Powerpoint - YouTube combo in the in the classroom. It has the additional benefit that you can then share the links to the lessons directly with the students’ parents for extra homework.
The Multiplication Symbols YouTube Maths PowerPoint Presentation - Year 2 Spring Term
FREE Year 2 Maths PowerPoint Presentation - The Multiplication Symbols - Spring Term is ideal for revising for the KS1 SATs tests. You can also use this lesson in the classroom or as a homework task. If you like this lesson, you will love my FREE Year 2 11 Maths Lessons pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-maths-powerpoint-resources-6167047.
YouTube Examining statistics FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Autumn Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Examining statistics - Autumn Term
This lesson’s learning objectives
Identify and use appropriate operations to solve word problems.
Explain methods and reasoning orally and in writing.
This FREE year 6 lesson came from my FREE Year 6 Lesson pack (11 lessons in total) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056
YouTube Investigating Calendars FREE Year 6 PowerPoint Lesson Autumn Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 6 PowerPoint Lesson -Investigating Calendars - Autumn Term
Learning Objectives:
Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers by finding examples that satisfy it.
Develop from explaining a generalised relationship in words to expressing it in a formula using letters as symbols.
This lesson came from my FREE Year 6 Maths pack (11 Lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials being shown in each of the photos.
As some teachers have noted below that they would have liked a wider range of art examples to share with their class. In addition, I have included 31 different teaching activities you could use to further extend the use of these great teaching resources.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about The Big Draw.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different drawings.
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.
FREE YouTube Year 6 Ratio and proportion Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Autumn Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Ratio and proportion - Autumn Term
Learning Objective:
Solve simple problems using ratio and proportion.
Identify and use appropriate operations to solve word problems.
Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers by finding examples that satisfy it.
If you like this FREE Year 6 Maths lesson, you should also look at my FREE Year 6 Math pack (11 lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056
These worksheets are designed to be used time and again with different books.
These are designed to be used in guided reading sessions. Many of the worksheets are designed in such a way that a student can complete them independently. However, to get the maximum out of this book, I would highly recommend these worksheets are used to consolidate the learning taking place in the classroom.
Another use of this set of worksheets is additional homework sheets. I have used these sheets very effectively as a way of checking to see if students have read their book and do fully understand what they have read.
I hope you enjoy this book and that your students are inspired to take a more active, more motivated role in their own learning.
These five complete PowerPoint lessons focus on capacity, shape and space. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up activity. This is followed by a main, whole class learning session. The lessons end with a differentiated learning challenge.
Summer Term
Lesson 1: Week 5
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: solve problems
use words about capacity
know relationships between units
estimate, measure and compare capacity.
Lesson 2: Week 5
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: solve problems
use words about capacity
know relationships between units
estimate, measure and compare capacity.
Lesson 3: Week 5
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: solve problems
use words about capacity
know relationships between units
estimate, measure and compare capacity.
Lesson 4: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: use words for direction and movement
recognise quarter, half and whole turns
know that a quarter turn is a right angle
give instructions.
Lesson 5: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: understand that a quarter turn is a right angle
recognise a right angle
give instructions
describe the position of an object.
Are you studying the Vikings. Are you looking for photos of different objects the Vikings owned? Here is a pack of 30 different photos, drawings and paintings about the Vikings. These are a great way of getting students thinking more deeply about the lives of Vikings, and prompting them to discover more on their own.
It comes complete with a 31 Teaching Activity Teacher Guide to help you get the most out of your teaching and this purchase.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials and activities being shown in each of photos and drawings.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about life of the Vikings.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different sorts of Viking pictures and activities. The students can then discuss how the pictures show how Vikings lived.
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative or descriptive writing.