A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
This assembly which was used with a Year 2 class is based on an episode of Wish You Were Here. Flat Stanley travels around the globe reporting on different countries with help from the people he meets on his travels and the cast back in the studio. It includes singing, dancing (performing the Haka!), speaking in french, Kung Fu punctuation and lots of amazing facts!
Following the success of 'BARvember' these Christmas themed problems will be used throughout 'DecemBAR' (sign included) with my class to continue to promote problem-solving. In this pack there are 10 editable problems aimed at Year 2. I have been incentivising my class with all correct answers going into a prize draw to win a 'bar' of choccie at the end of the week!
Do you want to learn how to say hello in every language? How about testing yourself on flags around the world? All this information is contained in this PowerPoint - very useful for Olympics/World cup topics as you could introduce a new country each day.
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Five themed Powerpoints and activity sheets linked to estimating. EYFS/KS1
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A Powerpoint aimed at KS1 but easily adaptable for KS2 which contains a series of fun lessons linked to code breaking and packed with lots of maths activities. Perfect for end of term or for a whole school maths day!
Two fun PowerPoints that reinforce Phase 3 phonics based around popular game shows - Wonky Donkey (also reinforces Phase 2 phonemes & rhyming skills) & Blankety Blank. Use on IWB for children to respond on individual whiteboards or print out slides for children to add to.
A bumper range of challenges for KS1 or easily adapted to suit KS2 that include maths, english, science and art tasks. Great for early finishers or extension activities.
A collection of resources that are ideal for celebrating a book day. This collection includes resources to make a Matilda themed book door where children create the covers of their favourite books, templates for making marvellous medicine, designing a new chocolate bar, filling a dream jar, making a door hanger and character/book crowns to let reading go to your head! Also included: a book scavenger hunt, a guess who game, blank comic strips and a solve the story task. Last book day I held a ‘Short & Tweet’ writing competition which was very popular and very amusing too - template and certificates included!
A bumper selection of 10 adaptable PowerPoints to use to teach and review Phase 2 and 3 phonemes linked to a range of themes e.g. Red Riding Hood, Moshi Monsters, Fireman Sam and Santa's Workshop to name but a few!
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A quiz all about Judaism with questions like: Who am I? What am I? etc Also included is a quiz question sheet and a sorting activity.
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PowerPoint containing postcard from Zap the alien with missing punctuation and activity sheet for children to find and correct the missing capital letters. Postcard template also included for children to then write their own messages.
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A fun and engaging way to teach measures. A PowerPoint introducing 5 events in the Mini Measures Olympics with record sheets and medals. Ideal for summer term!
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A range of activities for children to complete linked to reading or library skills including book detectives, find a fact and 'Short and Tweet!' adaptable for EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
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A bumper pack of activities to use when meeting your new class including: selfie templates, text it messages, wanted friends poster, a helping hand, Short & Tweets, class Chatter sheets & signs (so the ch have a chance to share their news/likes/dislikes/ best lessons etc) also bunting, jigsaw pieces and minion templates. This pack also contains a pack of challenge cards to keep your class busy from day 1 and a PowerPoint with ideas on abstract self portraits which would make a great start of term art project! Editable resources suitable for EYFS, KS1 or KS2.
What is a dragon? A PowerPoint all about dragons to stimulate writing with dragon images for ‘Quickwrite’ adjective activity. After sharing this introduction the children designed their own dragons, named them and then we watched ‘How to train a dragon featurette’. The children then wrote instructions on how to train their own dragons and we ended the unit of work by writing acrostic dragon poems.
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A collection of activity ideas and resource sheets for teaching plants in KS1. This pack includes: labelling a flower/tree, bean tweet sheets (to record observations when growing own beans), I spy plants for identifying/naming common plants, mystery objects task, Gimme 5 hand for identifying the needs of a plant, egg box challenge scavenger hunt (stick the challenge sheet to the lid of the egg box and let the children fill their box with objects to match the key words) and Teeny Tiny Treasure Hunt (using film canisters or an alternative small container), botany challenge for children to design and label their own new species of plant, seed packet templates and a selection of science starters to promote the use of children talking and reasoning scientifically.
All you need to know about Pirates PowerPoint, maths challenges and reading activities.
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Looking for a stimulus for your construction area or a STEM challenge then this PowerPoint has an amazing collection of buildings and bridges from all over the world to talk about! Print out the slides, laminate and add to your construction/science or maths area.
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A collection of adaptable PowerPoints to help children practice real and nonsense words.
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