I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
If you’re after fun games and activities to help your learners understand the concept of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores and to be able to confidently identify and name animals for each type, then you’ll love this pack of printable and digital games.
Printable activities:
Card sort – children match the pictures to the animal types.
Board game – children answer a variety of questions as they make their way around the board.
Scavenger hunt/write the room – a great way to get children moving around the classroom to find and write animals in the matching column on their worksheet. This is a great introductory activity and comes with two levels of difficulty.
Spinner game – children race to cover the animals on their boards to match the animal type on the spinner. Two levels of difficulty are included.
Digital activities (PowerPoint games):
Guess the animal based on the picture and diet type. This is great for an introductory whole-class activity.
Guess the diet type (carnivore, omnivore or herbivore) of each animal. This is great for an end-of-topic whole-class activity and can be as competitive as you like.
You could upload these to Google classroom if you use Google classroom instead of PowerPoint.
U.K. and U.S. versions are included.
I hope your children enjoy using these games to learn more about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
If you’re after an easy way for your students to find out about the achievements of 21 iconic Indigenous Australians who’ve shaped history, this set of PowerPoint and Google™ slides that highlight their contributions to arts, science, culture, politics will be ideal.
The people in this set to show a broad range of contributions across various fields, from young and old, and from the past and present, to honour each person and to inspire our young people.
The text on the slides is editable and you can delete any slides you don’t need. I’ve also included a couple of blank slides so you can add your own photo/text for people you wish to include.
The slideshow can be used as a whole class at the start or end of the day, or during social studies/inquiry. Alternatively, it can be used independently, and can be accompanied by the banners, so students can write about a person for a class display. These can be attached to the wall or hung over string (and stapled or glued together).
Who’s included?
Neville Bonner - politician
Cathy Freeman - athlete
David Unaipon - inventor and writer
Pat Dudgeon - first Indigenous psychologist
Sir Douglas Nicholls - Governor of South Australia
Tom Calma - professor and activist
Marcia Langton - professor and activist
Sally Morgan - author
Michael-Shawn Fletcher - geographer
Faith Bandler - activist
Madeleine Madden - actress
Kyah Simon - football player
Nova Peris - politician and athlete
Jessica Mauboy - singer
Noel Pearson - lawyer
Linda Burney - politician
Lionel Rose - boxer
Evonne Goolagong Cawley - tennis player
Albert Namatjira - artist
Adam Goodes - AFL footballer
Archie Roach - singer
You will receive an editable PPT file (text is editable, images/layout aren’t), a link to the Google Slides version, and a PDF of printable banners.
I hope your students enjoy finding out more about the achievements of these amazing Aboriginal Australians!
If you’re after pre-made banners for a display, you may like this set of iconic Indigenous Australians.
This colourful, interactive PowerPoint lesson introduces the key concepts of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores with lots of photos and is interspersed with “check what you know” slides to make sure that children have understood a concept before moving on to the next one.
The slides are editable, and you can delete any you don’t need. The end slides are an opportunity to assess children’s understanding and give you the flexibility to assess this verbally, either with partners or yourself, or in written form by having students write sentences in their books.
The slideshow can be used as a whole-class presentation, or it can be assigned to students to work through on their own devices.
Over 30 slides are included covering:
Carnivores
Omnivores
Herbivores
Predators and prey
Scavengers
Different types of teeth and how these are used for eating different food
A one-page printable assessment activity is included for children to name and identify carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
I hope your children enjoy learning about carnivores, omnivores and herbivores with these slides.
U.K. and U.S. versions included.
If you’d like an activity book or worksheets to go with this, you can save money with the bundle here.
Are you looking for a hands-on gingerbread craft? Then your students will love making their own gingerbread house with this 3D net template. Easy prep - just add scissors, colouring pencils or markers, glue sticks or white glue, and tape if needed.
There is a design with sweet decorations included, and a design without sweet decorations so your students can add their own.
U.K. and U.S versions for printing A4/letter and spelling.
Includes 2 pages.
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This pack of six digital and printable worksheets, teaching notes, and assessment will have your students feeling confident with recognising and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
The worksheets explain the key concepts and give opportunities to practise:
identifying active and passive voice
identifying if a verb voice shift has occurred
keeping the verb voice consistent
identifying verb moods (indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive)
identifying if a verb mood shift has occurred
keeping the verb mood consistent
An assessment (or informal quiz) is included to assess if students have a thorough understanding of recognizing and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
Answer keys are provided for the worksheets and the assessment page.
Teaching notes can be used to put concepts on the board.
What’s included?
3 worksheets covering inappropriate shifts in verb voice
3 worksheets covering inappropriate shifts in verb mood
Answer keys
Teaching points
Editable PPT version
PowerPoint version
Link to Google Slides™ version
I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.
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Verb Moods Boardgame
Active and Passive Voice Worksheets
Passive Voice Boardgame
Shift in Verb Voice and Mood Cut and Paste Activity
Shift in Verb Voice and Mood Boardgame
Idiom Worksheet, Station Activities, and Posters
Wordiness and Redundancy Worksheets
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Get your students making and creating beautiful arts and crafts from Japan with this pack of 5 hands-on activities. Creating multicultural art is a great way to celebrate the diversity within our classrooms and around the world.
In this pack you’ll find five activities that include origami, ceramics, printing, writing Japanese kanji, and watercolour with markers.
Visual step-by-step instructions are included so even if you’re not confident teaching art, students will be able to create something they can be proud of. You can either use these to outline the process, or the easiest option is to print copies for each table (or display them in plastic stands if you have them), for students to follow the instructions themselves. You could set these up as stations for students to rotate around, or do one activity per day.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S versions optimised for A4/Letter paper, spelling and vocabulary
Origami box
Kimono using origami, watercolor, and markers
Printing a landscape or koi fish
Fortune cat
Write Japanese kanji
Self-reflection form
11 pages included
What materials are used:
Air-drying clay
Paper about 6in x 6in / 15cm x 15cm
Cartridge paper A4-A3 size, coloured paper
Scissors
Watercolours or dye
Markers
Paints and brushes
Pens or pencils
Craft foam
Printing ink (or paint)
I hope your students enjoy creating Japanese art and feel super proud of what they make!
You may also like:
Art Around the World Mexico
Art Around the World Australia
Art Around the World Spain
African Animals Art Projects
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Get your students working collaboratively, solving problems, and thinking creatively and critically about sustainability with this set of 24 task cards. Students will develop key 21st century skills needed while addressing important issues about our interconnectedness with the environment, and our responsibility to take care of it.
Students will work together to come up with new ideas and new solutions - there are no right or wrong answers.
Ideas for use:
stations
turn and talk with a partner discussion starters
starters for further research and persuasive presentations
team challenges
Topics cover:
Reducing waste
Recycling
Thinking of new uses for items
Making sustainable products
Considering food waste
Changing habits
Consumerism
Electronic waste
Considering water usage
Overfishing
Transport
The impact of city growth on animal habitats
Addressing recycling issues
Addressing sustainability issues
What’s included?
24 task cards in colour and ink saver (1 per page for PowerPoint or Google Slides™, and 4 per page for printing)
U.K and U.S versions optimised for printing, spelling, and vocabulary
Teaching tips
Recording sheet in landscape and portrait
I hope you enjoy using these task cards with your class.
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SAVE MONEY with this set of 8 worksheets packed with vocabulary learning activities which are carefully scaffolded to introduce adjective and verb synonyms and antonyms and give opportunities to apply learning, plus answer keys.
Level 1 introduces definitions and builds vocabulary with adjectives.
Level 2 reinforces learning by encouraging recall of the new words students have come across in Level 1.
Level 3 gives reasons for using synonyms and antonyms and introduces vocabulary for verb synonyms and antonyms.
Level 4 gives further practice and provides opportunities for learners to get creative in their application of synonyms and antonyms.
Why will children like it?
The activities will appeal to children who are motivated by games by having levels to complete. It will appeal to children who love a puzzle, with codes to crack, word-finds and crosswords, and there is an opportunity for creative minds to apply their learning through drawing.
What’s included?
4 worksheets for synonyms
4 worksheets for antonyms
Answer keys
Exit tickets
U.K and U.S Versions
You can see a free sample of the a synonyms worksheet here.
I hope you enjoy using these with your learners.
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These digital and printable integer games which are based on the popular game of “Battleships™” will be a great addition to your programme as a fun way to practise operations with integers.
It takes lots of practice for learners to build confidence working with negative numbers and the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Instructions are included for how to play and there are two versions for each operation, covering positive and negative equations, and negative and negative equations with eight games in total using 1-digit numbers.
You will receive a printable PDF version and a link to the digital Google Slides™ version.
U.K. and U.S. versions available.
I hope you enjoy using these integer games with your learners.
9 pages and 12 digital slides included
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Here’s a great way to practice maths skills for Matariki: Children complete fact families or times tables on whetū/stars, cut them out, and make a kete to store them in.
There are lots of options to choose from:
Make a kete with a string handle or paper handle
Addition/Subtraction fact families – partially filled, all gaps, or student choice
Multiplication/Division fact families - partially filled, all gaps, or student choice
Times tables – 1/2/5/10x, 1-4x/5-8x/9-12x, or a mixture
Children complete three stars (1 page), four stars (1 page), or seven stars (2 pages).
This activity is ideal for the whole class, small groups, early finishers, or rotating stations.
I hope your children enjoy working on their fact fluency and making their kete of whetū/stars!
You will receive 5 PDF files.
You may also like:
Matariki weaving kete
Matariki hāngi reading and writing craft
Matariki maths
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Need a way to keep your students busy and engaged before the winter break, or just after New Year’s? Do you also want it to be meaningful and make a great display? Then this New Year’s craft will be just what you’re after.
There are four numbers with New Year’s-themed patterns, and spaces for writing goals to colour and cut out.
There are lots of options to meet your needs:
two sizes (one number per page or two numbers per page)
two prompts (specific goals or general goals)
editable prompts so you can adapt them to your class (text is editable with Century Gothic font, images/layout aren’t editable)
two sizes of display phrases (one letter page and one word per page, color and ink saver)
I hope your students have fun setting goals for the new year and making their 2025 craft!
Your students will love learning to tell the time with this adorable gingerbread craft to bake a gingerbread man after they practise telling the time with worksheets that cover analogue and digital time using hour, half hour, quarter hour, five-minutes, and 1-minute.
You’ll be able to differentiate easily as there is a telling time worksheet about children making gingerbread and baking gingerbread for students learning the hours, half hours, quarter hours, five minute or one minute time.
What’s included?
visual instructions to make the craft
craft template in colour and ink saver, with an option for a gingerbread boy or gingerbread girl biscuit to put in the oven
telling time to the hour - 4 worksheets
telling time to the half hour - 4 worksheets
telling time to the quarter hour - 4 worksheets
telling time to the nearest 5-minutes - 1 worksheet
telling time to the minute - 1 worksheet
answer keys
This activity will be ideal for your gingerbread day or week. Add it to your centres, stations, or use it as an early finisher or whole-class activity.
I hope your students enjoy learning to tell the time and making a cute gingerbread craft to go with it.
Here’s a fun way to practise telling the time which will be great for a New Year’s activity or a party theme. Children write the digital and analogue times on the clocks on the hat, then colour, cut and make a party hat.
There are lots of options to meet your needs:
two phrases on the hat to choose from – “It’s Party Time!” or “Happy New Year!”
hour and half hour
hour, half, and quarter hour
nearest five minutes
nearest minute
time intervals – Students choose pairs of clocks to color with the same colour, then find the time interval between them to record on the recording sheet.
time intervals – Students read the questions and colour the clocks on the hat to match the answers.
U.K. and U.S. versions
This telling the time craft is easy-prep and will be great addition to your centres or stations, or use it for early finishers or as a whole-class activity.
I hope your students have fun making their party hats while learning how to tell the time.
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Here’s a fun way for children to learn and write about the tradition of Hanukkah. With four crafts to choose from, and an informational text, you have everything you need to create a fabulous class display.
What’s included?
craft templates for a dreidel (spinning top), a donut (sufganiyot), a hanukkiah (a menorah with nine branches), and a bag of chocolate gelt (coins)
extra writing pages for those that need it
three line sizes (half inch, three-quarter inch, one inch)
visual instructions
informational text with slightly easier and slightly harder versions, plus comprehension questions
editable informational text (using Century Gothic, only the text is editable, images/layout aren’t)
display phrase “Happy Hanukkah” in two sizes
I hope your students have fun making their Hanukkah crafts!
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This 2025 New Year’s maths craft is a great way to practise area and perimeter. With lots of options for you, and lots of fun patterns to color, you and your students will both be happy!
Children calculate the area and perimeter of the different patterns that make up the numbers, record their answers on the recording sheet, then colour and cut out the numbers for a class display.
There are lots of options to meet your needs:
square units (area)
centimetres
inches
all the necessary measurements given or can be deduced easily (offers more support)
some measurements missing so students must use other measurements to deduce the missing sides (great for those that need a challenge)
two display phrases to choose from
UK and US versions
Answer key is included.
I hope your students have fun celebrating the new year, and getting in some maths at the same time!
If you’re looking for a way to keep your students engaged during maths at Christmas time, then this Christmas tree rounding craft will hit the spot!
Students complete the rounding exercises and make a 2D or 3D Christmas tree with baubles.
Add this activity to your math practice, centres, stations, fun Fridays, or it’s just as great as a filler!
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
2D and 3D trees
rounding to the nearest 10
rounding to the nearest 100
rounding to the nearest 10 or 100
rounding to any place (up to four digits)
rounding to one decimal place
rounding to one, two, or three decimal places
Answer keys are included.
I hope your students have fun making their Christmas trees!
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If you’re looking for a fun, hands-on activity for children to learn about the celebration of Kwanzaa, then this reading and craft activity will be ideal.
Children read about Kwanzaa, and then complete the sentences on the back of the place mat with information from the text. They then colour, cut, and have fun putting together a Kwanzaa place setting with all the symbols of Kwanzaa (candle holder and candles, gift, corn, fruit, unity cup, and place mat).
The informational text and the text on the place mat are editable so you can adapt this to your students. (Text is editable, images/layout aren’t.)
This activity is easy-prep and makes reading and learning about cultural celebrations fun.
You will receive 3 PDFs and 2 PPTX files.
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It’s so much fun connecting science to Christmas and winter, and what better way to make science fun by having a team quiz!
In the quiz, there are 52 slides with seven rounds covering Year Two science topics. You can remove any slides you don’t need and edit the text to your needs. (Images/layout aren’t editable.)
There is a two-page worksheet for children to record their answers. The text on this is editable too, so you can adapt it.
What’s covered?
Living and non-living
Winter habitats
Food chains
Seeds and bulbs
Animals - life cycles and animal needs
Our body - exercise and nutrition
Using materials - uses and changing solids
I hope you and your students have fun with this science quiz.
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It’s so much fun connecting science to Christmas and winter, and what better way to make science fun by having a team quiz!
In the quiz, there are 55 slides covering Year One science topics. You can remove any slides you don’t need and edit the text to your needs. (Images/layout aren’t editable.)
There is a two-page worksheet for children to record their answers. The text on this is editable too, so you can adapt it.
What’s covered?
The winter season - changes that take place
Plants, trees and flowers - name the plant/tree, name the part of the plant/tree, identify deciduous and evergreen plants/trees
Animals - carnivores/herbivores/omnivores, fish/mammals/birds/reptiles/amphibians
The human body - name parts of the body, identify senses
Using materials - identify what things are made of, describe everyday materials
I hope you and your students have fun with this science quiz.
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Need a fun way to practise idioms at Christmas time? Then you’ll love this hands-on craft where students make a 3D Christmas present with different activities using seven Christmas-themed idioms.
There are lots of options to meet your needs:
Put the words in order to make seven idioms.
Match the idiom to its meaning.
Complete the idioms.
Draw the literal and non-literal meaning, and write the non-literal meaning of three different idioms.
Re-write the sentence using an idiom.
Students need four presents to make a 3D present, so you can choose any four that work best for your class.
Plus, you’ll get:
2 display phrases to choose from
visual step-by-step instructions
1 PowerPoint slideshow of the seven idioms, their meanings, and examples
an editable version so you can adapt it to your needs (only the directions and questions on the present are editable, not titles/images/layout)
I hope your students enjoy making their Christmas presents!