A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.

A large pack of resources. It includes: POWERPOINTS: The Gingerbread Man Story The Smelly Cheese Man (an alternative version of the story) The Gingerbread Man poem ACTIVITIES Acrostic poem (spelling out Gingerbread Man) Blank speech / thought bubbles: 8 different sizes and shapes to print out and fill in. Counting cards: 0 to 20 in numerals and Gingerbread Man faces to match up / play snap etc. Vocabulary cards: 18 words and matching pictures. Can be used for games, display or labelling activities. Counting cards: Cards to laminate different numbers of Gingerbread men and a box for writing in the number. Characters to print and use for stick puppets Larger characters - 2 per A4 page for display / other activities. Gingerbread Man clipart: black and white to colour Gingerbread Man clipart: Colour Gingerbread men to print: Large men in black and white, different versions, to make own faces / clothes etc. Sequencing pictures: 10 small pictures. The children can cut them up and stick in sequence, or they can be laminated and used for an activity. Story sheets: Contains the same images in the sequencing pictures but there is one picture per A4 page with lines for the children to compose their own story. Wanted poster Word mat containing vocabulary needed for the story. Writing border: 2 different designs; colour and black and white. DISPLAY A4 Heading x 2 A-Z lettering - to cut out for display Lettering/banner: The Gingerbread Man - prints onto 6 pages. There are 3 different designs. Border: Images of the Gingerbread Man to frame a display Alphabet a-z in lower case with a gingerbread man background Number line 0-20 with digits and written numbers with a gingerbread man circle background The Gingerbread Man poem MASKS 13 character masks to act out the story.

This pack is a collection of PowerPoints and printable resources in pdf. It will help give children experience how words rhyme, and to develop an awareness of rhythm in speech. Listening to and joining in with rhymes and playing rhyming games help children to develop skills to know how letters correspond to sounds. Fits in with Letters and Sounds Phase 1. PRINTABLE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES: • Dominoes – showing pictures of simple cvc words • Odd one out cards – print, cut and laminate for a rhyming game • Rhyming pairs – 40 images showing pictures of rhyming pairs. There are 4 per A4 page so can also be used for display or flashcards • Rhyming soup game – A printable version of the powerpoint. The children have to make a soup out of rhyming objects (eg snake, cake, rake etc) • Rhyming words bingo – 4 bingo cards with 7 pictures each. • Two rhyming worksheets • DISPLAY: • Large lettering: Rhymes (one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.) • Large lettering: Rhyme Time(one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.) • What rhymes with….posters – A set of 6 A4 colourful posters with pictures of rhyming words. Rhymes include what rhymes with…can / hat / pot / bug / cap and zip. POWERPOINT GAMES: • Can you think of words that rhyme - Simple introduction to rhyming. • Making up rhymes - Explains rhyming words, and then encourages the children to make up rhymes using the images. • Odd one out - Find the picture that doesn’t rhyme from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback. • Playing with words - 20 images of words with longer syllables. • Rhyming pairs - Find the rhyming pair from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback. • Rhyming puppets - 14 name rhymes for the children to finish. • Rhyming soup - ake - An interactive version of the game, the children click on the object to put it in the soup bowl. • Rhyming soup - an • Rhyming soup - at • Rhyming soup – ip • Rhyming soup – ox • Rhyming words - 11 sets of rhyming words, encouraging the children to make up rhymes with them. • Words that rhyme - Find the 2 pictures that rhyme from a choice of 3. • POWERPOINT RHYMES: • A pig who was big - 9 rhyming verses about pigs • Action Rhymes - 8 different rhymes: Two little feet / I wiggle / This is the way / Wind the bobbin up / A sailor went to sea / Jack-in-the-box / Clean up/ I’m a little teapot / Row your boat. • 5 fat peas • Dingle Dangle Scarecrow • Down in the jungle • Head, shoulders, knees and toes • Katalina Matalina • Peanut butter • Ten fingers • The Farmer’s in his den • The wheels on the bus • There was a princess

This is a set of 42 resources: PowerPoints, display and role play activities. PRINTABLES: ROLE PLAY masks / puppets for the following nursery rhymes: Baa baa black sheep (black sheep, dame, master and sack) Hey Diddle Diddle (cat, cow, dog, dish and spoon) Goosey Goosey Gander (Goose and old man) Humpty Dumpty (Egg) Jack and Jill (2 versions, one colour, one black and white) Hickory Dickory Dock (mouse) Peter Peter (pumpkin) Incy wincy spider Twinkle Twinkle little star Wee Willie Winkie Plus a variety of girl / boy / woman and man masks DISPLAY: A-Z Lettering with a nursery rhyme theme Nursery Rhyme 3 page banner Nursery Rhyme border Sheep number line to 20 Nursery Rhymes large lettering Nursery Rhymes colouring book - with 15 different nursery rhymes Nursery Rhyme colourful posters with an A4 heading, displaying one rhyme per A4 page. The rhymes are: Baa Baa black sheep Doctor Foster Goosey Goosey Gander Hickory Dickory Dock Incy Wincy Jack be nimble Little Jack Horner Little Boy Blue Mary, Mary Old King Cole Polly put the kettle on Ride a cock horse Rock a bye baby Sing a song of sixpence There was an old woman Three Blind Mice POWERPOINTS: 16 individual animated Nursery Rhyme PowerPoint presentations: 1 2 Buckle my shoe Baa Baa Black sheep Goosey Goosey gander Hey Diddle Diddle Hickory Dickory Dock Humpty Dumpty Incy Wincy Spider Jack and Jill Mary had a little lamb Old King Cole Sing a song of sixpence The Owl and the Pussycat The Three little kittens This little piggy Twinkle Twinkle PLUS Nursery Rhyme Collection: (In PowerPoint format, with Sassoon font; each rhyme is on 1 page) Goosey Goosey Gander Hey Diddle Diddle Humpty Dumpty Hickory Dickory Dock Jack and Jill Jack Spratt Jack be nimble Jack Horner Little Miss Muffet Little Bo Peep Little Boy Blue Mary Mary Old Mother Hubbard Peter Peter Polly put the kettle on Ring o' Rosies Rock-a-bye baby There was an old woman Three Blind Mice Twinkle Twinkle Wee Willie Winkie

A set of 13 PowerPoint resources and several printable activities looking at different types of transport for early years. POWERPOINT FILES: 5 Little men in a flying saucer: The song A-Z of transport: Pictures for every letter of the alphabet, related to transport How does it travel: A simple quiz Old and new transport: Compares old and new kinds of transport Row your boat: The song The history of cars: Pictures of cars, how they have changed The history of transport: From the Stone age to the modern age. The Wheels on the bus: The song, with sounds and animations Types of transport: Different kinds with labels Transport 2: Different kinds, why we need it etc. Transport shapes: Simple shapes in the environment related to transport Vehicles that travel in the air: Pictures and facts Vehicles that travel on water: Pictures and facts Vehicles that travel on land: Pictures and facts Transport advertisements - Adverts from the past 100 years showing old cars etc. Can be printed or viewed as a show. PRINTABLE PDF ACTIVITIES: Transport lotto: Game to print out and laminate Shape car: A car to make by cutting out shape Black and white pictures with headings to colour / write on 5 Little Astronauts - props, heading and rhyme 5 Little Firefighters - props, heading and rhyme 5 Little men in a flying saucer - heading, props, masks and earth