Worksheets for Junior Journals 45-49. (New Zealand) A worksheet for every story, article, poem and play in the Junior Journals 45-49. 30 quality worksheets in total. Excellent for classroom use. Made by a teacher, for teachers. Great for photocopying. Most of the worksheets can be reduced from A4 to A5 if necessary. Worksheet activities include: * cloze * ordering events * labelling * collective nouns * general comprehension questions * symbols * matching 2 parts of a sentence * prediction, message, etc * code breaking * drawing * adjectives, nouns, verbs * story hunt * Te Reo. * wordfind * antonyms * alphabetical order * word frames * matching * compound words * craft * rhyming * 'who' questions * multi-choice quiz * question marks * onomatopoeia All worksheets have a space for students to write their name. Early finishers can colour the blackline images and decorate the border. Printing and/or photocopying permission is granted to the purchaser only. This is an excellent classroom resource to use in your reading programme. It will save you hours of work! Please see my other listings for additional Junior Journal resources. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Worksheets for Junior Journals 40-44. (New Zealand) A worksheet for every story, article, poem and play in the Junior Journals 40-44. 28 quality worksheets in total. Excellent for classroom use. Made by a teacher, for teachers. Great for photocopying. Most of the worksheets can be reduced from A4 to A5 if necessary. Worksheet activities include: * cloze * ordering events * designing a label * sorting * spelling rule - singular to plural * fact or opinion * true or false * poster * contractions * word endings (s, ed, ing) * labelling * compound words * general comprehension * rhyming words * life cycle * word frames * article hunt * 'what' questions * synonyms * wordfind * sp and st words * personification All worksheets have a space for students to write their name. Early finishers can colour the blackline images and decorate the border. Printing and/or photocopying permission is granted to the purchaser only. This is an excellent classroom resource to use in your reading programme. It will save you hours of work! Please see my other listings for additional Junior Journal resources. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Stick puppet templates - Animals and people. Black and white so children can colour them. Included: ♦ 18 animals ♦ 17 people (8 boys, 1 old man, 6 girls, 2 babies) ♦ Blank template to create your own characters/props. The Animals: Dog, walrus, mouse, pig, goat, sheep, bull, cow, duck, cat, lion, elephant, hippo, giraffe, llama, chicken, horse, alpaca. Colour, laminate (optional) and attach to a craft stick. Students can then use these puppets to create puppet shows. Great for oral language development and co-operative work. Use as part of your reading programme to retell stories. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Sheriff Chompalot has arrested you for littering in the ocean! To gain your freedom from the ‘Ocean Jail’, you must decipher some texts about ocean creatures. These texts are written in ‘shark tooth’ code (commonly known as ‘pig pen’ code). Will you be able to gain your key to freedom or will you remain in prison forever? Interesting, fun facts about 15 ocean creatures are written in code and displayed on grey ‘notebook’ paper. A plain copy of the codes is also included (ie, no background). US and UK spelling included. This resource includes: * scenario cards * teacher notes * list of the 15 ocean creatures * code breaking tool (alphabet grid) * 15 code breaking task sheets * answers * templates to write your own coded texts The 15 ocean creatures: Crab, dolphin, fish, hermit crab, jellyfish, lobster, manatee, octopus, seahorse, sea lion, shark, starfish, stingray, turtle, whale. A super-fun activity for learning about ocean creatures which incorporates writing, reading, critical thinking and problem solving. Get your code-breaking cap on! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A bundle price for purchasing all 3 of the Halloween Secret Message Code Wheels: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and symbols Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet (lower and upper case) Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and number See separate listings for details.

Let your students become a ‘Secret Agent’ or a ‘Spy’ for the day with this fun Halloween resource. They will thank you for such a cool lesson! Here’s what you can do: 1. Make a secret code wheel. 2. Use the code wheel to decipher a secret text from a witch's spell book. 3. Write your own secret message on one of the Halloween themed writing templates. Included: ♦ 9 fun wheel templates ♦ Secret text from a witch's spell book. ♦ 3 different Halloween themed templates for writing a secret message on ♦ Teacher notes / instructions Pictures on inner wheel: Cobweb, ghost, ghost holding a candy bag, pumpkin, monster (cute), zombie/monster twins, witch’s hat (draw a head & face under it), candy, skull and crossbones. This resource: This resource is for a secret code wheel that uses the alphabet on the outer wheel and symbols on the inner wheel. Please see below for my other types of code wheels. Other Halloween Secret Code resources: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet (lower and upper case) Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and number Or save money and purchase all 3 resources as a bundle: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel - Bundle © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Let your students become a ‘Secret Agent’ or a ‘Spy’ for the day with this fun Halloween resource. They will thank you for such a cool lesson! Here’s what you can do: 1. Make a secret code wheel. 2. Use the code wheel to decipher some Halloween jokes. 3. Make a pumpkin booklet from the Halloween jokes. 4. Write your own secret message on one of the Halloween themed writing templates. Included: ♦ 9 fun wheel templates ♦ 5 Halloween jokes to decipher. Displayed in a pumpkin template (make a booklet after) ♦ 3 different Halloween themed templates for writing a secret message on ♦ Teacher notes / instructions Pictures on inner wheel: Cobweb, ghost, ghost holding a candy bag, pumpkin, monster (cute), zombie/monster twins, witch’s hat (draw a head & face under it), candy, skull and crossbones. This resource: This resource is for a secret code wheel that uses the alphabet on the outer wheel and numbers (1-26) on the inner wheel. Please see below for my other types of code wheels. Other Halloween Secret Code resources: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and symbols Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet (lower and upper case) Or save money and purchase all 3 resources as a bundle: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel - Bundle © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Let your students become a ‘Secret Agent’ or a ‘Spy’ for the day with this fun Halloween resource. They will thank you for such a cool lesson! Here’s what your students can do: 1. Make a secret code wheel. 2. Use the code wheel to decipher some Halloween jokes. 3. Write a secret message on one of the Halloween themed writing templates. Included: ♦ 9 fun wheel templates ♦ 1 page of Halloween jokes to decipher (answers also included) ♦ 3 different Halloween themed templates for writing a secret message on ♦ Teacher notes / instructions Pictures on inner wheel: Cobweb, ghost, ghost holding a candy bag, pumpkin, monster (cute), zombie/monster twins, witch’s hat (draw a head & face under it), candy, skull and crossbones. This resource: This resource is for a secret code wheel that uses the Alphabet – capital and lower case letters. Please see below for my other types of code wheels. Other Halloween Secret Code resources: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and symbols Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and number Or save money and purchase all 3 resources as a bundle: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel - Bundle © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Template for making a Spy ID (or Secret Agent ID). 4 templates per page. US and UK templates included (for the word 'colour/color') Add a photo, a fingerprint, or a photo with disguise props (eg glasses, hat, moustache) Loads of fun! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Lift Santa's sack and draw or write what you would like for Christmas! Use as many pages as you wish (great when students all work at different speeds). This resource contains 4 variations of the template .... * Santa and sack * Santa and sack with empty speech bubble * Santa and sack with speech bubble (Ho ho ho. What would you like for Christmas?) * Santa and sack with a heading - Merry Christmas You get ... * 4 different templates * Sack template - plain * Sack template - top (has a tie) A great Christmas craft during the festive season. Could also be used for other writing activities. For example, publishing a Christmas poem. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

16 animal stick puppets. Attach a craft stick and have fun! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Tortoise lift-the-flap template. A fun booklet for your students to make to present information in. A variety of templates are provided for your printing/copying convenience. There are 2 sizes - small and large. How to make: 1. Cut out the tortoise and shell templates. 2. Decorate/draw/write in the shell templates. Use as many as you want. 3. Staple the shells onto the body of the tortoise. Ideas for inside the tortoise shell: · Adjectives that describe tortoises. · Questions I have about tortoises. · Facts about tortoises. · Design / invent a tortoise catcher and draw it. · Words that begin with ‘T’. · Differences / similarities between tortoises and turtles. · Report writing - diet, appearance, predators, etc. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A snowman lift-the-flap template. A fun booklet for your students to make and present information in. The Templates: • Snowman with snow background. With border. A4 size. • Snowman with snowflake background. With border. A4 size. • Snowman with no background. A4 size. • Snowman with no background. A5 size. How to make: 1. Decorate/draw/write in the ‘belly’ templates. Use as many as you want. 2. Staple the ‘belly’ pieces onto the snowman. 3. Cut out (do this only for the snowmen templates that do not have a border) Ideas for inside the snowman: * Winter vocabulary. * Facts about winter. * Words that begin with ‘S’. * Differences / similarities between summer and winter. * Things I like to do in the winter (pictures or writing). © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Jellyfish Template that can be used to make a flip book. A fun and creative task that your students will love! Use as many 'body' templates as you wish, then staple them together on top of the 'master' jellyfish. Ideas for use: writing a report (diet, appearance, predators, etc), writing words that begin with J, presenting jellyfish facts, using as part of an 'under the sea' unit, etc... © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A fun set of word pattern strips. Use as a literacy task or make it part of your algebra unit when looking at patterns in math. This resource contains 12 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 12 x Strips to find the missing word Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing word’ strips) A blank template for students to make up their own word patterns. The set of word pattern strips are provided in 2 different formats. Simply print the format you want to use. For example: • Cat, duck, cow, dog, camel, dragon… • Cat, duck, ___, dog, camel, dragon … So there are 12 different patterns and 24 different strips. There are many different possible answers for all of the word patterns in this resource, but the answer must follow the ‘rule’. For example, in the list above, any animal that begins with the letter ‘c’ would fit in the gap. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A comprehensive pack of number pattern strips. Everything you need for a differentiated math lesson. Numbers under 100 20 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 20 x Strips to find the missing number. Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing number’ strips) Numbers over 100 20 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 20 x Strips to find the missing number. Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing number’ strips) More challenging 12 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 12 x Strips to find the missing number. Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing number’ strips) All pattern strips contain increasing and decreasing number patterns. The sets of number pattern strips are provided in 2 different formats. Simply print the format you want to use. For example: • 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 … • 22, 24, 26, 28, __, 32, 34 … There are 104 number strips in total. There are 52 different number pattern sequences. The ‘more challenging’ strips have number patterns such as: 90, 80, 81, 71, 72, 62, 63, 53 … (subtract 10 then add 1) © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

12 fun pattern strips that can be used during an algebra unit in math. Includes all of the resources that you will need for an engaging lesson. Simply print and you’re ready to go! This resource includes: • 12 pattern strips • Pattern reference (ABCD pattern guide) • Task card – “Can you identify the pattern and continue it?” • 12 toy heads (6 on a page. Use these as support materials) • Recording sheet – students identify the sequence and record the next head. • Recording sheet – students identify the sequence and record the next 4 heads. • Answer sheets for both recording sheets. • Toy head strip template - students can make up their own sequences. • Plain strip template The patterns are: AB, ABC, ABCD, ABBC, AAB, ABB, ABBCC, AABC, ABCB, ABCC, AABB, ABBA. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A set of 24 ‘growing’ or ‘extending’ pattern cards for use in Algebra math lessons. Print friendly – black and white. This resource contains: 24 growing pattern cards (3 different formats – see below) Student recording sheet Answer sheet – for the cards with a missing pattern in the sequence. The set of growing pattern cards are provided in 3 different formats. Simply print the format you want to use. • Identify the missing pattern in the sequence and record it on the sheet provided (cards are numbered 1-24). • Identify the growing pattern and draw the next one in the sequence (cards are numbered 1-24) • Identify the growing pattern and draw the next one in the sequence (cards are not numbered, allowing you more freedom in their use) © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

This is an easy, super-fun improvisation activity that you can do in the classroom with your students. The activity: Two students are acting out a scene … the teacher calls ‘freeze’ …. one of the actors is replaced by another student who recreates the pose … the new actor reads a short statement from a card that they get from the teacher and they begin acting out a new scenario. This resource contains: 120 statement cards. Comprehensive teacher notes. Loads of laughter is guaranteed! Simple and effective. Your students will love it! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

This is an easy, super-fun improvisation activity that you can do in the classroom with your students. The activity: Two students are acting out a scene … the teacher calls ‘freeze’ …. one of the actors is replaced by another student who recreates the pose … the new actor reads a short statement from a card that they get from the teacher and they begin acting out a new scenario. This resource contains: 120 statement cards. Comprehensive teacher notes. Loads of laughter is guaranteed! Simple and effective. Your students will love it! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources