I wanted to some certificates that did more than reward children for good work or good behaviour and the “of the week” certificates were born!
These certificates rewards values such as teamwork and friendliness as well as other learning qualities such as creativity, mathematical thinking and exploration. Each certificate have a quote relating to the award at the bottom of the page
Certificates included in this resource:
Mathematician
Friend
Team Player
Explorer
Musician
Inventor
Artist
Inventor
Scientist
Author
Reader
Star
I am using these in my classroom alongside Wholehearted School Counselling’s “I am an … when” resource to let children know what it means to have these qualities and will be giving them out during our weekly Friday afternoons to take home.
To use this resource, simply print either full size or 2 to a page (depending on your preference), add the child’s name and comment, sign underneath the ‘Keep up the good work’ caption and hand out!
The fonts SHOULD be embedded but if they aren’t the headings are KG Blank Space and the main text is KG First Time in Forever both found on dafont!
When I recieved my timetable for the year, I was baffled! Between the colours, highlighting and confusing abbreivations, I couldn’t work out what I was teaching let alone when!
Here is a MUCH simpler template that I used to rewrite my timetable in a way I could actually understand! The download includes 2 completely editable templates , 1 horizontal and 1 vertical to suit your needs as well as a how to guide to help you make it your own!
Thank you for stopping by!! I made this product as a way to monitor the behaviour in my classroom and I’ll be using it in September with wooden pegs that the children decorate! There are different variations of the last card as the original was quite specific to my classroom so make sure you select the page you want before printing!
Features of this product:
Clear Font for visibility in the classroom
Hole Punch spaces outlined
Easy to assemble
Low colour to save ink
Please read the note included for more details and assembly tips.
A freebie for everyone! A lovely poster for you to decorate your classroom.
It’s editable for you to change the colour of the children to match your schools uniform and personalise it a little. The fonts are embedded but are NOT editable.
Love Powerpoint? Same!
In my class, I use a weekly PowerPoint to keep my day in order from Monday’s morning work to Friday’s Goodbye message! This helps me to structure my day and have an idea of the week ahead as well as allowing me to easily swap around lessons when inevitable interruptions occur!
This resource includes … slides for use in your weekly presentation including:
Morning Work Slide
Lesson Slide
Transition Slides
Misc. Use Slides
I’ve also included tutorial slides on my commonly used ‘techniques’ for creating and editting my powerpoints such as converting videos from Youtube and changing images.
Please note: this resources include the EDITABLE TEMPLATE used to created my weekly powerpoints and so DOESN’T include any icons or fonts used. These can be found at Flaticon and 1001 fonts
Happy PowerPointing!!
[EDITED] Changed ‘Miss Lewis’ to a general ‘my teacher’! Apologies! forgot to amend that! Please redownload if you’ve got it!
A simple worry web to aid children in communicating their worries and needs to you.
Some pastel green plant themed desktop wallpapers with motivational plant themed quotes!
Use in my classroom this year as I had a green/ nature/ plant theme!
Here’s a template in made to help me label and organise all my evidence for the teachind standards.
A simple templete to use for printing on Post It Notes that can then be attached to evidence and ready to file!
This download includes 1 blank template for placing Post Its, 2 sheets with the Standards and lines for making notes and guidelines for using the templates.
Debit Cards to use with Class Dojo
Encourage responsibility by encouraging your class to keep track of their dojo points. Fab to use if you use dojo points as currency and your class can use them to buy rewards and prizes.
Two versions - rounded rectangle and rectangle to save your wrists when cutting! I recommend printing on card and laminating for long term use each year!
Here’s my Number Trains worksheet
This is a simple worksheet that focuses on Number Bonds from 4 to 8. This sheet asks children to investigate and records the numbers bonds for these numbers and can be used with manipulatives, specifically colored cubes.
The downloads includes 8 different worksheets (one for each one number 4 - 8), a thank you notes and a sample worksheet.
In my classroom, I plan to have a learning focus wall with key vocabulary, exemplar work and… the national curriculum objective. I feel it’s important know that we’re sitting for 20 minutes a day practicing how to join the letters ay because we have to. With the curriculum objective on the wall for them to see, the children know what we’re working towards and are able to assess their progress.
These curriculum objectives are:
split into the different ‘topics’ stated in the national curriculum and colour coded
rewritten in kid speak where needed but otherwise use the wording from the curriculum
Landscape A4 to allow you to easily display them on your wall.
This download includes the English, Maths and Science Curriculum Aims for Year 1 in a PDF and just need printing and laminating ready to display! Please note, I am working on a low colour and black and white version as well as editable versions to change the wording to suit you.
Looking for an activity for the first week of school?
This is a lesson PPT, Lesson plan and resources I used for a PSHE lesson I did for an interview (I got the job!) The lesson was on the book The Bad Seed and focuses on reputation. I use this for transition day for any children who may have been label as ‘the bad kid’ in their current year group to let them know that their year with me is an opportunity for a fresh start.
In this download, you will find the lesson PowerPoint I used as well as the resources I created to accompany it. As the children worked on a resource I amended from a product purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers, that resources has been linked on the first page of the RESOURCES file as well as links to the book or an read aloud on Youtube.
This resources was used with a Year 3 class but it easily adaptable for any year group.
Here’s my Shape Spotting worksheet for EYFS.
This download includes 4 worksheets that ask children to either color in specific shapes or count how many shapes that can see.
The objectives of this sheet is to encourage children to recognise shapes by their characteristics rather than what they know. i.e. this shape has no corners so it’s a circle. It’s useful as the shapes are in different rotations, translations and sizes so encourages children to really think about characteristics.
Differentiation is in the form of the two different sheets: LA can be encouraged to focus on improving their knowledge of shapes characteristics with the coloring sheet whereas MA and HA can incorporate number skills with the counting sheet. Furthermore, one set of sheets use ‘basic’ shapes such as square, rectangle, cirlce and the other has diamonds, hexagons etc.
Links to:
Shape, Space and Measure
Counting
Numbers
Here’s my Writing the Alphabet worksheet for EYFS and the very first product I created!
This sheet focuses on letter formation and asks children trace the letter 5 times then to represent the letters of the alphabet in 9 different ways:
Write It! - Simply write the letter
Trace It!
Dot It! - to write the letters in dots
Colour It! - use colouring pens/ pencils to write the letter
Cross It! - to write the letter in small crosses
Stamp It! - to stamp the letter in the space
Stick It! - to stick in the letter (foam letters, cut out letters)
Make It! - to make the letter out of string, wool, match sticks
Reveal It! - to write the letter in white crayon then reveal it in pen
This is useful as it allows children to become familiar with the formation of the letter through repetition.
Different means of support can be added to differentiate the activities such as allowing HA students to search for the correcrt letter stamp whilst LA students have the stamp provided.
These Letter Formation Sheets were designed to support phonics lesson I am teaching next week. They can be used as printed on card, colored paper and laminated for continuous provision or as part of a main lesson in EYFS or even as an early intervention in Year 1. They can be independent work, group work or completed with adult support.
There is a sheet for each letter and each one has six different ways for children to form the letter
Trace it
Make it
Scribble it
Draw it
Colour it
Dot it
and focuses on getting children comfortable and familiar with the shapes of each letter.
Here’s my Exploring Numbers Around Us worksheet.
This is a simple counting activity that encouraged children to think about numbers in real world context such as counting up children in the class of the numbers that are important to them.
There are two worksheets included:
Numbers in ME! which encourages children to think about the numbers that are special to them such as their age or their birthday
Numbers in my Classroom! which encourages children to think about the numbers in their classroom such as the number of children with brown hair.
This product was one of my first and I’m super happy with how it turned out. I hope to update it to include other representations of numbers as ten frames aren’t often used in the UK.
Here’s a worksheet for EYFS to help children practice forming numbers in numeral and written form.
This sheet asks children to read a numeral form, trace and write the written form and finally represent the number either in a drawing or on a ten frame. The sheet uses a box font to encourage children to think about tall, small and hanging letters.
There are two different forms of differentiation:
The Draw It! worksheet for LA students who can draw their representation
The Ten Frame It! worksheet for MA and HA students who can represent numbers on a ten frame
This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given. Dice It!, Domino It! and Numicon It! to be added at a later date.