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A treasure box of teaching and learning, including classroom resources, early years, primary and professional development. All resources have been designed and tested by an experienced early years and primary teacher. Click on the link below to join my update group or follow my page on Facebook to be the first to see my new resources!
Year 1 phonics puzzles long vowel phoneme wordsearch bundle 5 – 6 years
These are fun wordsearch activities designed to fit alongside the Year 1 phonics curriculum for children aged five to six in England.
This set contains a wordsearch for each set of long vowel phonemes, plus an overview puzzle. Each wordsearch has a solution key. The puzzles cover the main spelling patterns for the long vowel phonemes:
ay, ai and a-e
ea and ee
igh, -y and i-e
oa, ow and o-e
oo, u-e and ew
plus an overview puzzle
To support readability for this age group, most words in the puzzle can be read from left to right or from top to bottom. Great for teaching sessions, games and activities.
The puzzles are in Word so that they can also be used on-screen (children can highlight the words) and the solution keys are in PDF.
A4 size
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English History KS1 Great Fire of London resource set
This is a resource set to support teaching around the topic of the Great Fire of London. The contents include:
A topic fact sheet for teacher use
An example topic plan that can be shared with parents
Display labels for a themed role play area
An example poem for the topic
Three poetry writing frames
Three eyewitness account writing frames
The resource set does not include lesson planning, but there are learning intentions and activity ideas within the topic plan.
Available in Word for easy editing. I have also included two JPEG files of famous paintings connected with the fire.
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Christmas card printable activity set for primary KS1 KS2
This is a simple, low-mess Christmas card making activity set suitable for KS1 and KS2.
Children can use the papers printed with seasonal messages to make a Christmas motif on the front of a card. The activity only requires these materials, scissors and glue. Glitter or sequins are optional as a nice effect can still be achieved with the use of contrasting colours.
The set contains an instruction sheet and papers with the messages Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year. Seasonal colours are red, green, white, light blue, dark blue and brown (for robins!). Card ideas include:
Christmas tree against a dark blue night sky
A multi-layered Christmas star
Bells
Presents
Robin
Reindeer
Winter landscape with snow
A view through a window
Stocking
Holly leaves and berries
Perfect for supply teachers.
A4 size in ready-to-print PDF
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Geography KS2 group task on mountain ranges
This is a group task activity set, most suitable for Upper Key Stage Two children 9-11 years old.
The task instructions page asks children to work together to make a display panel about one of the world’s mountain ranges, then present it to the class. The accompanying worksheet ‘Profile of a Mountain Environment’ helps to scaffold the task for children of different abilities.
This task also supports English literacy objectives around using non-fiction sources.
This task can take 1 to 2 lessons.
Suitable for:
Year 5 classes
Year 6 classes
A4 size
Available in Word
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