Welcome to Goodeyedeers - the home of quality resources for primary teachers. Visit us and check out some great ideas.
I'm Mike Jackson, a former primary headteacher. I've teamed up with a fellow retiree David Horner who was a freelance children's poet delivering poetry workshops to children and teachers in schools across this country and abroad.
Between us, we bring an extensive wealth of knowledge and experience to the task of creating quality resources.
Welcome to Goodeyedeers - the home of quality resources for primary teachers. Visit us and check out some great ideas.
I'm Mike Jackson, a former primary headteacher. I've teamed up with a fellow retiree David Horner who was a freelance children's poet delivering poetry workshops to children and teachers in schools across this country and abroad.
Between us, we bring an extensive wealth of knowledge and experience to the task of creating quality resources.
Your class are going to love this spooktacular ten-page Halloween Mandalas colouring book. Great for children of all ages - and adults!
From creepy looking trees and smiling bats to young Draculas climbing out of pumpkins, this booklet has something for everyone.
The colouring book includes ten great colouring pages in a PDF format. The pages can be used individually or printed out in book form.
Each page contains a variety of Halloween images in a Mandala pattern for the children to colour.
Al the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to the UK children’s charity MedEquip4Kids.
What do you know about Valentine’s Day?
Try our exciting Valentine’s Day Quiz to discover why the heart is a symbol of love or what people in Japan do on Valentine’s Day?
If you enjoy this resource please tell your friends and colleagues and don’t forget to leave us a review.
Our other Valentine’s Day resources are:
Valentine’s Day Haiku
5 Valentine’s Day Writing Ideas
Your children are going to love these five Valentine’s Day writing ideas.
Each one contains activities that will have all your children writing.
They include:
Valentine’s Day Cinquain Poems
Valentine’s Day Acrostic
Countdown to Valentine’s Day
A secret Valentine’s Day poem
An ‘If only…’ Valentine’s Day poem
If you enjoy this resource please tell your friends and colleagues about us.
You might also like to check out our other Valentine’s Day resources:
Valentine’s Day Haiku
Valentine’s Day Quiz
In this lesson the children will learn what a haiku poem is and how to count syllables.
They will then work together to complete some Valentine’s Day haiku before going off and writing some of their own.
If you enjoy this resource please tell your friends and colleagues about us.
You might also like to look at our other Valentine’s Day resources:
Valentine’s Day Quiz
Five Valentine’s Day Writing Ideas
In this PowerPoint lesson the children discover how to create interesting haiku using the definitions of words from their word list or spelling list.
This fun and engaging lesson will have your class using a dictionary to find definitions of selected words; discover what a haiku is; explore how all the words we use contain syllables and then use this information to create their own haiku.
The resource includes:
A PowerPoint lesson that takes the children through the entire process.
Teachers’ Notes including a worksheet to help the children write their haiku
The resulting haiku poems the children create would make an excellent addition to a class word wall.
If you find this resource useful please tell your friends and a review would be amazing. Many thanks.
Mike and David from Goodeyedeers.
This resource contains 32 Suffixes Task Cards.
The 24 main task cards require your students to find a word ending with a specific suffix that fits the given clue.
The suffixes used are ‘ful’, ‘ous’, ‘ly’, ‘less’, ‘able’, ‘ible’ and ‘ment’.
The 8 challenge cards require your students to use their answers on their answer sheet to complete.
There are 24 main cards and 8 challenge cards plus an answer sheet and a student answer sheet.
This resource contains 32 Prefixes Task Cards. The 24 main task cards require your students to find a word beginning with a specific prefix that fits the given clue.
The prefixes used are ‘un’, ‘mis’, ‘im’, ‘in’, ‘re’ and ‘sup’.
The 8 challenge cards require your students to use their answers on their answer sheet to complete.
There are 24 main cards and 8 challenge cards plus an answer sheet and a student answer sheet.
The two workbooks from Goodeyedeers in this package cover all the words in the Year 3/4 NC Word List.
Each page contains five, randomly chosen words from the Year 3/4 NC Word List set against a distinctive background, all of which needs to be coloured in. The colouring in of each letter of the word further enhances the child’s learning of that word.
All images are sourced via a creative commons licence.
If you enjoy this resource please have a look at at our others. Any feedback would be more than welcome. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
40 growth mindset bookmarks to colour with a difference.
Each one contains an inspiring growth mindset quote, such as:
*It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity!
Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Believe you can and you are half way there.
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… and many more (40 different facts in total).
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All the money raised from the sale of our resources goes to a charity called Medequip4Kids.
40 bookmarks to colour with a difference.
Each one contains an interesting scientific fact, such as:
*Hummingbirds are the only birds in the world that can fly sideways, backwards, up and down.
Ostriches can run faster than horses and male ostriches can roar like lions.
There are more than 125 billion galaxies in our universe.
Strawberry is the only fruit whose seed grows on the outside.
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… and many more (40 different facts in total).
For more great resources check out The Goodeyedeers Shop.
All the money raised from the sale of our resources goes to a charity called Medequip4Kids.
The two PDF’s in this package contain all the words in the Year 5/6 National Curriculum Word List.
Each page contains five, randomly chosen words from the Year 5/6 National Curriculum Word List, set against a distinctive background, all of which needs to be coloured in. The colouring in of each letter of the word further enhances the child’s learning of that word.
All images are sourced via a creative commons licence.
If you enjoy this resource please have a look at at our others. Any feedback would be more than welcome. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
This ‘Crack The Code’ resource contains four different codes the children can use, all linked to the Year 3/4 NC Word List.
The 90 slide powerpoint takes the children through four different codes that they can use to both send messages and decipher them.
It is accompanied by a children’s booklet full of codes for them to make and break
A 2021 calendar which can be coloured in by your children or be given as a gift and coloured in each month.
Each month has a mandala to colour and an inspirational quotes.
The calendar is in both landscape and portrait.
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This absorbing and creative grammar and punctuation game is wholly about teaching, rather than testing the SPaG demands for Y6 children
The precise elements the game covers in this PowerPoint lesson are:
synonyms and antonyms
use of the passive form of verbs.
In playing this version of the Great Grammar Game, children will also be revisiting and revising their SPaG knowledge from previous years. Like all other versions of the game it can be played more than once, either in small groups of 5 or more, or by a whole class.
The National Curriculum insists that building grammatical knowledge is best achieved through a focus on grammar within the teaching of reading, writing and speaking. This is exactly how this activity is designed to work.
The resource includes:
A PowerPoint lesson outlining to the children how the game is played. It also includes an embedded message from Hetti from planet SPaG.
Teachers’ notes with ideas on how to play the game and suggestions for follow up activities.
A photocopiable 5x4 grid for the children to use.
All the money made from the sale of this resource goes to a local children’s charity - MedEquip4Kids.
If you and your children enjoy this resource we would very much appreciate you leaving us a review. Many thanks.
What do you call a jumbo jet before it’s painted?
The answer to this riddle (which you will find near the bottom of this page) is a pair of homophones. Children love solving riddles and also creating their own.
This material can be used across KS1 – KS3 to both introduce the concept of homophones to younger children and for re-visiting it in subsequent years to consolidate the children’s knowledge.
This resource is intended to foster youngster’s confidence and skill in navigating the quirks of English spelling by making it a game to engage with, rather than a problem to worry about.
In the PowerPoint presentation the children are introduced to an alien creature called Korb who lives on the far away planet of SPaG. Korb explains to the children what a homophone is and then shows them how they can create teasing riddles. The answer to each riddle is always a pair of homophone words.
Look out for another Goodeyedeers resource called ‘Homophone Riddle-Poems’ where you will meet Korb’s alien friend, Riya.
The answer to the riddle at the top of this page is – a plain plane!
All the money raised from the sale of this resources is donated to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
These music lesson ideas are suitable for children in both KS1 and KS2.
The short video will give teachers ideas for lessons about getting the children to create simple rhythms.
It explains how crotchets, quavers and semiquavers work and how, combined with one, two and four syllable words, interesting rhythms can be created.
The Teachers’ Notes give suggestions as to how the ideas put forward in the video can be developed.
If you enjoy using this package please let us know and don’t forget to tell your friends. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
A great quiz to end the term or school year.
Suitable for KS2 and lower KS3 children.
This attractive PowerPoint contains five rounds in all, each round has ten questions. There are four possible answers to each question. Each round of questions is followed by the answers so that teams can swap answers and mark them.
The rounds are:
Round One - General Knowledge
Round Two - Sport
Round Three - Harry Potter
Round Four - Animals
Round Five - Science
Included is a PDF containing team sheets for teams to record their answers and an answer sheet.
All the money raised from the sale of our resources goes to a local charity for children called MedEqup4Kids.
This lesson is designed to enable children to deconstruct some common tongue twisters and create new ones of their own.
Suitable for all years across Key Stage 2.
The PowerPoint takes the children through, step by step, the whole process of deconstructing a tongue twister and then reconstructing it to make it their own.
The Tongue Twisters doc. file is a list of 20 tongue twisters for them to work on.
The Teacher's Notes gives you some interesting facts about tongue twisters to share with your class as well as ideas as to what the children might do with the ones they create.
If you enjoy this resource from Goodeyedeers then please tell your colleagues and maybe leave us a review. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
