A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
This pack includes PowerPoints and activities to use when writing Fairytale news, resources to set up your own Fairytale estate agents and a collection of fun code cracking activities linked to Fairytale crimes!
In this bundle is a Christmas Quiz with 5 handout rounds including: guess who, mystery objects, Christmas movies, gifts (12 days of Christmas) and a bonus round. Also included is a fun Christmas Crackers Codebreaking activity using 24 Christmas jokes - can the children crack the code to reveal the punchlines, a PowerPoint and fun group challenge linked to Christmas Around the World and a selection of PowerPoints that can be used for reinforcing phonics/spelling during the festive period. An ideal pack for the week before Christmas!
A collection of five PowerPoints and four activity sheets that can be used to reinforce phonics during the festive period. Visit Santa's workshop and help the elves by making a list of all the toys (editable) or have a go at scribing the gifts from 'my true love' during the 12 days of Christmas. Could be used as an informal assessment tool to review sounds taught.
A fun Christmas activity for KS1. Children use the top secret code to find the punchlines to a selection of Christmas cracker jokes! There are 24 jokes included in this pack. Ideal as a stimulus for your own class Christmas joke competition too!
A collection of activity ideas and resource sheets for teaching plants in KS1. This pack includes: labelling a flower/tree, bean tweet sheets (to record observations when growing own beans), I spy plants for identifying/naming common plants, mystery objects task, Gimme 5 hand for identifying the needs of a plant, egg box challenge scavenger hunt (stick the challenge sheet to the lid of the egg box and let the children fill their box with objects to match the key words) and Teeny Tiny Treasure Hunt (using film canisters or an alternative small container), botany challenge for children to design and label their own new species of plant, seed packet templates and a selection of science starters to promote the use of children talking and reasoning scientifically.
A fun Christmas Quiz for KS1 which has 5 rounds including Powerpoint, handouts, quiz answers and certificates for the winners. Round 1 is guess who, round 2 guess the object, round 3 is Christmas movies, round 4 is gifts related to the 12 days of Christmas and the bonus round is naming characters from Frozen, Snow White's dwarves and Santa's reindeers. Happy Quizmas!
This bundle includes a range of fun, interactive activities to keep your class busy in the last week of term There is a 'Smartypants' quiz, MI5 Maths coding activities, a book trail, orienteering course and certificates and nomination forms for an end of year class awards - no planning needed!
Are you looking for a fun way to test your children's SPaG skills? This get up and go game is ideal for practising SATs style questions and checking pupils knowledge of the Y2 SPaG curriculum in an active way. All you have to do is print out the 20 A4 question cards (laminate) and set out your trail indoors or outdoors. Children then visit each station in pairs/groups, read the questions, discuss their ideas and record their answers on the sheet provided. I have also used this 'Scoot' game as an activity for parents at our KS1 workshops to give them an idea of the type of questions their children will be given in the end of KS1 SATs.
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A fun get up and go 'Scoot' game ideal for Year 2 children. Print out the 16 A4 sentence cards (laminate) and position around your classroom or outdoor area. The children visit each station, read the sentence, identify the word from the chosen word group and record it on their record sheet (also a useful activity for reinforcing the four sentence types). A great lesson starter or end of unit/SATs preparation activity.
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Two fun and interactive get up and go 'Scoot' games ideal for Year 2 linked to coordination and subordination. Print out the A4 cards (laminate) and place them around your classroom or outdoor area. The children then visit each station, read the sentence, identify the coordinating or subordinating conjunction and record on their individual record sheets to build up their own word bank. Both resources are editable and the subordination version is linked to the stories of Roald Dahl.
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A useful resource to encourage children to be confident to have a go at spelling new words. I laminated these cards and each child has their own which they use when writing independently. I developed this resource as part of the dyslexia friendly school award.
A fun activity that can be carried out indoors or outdoors depending on the weather! All you need to do is print out the clues all linked to well-known story books (laminate) and lay out the trail. Children can work in pairs/teams to answer the questions and decipher the secret message! Answer sheets and certificates included. This activity is editable and would be a great introduction to a reading challenge or a ‘My favourite book day.’
Are you looking for a fun outdoor activity? This is a very popular activity at my school - all you need to do is print out the 12 stations and laminate (optional!) then position them around your outdoor area. You can provide the children with a map so it is more of an orienteering task or just set it up as a trail. The children then work in groups/pairs to visit each station, read and answer the questions (which are a mix of English, maths, science and geography) recording their answers on the sheet provided along with the blue symbol. At the end of the course the children will have collected 11 letters and station 12 gives them a final hint to work out the secret message. This resource is easily edited to suit your needs and there are certificates included for all children who complete the course!
And the winner is . . . . . . Let your class nominate their peers (nomination form included) for each of the categories and hold your own awards show! I have used this activity for the last three years and it is always a huge hit with the kids. This pack includes 16 editable certificates including: Biggest Smile, Awesome Author, Maths Magician, Shooting Star (Drama), Keeps us laughing award, ICT Whizz and a blank template so your class could even invent some of the awards themselves!
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A PowerPoint introduction - It's the last day at alien school and the teacher needs help to sort out the lost property! Children can practise using apostrophes by using individual whiteboards to write sentences to match the images on the PowerPoint then make up their own sentences using the activity sheet that is included or inventing their own aliens and objects. A useful lesson also for reinforcing phonic skills (alien names) and writing expanded noun phrases.
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A great open-ended and flexible activity that will encourage your class to think and reason about number. Add your chosen number to the poster or get the children to roll 2/3 dice to make a number and then ask them to show you what they know about the naughty number on the wanted poster: e.g. 21 is 10 + 10 + 1, 3 x 7, 30 - 9, 63 ÷3 etc
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Work out the missing number problems to get the 6 digit code to open the safe! Great activity for greater depth.
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Curious Science Investigators: Can the children decide which object was used to break the caretaker's window? Powerpoint to introduce activity then you need to set out your objects (e.g. rubber duck, woollen gloves, football, brick etc) for children to investigate using the recording sheet. I extended this activity by inviting the children to become Curious Stem Inventors (label included) by giving them a brown paper bag containing objects such as a lollipop stick, an elastic band, a straw, paperclip, marble, newspaper etc and challenging them to invent! Also included is 'Bend me, Shape me' record sheet to investigate the properties of materials and extension activities.
