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Numberblock Staircase Pattern
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Numberblock Staircase Pattern

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Numberblock Staircase Pattern Mats 4 with colour, two blank to make it more challenging. Number Skiis Number Beach Hut Number Ice Cream Number Snowman Use cubes/counters to su pport childrens understanding of the numbers from 1-5. Help them visualise addding one more each time.
Phonics Penguins
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Phonics Penguins

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Feed the penguins. Read a word on each fish and feed it to the correct penguin. Print off and cut out each picture. Print on card or laminate to make your product last longer. You could add paper clips to the fish and magnets to make this into a game. 12 CVC words 4 CCVC words 16 Digraphs sh ch th ll ss ck ng nk oo (book) oo (moon) ar ee
Sparkler Sort and Roll
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Sparkler Sort and Roll

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Use these sparklers to support your fine motor activities. You could pair them with plastercine, playdough or loose parts. Children use their hand muscles to roll balls of plastercine or playdough and place them onto the circles. They could also use tweezers to pick up objects or lay any loose parts onto the circles. 6 mats to encourageg colour sorting and counting.
Firework Mark Making Cards
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Firework Mark Making Cards

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These 12 cards are a range of simple patterns children can create with their finger or a stick in a tray of glitter/salt or coloured sand. They can also be used as a design to follow with small loose parts . They will support their fine motor skills and mark making development.
CVC Winter Hats
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CVC Winter Hats

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10 CVC pictures on winter hats. Perfect to support segmenting skills. Cut them out and use them with a three part tray or any writing materials.
Winter Penguin Maths
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Winter Penguin Maths

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Four number mats. Penguins Numbers 1-6 Penguin Numbers 7-12 Matching numbers represented in different ways. Chop these squares up and children can match them to the correct penguin numeral. Lots of opportunities for problem solving skills.
Firework Colour Mixing Discs
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Firework Colour Mixing Discs

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A set of six black colour mixing discs, using a firework image. 6 additional discs including the colour words to match. These would be great to support any creative activity. They would work really well alongside paint, pastels or on a light box
Letter Sound Sheets A-Z
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Letter Sound Sheets A-Z

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Letter Sound Activity Sheets 26 letters of the alphabet ( including sh -a full digraph set coming soon!) Each mat focuses on a single letter and has an activity to match the letter sound. Recommendation to laminate each mat and use a variety of resources to complete the activity. This could be whiteboard pens, playdough or plastercine. You could photocopy particular ones and children could use felt tip pens, pastels or water colour paints. There is a section on each mat for the children to practise the letter formation. Font: Poppins A seperate set is available with the Read Write Inc letter images.
Roll and Subitise
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Roll and Subitise

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30 images on each sheet with a Bonfire/Fire fighter theme. Children roll a dice and then subitise or count this amount. They record this go by circling the images they counted. The first player to circle all the objects on their sheet is the winner! They can use this independently too. Keep rolling and drawing round the groups, until all pictures have been circled. Firefighter Helmet Fire engine Hose Fire
Rangoli Tile Patterns
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Rangoli Tile Patterns

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A set of 12 Rangoli pattern tiles to support learning about Diwali. 6 on a neutral background and 6 on a black background. They will support a number of fine motor and creative activities.
Rocket ordering 1-5
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Rocket ordering 1-5

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Photocopy and chop up the rocket into the separate shapes. Children order the rocket from 1-5. They add the triangle to the top and the rectangles to represent the fire. A great activity to support counting, number recognition, ordering and 2D shape.
Winter Jumper Fine Motor
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Winter Jumper Fine Motor

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3 different designs (6 jumpers). Each design is in both red and green with white patterns. Use loose parts to follow the patterns on the winter jumper or use as a tracing activity with whiteboard pens.
Bell Subitising Cards
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Bell Subitising Cards

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Subitising cards using bells to 6 Counting bells 7 - 10. Two blank cards, which I would recommend are laminated. These can be used to record any numbers greater than 10, Pair these cards with loose bells and add magnets. How many can you pick up?
CVC Crackers
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CVC Crackers

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Christmas crackers with CVC objects on one half of the cracker. Three green buttons to write each letter for the word on the other half. CCVC and words which contain some digraphs included with a cracker design and no green buttons. These crackers allow children to attempt to write longer words using their phonic knowledge. 12 Christmas themed CVC Words 6 longer words for children to attempt using phonic knowledge.
Gingerbread Numicon Men and Houses 1-10
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Gingerbread Numicon Men and Houses 1-10

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10 Gingerbread Men. The buttons are created to represent each number, linked the Numicon colours and pattern. 10 Numbered Houses. Can you put the gingerbread men with the correct house. Lots of maths activities and mathematical skills can be developed with this resource.
Reindeer Counting
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Reindeer Counting

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Can you feed the reindeers? Reindeers, numbered 1-9 Sacks of carrots to give the reindeers. Match the correct amount of carrots to the numbered reindeer.
Valentines Counting
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Valentines Counting

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A counting activity to celebrate love and friendship. Cut the hearts in half and play a matching game. Numbers to 10 - a range of different representation of numbers.