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Under the Sea Open Ended Crabs
This open ended resource is an excellent way to explore the different literacy skills while staying within theme. The blank spaces provided allow for independent or supported mark making. Practise writing and reading words and letters, creating words, sentences and more.
Phonics skills it can develop:
linking sounds to letters
initial sounds
middle and end sounds
segmenting and blending
reading simple sentences
reading
writing
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 1
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Under the Sea Sentence Building
Have fun with phonics while enjoying your current topic with these themed sentence builder cards. Children can practice reading words, ordering them and creating their own sentences.
Phonics skills it can develop:
reading
segmenting and blending
linking sounds to letters
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 6 sentence examples )
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Blank Pig Template - Farm Theme
Paint, print, colour! A simple template to have fun filling in.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
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Blank Chameleon Template - Animal theme
Paint, print, colour! A simple template to have fun filling in.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
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Animal Initial Sound Match
Have fun with your phonics with these initial sound match activity. A great resources for working on the first sounds in words.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Number of Pages: 1
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Green Level Tricky Words - Farm Themed
Have fun with your phonics with these themed green level tricky words. A great resource for working on reading.
Includes:
go
no
so
my
one
by
only
old
like
have
live
give
little
down
what
when
why
where
who
which
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 4 ( 20 tricky words )
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Farm themed phonetic picture cards
Have fun with your phonics with these themed phonetic picture cards. A great resource for working on spelling simple words.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 12 picture cards )
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Labelling Farm Animals
Have fun with your phonics with this labelling activity. A great resource for working on spelling simple words.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
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Animal Crack the Code: Initial Sound Game
Have fun working to crack the code by finding the initial sound for each picture and putting together a CVC word.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Understanding of the World
Number of Pages: 2 (4 code cards)
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Blank Lion Template
Paint, print, colour! A simple template to have fun filling in.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
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Animal Initial Sound Cards
Have fun with your phonics with these initial sound cards. A great resources for working on the first sounds in words.
Phonics Skill it can develop:
hearing initial sounds
linking sounds to letters
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Understanding of the World
Number of Pages: 2 (8 Initial sound cards)
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Count the Spots - Elephants
Have fun counting, ordering and comparing these spotted elephants from 0-10.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Ordering
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
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Animal Graph
Yes you can learn data handling in Early Years!
The graph is easy to understand with engaging pictures and works with small numbers. Children can have fun completing their graphs independently by surveying their friends or complete one in small groups or as a class. The activity is a brilliant opportunity to start exploring the results through adult questioning.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Comparing
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
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Animal Number Cards 1-10
These versatile number cards are an an excellent resource to have in the classroom. Each card is numbered from 1-10.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Ordering
Matching
Counting
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
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Giraffe Counting Mats - Animals
Take learning in new directions with these Giraffe Counting Mats. This open ended resource allows you to add your own numbers into the box provided and create your own number problems. Draw, paint, stamp your way to excellent counting skills.
Skills it can develop:
counting
number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
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Animal number towers
Get those little fingers building with this number stacking activity. Challenge children to build towers with the correct amount of cubes.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
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Animal Count and Match Cards
These printable counting cards are an excellent way of practising number recognition and counting skills.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Counting
Matching
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
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Roll and Colour - Under the Sea theme
This activity combines mindfulness colouring with Early years maths skills. Practise counting and recognising numbers by rolling the dice and colouring the picture with the correct number on them.
Maths skills that could be developed:
number recognition
counting
Number of pages: 1
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CVC frame - Sea theme
This phoneme frame is great for working with CVC words and allows children to practise their segmenting skills. A perfect addition to your phonics lesson.
Phonics skills it can develop:
Hearing initial sounds
Hearing middle and end sounds
Blending and segmenting
The Reading of CVC words
The writing of CVC words
Linking Sounds to letters
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 1