I am a teacher, having taught for 22 years.
I worked mainly in Early years, but also taught in year 1, and 2. I have produced several resources over the years and have recently created my own website Erinella.com where you can find my teaching resources. Im also on Facebook Erinella.com
I am a teacher, having taught for 22 years.
I worked mainly in Early years, but also taught in year 1, and 2. I have produced several resources over the years and have recently created my own website Erinella.com where you can find my teaching resources. Im also on Facebook Erinella.com
Children will have fun completing this two page activity linked to what they’d find at the library.
This is a great tool for encouraging children to discuss the kind of objects and people they would find in a library environment.
A great product to use in your continuous provision. Laminated these ten sheets can be used over and over again, helping children to hear initial, middle and final sounds in words.
Lots of colourful pictures to encourage children to say the word then write the word.
This a great tool to see how your pupils understand blending sounds to make CVC words.
CVC words quantity
Children love investigating their environment and the great outdoors.
Why not take your children on a minibeast hunt? This resource is ideal to attach to a clipboard and to go on a minibeast hunt around your setting. Children can use the pictures to help find different minibeasts.
Children love to get their hands on anything to do with baking.
This recipe is a great hit with children. This is the best simple recipe for children to make their own ice-cream.
This product consists of five colourful activities linked to ordinal numbers.
Cars
Athletes running
Fish swimming
Boats sailing
Hot air balloons
Each activity allows children to cut out and glue the correct position of the items in each race.
This colourful resource is great for understanding number order.
Using the numicon shapes, children should cut out the numicon cards and glue them onto the other sheet in the correct order from 11.20
This colourful resource is great for understanding number order.
Using the numicon shapes, children should cut out the numicon cards and glue them onto the other sheet in the correct order from 1-10.
These useful RWI inspired stickers can be used when teaching Set 2 RWI sounds. They can be used as a reminder to the child and parent of what sound has been taught during that day. Plus a reward that can be given to each child to show that they have been successful during the lesson.
This product is also useful for the teacher or teaching assistant to see what sound each child had been learning during their phonic lesson, if they’d been to a different member of staff. It’s a quick visual prompt that can be used to test them throughout the day, and target during ‘pinny time’.
These useful RWI inspired stickers can be used when teaching Set 3 RWI sounds. They can be used as a reminder to the child and parent of what sound has been taught during that day. Plus a reward that can be given to each child to show that they have been successful during the lesson.
This product is also useful for the teacher or teaching assistant to see what sound each child had been learning during their phonic lesson, if they’d been to a different member of staff. It’s a quick visual prompt that can be used to test them throughout the day, and target during ‘pinny time’.
For children learning the phase 2 tricky words this product is ideal. Children colour the tricky words the same as the coloured words at the top. It is good to encourage children to say the word they have found whilst colouring it so it is embedded.
Are you after large numbers to display in your classroom environment? These large numbers are a great resource to show children the numbers and their values. They can be laminated and re used.
Each number has the following:
*Numicon
*Multi link cubes
*Dice
*Domino
*Number block character
*Tally
*Ten frame
*Fingers
*Number line
Understanding the parts of the human body is an important thing for children to learn. Singing songs like ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ is a good start, as well as lots of games like ‘Simon said’, will help consolidate children’s.
This product can be used to check children’s understanding of the different parts of the human body. It is bright and colourful and consists of two sheets. The fist having words to assist the child and the other excluding words.
Topic – Toys
Children love to investigate items, so why not encourage them to investigate materials toys are made from. This resource is a great tool to encourage children to develop their speaking and listening skills. It gives them opportunities to look at, touch and talk about different toys and what materials they think they are made from. It creates great social opportunities, and allows you as a teacher to develop their language skills, and understanding of different textures and materials.
There are three different sheets for the children to record their findings. You could also add observations of the children’s discussions to show their understanding.
This 4 page resource consists of the tricky words found in phase 2-5.
This activity can be sent home for children to practice reading each phase. Once they know the word they can colour. It can be used as an assessment tool to show words children know.
Each phase is coloured a different colour so it’s easy to follow.
Linked to the story ‘Whatever Next’, by Gill Murphy, this product is a great activity to encourage your pupils to think about what they might take with them if they were to get aboard a space rocket and fly to the moon.
This product consists of two pages:
Writing template – so children can write about their visit to the moon.
What would you take to the moon – a basket in which the children can write about what they’d take.
This is a good communication activity, allowing pupils to discuss what items would be best and why.
This 5 page colourful resource can be used when learning about pet animals. It consists of pictures and lines for children to write captions about what they see or know about pet animals.
Animals include:
Rabbit
Guinnea Pig
Dog
Cat
Hamster
Mouse
Lizard
Snake
Budgie
Goldfish
What a great tool when learning phase 3 high frequency words.
These cards can be cut up and used as a visual prompt or even used as part of a game.
When teaching phase 2 high frequency words, I found that sending these cards home really supported my pupils learning and was a great tool to get parents involved.
Do you use the RWI actions and rhymes during your school day? This two page resource is ideal to display in your classroom to help support you in remembering the fun celebration rhymes as well as a good tool to share with parents or other staff.
There are 20 different rhymes and actions to learn - but well worth it as children love to celebrate when they are learning and doing something fun!
Are you teaching addition? This 28 page resource consists of 56 different addition sum.
Each can be laminated and used time and time again along with counters. I recommend a different coloured counter or cube for each number, so children can physically add the amounts together using the ten frame.