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The Gingerbread Man resource pack: powerpoints display activities and masks
A large pack of resources. It includes:
POWERPOINTS:
The Gingerbread Man Story
The Smelly Cheese Man (an alternative version of the story)
The Gingerbread Man poem
ACTIVITIES
Acrostic poem (spelling out Gingerbread Man)
Blank speech / thought bubbles: 8 different sizes and shapes to print out and fill in.
Counting cards: 0 to 20 in numerals and Gingerbread Man faces to match up / play snap etc.
Vocabulary cards: 18 words and matching pictures. Can be used for games, display or labelling activities.
Counting cards: Cards to laminate different numbers of Gingerbread men and a box for writing in the number.
Characters to print and use for stick puppets
Larger characters - 2 per A4 page for display / other activities.
Gingerbread Man clipart: black and white to colour
Gingerbread Man clipart: Colour
Gingerbread men to print: Large men in black and white, different versions, to make own faces / clothes etc.
Sequencing pictures: 10 small pictures. The children can cut them up and stick in sequence, or they can be laminated and used for an activity.
Story sheets: Contains the same images in the sequencing pictures but there is one picture per A4 page with lines for the children to compose their own story.
Wanted poster
Word mat containing vocabulary needed for the story.
Writing border: 2 different designs; colour and black and white.
DISPLAY
A4 Heading x 2
A-Z lettering - to cut out for display
Lettering/banner: The Gingerbread Man - prints onto 6 pages. There are 3 different designs.
Border: Images of the Gingerbread Man to frame a display
Alphabet a-z in lower case with a gingerbread man background
Number line 0-20 with digits and written numbers with a gingerbread man circle background
The Gingerbread Man poem
MASKS
13 character masks to act out the story.
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Daily routine flash cards for visual sequencing, SEND, EYFS
The cards can be used to help children plan the day, get ready for what is happening next and to communicate with others.
There are 72 cards included; 9 to each A4 sheet.
Updated version added February 2023*
If there are any other activities / extra cards you would like adding to the pack, please send a message and I can add them.
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Rapunzel Fairy Tale activity pack - Powerpoint story, display resources and activities
A story of Rapunzel, plus writing sheets, wanted poster, sequencing pictures, book cover; display border and heading.
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EYFS Rhythm and Rhyme phonic activities resource pack
This pack is a collection of PowerPoints and printable resources in pdf. It will help give children experience how words rhyme, and to develop an awareness of rhythm in speech. Listening to and joining in with rhymes and playing rhyming games help children to develop skills to know how letters correspond to sounds.
Fits in with Letters and Sounds Phase 1.
PRINTABLE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES:
• Dominoes – showing pictures of simple cvc words
• Odd one out cards – print, cut and laminate for a rhyming game
• Rhyming pairs – 40 images showing pictures of rhyming pairs. There are 4 per A4 page so can also be used for display or flashcards
• Rhyming soup game – A printable version of the powerpoint. The children have to make a soup out of rhyming objects (eg snake, cake, rake etc)
• Rhyming words bingo – 4 bingo cards with 7 pictures each.
• Two rhyming worksheets
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DISPLAY:
• Large lettering: Rhymes (one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.)
• Large lettering: Rhyme Time(one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.)
• What rhymes with….posters – A set of 6 A4 colourful posters with pictures of rhyming words. Rhymes include what rhymes with…can / hat / pot / bug / cap and zip.
POWERPOINT GAMES:
• Can you think of words that rhyme - Simple introduction to rhyming.
• Making up rhymes - Explains rhyming words, and then encourages the children to make up rhymes using the images.
• Odd one out - Find the picture that doesn’t rhyme from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback.
• Playing with words - 20 images of words with longer syllables.
• Rhyming pairs - Find the rhyming pair from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback.
• Rhyming puppets - 14 name rhymes for the children to finish.
• Rhyming soup - ake - An interactive version of the game, the children click on the object to put it in the soup bowl.
• Rhyming soup - an
• Rhyming soup - at
• Rhyming soup – ip
• Rhyming soup – ox
• Rhyming words - 11 sets of rhyming words, encouraging the children to make up rhymes with them.
• Words that rhyme - Find the 2 pictures that rhyme from a choice of 3.
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POWERPOINT RHYMES:
• A pig who was big - 9 rhyming verses about pigs
• Action Rhymes - 8 different rhymes: Two little feet / I wiggle / This is the way / Wind the bobbin up / A sailor went to sea / Jack-in-the-box / Clean up/ I’m a little teapot / Row your boat.
• 5 fat peas
• Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
• Down in the jungle
• Head, shoulders, knees and toes
• Katalina Matalina
• Peanut butter
• Ten fingers
• The Farmer’s in his den
• The wheels on the bus
• There was a princess
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Transport EYFS topic pack - powerpoints and activities
A set of 13 PowerPoint resources and several printable activities looking at different types of transport for early years.
POWERPOINT FILES:
5 Little men in a flying saucer: The song
A-Z of transport: Pictures for every letter of the alphabet, related to transport
How does it travel: A simple quiz
Old and new transport: Compares old and new kinds of transport
Row your boat: The song
The history of cars: Pictures of cars, how they have changed
The history of transport: From the Stone age to the modern age.
The Wheels on the bus: The song, with sounds and animations
Types of transport: Different kinds with labels
Transport 2: Different kinds, why we need it etc.
Transport shapes: Simple shapes in the environment related to transport
Vehicles that travel in the air: Pictures and facts
Vehicles that travel on water: Pictures and facts
Vehicles that travel on land: Pictures and facts
Transport advertisements - Adverts from the past 100 years showing old cars etc. Can be printed or viewed as a show.
PRINTABLE PDF ACTIVITIES:
Transport lotto: Game to print out and laminate
Shape car: A car to make by cutting out shape
Black and white pictures with headings to colour / write on
5 Little Astronauts - props, heading and rhyme
5 Little Firefighters - props, heading and rhyme
5 Little men in a flying saucer - heading, props, masks and earth
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Phonics flashcards
A set of 76 phonics display/flashcards to use in KS1.
There are 2 A5 cards on a page. Each card contains pictures and a list of words including the relevant common exception words for Year 1.
The first set contains the letters of the alphabet.
The second set contains the consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs and trigraphs in the Y1 Spelling appendix.
The third set contains extra graphemes identified in the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.
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Phase 1 Aspect 2 Instrumental Sounds: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to instrumental sounds.
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Phase 1 Aspect 6 Voice sounds: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A pack of powerpoints and activities to print to help children distinguish between the differences in vocal sounds, including oral blending and segmenting.
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Phase 1 Aspect 7 Oral blending and segmenting: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A set of powerpoints, games, cards and activities to develop oral blending and segmenting of sounds in words.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 5 word / help mats
The picture grapheme/word mat is to aid in the teaching and learning of further graphemes, and learning to read tricky words in phase 5. A pictorial example of each sound is shown with the letters to help children remember the graphemes. Also on the word mat are previous tricky words, which can be decoded in Phase 5, and the 11 tricky words for children to read in Phase 5.
The second word mat contains the alternate spellings for phonemes on page 144 of the Letters and Sounds document.
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Phase 1 Aspect 3 Body percussion: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.
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Hansel and Gretel Fairy tale activity pack- powerpoint story, display and activities
A story in powerpoint, sequencing cards, heading, lettering, retelling pages, story sequencing and characters for role play.
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EYFS Animals topic: Number rhymes pack
A set of number rhyme resources to use during an Animal topic in the Early Years. It includes display headings, rhymes, props etc.
The rhymes are:
5 Baby turtles
5 Little birds
5 Little monkeys bouncing
5 Little monkeys swinging
5 Little spiders
8 Enormous dinosaurs
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Alphabet / Letters, digraphs and trigraphs A5 flashcards / display - 72 graphemes
This set contains all the letters of the alphabet, consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs and trigraphs in the Y1 spelling appendix.
The cards are in pdf format for you to print out as many times as you like. They can be used as flashcards, for display or for group or individual use.
There are 2 cards per A5 page. Each card contains pictures and a list of words, including the relevant common exception words for Y1. The single letter sounds contain the matching keyboard letter so they can help children on the keyboard.
There are 3 separate files:
PHONIC CARDS 1
26 letters of the alphabet plus ch sh th and wh
PHONICS CARDS 2
All the graphemes identified in the Y1 spelling appendix
PHONICS CARDS 3
Extra graphemes from the Letters and Sounds document ( ff ll ss zz ck ey ng and ure)
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Phase 1 Aspect 1 Environmental Sounds Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: set 1 letters- s a t p - powerpoint introductions
There is one powerpoint for each new letter. Each introductory powerpoint:
Introduces the new letter, shows a picture mnemonic, demonstates correct letter formation then reinforces it with an initial sound game.
Also in the pack:
A powerpoint showing each letter in the set with a picture to help the children remember the sound;
A set of letter flashcards of all letters learnt so far
A 'what begins with....' game where the children have to select an object that begins with the specified letter.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: set 2 letters- i n m d - powerpoint introductions
There is one powerpoint for each new letter. Each introductory powerpoint:
Introduces the new letter, shows a picture mnemonic, demonstates correct letter formation then reinforces it with an initial sound game.
Also in the pack:
A powerpoint showing each letter in the set and previous sets with a picture to help the children remember the sound;
A set of letter flashcards of all letters learnt so far
A 'what begins with....' game where the children have to select an object that begins with the specified letter.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Buried treasure activity pack
A set of coins to print and 2 smartboard activities.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Phoneme frames
2 printable activities and 5 smartboard phoneme frames.