'Your one stop shop for ENGAGING, AUTHENTIC ideas to keep your students busy, and schools wanting you to come back. Resources that are easy to use with links to some amazing websites and a host of free resources.'
Teaching is one of the most creative jobs I know, even after 30 years of teaching I realise that every day is different. You may be teaching the same subjects and grades, but it's children that make teaching both the challenging and rewarding profession that I have known.
Creating
'Your one stop shop for ENGAGING, AUTHENTIC ideas to keep your students busy, and schools wanting you to come back. Resources that are easy to use with links to some amazing websites and a host of free resources.'
Teaching is one of the most creative jobs I know, even after 30 years of teaching I realise that every day is different. You may be teaching the same subjects and grades, but it's children that make teaching both the challenging and rewarding profession that I have known.
Creating
Lateral Thinking Puzzles are a great way to start a lesson or use as a brain break. Have them on Interactive Whiteboard displayed as a classroom entry activity. Give the students 5 minutes to solve the riddle or puzzles before revealing the answers. Great discussion starters as many of these may have more than one answer or explanation. These can also be used for fast finishers as problem solving tasks. Students really enjoy the Optical illusions included in this pack. Included is 1 PDF which can be easily saved on any storage device. A great addition to any relief teacher's bag of tricks. Suitable for middle primary to lower secondary students. Answers included where necessary.
These 10 worksheets are a fun way for your students to practice their addition facts to 20. Students are able to compare their sheets with others as a self correcting exercise.
A great addition to any Relief Teaching Resource. Look out for more additions to these printables with different themes, which will ultimately be available as a bundle. For now it is a work in progress!!
Enjoy these and don't forget to check out the other brilliant affordable resources
Use these fun Halloween themed subtraction worksheets as an early finishing activity, or to practice subtraction of numbers up to 20.
Activities are self correcting, as students are able to compare their finished products to see if they get the same result.
Why not check out the addition bundle too,
This is just one of the resources included in the larger bundle from the 'Ultimate Relief Teaching Survival Kit' or from the Numeracy Printables bundle.
A sweet resource that can be laminated and cut up as puzzles and then used in numeracy rotations, or as an early finishing task.
Perfect for re schoolers or Kindergarten aged students.
Great graphics including number frames, the word cards, dice for subitising and matching numbers of unicorns.
These would also make great laminated mats to use with whiteboard markers or with playdough to reinforce number concepts
How to use this resource
These fun mats can be laminated and used to match the animals of the students choosing to go and live in the trees.
As laminated sheets students can use them to put matching playdough apples etc in the trees, trace over the letters and match counters or playdough in the ten frames provided.
With larger numbers, students can use these as a dice game and see who can fill their tree first with the exact number shown on the mat. If you are looking at the number 8 and the child throws a 2, then they know they will need to throw a 6 or any combination that adds to 6 to complete their tree. If they throw a number that is too big, then they miss a turn.
These mats can be used as part of group rotations with students filling all sets of cards as an activity.
Suitable for pre-school or early kindergarten students.
This is a carefully chosen selection of the Behaviour management sections of my Ultimate Relief Teaching Survival Kit. If you are only interested in Behaviour management strategies in the classroom then this resource will be a great addition to your teaching resource kit.
This 203 page resource has plenty of links and printable ideas for any primary classroom teacher to include in their professional library of resources. Included in this resource are:
Terms of Use
Being the Best you can be- websites, articles and advice
Classroom Behaviour and Behaviour Management- weblinks, posters, traffic light system printables
Ice Breakers- printable fun cards to use in groups or on IWB, would you rather discussion strips, websites, class planner,
My Bag of Tricks- Suggestions and strategies, Weblinks, and Blooms taxonomy poster for reference
Reward Systems- cafe style punch cards, no cost reward cards, class currency printables, reward bracelets, Class Dojo style award cards,
Interactive timetable suggestion linkedd to all of my pinterest boards. Planning tools and websites
What to do on RFF-
Positive Mindset- posters and links
Playground duty- responsibilities and weblinks, incident report
Trouble Shooting Tips
Printable Classroom Posters
Bibliography
My social links and Acknowledgements
Why this book??
Have you bookmarked, pinned and saved hundreds of links?
Do you promise that one day you will sort them out?
This book may be the answer to your organisational dreams. It is designed to be an easy to use, interactive resource. It has been sorted into categories with links to provide answers and help for frequently asked questions posed in posts on Facebook and other social group forums.
400 hyper-linked webpages and PDFs
This small investment will save you hours of your precious planning time and money. By investigating the comprehensive list of websites and links to free resources you can inexpensively build on your vital pool of resources. It is estimated teachers spend $2000 annually on resources. Let this book help to keep some of this money in your pocket
Contents
Mindfulness in the Classroom
Art
Anti-Bullying and Resilience
Drama
Music and Singing
PDHPE and Games
Geography
History
Science
Curriculum
Maths
Literacy
Behaviour Management
Classroom Management
Relief Teaching Resources
Fabulous Freebies
Wonderful Weeblies
Educational Blogs
Aboriginal Education
Report Writing
Special Needs
Pinterest for Teachers
Facebook for Teachers
New Scheme Teachers and Accreditation
CV and Job Applications
Brain Breaks and Time Fillers
Internet Safety
Interactive Whiteboards
Thinking Skills
This booklet uses one of my all time favourite stories, "Lester and Clyde" by James H. Reece. A wonderful tale that explores the themes of pollution on the environment, recycling, and of course frogs. There are resources linked to all of these ideas within the booklet. Your students may enjoy a research project using a Webquest, or investigate how far a 'cottonball frog' can jump. This resource is a time saver; there are some fabulous links for you to explore and make these units of work your own.
To get the best use out of this booklet, I encourage you to click on all of the available downloads and links. There are many treasures hidden in here. The Pinterest board alone is full of some fantastic and engaging activities for the theme of frogs and caring for our environment. You could easily stretch this unit to a month with all the ideas available.
Free Classroom management booklet included
The Year 6 booklet is in the store ready for you to download and explore. Design a lesson plan or a week or more around the fantastic links provided. Adapt the lesson suggestions and ideas to suit your needs and the needs of your students. Have fun, and 'wow' kids with some fantastic videos and games to support the themes presented in the wonderful story 'the Great Bear' by Libby Gleeson. The theme of animals in circuses could spark some lively debate and lots of persuasive writing.
To get the best use out of this booklet, I encourage you to click on all of the available downloads and links. There are many treasures hidden in here. The Pinterest board alone is full of some fantastic and engaging activities for the theme of the animal welfare, sustainability and caring for our environment. You could easily stretch this unit to a month with all the ideas available.
This booklet of activities could easily be differentiated for use with Year 5 or Year 7
Bonus classroom management booklet included
This resource booklet is a time saver for all primary teachers. Within the book are links and activities which will help keep a year 3 class busy for a week or more. There are links to units of work, videos, interactive games, fantastic apps and printable activities. Based around the theme of Animals, children will have opportunities to engage in some wonderful activities base on the story book "Giraffes can't dance" by Giles Andreae
All resources and sites that have been selected are free, or through subscription (with no fee)
To get maximum benefit from this eBook you will need to really explore the links and contents to adapt and modify to the children you will be working with.
The suggested timetable is linked to hundreds of ideas for CAPA and PDHPE.
This booklet will save you hours of searching the internet for quality resources
40 pages
You'll get 2 PDFs
This resource booklet is a time saver for all primary teachers. Within the book are links and activities which will keep a Year 1 class busy for a week or more. Based around the theme of Animals, there are links to units of work, videos, interactive games, fantastic apps and printable activities. The featured picture book is 'Mrs Wishy Washy' by Joy Cowley, and ' One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab" by April Pulley Sayre.
To use this booklet to its best, you will need to really explore the links and contents within.
The suggested timetable is linked to hundreds of ideas for CAPA and PDHPE
This resource will save you hours of searching the internet for quality resources.
Now includes free Classroom Management Booklet.
This is the bundle for your ES1 and Stage 1 students.
This combination booklet is a time saver for all primary teachers. Within the book are links and activities which will keep your infants class busy for a week or more. There are links to units of work, videos, interactive games, fantastic apps and printable activities. Based on the theme of Animals, children will enjoy 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab.'' Mrs Wishy Washy' and 'The Gruffalo'
To use these booklets to their best, you will need to really explore the links and contents within them.
The suggested timetable is linked to hundreds of ideas for CAPA and PDHPE.
This is the bundle for your Stage 2 students.
Year 3
This resource booklet is a time saver for all primary teachers. Within the book are links and activities which will help keep a year 3 class busy for a week or more. There are links to units of work, videos, interactive games, fantastic apps and printable activities. Based around the theme of Animals, children will have opportunities to engage in some wonderful activities base on the story book "Giraffes can't dance" by Giles Andreae
All resources and sites that have been selected are free, or through subscription (with no fee)
To get maximum benefit from this eBook you will need to really explore the links and contents to adapt and modify to the children you will be working with.
The suggested timetable is linked to hundreds of ideas for CAPA and PDHPE.
Year 4
This booklet uses one of my all time favourite stories, "Lester and Clyde" by James H. Reece. A wonderful tale that explores the themes of pollution on the environment, recycling, and of course frogs. There are resources linked to all of these ideas within the booklet. Your students may enjoy a research project using a Webquest, or investigate how far a 'cottonball frog' can jump. This resource is a time saver; there are some fabulous links for you to explore and make these units of work your own.
To get the best use out of this booklet, I encourage you to click on all of the available downloads and links. There are many treasures hidden in here. The Pinterest board alone is full of some fantastic and engaging activities for the theme of frogs and caring for our environment. You could easily stretch this unit to a month with all the ideas available.
Free Classroom management booklet included and this bundle includes a set of ICEBREAKER cards
Over 600 pages of ideas and activities!!
This bundle has my most popular resources in it. "The Survival Kit for Casual Relief Teachers"-111 pages of ideas and activities linked across all KLA's. This is a great starter for any Casual Teacher's resource kit, so many ideas that are guaranteed to make your life a little easier.
Easy Links-Wonderful websites for very busy teachers Have you bookmarked hundreds of links? This book may be the answer to your organisational dreams. It is designed to be an easy to use, interactive resource. It has been sorted into categories with links to provide answers and help for frequently asked questions posed in posts on Facebook and other social group forums.
Booklet Bundles which are all integrated across all KLA's to make programming easier. These booklets are for all classes with links to online versions of picture books through slideshare or youtube, integrated lesson plans and a fully interactive timetable which links to all of my pinterest boards. Never be short of an idea again. Themes are 'Under the Sea'and 'Animals'
'First and Second hand accounts'- linked to Australian events in recent history eg opening of the opera house, Harbour Bridge, Apology to the Nation, Cyclone Tracy, Cliffy Youngs marathon run, Cathy Freemans gold medal run. This resource makes teaching first and second hand accounts of events, authentic and engaging.
Fairy Tales- K-2 A themed unit of work on Fairy Tales for infants classes. Enough activities in here to be differentiated for middle primary students too.
'Optical illusions - a great brain break to use or can be integrated with Art, to create some fantastic 3D art projects
'Scattergories'-this game is a fantastic addition to any teachers toolkit, complete with lists for lots of variety
Digital links booklets- 2 downloads with suggested links to apps and websites for Numeracy and Literacy. A fantastic resource if you don't know where to start looking for resources on the internet
The files shown in this bundle incredible value You will get 30 ebooks in total
This is a winzip file so please make sure you have a programme to open it. Click on each book title to see a description of the product.
Survival Kit for Casual Relief Teachers
Easy Links-Wonderful websites for very Busy Teachers
Animal Themed Booklets
Sea themed Booklets
First and Second Hand Accounts- Australian Topics
Optical Illusions
Scattergories Game
Literacy Links
Numeracy Links
Fairy Tales
Lateral thinking game
Editable behaviour bracelets
Behaviour Posters
Fishing for Answers
Blank word search template
Harmony Day activities
Fast finishers bundle and Xmas activities
This is the bundle for your
Stage 3 students . This combination booklet is a time saver for all primary teachers. Within the book are links and activities which will keep your upper primary classes busy for a week or more. There are links to units of work, videos, interactive games, fantastic apps and printable activities. Based on the theme of Animals, children will enjoy 'The Great Kapok Tree' and 'The Great Bear'
To use these booklets to their best, you will need to really explore the links and contents within them.
The suggested timetable is linked to hundreds of ideas for CAPA and PDHPE. This bundle also includes a set of lateral thinking puzzles to get them thinking
This is the complete set of Animal Themed booklets.
This series is based around the theme of animals, and explores a wide range of age appropriate topics and activities.
Booklets can easily be adjusted to suit other grades, all you need to do is adapt to suit your teaching style and the needs of your students. 'Wow' your classes with some engaging activities and websites linked across all KLA's.
This bundle will save you half the price of buying booklets individually and will guarantee to save you hours of preparation time.
Click on individual booklets to find out more detail about each one or watch the YouTube links above.
You get a free classroom management booklet (7pages) and a free attention getting booklet (4 pages)
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Easter themed with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
A Selection of links to websites, songs, online resources and worksheets to print off to support the teaching of this unit across all KLAs
Useful Website Links
Video Links and Slideshare presentations
Website links to songs and lyrics
Art activities and ideas
Flags of the world
Design a flag activity
Family tree activity
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Harmony day Themed, with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
You will get a powerpoint presentation and PDF in this bundle
This 30 page booklet comes with a 7 page booklet of behaviour management strategies. The theme for the term 2 booklets is "Under the Sea". The focus books in this booklet are "Tiddler the Story Telling Fish" by Julia Donaldson, and "There's a Sea in my Bedroom" by Margaret Wild. Spelling and word work is based on the words from " Tiddler" and I have made a Quizlet to use to support the teaching of these words. The booklet has sections on hints for relief teachers,reading and literacy, numeracy, thematic work, celebration days for term 2 and a page of suggested apps that are a fantastic addition to your teaching resource kit. Worksheets are included for spelling and literacy as well as a feedback sheet which you are able to copy so that you can leave feedback for the classroom teacher you are replacing. There are over 60 links to websites included in the booklet. Please view the video presentation to get a comprehensive idea of what is included in the booklet.
This resource could be differentiated for use with year 1 or Year 3. To use this resource effectively you need to explore all of the links provided and tailor make the suggested activities to suit your teaching style and the learning needs of your student.s All of the hard work searching the internet for inspiration and resources has been done for you.
The suggested timetable has interactive links to my Pinterest board, so that your resources will continue to grow as more pins are added. Within the book there are over 60 links to websites, and for those of you who follow my 'Surviving Casual Teaching' Facebook group, you will know that I have a good working knowledge of helpful teaching resources. I recommend that you buy copies of the picture books for days when you may not have IWB capability. You can never have enough picture books in your life!!!
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