Firstly, my name really is Sunshine Susie! (I know! Can you believe it?!) My goal is to create and share products that engage your students, make your life easier, so you can get out of school and start living more. Have a lovely day! Sunshine.
Firstly, my name really is Sunshine Susie! (I know! Can you believe it?!) My goal is to create and share products that engage your students, make your life easier, so you can get out of school and start living more. Have a lovely day! Sunshine.
Who doesn’t need a little boost of motivation every now and then?
This pack of 100 mini awards will do just that, keeping your students eager to learn and engaged. 100 different designs means that you can print once and have enough to last you the whole of the school year! Printed with 8 awards to a page.
A Linear Calendar is the answer to improving numbers sense in your classroom in just a couple of minutes every day.
This resource has everything you need to set up the calendar and then use it year after year (my favourite thing to do!) I have included 33 different event cards, all dates, days of the week and months of year. I have included both a colour and a black and white version within this pack depending on your printing preference. Plus some helpful tips and discussion points to support you and your students in class.
Start the year right with the back to school certificates. 30 different designs, in both A4 and A5 options, mean each student can receive a different certificate, with just one press of the ‘print’ button!
Designs are suitable for EYFS - KS2.
My mixed year 3/4 loved these activities.
A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `I was a rat!`by Philip Pullman. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.
Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached.
My mixed year 3/4 loved these activities.
A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Twits`by Roald Dahl. Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached.
Preview
Files included (7)
A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `Beaky`by Jez Alborough. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.
A week of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Terrible Tiger - An Indian Folk Tale`. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the 2014 Year 3 & 4 spelling list, and spelling homework.
A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane`by Kate DiCamillo. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. A week of planning, the text extract and all resources are attached.
A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Iron Man`by Ted Hughes. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.
Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached.
Preview
Files included (7)
A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Firework Makers Daughter`by Philip Pullman. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.
Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached.
I collected these prompts as a way to promote class discussion around e-safety. After discussion students debated the safest thing to do in each situation, and recorded their ideas, which then went into an interactive display.
SMSC Learning Objectives
Yr 3.
Can identify and explain how to manage the risks in different familiar situations.
Can identify how to ask for help.
Can explain how my actions have consequences for myself and others.
Can describe the nature and consequences of bullying and express some ways of responding to it.
Yr 4.
Can take responsibility for my own behaviour and safety and realise that actions have consequences.
Can have some strategies to cope with peer influence and peer pressure.
Can identify some factors that affect emotional health and wellbeing e.g. relationships with family and friends, stress levels, physical activity, diet, self-image, media.
ICT Learning Objectives
KS1
use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.
KS2
use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact
This was so useful in showing the class a range of different graphs for the same data, and in improving their reasoning ability on what each graph shows. Correct reasoning is modelled in the task and the students then went on create their own, using mastery level reasoning skills.
Superb for sparking discussion.
In both powerpoint (editable) and pdf format
Make basic addition and subtraction more engaging with these triominoes.
Students simply cut out the individual triangles on each sheet, and then reassemble into a larger triangle with each calculation matching its correct answer.
Four differentiated sheets:
Higher ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into millions)
Middle ability (addition and subtraction with numbers to 1 million)
Lower ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into thousands)
SEN (addition with numbers to 25)
In two different formats - pdf and powerpoint (editable)
I have broken the GPS (SPaG) progression documents into objectives per strand, to make it easier to track progress, or isolate gaps in student knowledge.
Really useful if you have a mixed year group class or a class with a wide range of abilities.
A thinking skills activity to encourage students to consider why the Romans were such successful invaders.
All discussion points are true, students need to order them in a diamond ranking, there are no wrong answers so all students can safely enjoy discussing their ideas, without fear of failure.
As a further challenge I asked students to design one more battle tactic to add to the Roman arsenal.
Learning Objective is from the new 2014 Curriculum.
A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The BFGby Roald Dahl. (Suitable for Year 3 or Year 4). Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached.
A week of planning, spelling and resources for guided reading/reciprocal reading to accompany an extract from the book Clockworkby Philip Pullman. All learning objectives taken from the Year 3 / 4, National Curriculum guidance (2015).
My mixed Year 3/4 loved these activities.
A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The Scarecrow and his Servantby Philip Pullman. Planning and text attached .
Two activities for students to practice representations of tenths as fractions, pictures, decimals and in words.
Covers LO:
LO: Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts
This set of 5, phonics mats covers all phonemes as set out in the’Sound-Write Phonics’ programme. I am in no way affliated with this programme however I do use it in my class to teach phonics ( I can recommend it whole-heartedly, if you’re in the market for a new phonics scheme!)
I use this resource daily in the form of a phonics mat, as a teaching support at desks (students have a copy in of their own to refer too). We also have printed them out for display as a memory prompt for spelling. I hope you find them as useful as we have.