A fun way to integrate Music and Visual Language. This resource is a set of cards with symbols that the students interpret with their voice. Display a card and discuss how you might use your voice to interpret the symbol. For example, if the card has the word 'AHHHHHH' next to a symbol that looks wavy, then you move your voice up and down to demonstrate the high/low parts of the drawing. If the symbol is thick and dark, you use your voice loud and firm. If the symbol is fine and light, you use your voice soft and quietly. If there are gaps between the different parts of the symbol, you may interpret that as silence. Encourage your students to make their interpretation within 4 beats. Included: * 30 symbol cards - black and white (with words) * 30 symbol cards - colour (with words) * 30 symbol cards - black and white (no words) * 30 symbol cards - colour (no words) * teacher notes * a basic learning intention and success criteria outline The cards are provided without words to allow you to rotate the cards in 1/4 turns. This will completely change the interpretation in most cases. Ideas: Display the cards one at a time and discuss the visual elements (example provided in the resource). Have a try at performing the sound. Perform a series of cards, one after the other. Display them in a line or a circle. Point to the card and consider keeping a 4-count beat. Display 4 cards and select one student (or group of students) to perform one of the symbols. The other children must guess which one it was. Students can draw their own symbol on a piece of paper and present their interpretation of it to the class. ************************************************************************* © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Children love mystery and being a detective! Your students will have so much fun making and using these secret code wheels during the Christmas season. This template has the upper case alphabet on the outer wheel and the lower case alphabet (jumbled) on the inner wheel. See below for other options. Instructions: 1. Colour the picture on the inner wheel. 2. Cut both of the wheels out. 3. Join the wheels together by using a split pin (otherwise known as a brad pin). 4. Use your code wheel to find out the answers to the jokes that are written in code. 5. Make up your own Christmas code writing and record on the writing templates that are provided. 6. Give your secret code writing to someone else to decipher. Included: ♦ Teacher notes / instructions. ♦ Code wheel template – 16 different black/white pictures to choose from. ♦ 2 Christmas jokes to decipher. ♦ Writing templates to record your own secret message. The 16 Pictures: snowman, snowflake, star, Christmas tree, Santa, Santa (head), reindeer, reindeer (head), stocking, sleigh, gift, wreath, candle, bells, holly, flying elf. Other templates available in my store: Alphabet and numbers (ordered) Alphabet and numbers (jumbled) Alphabet and alphabet (ordered) Alphabet and symbol Blank template Also available in a money saving BUNDLE. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

An A4 coloured chart that prompts students to go through the 5 steps to make an effective apology. I am sorry for ... It was wrong because ... The classroom rule that I broke was ... To make sure it doesn't happen again, I will ... Please accept my apology. Put this on your classroom wall and direct students to it when necessary. No longer will you have to stand there and prompt them to say more than a simple "sorry". Get them thinking about why it was wrong and how to prevent it from happening again in the future. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Children love mystery and being a detective! Your students will have so much fun making and using these secret code wheels during the Christmas season. This template has 26 blank spaces on both of the wheels. Write the alphabet on the outer wheel and make up a code for the inner wheel (alphabet, number, symbol). See below for other options. Instructions: 1. Colour the picture on the inner wheel. 2. Write the alphabet in the spaces on the outer wheel. 3. Write a number, letter or symbol in the spaces on the inner wheel. 4. Cut both of the wheels out. 5. Join the wheels together by using a split pin (otherwise known as a brad pin). 6. Use the code wheel to write a secret code (templates included). 7. Give your secret code writing to someone else to decipher. Included: ♦ Teacher notes / instructions. ♦ Code wheel template – 16 different black/white pictures to choose from. ♦ Writing templates to record a secret message. The 16 Pictures: snowman, snowflake, star, Christmas tree, Santa, Santa (head), reindeer, reindeer (head), stocking, sleigh, gift, wreath, candle, bells, holly, flying elf. Other templates: Alphabet and numbers (ordered) Alphabet and numbers (jumbled) Alphabet and alphabet (ordered) Alphabet and alphabet (jumbled) Alphabet and symbol Also available in a money saving BUNDLE. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Children love mystery and being a detective! Your students will have so much fun making and using these secret code wheels during the Christmas season. This template has the upper case alphabet on the outer wheel and the lower case alphabet (ordered) on the inner wheel. See below for other options. Instructions: 1. Colour the picture on the inner wheel. 2. Cut both of the wheels out. 3. Join the wheels together by using a split pin (otherwise known as a brad pin). 4. Use your code wheel to find out the answers to the jokes that are written in code. 5. Make up your own Christmas code writing and record on the writing templates that are provided. 6. Give your secret code writing to someone else to decipher. Included: ♦ Teacher notes / instructions. ♦ Code wheel template – 16 different black/white pictures to choose from. ♦ 2 Christmas jokes to decipher. ♦ Writing templates to record your own secret message. The 16 Pictures: snowman, snowflake, star, Christmas tree, Santa, Santa (head), reindeer, reindeer (head), stocking, sleigh, gift, wreath, candle, bells, holly, flying elf. Other templates available in my store: Alphabet and numbers (ordered) Alphabet and numbers (jumbled) Alphabet and alphabet (jumbled) Alphabet and symbol Blank template Also available in a money saving BUNDLE. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Children love mystery and being a detective! Your students will have so much fun making and using these secret code wheels during the Christmas season. This template has the alphabet on the outer wheel and numbers 1-26 (jumbled) on the inner wheel. See below for other options. Instructions: 1. Colour the picture on the inner wheel. 2. Cut both of the wheels out. 3. Join the wheels together by using a split pin (otherwise known as a brad pin). 4. Use your code wheel to find out the answers to the jokes that are written in code. 5. Make up your own Christmas code writing and record on the writing templates that are provided. 6. Give your secret code writing to someone else to decipher. Included: ♦ Teacher notes / instructions. ♦ Code wheel template – 16 different black/white pictures to choose from. ♦ 2 Christmas jokes to decipher. ♦ Writing templates to record your own secret message. The 16 Pictures: snowman, snowflake, star, Christmas tree, Santa, Santa (head), reindeer, reindeer (head), stocking, sleigh, gift, wreath, candle, bells, holly, flying elf. Other templates available in my store: Alphabet and numbers (ordered) Alphabet and alphabet (ordered) Alphabet and alphabet (jumbled) Alphabet and symbol Blank template Also available in a money saving BUNDLE. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Children love mystery and being a detective! Your students will have so much fun making and using these secret code wheels during the Christmas season. This template has the alphabet on the outer wheel and numbers 1-26 (ordered) on the inner wheel. See below for other options. Instructions: 1. Colour the picture on the inner wheel. 2. Cut both of the wheels out. 3. Join the wheels together by using a split pin (otherwise known as a brad pin). 4. Use your code wheel to find out the answers to the jokes that are written in code. 5. Make up your own Christmas code writing and record on the writing templates that are provided. 6. Give your secret code writing to someone else to decipher. Included: ♦ Teacher notes / instructions. ♦ Code wheel template – 16 different black/white pictures to choose from. ♦ 2 Christmas jokes to decipher. ♦ Writing templates to record your own secret message. The 16 Pictures: snowman, snowflake, star, Christmas tree, Santa, Santa (head), reindeer, reindeer (head), stocking, sleigh, gift, wreath, candle, bells, holly, flying elf. Other templates available in my store: Alphabet and numbers (jumbled) Alphabet and alphabet (ordered) Alphabet and alphabet (jumbled) Alphabet and symbol Blank template Also available in a money saving BUNDLE. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Worksheets for Junior Journals 40-44. (New Zealand) A worksheet for every story, article, poem and play in the Junior Journals 40-44. 28 quality worksheets in total. Excellent for classroom use. Made by a teacher, for teachers. Great for photocopying. Most of the worksheets can be reduced from A4 to A5 if necessary. Worksheet activities include: * cloze * ordering events * designing a label * sorting * spelling rule - singular to plural * fact or opinion * true or false * poster * contractions * word endings (s, ed, ing) * labelling * compound words * general comprehension * rhyming words * life cycle * word frames * article hunt * 'what' questions * synonyms * wordfind * sp and st words * personification All worksheets have a space for students to write their name. Early finishers can colour the blackline images and decorate the border. Printing and/or photocopying permission is granted to the purchaser only. This is an excellent classroom resource to use in your reading programme. It will save you hours of work! Please see my other listings for additional Junior Journal resources. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Junior Journals - 'Journal Hunts' for numbers 40-49. New Zealand classroom resource. Worksheets: 10 Journal Hunts (+ answer sheets) These 'Journal Hunts' are similar to a 'scavenger hunt'. In each journal, students are asked 32 questions and the answers are found in either the text or the pictures. There is one question per page. This is a great activity to reinforce the skill of skimming and scanning. Answer sheets are provided - very easy to mark! A reference sheet is provided. This outlines the meaning and gives examples for words such as synonyms, syllables, adjectives, etc. Two certificate templates are provided to celebrate success and participation in this activity. There is room for students to write their answers on the worksheet (some of the longer answers may need to be written on the back of the sheet). Alternatively, children can write their answers in their exercise book and the question sheets can then be reused with another group. Printing and/or photocopying permission is granted to the purchaser only. Made by a teacher, for teachers. A great resource for your reading programme. It will save you hours of time! Please see my other listings for additional Junior Journal resources. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A bundle price for purchasing all 3 of the Halloween Secret Message Code Wheels: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and symbols Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet (lower and upper case) Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and number See separate listings for details.

Let your students become a ‘Secret Agent’ or a ‘Spy’ for the day with this fun Halloween resource. They will thank you for such a cool lesson! Here’s what you can do: 1. Make a secret code wheel. 2. Use the code wheel to decipher a secret text from a witch's spell book. 3. Write your own secret message on one of the Halloween themed writing templates. Included: ♦ 9 fun wheel templates ♦ Secret text from a witch's spell book. ♦ 3 different Halloween themed templates for writing a secret message on ♦ Teacher notes / instructions Pictures on inner wheel: Cobweb, ghost, ghost holding a candy bag, pumpkin, monster (cute), zombie/monster twins, witch’s hat (draw a head & face under it), candy, skull and crossbones. This resource: This resource is for a secret code wheel that uses the alphabet on the outer wheel and symbols on the inner wheel. Please see below for my other types of code wheels. Other Halloween Secret Code resources: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet (lower and upper case) Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel – Alphabet and number Or save money and purchase all 3 resources as a bundle: Halloween Secret Message Code Wheel - Bundle © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Stick puppet templates - Animals and people. Black and white so children can colour them. Included: ♦ 18 animals ♦ 17 people (8 boys, 1 old man, 6 girls, 2 babies) ♦ Blank template to create your own characters/props. The Animals: Dog, walrus, mouse, pig, goat, sheep, bull, cow, duck, cat, lion, elephant, hippo, giraffe, llama, chicken, horse, alpaca. Colour, laminate (optional) and attach to a craft stick. Students can then use these puppets to create puppet shows. Great for oral language development and co-operative work. Use as part of your reading programme to retell stories. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Sheriff Chompalot has arrested you for littering in the ocean! To gain your freedom from the ‘Ocean Jail’, you must decipher some texts about ocean creatures. These texts are written in ‘shark tooth’ code (commonly known as ‘pig pen’ code). Will you be able to gain your key to freedom or will you remain in prison forever? Interesting, fun facts about 15 ocean creatures are written in code and displayed on grey ‘notebook’ paper. A plain copy of the codes is also included (ie, no background). US and UK spelling included. This resource includes: * scenario cards * teacher notes * list of the 15 ocean creatures * code breaking tool (alphabet grid) * 15 code breaking task sheets * answers * templates to write your own coded texts The 15 ocean creatures: Crab, dolphin, fish, hermit crab, jellyfish, lobster, manatee, octopus, seahorse, sea lion, shark, starfish, stingray, turtle, whale. A super-fun activity for learning about ocean creatures which incorporates writing, reading, critical thinking and problem solving. Get your code-breaking cap on! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A set of printing cards for NZ classrooms. These cards are designed to be used in conjunction with an exercise book. Each card has a quote from ‘Kid President’ (Robby Novak). These are fun and motivational. (Watch his talks on u-tube if your students are not familiar with him). 2 Sets Included: ♦ with full-height numbers ♦ with half-height numbers On Each Card: ♦ write one line of the lower case letter ♦ write one line of the upper case letter ♦ write one line of the upper case letter and two lower case letters ♦ write the quote ♦ write one line of the numbers 0-9 The font used is ‘NZ Basic Script’. The letter/number shapes are the same as those recommended in the NZ Ministry of Education Handbook – ‘Teaching Handwriting’. ♦ 26 cards – A to Z ♦ Each card is A5 size (two cards per A4 page). ♦ Print, cut and laminate. ♦ There is a light grey dashed mid-line. ♦ Two bonus cards are included (longer quotes, different format). Examples of the Quotes: ♦ Be like cheese (or bacon) and make everything you touch better. ♦ You don’t need a cape to be a hero. You just need to care. ♦ When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Drink it and then dance. ♦ If you can’t think of anything nice to say, you’re not thinking hard enough. ♦ Give people high-fives just for getting out of bed. Being a person is hard sometimes. ♦ You were made to be awesome. Make this the best week ever for someone else. ♦ Some people will be boring this week. Not you. You’ve got too much awesome to spread. ♦ Love changes everything, so fill the world with it. Throw kindness around like confetti. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Follow-up activity sheets for ‘NZ Junior Journal 55’ for your classroom reading programme. This resource will save you hours of time! A worksheet for every item in the journal (1 story, 3 articles 1 play and 1 poem). Answer sheets are provided where applicable. 13 Worksheets Included: ♦ Identifying ‘kiwi’ things on NZ money. Acronyms / initialisms. ♦ Design a new coin / note. ♦ Complete a table. True or false? ♦ If you were to design a new banknote … ♦ ‘Who’ questions. ♦ Research task – graphic organiser (Kea bird) ♦ Glossary for Maori words. Comprehension questions. Finish a tukutuku pattern. ♦ Repeat a tukutuku ‘staircase’ pattern on a grid. (Example also provided). ♦ Create a tukutuku pattern on a grid. ♦ Author intention / message. Figurative language. Symbolism. ♦ Graphic organiser – is/can/has. Draw and label a picture. ♦ Cloze activity (fill in the missing words). Plus 2 BONUS worksheets: JJ55 contains the final chapter in the story ‘Zapped’ (chapters 1-3 in JJ52, 53, 54) so I have included a couple of extra activity sheets that look at all 4 chapters. ♦ Draw and write about a main event in each chapter. ♦ Book/story review. Junior Journal Hunt: Also included is a 'Junior Journal Hunt'. 32 questions - one question for every page in the book. Questions relate to the text (eg comprehension, word study, etc) and the pictures. A word study reference sheet is included for your students to refer to (less interruptions while you're with another group!) and certificate templates to celebrate the children's success and effort. Head to my store to view my other Junior Journal resources (from JJ 40 onwards). Topics in Junior Journal 55: ♦ New Zealand money ♦ New Zealand Māori culture – tukutuku panels ♦ New Zealand birds ♦ Robot mayhem ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A fun Christmas activity that you can display in the classroom and then take home to hang on the Christmas tree. 2 Design Options: ♦ lift the flaps to reveal a Christmas picture and write a Christmas wish on the back of the star. ♦ lift the flaps to reveal a Christmas wish and have the picture on the back of the star. Included: ♦ Star templates – 30 different picture options. ♦ Instructions – construction, colouring, writing. ♦ Blank template to draw your own picture. 2 Paper Sizes: There are 2 files included in this resource to suit many classrooms around the world. ♦ A4 paper size. ♦ Letter paper size. Suitable for: I believe this activity is suitable for approximately 8 years and over. Some precision with cutting and gluing is required. 2 pieces of paper are used to make each star (front and back). There are 30 different pictures included for the ‘back’ star template which allows plenty of choice for you and your students. Pictures from 5 different clip artists have been used so there is some variation in the style of pictures. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Follow-up activity sheets for ‘NZ Junior Journal 54’ for your classroom reading programme. This resource will save you hours of time! A worksheet for every item in the journal (2 stories, 2 articles and 1 poem). Answer sheets are provided where applicable. Included: ♦ Cloze (write the correct word in the gaps). ♦ Make a poster. ♦ Ordering – make a booklet. ♦ Fact writing. ♦ Design (futuristic life jacket). ♦ Rhyming words. ♦ Stick puppet templates. ♦ True or false? Labelling. ♦ Fingerprint fun – stamp your own fingerprints. ♦ Unjumble the muddled sentences. ♦ Word search Junior Journal Hunt: Also included is a 'Junior Journal Hunt'. 32 questions - one question for every page in the book. Questions relate to the text (eg comprehension, word study, etc) and the pictures. A word study reference sheet is included for your students to refer to (less interruptions while you're with another group!) and certificate templates to celebrate the children's success and effort. Also available in my store: Junior Journal worksheets for JJ 40 - 53. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A creative classroom activity for celebrating Matariki (the Māori New Year). Hiwa-i-te-rangi is one of the 9 stars in the Matariki star cluster. It is known as the ‘wishing star’. This star has a connection to our hopes, dreams and aspirations for the year ahead. The Process: 1. Draw patterns in the spaces around the star shape (use a black ball-point pen). 2. Colour. 3. Write a wish in the star. 4. Cut out around the outside black frame. 5. Display on the wall (you may like to do this so it looks like a patchwork quilt). Three different templates are provided for you to select from. Two templates have pre-drawn patterns in the boxes at the bottom, and one is blank so your students can design their own patterns. Included: ♦ Instructions ♦ Information card about Hiwa-i-te-rangi ♦ Template A – with patterns ♦ Template B – with patterns ♦ Template C - blank (draw your own patterns) Made on A4 size paper. Finished size of artwork (after cutting it out) is approx 18cm x 18cm. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Are you looking for a great activity for teaching your students some knowledge about Matariki (the Māori New Year)? This is an engaging activity that will look great in your classroom. Your students will colour/decorate a star template (2x A4 size pages) and then cut and glue it to reveal a fact about Matariki behind the ‘flaps’. There are 30 different facts which will hopefully allow a different fact for each student in your class. After constructing the stars, your students can orally share their fact with the class to help build knowledge about Matariki. The stars can be pinned to the wall or you can hang them to create a fabulous galaxy! Some precision is required with cutting and gluing. If you have younger students, you may like to buddy them up with an older class (great for fostering the tuakana-teina relationship). Included: ♦ Instructions that are easy-to-follow (pictures included). ♦ List of the 30 facts. ♦ Template – front of the star ♦ Template – back of the star (with fact) x30 Examples of the Facts: ♦ Matariki is a cluster of stars that disappears below the horizon in April and reappears in late May or early June. ♦ If you drove to the Matariki stars in a car at a speed of 100 km/hr, you would arrive in 4.8 billion years! ♦ The stars of Matariki were used by the crews of voyaging waka as a navigational aid to guide them across the Pacific Ocean. ♦ It is now thought that there are 9 stars (rather than 7) in the Matariki star cluster. Their names are: Uru-ā-rangi, Waitī, Waitā, Tupu-ā-rangi, Tupu-ā-nuku, Matariki, Waipuna-ā-rangi, Pōhutukawa, Hiwa-i-te-rangi. Many of these facts will be a great starting point for a topic of inquiry. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A fabulous resource to have in New Zealand classrooms when studying Māori Myths and Legends. Great for a follow-up activity after reading the story, or to have as an early-finisher task. 12 word searches. Eleven of the word searches have a Māori themed border or panel that can be coloured after finding all of the words. One word search has a flame/fire themed border (How Maui Found the Secret of Fire). These word searches are designed to go with the fabulous stories written by Peter Gossage. These books are commonly found in NZ schools and are also easily available for purchase in book stores. If you are not sure what these books look like, I suggest you do a quick image search on the internet (I'm not able to include an image here due to copyright restrictions). The words used in the word searches are taken from the stories in these books. The 12 Word Searches: ♦ How Maui Slowed the Sun ♦ The Fish of Maui ♦ How Maui Found his Father and the Magic Jawbone ♦ How Maui Found his Mother ♦ In the Beginning ♦ How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death ♦ How Maui Found the Secret of Fire ♦ Battle of the Mountains ♦ Pania of the Reef ♦ Rona and the Moon ♦ The Giant of Lake Wakatipu ♦ Hinemoa and Tūtānekai Each word search is on A4 size paper and can easily be reduced to A5 if necessary. There are 16 words to be found on each word search. ANSWER SHEETS are included. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources