‘The Three Little Pigs’ – stick puppet templates. Black and White templates: • Pig • Wolf • Pot on the fire • House – straw, wood, brick • House – blank (draw your own cladding) • House – large templates (blank, straw, wood, brick) Coloured templates: • Pigs - different colours (no background colour) • Pigs - different colours (with background colour) • Pigs - pink 1 • Pigs - pink 2 • Pigs - grey/black • Wolf (with background colour) • Wolf (no background colour) • Pot on the fire • Houses - straw, wood, brick • Houses - large templates (straw, wood, brick) Laminate if desired. Attach a craft stick and you’re ready to have loads of fun. Great for story retell, oral language development, puppetry skills, imaginative play, etc © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Super-fun stick puppets! These are black and white stick puppet templates for your students to colour and construct. 17 with faces 17 with blank faces (your students can draw eyes, nose, mouth, etc) Also included is a 6-frame blank template for your students to make their own stick puppet from scratch. Great for oral language development, co-operative learning, topic based study, drama, performance skills, engaging reluctant learners, art (drawing faces), etc … Can also be used as a writing prompt (eg script writing, narrative writing, descriptive writing …) Your students will LOVE making up performances with these cute stick puppets. Visit my store for more stick puppets and other great classroom resources. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A great activity that supports oral language development. Toss a coin and then roll a dice to find a topic to talk about. Talk to a buddy, small group or whole class. Can you talk continuously for 30 seconds without pausing or saying ummm, ahhhh, etc? 6 charts with 12 topics on each card (72 topics altogether) 1 chart with 12 topics that are broader (suitable for less able students). Fun, engaging topics that your students will enjoy. Provided in colour and in black and white. A blank template is also provided so you and your students can make up your own game. Also provided is the list of topics that you can print, cut up and put in a container. Students can then pull a topic out from the container (as an alternative to tossing a coin and rolling a dice).

A fun activity for junior students. Colour the poppy watch and wear it around your wrist. 2 Different Designs: ♦ Poppy in a circle ♦ Poppy Each design has the option of a plain band, or one with the words ‘ANZAC DAY’ written on it. Made on A4 size paper. 4 watches per sheet. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A simple colouring activity for your students that can be used for war remembrance days such as: ♦ Anzac Day ♦ Remembrance Day ♦ Armistice Day ♦ Memorial Day ♦ Veterans Day 6 different templates: ♦ 1x blank border with a poppy in the middle ♦ 5x patterned border with a poppy in the middle 2 paper sizes: ♦ A4 size paper ♦ Letter size paper Approximate size: 18cm diameter. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

10 pirate templates to make stick puppets. 5 boys and 5 girls. Students decide what sort of emotion they would like their pirate to have and draw the face accordingly (eg happy, excited, sad, surprised, angry …) If desired, your students could draw a different emotion on two of the templates (same pirate) and then stick them back to back with the craft stick in between. Then they can simply turn the puppet around during their performances to show a different emotion. Also included is a pirate captain (face already drawn) and a blank template to make additional pirates/props. 2 formats for your printing convenience: ♦ boy pirates + captain on one page / girl pirates + captain on one page. ♦ six of the same pirate on each page. A super-fun activity to encourage oral language development. Great for ‘Talk like a pirate day’. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

10 prince/princess templates to make stick puppets. 5 boys and 5 girls. Students decide what sort of emotion they would like their prince/princess to have and draw the face accordingly (eg happy, excited, sad, surprised, angry …) If desired, your students can draw a different emotion on two of the templates (same character) and then stick them back-to-back with the craft stick in between. Then they can simply turn the puppet around during their performances to show a different emotion. Also included is a blank template to make additional characters/props. 2 formats for your printing convenience: ♦ 5x princes on one page and 5 x princesses on one page ♦ six of the same prince/princess on each page. A super-fun activity to encourage oral language development. Great for literacy centres, imaginative play, drama activities, story retells, etc. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Fireworks are used as part of many celebrations … Guy Fawkes, 4th of July, New Year, Diwali, Eid Al Adha, … Let’s teach our students to be safe around fireworks by using this super-fun secret code wheel. In this resource you will get … ♦ the template to make the code wheel. ♦ 30 firework safety rules for your students to decipher. ♦ themed paper for your students to write their own secret message on. ♦ 30 firework safety rules to display on your wall. ♦ teacher instructions. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

This is an activity that reinforces the recognition of high frequency sight words. Display a selection of the flies (on a board, on the floor, hanging, etc). Say a word. Your student(s) must find the fly with that word written on it, and swat it with a fly swatter. So much fun! You will need to provide the fly swat. Included: ♦ 315 coloured flies ♦ 315 black/white flies ♦ Blank templates (coloured and black/white) 315 Words: ♦ 220 Dolch words in frequency order ♦ 95 Dolch nouns in alphabetical order A solid background colour is used on the 220 words (9 different colours). A greenish/white stripe colour has been used on the nouns to differentiate them from the main list of words. See images for examples. The font used is ‘NZ Basic Script’. Made on A4 size paper. 9 flies per sheet of paper. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

War themed publishing paper. Suitable for presenting poems, facts, diary writing, narrative, etc. • Lined and unlined. • A4 and Letter size paper. 10 pictures are black silhouettes. 4 pictures are suitable for colouring in. Silhouette images are: Line of soldiers on crest of hill Row of soldiers with guns pointing up Soldiers and cannon Army tank Kneeling soldier Soldier’s face (side profile) Soldiers marching with US flag War ship 3 soldiers in action poses Soldier walking Blackline images are: Army truck Army tank Army Hummer vehicle Army boot ************************************************************* © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources Keywords: ANZAC Day, Rememberance Day, Veterans Day, Armistice Day, War study.

Gameboards to support the learning of 2D, 3D and Polygon shapes. Provided in both COLOUR and BLACK AND WHITE. 2D SHAPES: Game 1 - circle, square, triangle, diamond, rectangle, oval. Game 2 - star, trapezoid, heart, parallelogram, cross, crescent. 3D SHAPES: cone, cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, cuboid. Also included is a gameboard where the word 'cuboid' is replaced with 'rectangular prism'. REGULAR POLYGONS: pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon. ** 4 gameboards in total (plus extra 3D shapes one with the alternate word). HOW TO PLAY: Roll the dice, read the word, find the picture and put a counter on it. The first person to get 4 of their counters in a row is the winner. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: one dice (numbered 1-6) and counters for each player. NUMBER OF PLAYERS: works best with 2 players. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Black and white template for stick puppets. Shirt/dress template is given - your students will draw a head to make a character. Add a craft stick to make into a puppet. 2 pages. 6 templates per page. 6 x male 6 x female (note: some can be either male or female) Great for oral language development. Visit my store for more great stick puppet templates. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Super-fun stick puppets! Simply colour, laminate and attach a craft stick. Great for oral language development, co-operative learning, drama, performance skills, engaging reluctant learners, etc … Fantastic for a topic based study (eg Greek/Roman times, Olympics, etc). Students can use these puppets to demonstrate their learning. Can also be used as a writing prompt (eg script writing, narrative writing, descriptive writing …) This set contains 12 black and white stick puppet templates for your students to colour and construct. Mixture of male and female. One head is turned so you see the back of the head. Go on ... have some fun! Visit my store for more stick puppets and other great classroom resources. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

A comprehensive pack of number pattern strips. Everything you need for a differentiated math lesson. Numbers under 100 20 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 20 x Strips to find the missing number. Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing number’ strips) Numbers over 100 20 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 20 x Strips to find the missing number. Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing number’ strips) More challenging 12 x Strips to identify the pattern and continue it. 12 x Strips to find the missing number. Pattern reference (teacher guide) Student recording sheet and teacher answer sheet (for the ‘find the missing number’ strips) All pattern strips contain increasing and decreasing number patterns. The sets of number pattern strips are provided in 2 different formats. Simply print the format you want to use. For example: • 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 … • 22, 24, 26, 28, __, 32, 34 … There are 104 number strips in total. There are 52 different number pattern sequences. The ‘more challenging’ strips have number patterns such as: 90, 80, 81, 71, 72, 62, 63, 53 … (subtract 10 then add 1) © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

This is an easy, super-fun improvisation activity that you can do in the classroom with your students. The activity: Two students are acting out a scene … the teacher calls ‘freeze’ …. one of the actors is replaced by another student who recreates the pose … the new actor reads a short statement from a card that they get from the teacher and they begin acting out a new scenario. This resource contains: 120 statement cards. Comprehensive teacher notes. Loads of laughter is guaranteed! Simple and effective. Your students will love it! © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Stick puppet templates for the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. 15 different black and white templates. Draw the facial expressions on the people. Glue the templates back to back with a craft stick in between. This way you can flip the stick around to show how the character’s feelings change in the story. For example, one side of the stick can show Little Red Riding Hood happy and the other can show her confused. Great for story retell, oral language development, puppetry skills, imaginative play, etc. The templates include all of the ones you can see in the photos, as well as another page with variations of the wolf in grandma’s bed. © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources

Tortoise lift-the-flap template. A fun booklet for your students to make to present information in. A variety of templates are provided for your printing/copying convenience. There are 2 sizes - small and large. How to make: 1. Cut out the tortoise and shell templates. 2. Decorate/draw/write in the shell templates. Use as many as you want. 3. Staple the shells onto the body of the tortoise. Ideas for inside the tortoise shell: · Adjectives that describe tortoises. · Questions I have about tortoises. · Facts about tortoises. · Design / invent a tortoise catcher and draw it. · Words that begin with ‘T’. · Differences / similarities between tortoises and turtles. · Report writing - diet, appearance, predators, etc. © 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

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

20 different gift tags for your students to colour and write on. Included: ♦ 20 black and white templates ♦ 20 black and white templates – without the words to and from ♦ blank template (students design their own) 4 tags per A4 page. A variety of both horizontal and vertical orientation. A fun and useful activity for your students during the festive season. ********************************************************************** © Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources