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(FREE) Gerald the Giraffe's visit to Drusillas Park Writing Stimulus
FREE DOWNLOAD :)
Children write best when they are given something meaningful to write about. After all, who wouldn’t want to write something silly in a puppet giraffe’s speech bubble?!
Development matters early learning goals for writing included on each page :)
Have fun!
The Teacher Traveller :)
Great Wall of China Role Play Construction Pack (Chinese New Year)
Everything needed to set up an amazing construction area for children to build their own great walls! A great role play area for EYFS children, as well as brilliant for supporting the Chinese New Year topic in many year groups. Pack contains:
2 X ‘Super Builder’ Badges for children to wear
Chinese Flag colouring sheets
13 X task cards to stimulate talk between children as well as challenge them to build something a little more focussed
Huge bunting displaying ‘Great Wall of China Construction Area’ as well as the Chinese flag
12 X high quality photos of the Great Wall of China (can be printed multiple sizes)
‘What I need’ lists (lined and plain version), to encourage writing in role play
Wall design sheets
14 X fact cards displayed in speech bubbles to accompany the role play area and Chinese New Year topic in general
Have fun building, and Happy Chinese New Year!
The Teacher Traveller
Hedgehog bonfire safety pack
Teaching children how to keep hedgehogs safe this November…
Included in this pack…
15 high quality photos of hedgehogs
Poem sheet
Hedgehog letter
Hedgehog mask template
Hedgehog colouring in sheet/adding spikes
Task/activity cards
Hedgehog/bonfire vocabulary cards
Hedgehog letter template for children to write a reply on
Hedgehog peg activity (numerals 1-10)
Hedgehog labeling sheet
List writing templates
I have provided both a coloured background sheet and a plain white background should you wish to save printer ink :)
Enjoy,
The Teacher Traveller
Huge Supertato Activity Bundle
Huge Supertato bundle to support a superhero topic!
My classes absolutely love superheroes as well as this book every year, so I thought it was about time that I make some resources to support and extend their learning further during this topic. So in this pack you have...
- Designing a evil pea trap worksheets (4 differentiated worksheets to support children at differing levels)
- Evil Pea Bordered paper
- A letter addressed to the children from the evil pea
- Speech bubbles from captured vegetables!
- 2 Task cards
- What is the evil pea saying speech bubbles to encourage writing (2 differentiated versions).
- What is supertato saying speech bubbles to encourage writing (2 differentiated versions).
I hope your class of children enjoy these resources as much as mine did :)
Thank you,
The Teacher Traveller
Instructions on how to help a tired bee
Instruction sheets for children to fill in on how to help to save a tired bee by giving it a drink of sugary water.
Two sheets included (one with the words ‘first’, ‘next’ and ‘finally’ for prompts, and one which is blank)
The Teacher Traveller
'Work in progress' Signs
‘Work In Progress’ signs, FREE download!
Busy children are often expected to stop what they are enthralled with and return the classroom to a tidy state, whether what they are playing with is completed or not. These ‘Work In Progress’ signs I created for children to put on models or construction that they have not yet completed in order to protect what is being built so that others know not to tidy it away. No more anxiety over “but it’s not finished!” and I convey the message that the ideas and creations of a child are respected and viewed as far more important than the tidiness of the room. The idea is working too well for me to not share it, so here is a link to download copies of the resources I have made, help yourselves.
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Stick Man 2D Shapes
7 high quality task cards encouraging children to make 2-D shape houses for the character Stick Man :)
Shapes included:
-Square
-Triangle
-Rectangle/oblong (both versions!)
-Pentagon
-Hexagon
-Star
Have fun…
The Teacher Traveller
Road Readers
Eyes on the road!
These mini roads encourage children to segment and blend together CVC words! Children can either use their fingers to move along the road, or a little toy car. As they 'drive' past the letters, they say them (segmenting), then when they reach the end of the road, they blend them together to read the full word (blending). These little roads add a bit of fun to practising those early skills necessary to reading!
32 different CVC words included on roads which can be printed to different sized papers depending on how large you would like them.
Have fun and happy road reading!
- The Teacher Traveller :)
Pseudo Monster Words
32 different pseudo words for children to segment, blend and read - all on pink, child friendly little monsters!
This pack helps to introduce pseudo words as fake words as they have been linked to the names of the monsters to make it more meaningful. Pseudo words help to check that children are able to read non familiar words, rather than solely relying on good vocabulary knowledge or visual memory of words.
Pack includes:
32 different pseudo words.
A large format (4 monsters to a page) to allow them to be easily cut out and made into flashcards.
A small format (16 monsters to a page) to use when testing children.
Monsters with ‘sound buttons’ included on the words.
Have fun!
The Teacher Traveller
ABC Set on Gingerbread Men Biscuits
Entire alphabet set on Gingerbread Men Biscuits! Perfect for…
Supporting the topic of the Gingerbread Man
Pre-writing practise
Letter formation
Letter recognition
Word building
Spelling
Phonics
Have fun,
The Teacher Traveller
CVC Word Santas
Read the CVC word, then check you have got it correct when you open up the beard to reveal the picture! Children can also reverse this, beginning with the beard ‘open’, spelling the word from the picture, then checking they have spelt it correctly.
Perfect for…
Segmenting and blending practise
Christmas topic
Fine motor skill development
Spelling practise
Working in pairs (one child to read, one child to check the word has been read correctly by opening the flap)
Working independently (children can self assess)
Writing
Have fun!
The Teacher Traveller
Christmas Speech Bubble Writing Set
INSPIRATION FOR WRITING!
Empty speech bubbles for children to complete for five different Christmas characters!
Writing for a purpose
Using phonics
Writing sentences
Independent mark making
EAL
Differentiation
Communication and speech and language development
Story telling
The Teacher Traveller
Phase 2 and Phase 3 Tricky Word Dragons (Chinese New Year)
Children place their fingers at the dragon’s tail and follow the long winding body until they reach a word. Can they read all the tricky words on the dragon? When they can read all the words, they can colour in the dragon! Plain version, as well as colour version included. Phase 2 and phase 3 tricky words.
Perfect for Chinese New Year and reading practice.
Have fun,
The Teacher Traveller
CVC Word letters (Post office role play and topic)
Letters with different CVC words on for children to read. 40 words included! I printed and laminated mine and put them in the post office role play so that when the children had read the word correctly, they could go and post their letter in a role play post box! In other lessons I have also printed them and asked the children to draw a picture of the word on the back of the letter.
Perfect for…
-Segmenting and blending practise
-Post office topic
-Fine motor skill development
-Spelling practise
-Working in pairs (one child to read, one child to check the word has been read correctly)
-Working independently (children can self assess)
-Writing
Have fun!
The Teacher Traveller
Room on the broom inspired activities
11 pages of witch style ideas…
Design your own broomstick and write your own potions!
Task cards/key word cards included.
Have fun!
The Teacher Traveller.
Write and brush the tricky word teeth!
Read the tricky word, write the tricky word then brush it off the tooth! Included are the entire set of phase 2, phase 3, phase 4 and phase 5 tricky words!
Each tooth has a guidance line for children to practice writing their word. All you need to do is print and laminate! Perfect for. . .
Healthy eating topics
Fine motor skill development
Spelling practise
Working in pairs (one child to write, one child to check the word is spelt correctly and brush it off!)
Activity works best if children are ‘brushing’ the words off the tooth with a real toothbrush.
Have fun!
Easter Bunny Writing and Phonics Mats
Ready for some creative Easter themed writing!
Celebrate Easter with these cute Easter Bunny resources. This pack contains writing templates (which when cut out make a gorgeous display) as well as a bunny themed phase 2 and phase 3 sound mat to support children in their writing.
The writing templates include the words:
‘If I were the Easter Bunny’
‘My Easter Bunny Story’
All templates include different versions including narrow lines, wide lines and plain spaces. I have also left some completely plain sheets to allow teachers and children to use this resource in their own way.
Enjoy!
Huge Gingerbread Man Resources and Activities
30 pages of fun … To support the topic of the Gingerbread Man!
My class adore this story, so I created Gingerbread Man themed resources for them to use to support my teaching and their learning. In this pack you will find…
Gingerbread Man speech bubbles to encourage creative writing (2 versions included).
Lined paper with a Gingerbread Man border for children to write on (my class wrote their own versions of the story!).
Numbers on Gingerbread Men (I use these as flash cards, ask the children to place them into number order, daily interventions, etc).
Cut and stick the gingerbread men into number order activity sheet (two versions: numbers 1-10 and numbers 11-20).
Design your own Gingerbread Man sheet.
Lovely Gingerbread Man themed bunting to decorate your classroom (mine is in my role play area and my writing area!).
Pre writing trace the Gingerbread Man’s tracks sheet to develop fine motor skills, pencil grip and control.
Number lines (two versions: numbers 1-10 and numbers 1-20).
56 Gingerbread men addition cards (completely differentiated to target a range of mathematical abilities from addition with numbers under 5 to addition with numbers over 20).
I hope your class enjoy these resources as much as mine did!
The Teacher Traveller
The Three Little Pigs House Experiment
I WILL HUFF AND I WILL PUFF AND I WILL BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN!
Pack complete with three different design sheets for children to complete before building their houses, as well as two decorative speech bubbles to be framed in the classroom, or cut out and laminated to further support the story.
The Teacher Traveller
Huge (100 Pages!) Aeroplane and Airport Role Play Pack
CABIN CREW PREPARE FOR TAKE OFF!
Over 100 pages of airport and aeroplane resources to support a role play area, travel or around the world topic!
In this pack you will find…
20 airport/aeroplane phases written on globes.
39 different flags from countries around the world.
Cloud bunting.
Writing sheets with both a globe border/aeroplane border.
8 different language speech bubbles.
8 role play badges for children to wear
2 travel posters.
‘What to pack for travelling’ writing stimulus sheets.
Role play luggage tags.
Huge departures/arrivals board.
30 ‘I can see’ cards featuring photos of famous landmarks/places around the world (can be blown up to use as both posters or cards).
16 airport signs.
‘What to pack’ checklists.
17 ‘Animals Around The World’ cards. These stand up when folded over, and feature both photos of the animal, as well as the name of/outline of the place in the world they can be found on the back of the card.
6 flight departure and arrival to continents posters.
Clouds featuring ‘welcome aboard’ insert school name ‘airways’.
Boarding passes and role play Passports.
This pack truly took me an incredible amount of time to create, but I had a lot of fun making it and I hope that by sharing it with others, I can save them some time too. I hope other children enjoy these resources as much as my class did!
The Teacher Traveller