I'm a primary school teacher with a passion for education, creativity and technology. I have 15 years experience teaching reception to year 5. In addition to developing interactive teaching resources, I also create and sell educational clip art.
I'm a primary school teacher with a passion for education, creativity and technology. I have 15 years experience teaching reception to year 5. In addition to developing interactive teaching resources, I also create and sell educational clip art.
Fact or Opinion (PowerPoint and worksheets) - This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to fact or opinion! Students often struggle to distinguish between fact or opinion. This PowerPoint introduces and explains fact or opinion with 52 farm themed slides. Students work through the interactive slides to practice identifying facts and opinions. It's easy to use, you just click and teach!
Also included are four worksheets (including a flip flap book) to further reinforce and consolidate fact or opinion. The worksheets are perfect for literacy centers or to send home for extra review.
This product is linked to CCSS (W.1.1; W.1.2; W.2.1; W.2.2). Students have to understand fact and opinion before they can write opinion pieces or informative texts.
Included:
55 Fact or opinion PowerPoint slides
4 Fact or opinion worksheets (including a flip flap booklet)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Fact or Opinion PowerPoint Game (20 question slides). Fact and opinion is easy to review when you play this interactive PowerPoint Game! Read about penguins and identify facts or opinions (read each sentence and choose the answer by clicking the correct button). The slides are self correcting and the illustrations are bright and beautiful!
Please remember to view the PPT in slide show mode for the animation and sound to work.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Helping Verbs Powerpoint and Printables. Community helpers are here to help your students understand helping verbs! Students learn about helping verbs through fun visuals and exercises. This PowerPoint introduces helping verbs and help students identify helping verbs in sentences. Students are encouraged to stay on task by using their whiteboards during the lesson. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of helping verbs (auxiliary verbs). Also included are five printables to further reinforce and consolidate helping verbs.
Included:
44 PowerPoint Slides
5 Printables / worksheets (answer keys included)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Alphabet Posters - Retro
This product contains alphabet posters. The images are bright, doodly and very child friendly. They are available in full color and black line filled with white. I've also included multicultural options for "girl" and "queen".
I've included the following graphics:
* Apple
* Bee
* Cat
* Duck
* Egg
* Fish
* Girl (two multicultural images - to suit the needs of your class)
* Heart
* Igloo
* Kite
* Lion
* Moon
* Numbers
* Octopus
* Pig
* Queen (two multicultural images - to suit the needs of your class)
* Rabbit
* Sun
* Tomato
* Umbrella
* Vest
* Worm
* X-ray and Xylophone
* Yogurt
* Zebra
You will receive four options with this pack:
Option 1:
Letter formation and picture.
Option 2:
Letter formation, picture and word
Option 3:
Black line version of option 1 (perfect for tracing pictures).
Option 4:
Black line version of option 2 (perfect to send home for extra reinforcement).
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Number Posters - Retro
This product contains number posters with ten frames. The images are bright and child friendly!
Numbers included: 0 - 20
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store:Lindy loves to teach)
Colors & Shapes (Posters) - Retro style! Here are bright retro color and shape posters. I've included two versions of the shape posters. Set A displays one shape per poster. Set B displays more than one version of the named shape per poster(please see the cover page or preview for an example).
Shapes included (17):
circle
triangle
square
rectangle
oval
trapezoid
parallelogram
semi circle
pentagon
hexagon
heptagon
octagon
nonagon
decagon
heart
star
diamond
Your class will love the bright and bold crayon color posters!
The following colors are included:
yellow
white
red
purple
pink
orange
green
black
grey
brown
blue
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Calendar Classroom Decor (Retro) - You are going to adore this bright and bold retro style calendar decor!
Contents:
Today / Tomorrow / Yesterday
Days of the week
Months of the year
Weather chart (including temperature clip card)
Seasons
Calendar numbers 1 - 31
Calendar numbers 1 - 31 (even numbers in orange)
Tally the date (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
100 days smarter (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Countdown poster (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teacch)
Behavior Clip Chart (retro) - Here is a bright and bold (retro style) behavior clip chart decorated with kids clip art. This clip chart is a fantastic way to modify and encourage positive behavior in any classroom.
Assemble in the following order:
- Super successful students
- Excellent examples!
- Yay! Way to go!
- Ready to learn!
- Please think about it!
- Teacher’s choice.
- Parent contact.
All students start on “Ready to learn!” and move up or down the chart depending on their behavior.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Birthday Chart (Retro) - write and wipe!
Here's a cheerful retro birthday chart for your classroom wall. Laminate the pages and use a whiteboard marker to fill in birthdays. You can use it year after year :)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Word Wall Bunting (Retro Style) - You'll love this bright and bold retro style word wall bunting set!
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Chevron Bunting Number Line (1- 120) - This chevron number line is ink friendly and will compliment your classroom's theme beautifully!
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Alphabet Posters (Rainbow) - This product contains alphabet posters. The images are bright, doodly and very child friendly. They are available in full color and black line filled with white. I've also included multicultural options for "girl" and "queen".
I've included the following graphics:
* Apple
* Bee
* Cat
* Duck
* Egg
* Fish
* Girl (two multicultural images - to suit the needs of your class)
* Heart
* Igloo
* Kite
* Lion
* Moon
* Numbers
* Octopus
* Pig
* Queen (two multicultural images - to suit the needs of your class)
* Rabbit
* Sun
* Tomato
* Umbrella
* Vest
* Worm
* X-ray and Xylophone
* Yogurt
* Zebra
You will receive four options with this pack:
Option 1:
Letter formation and picture.
Option 2:
Letter formation, picture and word
Option 3:
Black line version of option 1 (perfect for tracing pictures)
Option 4:
Black line version of option 2 (perfect to send home for extra reinforcement)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Following directions (listening skills) - Following directions are easy to develop when you use this no-prep packet. This is a fun way to develop and enhance auditory sequencing and development.
This product can be used for whole class practice or the directions can be recorded and listened to for independent practice.
You can also use this product for reading comprehension. Instead of listening to the directions students can read the directions and complete the activity sheets.
Answer keys are supplied for hassle free marking. You can print or project the answer keys so that students can check their own work.
Included:
- Listening skills workbook for students (15 activities)
- Listening skills directions booklet (15 pages)
- Listening Skills Answer Keys (15 pages)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Nouns or Verbs PowerPoint Sorting Game. Do your students need extra practice with the identification of nouns and verbs? This game is perfect to review nouns and verbs!
DIRECTIONS:
This PowerPoint must be in Slide Show view or the animation won’t work.
STUDENTS:
Read the word on the hot air balloon.
Is it a noun or a verb? Click on the correct button to
answer.
If you are incorrect, click BACK and try again.
If you are correct, click NEXT and go to the next slide.
TIP:
Use individual whiteboards to promote whole-class participation.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Nouns - Common Nouns and Proper Nouns (PowerPoint & Printables) - Nouns are easy to teach when you use this interactive and entertaining PowerPoint! Students discover what nouns are through games and exercises. This PowerPoint introduces common and proper nouns to students. They have to eventually identify common and proper nouns in sentences. By the end of this lesson, your students will know exactly what common and proper nouns are. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of nouns.
Also included are four common and proper noun worksheets to further reinforce and consolidate nouns.
Included:
27 PowerPoint slides (nouns)
4 Printables (nouns)
Common Core Aligned: 3.L.1.A
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store name: Lindy loves to teach)
Numbers 1 to 10 - Pencil Toppers -
Learn number facts 1 - 10 by creating cute pencil toppers!
Each number is represented by the following:
Number symbol
Number name
Place on the number line
Tally marks
Ten frame
Number bonds for that specific number
This is perfect to use when you introduce new numbers, teach number bonds or when you simply need to reinforce number concepts. The pencil toppers are available in black and white. They require no prep, this is an easy print and go activity.
Two versions are included:
Completed pencil toppers (all the information is filled in, students only have to cut out and color the pencil topper)
Partially completed pencil toppers (students have to fill in the tally marks, complete the ten frame and fill in the number bonds).
This is a great activity to send home. It will encourage students to share their new knowledge with their family.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Numbers 11 to 20 (Pencil Toppers) - Your students are going to love these adorable pencil toppers!
Each number is represented by the following:
Number symbol
Number name
Place on the number line
Tally marks
Ten frame
Number bonds for that specific number
This is perfect to use when you introduce new numbers, teach number bonds or when you simply need to reinforce number concepts. The pencil toppers are available in black and white. They require no prep, this is an easy print and go activity.
Two versions are included:
Completed pencil toppers (all the information is filled in, students only have to cut out and color the pencil topper)
Partially completed pencil toppers (students have to fill in the tally marks, complete the ten frame and fill in the number bonds).
This is a great activity to send home. It will encourage students to share their new knowledge with their family.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3
Pencil toppers (1 - 10) is available here:
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/numbers-1-to-10-pencil-toppers-11203820
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Pronouns (QR Codes - Clip and Scan - Task Cards) - Do your students love task cards? Here are pronoun task cards with a twist!
- Pick a task card.
- Complete the sentence by choosing a suitable pronoun.
- Use a clothespin to clip the correct pronoun.
- Use an iPad, iPod, tablet or smartphone and scan the QR code to check the answer.
Alternatively you can place a small dot on the other side of the card to indicate the correct answer. For extra variation, you can use the cards without the clothespins or QR codes. Students have to write their answers on the answer sheet that is provided with this product. You can use these cards for read and write the room, scoot or you can even project them on your whiteboard for whole class work.
32 Color Pronoun QR Code Task Cards
32 Black and White Pronoun QR Code Task Cards
1 Student Answer Sheet
1 Answer Key
1 Mini Pronoun Anchor Chart
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
These are fun little bracelets that reinforce the eight parts of speech. Cut out the bracelets and color. Fold the right side of the bracelet under the other side of the bracelet and stick. Use an iPad, tablet or smartphone to scan the QR code on the bracelet. The QR code will link to TEXT that provides the definition of the particular part of speech. That way all students will be able to use the QR code at home (they won’t need an internet connection).
Contents:
Eight color bracelets
Eight black and white bracelets
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Pronouns (PowerPoint and Worksheets) -Pronouns are easy to teach when you use this no-prep PowerPoint! This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to pronouns PowerPoint. Students discover what pronouns are through games and exercises. By the end of this lesson your students will know exactly what pronouns are. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of personal pronouns. Also included are three worksheets to further reinforce and consolidate pronouns.
Included:
55 PowerPoint Slides
3 Worksheets (answer keys included)
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).