I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
FREE Jack and the FlumFlum Tree White Thinking Hat Worksheets Make Fact Finding Fun!
White Thinking Hats Worksheets for Jack and the Flum Flum tree. These focus on the characters and the journey Jack needs to take. These are a good set of worksheets for building up the details needed for explaining fact and information questions.
I would love people to make comments about this work after using it in their classroom.
FREE - The Gruffalo's Child White Hat Thinking Worksheets - Make Fact Finding Fun In The Classroom!
The Gruffalo's Child is the popular sequel to The Gruffalo. I have written 3 White Hat Thinking worksheets for this material. It will let your pupils explore the different characters in the story and also help them find different pieces of information. This is part of a series of worksheets.
I enjoy reading teacher's comments about my work.
FREE Gruffalo's Child - 3 Yellow Thinking Hat Worksheets Make Positive Thinking In Class Fun!
The Gruffalo's child is a very imaginative sequel to The Gruffalo. Children often ask what happened next. Where did he go and what did he do?
This set of worksheets focuses on what was positive in the story. What did children like about mouse&'s trick? What did they like about the characters and the story in general? I enjoy getting feedback from visitor.
FREE Jack and the FlumFlum Tree worksheets - Black Thinking hat - Let's Find Problems!
Jack and the FlumFlum Tree is perfect for the Black Thinking hats reading strategy. The Thinking Hats strategy is a great way for a student to explore the same book in 6 different ways. Black hat thinking encourages finding the negatives and the problems - in this case sending a boy to find the FlumFlum tree on his own, with just a bag of household items to help him.
I would appreciate comments from anyone who has tried this out in their classroom.
This summer I upgraded all my teaching resources and I am now offering my presentations as both PowerPoint presentations and also as a fun YouTube video.
FREE Year 3 Lesson - Solving Word Problems - Autumn Term. Perfect for SATs revision, end of term revision, an extension lesson or a homework lesson. If you like this lesson, then you will also like my full FREE Year 3 Maths Lesson pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-maths-powerpoint-lessons-6167050.
I have updated all my PowerPoint presentations such as Putting Numbers In Order and made them into fun YouTube videos as I realise that the modern classroom needs more than PowerPoints. Teachers and children are looking for a much more interactive YouTube experience. Try it today. If you like it, I would love some feedback in the comment section below.
FREE Maths Reception PowerPoint Lesson - Putting Numbers In Order - Spring Term
Learning Objectives
I can count to 5.
I can split or partition 5 fingers in different ways.
I can collect numerals 0 to 9 and put them into order.
If you like this lesson, you will love my FREE Reception Maths pack (11 lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-reception-students-6167058
YouTube Money Problems Maths PowerPoints Year 4- Summer Term FREE
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 4 Maths PowerPoints - Money Problems - Summer Term
Learning Objectives
I can estimate the half of different numbers.
I can invent word problems.
I can solve problems mentally or by writing them down.
I can solve a range of problems and check my solutions are correct.
If you like this teaching resource, you will love my FREE Year 4 Maths Teaching pack (11 lessons)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-year-4-students-6167052
Teachers have moved on from worksheets and PowerPoints to a lot more fun with YouTube and so I am now trying to redevelop my teaching resources to match this changing world. I must admit I am much happier with a YouTube video than a PowerPoint. This lesson has cleverly combined both. You could share the Youtube lesson with parents to watch at home as extra support as well as in the classroom.
FREE Year 1 Maths Lesson - Money Problems - Spring Term
Learning objectives:
I can say numbers 0 to 20 in order.
I understand simple properties of numbers.
I can count pennies in ones and twos.
If you like this teaching resource, you will really like my FREE Year 1 Maths Lesson Pack (11 Lessons) at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-maths-powerpoint-lessons-6167046
I am converting all my highly popular teaching powerpoints into YouTube videos to help teachers use them more effectively in the classroom. If you love them, please leave me a positive comment below!
Using ‘Near Doubles’ YouTube PowerPoint Lesson Presentation Year 2 (Autumn Term)
FREE Year 2 PowerPoint Lesson Presentation Using ‘Near Doubles’ (Autumn Term). It would be useful for KS1 SATs revision, homework lessons and as a instant class lesson. If you like this teaching resource, then click here and see the whole FREE Year 2 Maths Teaching Pack - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-maths-powerpoint-resources-6167047
Teach your students how to write simple numbers and learn how to count with these great YouTube Powerpoint lessons
FREE Reception Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Making labels for Classroom Equipment - Autumn Term
Learning objectives:
Today you are going to learn how numbers help organise the classroom so that we don’t lose things.
I can read and write numbers.
If you like this reception maths lesson, you will really love my FREE 11 lesson Reception Maths pack - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-reception-students-6167058
FREE Maths PowerPoint Presentations for DFES SpringBoard 5 (Also Use As Year 4 Booster Lessons)
FREE Maths Lessons Content:
Lesson 1: Developing your preferred ways of doing multiplication.
Lesson 2: The area method of doing multiplication
Lesson 3: The idea of 'carrying' when doing multiplication
Lesson 4: Developing the area method for doing multiplication.
Lesson 5: Using doubling in multiplication
Lesson 6: Developing a doubling - and - addition method of doing multiplication
Lesson 7: Finding pairs of factors
Lesson 8: Division of larger numbers
Lesson 9: Division as repeated subtraction
Lesson 10: Developing a standard method
Lesson 11: Flexible approaches to division.
Years ago I wrote series of numeracy lessons which converted all the DFES Numeracy SpringBoard 5 lessons into interactive PowerPoint lessons.
I think these will still be great for optional SATS revision also also for covering lessons, or for giving to supply teachers.
Please leave a comment.
FREE Reception Maths PowerPoint Lesson - ‘More’ and ‘Fewer’- Spring Term
Learning Objectives:
Counting and writing numbers.
Comparing and matching numbers of things.
Counting and writing numbers.
Comparing and matching numbers of things.
If you like this teaching resource, you will really like my FREE Maths Reception teaching pack (11 lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-reception-students-6167058
Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course - Public Domain Book
A Great New Way to Learn Spoken English
Elementary Handbook
• General Information about Talk a Lot Courses
• How to Use Talk a Lot Resources
• Focus on Connected Speech
• Focus on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• 100% Photocopiable
This handbook shows you how to use Talk a Lot materials to learn or teach spoken English,
as well as providing background information and practice worksheets on related topics, such
as connected speech, sentence and word stress, and the International Phonetic Alphabet
(IPA).
The Talk a Lot course objectives are very simple:
• Every student talking in English
• Every student listening to and understanding English
• Every student thinking in English, and
• Every student taking part in class
Talk a Lot is structured so that every student can practise and improve English grammar,
vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, word and sentence stress, and interpersonal skills, by
working in pairs, groups and one to one with the teacher.
The main benefits of Talk a Lot are:
• Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way
• Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract
and unrelated grammar lessons
• Students learn how to construct eight different common verb forms, using positive,
negative and question forms, as well as embedded grammar appropriate to their
level. The verb forms studied are: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple,
Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Modal Verbs, Future Forms, and First Conditional
• Students learn many essential vocabulary words by heart, including word stress and
the sounds of English
• Students learn how to become more fluent when speaking in English, by joining
together words in a sentence using the techniques of connected speech
• Students enjoy following a simple and effective method that produces results quickly.
This handbook is not intended to be an exhaustive academic work. The aim was to write a
brief, helpful guide and pack of resources that would provide a way into practise and
language work in the classroom, rather than a dry, analytical manual. For example, I have
deliberately avoided confusing jargon when writing about connected speech. Phrases like
“bilabial plosive” and “palato-alveolar approximate” – though fun to say – can be studied later,
or at the student’s leisure.
Here are lots of different fun teaching resources for students who are learning to speak English as a second language, or for students who want to revise and improve their understanding of English. This is perfect for both an home or school setting.
FREE Room On The Broom Yellow Hat Reading Questions Makes Positive Thinking Fun!
I noticed that despite this book being a best seller, the schools had very few resources for it and so I decided to focus on providing a set of Thinking Hat reading questions for anyone wanting to complete guided reading on this fabulous book.
Today I have focused on pulling out all the positives from this book. This set of worksheets is easy to differentiate and every child will gain something from it.
Please leave a comment when you have downloaded this set of files.
FREE The Magic Train Black Hat Thinking Activities - Problem Solving Has Never Been So Fun!
Every day I am trying to add some more thinking hat resources I am making for my class to TES. It has been shown that Thinking Hat Questions promote higher thinking and reading skills in children and yet when it came to actually finding lots of these resources on this website, I could not find any and so I am planning to write worksheets each night and share them with everyone. I would love a review of my work and also any suggestions on what other children's books people would like me to add to this collection.
I have been a keen fan of this book for a long time. I was really excited to see as part of the Open Government scheme, I was able to take this book and make it into something I believe is much more user friendly.
When I used the original book with an interactive whiteboard, I was always annoyed at having to skim to the end of the book to show an answer. I wanted it on the next page.
In addition, I have now replaced all the pictured with much more stimulating colourful pictures. I have also taken the time to follow the advice of Dudley council and sorted the different problems into age groups and blocks.
You will notice there is some repetition of problems both between blocks and in different year groups. The students can try the same problem twice at different times, as this is excellent consolidation. It is also an excellent time to suggest students think about how they could change the problem.
How can this be used in the classroom?
This could be used as an assessment at the start or the end of a unit. It also could be used as an emergency set of lessons for any teacher while covering another teacher’s maths classes.
In addition, it is also an excellent set of resources to prepare for different exams. Look at how the students resolve a problem and identify the different ways different students attempt to answer the same problem.
In addition to answering the problems, this is also an excellent time to look into inverse operations. How do we know we have found all the answers? How do we know we have found the correct answer?
I have really enjoyed making these mental maths problems a lot more accessible. I have enjoyed teaching them in a wide range of different classes and I hope that you too will enjoy making maths fun.
FREE Stick Man White Hat Thinking Worksheets Make Fact Finding More Fun!
Stick man is the latest book to be converted into a set of Thinking Hats Guided Reading materials. It is another perfect book for my thinking hat materials. It contains all the elements a student needs to develop their higher thinking skills.
I love getting people's feedback on this material.
I have upgraded this PowerPoint lesson as a YouTube video and a PowerPoint to make this lesson a lot more interactive for the classroom and the home. It is a new approach to teaching and I would love your feedback on it.
FREE Maths Reception PowerPoint and YouTube Lesson - Simple Addition - Spring Term
Lesson Objectives:
I can count
I can solve simple number problems.
I am beginning to learn about addition and subtraction.
If you like this lesson, you will really love my FREE Reception Maths Pack (11 Maths Lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-reception-students-6167058
Teachers now use YouTube more than PowerPoint and so I am now developing my resources ton reflect this new Powerpoint - YouTube combo in the in the classroom. It has the additional benefit that you can then share the links to the lessons directly with the students’ parents for extra homework.
The Multiplication Symbols YouTube Maths PowerPoint Presentation - Year 2 Spring Term
FREE Year 2 Maths PowerPoint Presentation - The Multiplication Symbols - Spring Term is ideal for revising for the KS1 SATs tests. You can also use this lesson in the classroom or as a homework task. If you like this lesson, you will love my FREE Year 2 11 Maths Lessons pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-maths-powerpoint-resources-6167047.