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Literacy for early childhood
Space rocket role play pack
A fun pack of resources for you to print out and use to create a role play area of a Space rocket.
This pack is also included in my bumper Space pack.
The pack includes:
· Large banner for your role play area
· Astronaut masks in colour and black and white
· Alien masks in colour and black and white
· Posters- lots of posters for the role play area including warning signs, today’s captain, today’s astronauts etc.
· Control panel pieces- lots of colourful parts of the rocket control panel- dials, signs, levers etc
· Log book- a log book cover in colour and also in black and white and pages to use in the book for the children to record what they did and saw on the space trip
· Space rocket checklist
· Badges for the space crew to wear
· ID badges for the space crew to fill in and use in their play
· Alien stick puppets to make
· Rocket fuel guage- a large guage to make and warning posters to display when they are low on fuel!
Funnybones story sack resources
A great resource pack for you to print out for the story 'Funnybones' - great for use with the Funnybones story and also when teaching the topic 'Ourselves' or 'Halloween'.
The resources include:
Display banner- Large display title 'Funnybones' with a bone patterned border
Display border- A display border of bones- this can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size
Character pictures- posters of the different characters in the story
Make a moving Funnybones skeleton- A moving skeleton of the big skeleton in the Funnybones story to make- the pieces need to be fixed together using split pins
Make a moving skeleton- A moving skeleton to make with the bones in our bodies- this is more suited to older children and is best printed and made in A3 size
Body part label flash cards- Labels of the different bones in the body
Large display skeleton- A large (nearly 4x A4 size) picture of the skeleton- ones with labels of the bones and one without
Word cards- Story words related to the story of 'Funnybones' - each card has drawings of characters from the story
Story telling face masks- Face masks to make of the characters- these are great for retelling the story and also making up different stories
Bone number line- A number line to 50 with the numbers on bones
Song and rhyme posters- Songs and rhymes related to bones and skeletons
Writing paper- An A4 sized page border- great for quickly displaying the childrens work or pictures or using for writing activities
Story question cards- Question cards with questions related to the story of 'Funnybones'
A game to make and play- A game to build your own Funnybones skeleton the first
Writing mat- An A4 word mat- great for writing about the story or for display in the writing area
Phoneme Bunting display- Letters and Sounds
Phoneme bunting sets
Four colourful sets of Phoneme bunting to hang in your classroom or the outside area-
Just print and display!
Each flag is approximately A4 in size but can be printed smaller
The pack includes:
Set 1
All of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on colourful star flags
Set 2
Bunting flags with phonemes and a picture on each flag
Set 3
To be made double sided or displayed side by side- the flags have the phoneme on one and a picture and word with the phoneme highlighted on the other
Set 4
To be made double sided or displayed side by side- using the phoneme flags from set 3 and the additional flags which have two pictures which contain the phoneme
Caterpillar Maths and Literacy Games
Caterpillar Maths and Literacy games
A collection of 8 fun games with a cute caterpillar theme for you to print out and play
Literacy games:
1-Cover your caterpillar- Roll the special picture or letter die and cover the letter on your caterpillar. This game can be played to identify initial sounds of pictures or to recognise letters. There are four different version of the game for different letters.
2-Match the CVC word- Choose a caterpillar and a leaf card- if the CVC word matches the picture you keep the pair. How many matching pairs can you find?
3-I spy- A version of Bingo to find the initial letter sound pictures.
4-Find the letter- Spin the Caterpillar spinner and find the letter on your sheet. Will you be the first to trace all of your letters? There are four version of this game for different sets of letters.
Maths games:
1-Make a caterpillar- Roll the special die and add or take away a circle of your caterpillar. Be the first to make your caterpillar but watch out because someone may take a piece of your caterpillar!
2-How many caterpillars- Roll the die and find the number card. Count how many caterpillars you have found on the leaf. The winner is the person who has found the most caterpillars!
3-Add two numbers- Roll two dice and add the numbers together- can you cover all the numbered leaves on your board first?
4-Missing numbers- Be the first to find all the missing numbers on your long caterpillar.
Each game is supplied with full instructions and further ideas for using the materials.
Each game is supplied in full colour and also in black and white so it can be printed out more economically and also photocopied to be sent home with the children.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears story resource pack- traditional tales, story sack
Goldilocks and the Three Bears story resources
The pack includes:
Large characters and story props pictures- great for displays or for laminating and adding velcro to the back to use on flannel boards
Small characters and story props pictures with A4 sized playboard- great for individual table top play and also great to laminate and keep with the book or in a story sack
Story word cards- great for use in the childrens writing
Sentence cards to sequence of the story
Black and white pictures of the characters and story props for the children to colour
Black and white and colour face masks of the Three Bears and Goldilocks- great for retelling of the story and for use in outdoor play
Goldilocks and the Three Bears themed picture dominoes game
A lovely bingo game with pictures for the story
A matching pairs game
Photos of real bears- great for display and discussion
Plus many other resources.
Easter and Spring bumper resource pack- Powerpoint, games, worksheets, activities
A bumper pack of resource for Easter and Spring including:
Photo packs for Easter and spring
Lots of things to make including masks, Easter baskets, puppets and bookmarks
Colouring pages
Easter rhymes and songs with props for singing
Maths resources including activities, worksheets, number lines, matching activities
Literacy resources including worksheets, alphabet lines, phoneme eggs and writing mats
Display materials
Religious resources including a Powerpoint of the Easter story, worksheets and pictures for sequencing and posters
Lots of games and activities
Initial sounds alphabet dominoes games- 3 sets
Three colourful dominoes games
Each set of dominoes has a different coloured border to help you put them back into the correct set although the sets could be mixed to make different dominoes games or ones with more domino pieces.
One set of dominoes has the letters in alphabetical order and the other two have the letters in a mixed order. Each domino set has a different set of initial sound pictures used on them.
Each domino has the initial letter sound and a coloured picture. The game is played in the conventional way with the children placing a domino piece which has a matching sound or picture next to the one already played.
The domino pieces are sized six to an A4 page but by altering printer settings prior to printing you could print them larger or smaller.
The Winter Hedgehog story resource pack- powerpoints, games, literacy, numeracy
A great resource pack to accompany the lovely children’s book ‘The Winter Hedgehog' by Ann and Reg Cartwright.
Also includes resources about hibernation.
The pack includes:
Display resources:
Banner- a long colourful display banner
Display borders
A4 word card
Story words- decorated words relating to the story
Question cards
Fact cards- about hibernation and different animals that hibernate
Title page
Hibernation words
Hibernation banner
Photos- of different winter scenes
Numeracy resources:
Number line on hedgehogs
Size hedgehogs- order the different hedgehogs in size order
Counting worksheets- a version for numbers up to 5 and for up to 10
Dice game- roll 1 or 2 dice and colour the correct numbered spike on your hedgehog
Snowflake symmetry
Missing number worksheets
Role play/ story props
Face masks- coloured masks of the hedgehog and the other animals
Story props- large coloured pictures to use when retelling the story
Puppets
Powerpoints
Hedgehogs- find out different facts about hedgehogs
Winter- what happens in winter and what can we do?
Hibernation- find out about different animal that hibernate over Winter
Literacy resources
Snowflake alphabet
Book review
Worksheets-various worksheets about the story, Winter and the characters
Word searches
Writing pages- various pages to photocopy for the children to write and colour in the borders
Writing sheets
Hibernation worksheets
Worksheets- Signs of Autumn, Winter and Spring worksheets
Acrostic poem
Art and crafts
Animal paw prints- use the cards to copy the paw prints in the sand tray or in the snow
Tracing picture
Colouring worksheets
Winter scene worksheet
Animal puppets to make
Animal masks- black and white masks of the different animals in the story
Games
Bingo- a colourful picture bingo game
Snowman building game- throw the die and collect the different parts of your snowman
Hibernation game- throw a die and turn over a card to see how many hedgehogs are hibernating under the pile of leaves
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the author or publishers of the story or any related stories or products.
Bakery role play pack + Five Currant Buns number rhyme pack
A bumper pack full of posters, signs, flashcards, pictures and writing opportunites to set up a role play area of a Bakery.
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and KS2 enabling you to print out the resources again and again.
The pack includes:
· A long colourful banner for the Bakery
· Posters for the bakery to add names to which show who the bakers are that day
· A number line to 20 on various bakery products
· A decorated open and closed sign for your bakery
· Opening times posters- one with times already added and one to add your own opening times
· Posters including ‘queue here’ and ‘Beware hot oven’
· Flashcards of different products for sale in the bakery with words and pictures
· Small word and picture signs to add to the products for sale
· Large colour pictures of different products for sale
· Large black and white images- great for art work
· Large lettering ‘Bakery’ decorated with images of bakery goods
· A colourful Gingerbread man alphabet line
· A number line to 100 on colourful cupcakes
· Bread posters showing different breads for sale etc
· Birthday cake posters showing different choices
· Equipment and ingredients posters
· Price cards with space to add the price or write your own price according to the ability and age of the children
· Special offer posters
· Wedding cake posters
· Colour photo posters with images of bakery displays and goods in a bakery
· Hats to make- 3 different colourful designs and a black hat to design your own
· A ‘Remember to wash your hands’ poster
· Name badges- colourful badges to write the staff names on
Opportunities for writing and mark making:
· A birthday cake order form
· Ingredients order form
· A colour and black and white customer order form with all of the bakery goods
· Decorated shopping lists
· Wedding cake order forms
· Decorated phone messages and note paper
· Blank special offer posters for you to write the offers for that day
· Decorated receipts to write
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area in your setting which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes.
CVC snowmen activity- phonics, spelling, winter, snow
A set of 30 snowmen to make to spell CVC words.
There are 6 snowmen for each middle sound.
Great for phonics activities during winter and the snowy weather.
CHRYSANTHEMUM book and name activity pack for back to school
This pack has lots of activities to use with the book ‘Chrysanthemum’ by Kevin Henkes. The activities will extend the story for the students and also let them think about their own name with various worksheets.
The pack includes:
1-Story map worksheet
2-Character traits worksheets for Chrysanthemum and Victoria
3-Colour photographs of Chrysanthemum flowers for your bulletin board or discussion
4-A Chrysanthemum themed writing page
5-My favorite part of the story worksheet
6-Flower craft activity- three different Chrysanthemum flowers to cut out and layer
7-Graphic organizers about the story
8-My first day at school worksheet for the students to draw and write about their first day
9-My first day feelings- draw and write about how they felt on their first day
10-My friends- two fun worksheets for the children to find others in their class with different qualities
11-Name worksheets- three different worksheets for children to think about their name and how many letters etc there are and also a worksheet 'All about me’
12-Sentences about Chrysanthemum
13-The alphabet- trace over the letters in the alphabet and then circle the letters in their name
14-This is me- a worksheet for children to draw a picture of themselves and then think of some words to describe themselves
15-Venn diagram- compare and contrast the characters Chrysanthemum and Victoria
16-Word search
Santa's Workshop Christmas role play pack
A great resource pack on CD for you to print out and use to create a bright stimulating role play area for Christmas of Santa's toy workshop.
The pack includes:
Large lettering- Large letters to spell out 'Santa's Workshop', each letter decorated with small pictures of holly
Sign- A 'Santa's workshop' sign decorated with festive pictures
Post box- A large festive Post box printed on 6 A4 sheets- great to stick on the front of a large box so the children can open the door and collect the letters from children each day
Open/ Closed- Signs for your role play area
Number line- A Santa number line to 20- this could be used in the role play area or in any area of the classroom at Christmas time
Alphabet line- An alphabet line on colourful Christmas elves
Display pictures- Pictures of Santa and the reindeers (each with their names) in pretend picture frames
Post area posters- Posters to display in the post area and the packing areas of the role play area
Wrapping area posters- Colourful posters for the wrapping area of your role play area
Sleigh room poster- A large poster saying ‘Sleigh room’ for the children to put their parcels
Shape parcels- Posters of different shaped parcels and a poster asking the children what shape their parcel is
Wrapping paper- Black and white wrapping paper which can be printed out, coloured in and used to wrap the gifts
Face masks- Black and white face masks of Santa and an elf- these could be used in this role play area or for other role play activities at Christmas
Stockings- Colourful stockings to decorate Santa's workshop
Stocking- A black and white stocking outline for the children to decorate and colour
Design sheets- Toy design sheets in black and white for the children to write and draw their toy they will make
Poster- A poster for the children to write or draw the toys that need to be made that day
Window display- A large (4x A4) size snowy window scene to print out and display in the role play area
North Pole poster- A poster saying 'Welcome to the North Pole’ with a cute penguin
Letters to Santa- Various different letter templates to write a letter to Santa
Gift tags- To colour and write
Lists- Decorated list pages to encourage writing in the role play area
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area in your classroom which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes and also use their Art and DT skills.
Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway role play pack
Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway
A bumper resource for setting up a colourful role play area of a Chinese restaurant and/or takeaway.
The pack includes:
Banner- A long banner for your restaurant- this is provided in Sasson Primary Infant font and also in Chinese style writing
Posters- Open and closed signs for your restaurant
Opening times- An opening times poster
Food posters- 10 colourful pictures of different foods to buy in the restaurant
Price posters- Each showing a different colourful picture of Chinese food and space to write the price
Menus- Various menus in colour and black and white for your restaurant
Hats- 3 different hats to make for the restaurant staff to wear
Badges- Name badges to make for the staff to wear
Welcome- A long ‘Welcome’ with Chinese style writing
Today’s special- A poster with Chinese style writing to write in that days special meal
Restaurant posters- 'Wait here to be seated' and 'Thank you for your custom'
Poster- A poster for the restaurant Kitchen area
Clock- A themed clock to laminate and either draw the hands on or add clock hands using a split pin
Colour lanterns- Colourful lanterns to hang in the restaurant area- each lantern is a different colour and has colour labels to add if you want to
Number line- A number line to 20 on food bowls
Table numbers- Table numbers up to 10 to display on the restaurant tables with Chinese style writing
Order forms- Printable order forms for the restaurant and takeaway
Colouring mats- Colouring mats to use in the restaurant- these could also be coloured and used as posters in the restaurant
Message pads- Message pads and telephone message pads to make decorated with Chinese lanterns
Takeaway opening poster- a poster showing the opening times of the Chinese Takeaway
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End of Term / Summer resources pack- writing, memory book, class certificates
A pack of great activites for the end of the school year or term.
Writing activities which could be made into a book or used for assessments.
A fun memory book to make for the children to take home to remember their school year.
A pack of fun, colourful certificates to give out to your class at the end of term.
Bundle
New Term bumper pack- Multicultural, classroom set
A great set of resources for displaying in your new classroom.
Grapheme display posters- Letters and Sounds
A colourful set of Grapheme posters for you to print and use with your children during literacy or for use on displays.
Great for Early years teachers, nursery teachers, special needs teachers, childminders and parents to use with their children.
This set of grapheme posters has been produced using the graphemes taught in the Letters and Sounds scheme. There are a total of 69 posters to print and use (separate cards for f and ff etc). Each poster has 2 or 3 colourful pictures to represent that sound, and the word with the grapheme highlighted in red.
The posters are organised in files for each of the Letters and Sounds phases in which they are taught making them very easy to access and use.
Each poster is approximately A4 in size although they could be printed larger or smaller by altering print settings before printing.
Outdoor Literacy -EYFS Outdoor Play
This is a bumper pack on disk with loads of resources for Literacy and phonics games outdoors. The pack would be great for nursery settings, school settings and childminders to use for exciting Literacy activities in the outdoor area.
Also great for Literacy games in the classroom.
The pack includes:
40 A5 sized task/ activity cards - each with the area of Literacy covered in that activity such as alphabetical order, reading cvc words, letter recognition ect, the resources needed for that activity and the activity in detail. The cards also have space for you to write further notes such as the stepping stones/ specific learning objectives, focus children for the activity etc.
Also in the pack are all the resources you will need to print out and use with activity cards such as:
Large CVC dice to make
Letter spinners for playing the games
Large rainbow lower case letters of the alphabet
A large colourful alphabetical order snake to make
Upper and lower case letter socks
CVC cards and pictures
Various letter and phoneme cards
A CVC bingo game
Large colourful human and monster alphabet footprints
Games to play
Plus lots lots more!
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Outdoor learning bundle- Outdoor Play EYFS, Literacy, Numeracy
Three great packs for enhancing your outdoor learning environment in the Early Years.
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Early Years bumper pack- Foundation stage- Maths, Literacy
Six great packs to use in the Early Years
THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A BELL - Christmas story resource pack
There was an old lady who swallowed a bell is a perfect story for Christmas!
This pack is full of retelling activities, craftivities, writing activities plus a set of colored sequence cards.
The activities included are:
A set of 14 coloured pictures for sequencing the story- these can all be used or for younger children just a few of the main picture cards can be used
Comprehension worksheet
A set of comprehension question cards to choose the correct answer from a choice of two
Worksheet- colour the things the old lady swallowed and put a cross through the things she didn’t swallow
Craftivity- assemble the parts and fill in a choice of two sentences
Cut and paste worksheet of what the old lady ate
Craftivity- cut out the old lady and feed her the picture cards in order- the face can be pasted onto a box and the mouth cut out
Writing sheets- 8 different worksheet to list five things the old lady ate such as five things that are green, five things that begin with ‘b’. Plus a blank version of the worksheet
Missing word worksheet to complete the sentences with the words listed at the bottom of the page
A Question worksheet
A story retelling worksheet to write four main parts of the story
Sentence scramble pack which can be used for activities or a literacy center with words to sequence and three worksheets to cut and stick the words to make the sentences
A cut and paste story sequence worksheet
Simple picture cards to sequence for the story