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Literacy for early childhood
Hansel and Gretel story resource pack- story sack, fairy tales
Hansel and Gretel
The pack includes:
Large characters and story prop pictures from the story of Hansel and Gretel- these would be great on a display or are good when laminated and velcro added to the back for the children to use on a flannel board
Small characters and story prop pictures- these are great for table top play and also great when laminated and stored with the story book or included in a story sack
Story word cards- these are great to add to a display about Hansel and Gretel or to include in a writing area
A coloured A4 story word card- very useful for the children to use when writing about the story
Black and white pictures of the characters and story props from Hansel and Gretel for the children to colour or collage
Black and white face masks of the characters in the Hansel and Gretel story
A board game based on the story of Hansel and Gretel
Finger puppets to colour and make- great for retelling the story and including in your story sack
Various worksheets about the story of Hansel and Gretel
Question cards to encourage the children to think about the story and what happened in the Hansel and Gretel story
A number line to 50 on biscuit pictures
A matching pairs game to match the biscuit pictures
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
Handa's Surprise story resource pack- story sack
The pack includes:
Display resources
· Display banner
· Posters of Handa and Akeyo’s houses
· Story word cards
· Animal photos
· Fruit photos
· Display border
· Title poster
· Picture flashcards
· Colour sequencing pictures of the story
· Page borders
· African photos
· Information posters About Africa and the Luo tribe
Role play/ story props
· Colour face masks of Handa and Akeyo and the animals
· Small world background
Powerpoints
· Story Powerpoint- an interactive powerpoint asking the children which fruit was taken by which animal or what happened next in the story with choices to click on
· Maths Powerpoint for children to count how many fruit on each page
· Guess the animals Powerpoint
Literacy
· An A4 word card
· A story map- either draw the fruit and animals along the path to Akeyo’s house or cut and stick the animals and fruit in the correct orde
· Fruit descriptive words
· Story Questions
· Black and white sequencing worksheets
· Question worksheet- for children to think of some questions to ask Handa and Akeyo
· Describing fruit worksheets
· Story sequencing
· Speech bubble worksheet- fill in the speech bubbles of what Handa and Akeyo are saying to each other
· Various other worksheets such as initial letter sounds, matching fruit and animals to their names, writing about their favourite part of the story etc
· Writing pages
An alphabet line on fruit
Numeracy
· A number line on the animals in the story
· Counting cards up to 10
· Counting worksheets
· My number book- A mini book to make where the children draw the correct number of fruit on each page up to 10
Art and craft
· Colouring posters of Handa and Akeyo
· Colouring posters of each of the animals and the fruit
· Cut and stick the fruit into the basket
· Design a new pattern for Handa and Akeyo’s dresses
Games to make and play
· Picture matching pairs
· Collect the fruit game
· Jigsaw matching pairs
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.
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.
Back to school writing pack- first week of term KS1/ EYFS
A fun set of sheets for use after the summer holidays and for the first week of the autumn term.
Includes:
Summer holiday memories
Thoughts and plans for the new school year
My new class
Classroom rules
Be a friend, not a bully plus more...
Contains 22 different sheets which could be used individually or made into a workbook or even used to make quick and easy displays!
Summer writing activity pack- KS1 /EYFS
A fun pack of writing sheets for the summer term or any summery day!
Includes:
Making a list of food and drink for a picnic
My day at the beach
Writing instructions for building a sandcastle
Staying safe in the sun
Cooling down in the heat
Writing sentences plus more...
Could be made into a workbook or the sheets could be used individually- great for end of term assessment!
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.
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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.
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Growing plants bundle plus Garden Centre role play
A bumper topic pack for Growing, a fun role play pack to create your own Garden Centre and two complete story activity packs.
Commotion in the Ocean- Under the Sea
The pack includes:
Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display
Display border- two colourful themed borders to print out as many times as you need for a display board of any size
Word and picture flashcards- colourful cards to add to a display or writing area
Fish colours- coloured fish each with the colour name on
Ocean posters- a set of colourful posters showing the different sea creatures in the book
Title poster- an A4 poster with title, author and illustrators name complete with colourful illustrations
Photos- colour photos to print out of the different creatures in the book
Name labels- labels of the different creatures- great to use on displays
Colour fish- large A4 size fish in different colours with colour labels to add
Fact cards- simple fact cards about each creature
Large display pictures- large coloured pictures of each creature plus extra pictures of seaweed, rocks, shells etc to create a great ocean display
A4 word card- an A4 word card with words and pictures for the children to use when writing about the story
Ocean animal alphabet- a lovely alphabet line on colourful creatures
Writing worksheets- write below the pictures on each sheet
Writing sheets
Speech bubble worksheets
Word searches
Worksheets- a collection of worksheets about the book and the creatures
Animal worksheets- fun worksheets to fill in different details about each animal in the book- these look great on display
‘My underwater adventure’- write a story about the creatures you meet
Acrostic poems
Odd and even number line
Ocean animal number line
Number rhymes
Size ordering worksheets
Counting worksheets
Counting cards- cards from 1-10 with the corresponding number of creatures on each page
Individual number line- number lines from 1-10 and 1-20 with pictures of fish and octopus
Matching pairs
Build a fish- roll a die and collect a part of your fish- how many fish can you make?
Dominoes
Colour bingo
Roll and colour- roll the die and colour the matching sea creature on your sheet
Picture bingo
Tracing sheets- trace the patterns on the fish and trace over the dotted lines on the animals
Stick puppets
Face masks
Play dough mats- a collection of under sea themed mats to use in your play dough area
Colouring worksheets
Fish crafts
Octopus craft
Jellyfish craft- follow the instructions to make your own hanging jellyfish
Jigsaws- colour the picture and then cut along the dotty lines and reassemble to make your sea creature
Templates
PowerPoint- a PowerPoint with simple facts about some of the animals in the book
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers
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New Term bumper pack- Multicultural, classroom set
A great set of resources for displaying in your new classroom.
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
The Little Red Hen story resources- activities, Powerpoint, Harvest
A bumper pack of resources for the story 'The Little Red Hen'.
Great to include in your Harvest topic.
Display resources:
A large colourful display banner of the title
Story words on bread slice shapes
Large and small character pictures from the story- hen, pig, cat, rat, goose/duck and dog- these could be used for story telling or displays - these are in black and white and colour
Large colour and black and white pictures of the tools used by The Little Red Hen and a windmill
Two different colourful display borders for you to print out as many times as you need for your display board
Question cards with questions about what the characters were thinking, what they were doing and why they were doing different things
Photographs of some different windmills- great for displays and discussion
Large lettering of 'The Little Red Hen' with each letter decorated with ears of corn
A4 character posters in colour of the different characters and their names
Word and picture cards of the different animals and props used by The Little Red Hen
Understanding of the World resources:
Photos of breads, wheat, corn and flour and fields of corn- great for displays and discussion
A Powerpoint about harvest and wheat/corn
Colour photos of the different animals in the story
Literacy resources:
A lovely Powerpoint of the story of 'The Little Red Hen'- the pages of this could also be printed out to make a book for your classroom
Colour and black and white pictures to sequence
Sequencing worksheets of the story
Speech bubbles with some key phrases from the story
Various speech bubble worksheets
Various other literacy worksheets- missing words, matching words to pictures, answering questions about the story, character worksheets, rhyming words etc
An alphabet line on hens
Various A4 pages in colour and black and white for the children to write on- these are each decorated with pictures from the story
Maths resources:
A number line to 50 on colourful windmills
Counting cards up to 10 with pictures from the story
Various themed worksheets- addition, subtraction and missing numbers
Activities:
Finger puppets to make of the different characters- greatfor retelling the story and for creating their own stories
Colour face masks of the different characters
Black and white face masks of the different characters
Various colouring sheets
Outline pictures of wheat, a windmill and the animals in the story- these could be used for writing activities or art activities
Games to make and play:
A lovely colourful board game to make based on the story
Matching pairs game
A Bingo game with pictures relating to the story of 'The Little Red Hen'
A rhyming word game