RESOURCES TO THE STARS - YOU!! I want you Superstar teachers to feel that you have not only purchased a quality resource, but got it for a BARGAIN!
Every SINGLE resource has been created to make your life a little easier.
RESOURCES TO THE STARS - YOU!! I want you Superstar teachers to feel that you have not only purchased a quality resource, but got it for a BARGAIN!
Every SINGLE resource has been created to make your life a little easier.
Add these sight words game activities to your independent reading centres. Excellent for building word recognition and vocabulary building.
This comprehensive pack contains all the sight words from Magenta to Green in the New Zealand Ready to Read texts. In total there are 10 colour-coded game sets, with each set grouped by colour level. Just print off and use the sets you need.
Included in the resource is a word bank of the words used in each set. There are also blank cards should you want to create customised sets.
I hope you find this resource of great use and value. Word recognition games have always been the biggest hit when I have taught in junior classes.
An activity sheet that combines the maths concepts of position and direction within a New Zealand ANZAC unit study (with a focus on World War 1 battles).
Students work on locating New Zealand battle locations in World War 1 using longitude and latitude.
Students will require access to an atlas or (more preferably) an online map app, such as Google Maps.
Students are provided with the recording sheet and an information card that contains information on three battles New Zealand was involved in, the dates of the battles and the country. Please note - they are not in order on the card!
Using the information cards and the coordinates on the recording sheet students then work out which battle took place in which country and when.
Includes; recording sheet, information cards, teacher instructions and answer sheet.
A lower junior level worksheet where students cut and paste 7 different landforms on to a recording sheet. The recording sheet has 4 different landform types that the 7 landforms can be sorted into.
A good hands-on resource following on from discussions about the different classifications of landform types.
This resource includes; recording sheet, sheet of 7 landforms, answer sheet.
Two worksheets for students to practice working with the rotation concept.
The idea here is rotating a shape a half turn around a point. There are 6 exercises on each sheet, graduating in difficulty. Sheet two is slightly more challenging than sheet 1.
Answer sheets are included.
Debugging is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners.
Debugging is the ability to identify where instructions have gone wrong and correct them - problem solving for the 21st Century learner!
This resource has 3 problem cards of basic Scratch code, each containing one error for students to ‘debug’ and fix so that the code performs the correct task.
These do not require a device or the internet to solve, but going online to check if the solution works is advantageous.
The resource has 3 problem cards and solutions.
This resource provides an introduction to the concept of rotation around a point.
This is a simple worksheet with a choice of two objects to rotate 4 times around a point. Students have the choice as to how they position their object for rotation.
This resource contains a recording sheet, 2 sheets of objects (4 per sheet) and a range of possible answers.
Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners.
Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out.
This resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr.
The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet.
The extra challenge with this activity is that there is an extra superfluous block. The students need to decide which block is not needed to complete the code.
The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.
This is a short, engaging, hands-on measurement task that will allow teachers to quickly gauge or assess student understanding of measuring objects with non-standard units.
This is a resource that can also be used as an assessment sheet. It can be used prior to a lesson plan or at the completion.
This activity can be used to support Module 11B and 11C of the New Zealand Junior Assessment of Mathematics test (Jam Test).
This resource includes worksheet, teacher notes and answer sheet.
Four worksheets for students to practice working with the concept of rotating around a point.
The first two involves the idea of rotating a shape a half turn around a point. There are 6 exercises on each of 2 sheets, graduating in difficulty. The second sheet is slightly more challenging than the first.
The third worksheet involves the idea of rotating a shape a quarter turn once clockwise around a point. There are 6 exercises on the sheet, graduating in difficulty.
The fourth involves the idea here is rotating two shapes around a point - one shape does a half turn, the other shape does a quarter turn. There are 6 exercises on the sheet, graduating in difficulty.
Answer sheets are included.
If you would like to check out each resource on its own please click on the links below.
Rotating shapes a Half turn a and a Quarter turn around a Point
Rotate a shape a Half Turn around a Point
Rotating a Shape a Quarter Turn around a Point
This Halloween themed resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr.
Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners.
Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out.
The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet.
The extra challenge with this activity is that there is an extra superfluous block. The students need to decide which block is not needed to complete the code.
The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.
This is a bundle of 4 individual Halloween themed resources. If you liked one of the Halloween themed coding resources and wish to do more, then this may be a better option than purchasing all four separately.
I have made these resources to help begin meet the needs of our 21st Century learners. The skills they will need will involve a capability of working in a digital environment.
These activities focus on coding. However it can equally be seen as a sequencing activity, a problem solving activity or a positional maths activity.
These are introductory activities to using coding. They don’t require the use of a device or access to the internet. Though you may like to show students the actual Scratch Jr app as well.
The success of these tasks is best achieved with plenty of prior discussion and modelling.
This should include;
• Explaining they are trying to give a character a set of instructions, or maybe programming a character to follow a set of instructions.
• Discussing the icons
The yellow block with the flag is to start the instructions
The blue blocks do the action on the block
The orange hand block is to stop
The red block is to tell you the instructions have finished
• Explaining that one block is one action
• That the activity is a cut and paste one
This resource comes with
4 variations of simple coding. Each of the 4 variations has two activity worksheets (two levels of difficulty), for a total of 8 worksheets.
Each variation has an answer sheet.
Variation 1: code involving a single turn.
Variation 2: code involving a single turn, with an extra block (which will not be needed) to challenge students’ thinking.
Variation 3: code involving two turns
Variation 4: code involving two turns, with an extra block (which will not be needed) to challenge students’ thinking.
The challenges with this activity are
working with an anticlockwise and clockwise turns
deciding which block is superfluous and not needed to complete the code
This is a great way to get all my Halloween themed coding activities to date in one purchase!
If you would like to check out each variation as a resource on its own please click on the links below.
Variation 1: Halloween Coding for Juniors – Using Scratch Jr
Variation 2: Halloween Coding for Juniors -Using Scratch Jr, 1 extra block
Variation 3: Halloween Coding for Juniors – Using Scratch Jr, making turns
Variation 4: Halloween Coding -Using Scratch Jr, making turns, 1 extra block
This Halloween themed resource provides an introduction to the concept of rotation around a point.
This is a simple worksheet with a choice of two Halloween icons to rotate 4 times around a point. Students have the choice as to how they position their icons for rotation.
This resource contains a recording sheet, 2 sheets of Halloween icons (4 per sheet) and a range of possible answers.
This resource is a fun hands-on activity that uses an aspect of students’ lives to engage them in the maths of binary numbers.
When I first tried it with 9 and 10 year old students I thought I’d given them something way over their heads, BUT they got it!
This resource comes with;
1 activity worksheet, with a US date format version and a UK date format version
An example of a completed worksheet (3 versions)
A Cheat Sheet
This resource is a fun hands-on activity that uses the binary number system to create mini pictures.
Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system.
Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems.
This resource includes;
Two activity sheet sets of 8 puzzles each
Answer sheets
These are worksheets with 3 opportunities each for students to practice drawing a Thanksgiving themed picture to a different scale. There are two sheets with the second being more challenging than the first sheet. Each of the sheets also have an additional partially completed version, providing an easier option to complete the task.
Each of these worksheets have two Thanksgiving images and the opportunity for students to draw their own design to factor up (or down).
Students will learn the need to note carefully looking at what parts of the images are in each box and transfer them correctly into the correct boxes in the blank spaces.
Teacher notes included.
This resource is a fun way to consolidate and practice place value from 100 to 999.
Great as a support for a place value lesson focus, a quick break out game, or independent math center activity.
This resource includes;
Instructions
36 individually unique bingo cards
29 number calling cards, with blank spare card
This resource is a fun hands-on activity that uses the binary number system to create mini pictures.
Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system.
Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems.
This resource includes;
Three activity sheet sets of 4 puzzles
Answer sheets
These are worksheets with 3 opportunities each for students to practice drawing a Halloween themed picture to a different scale. There are two sheets with the second being more challenging than the first sheet. Each of the sheets also have an additional partially completed version, providing an easier option to complete the task.
Each of these worksheets have two Halloween images and the opportunity for students to draw their own design to factor up (or down).
Students will learn the need to note carefully looking at what parts of the images are in each box and transfer them correctly into the correct boxes in the blank spaces.
Teacher notes included.
This resource is a fun way to consolidate and practice place value from 10 to 99.
Great as a support for a place value lesson focus, a quick break out game, or independent math center activity.
This resource includes;
Instructions
36 individually unique bingo cards
19 number calling cards, with spare blank cards
This resource is a fun hands-on activity that uses the binary number system to create mini pictures.
Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system.
Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems.
This resource includes;
Three activity sheet sets of 4 puzzles
Answer sheets
If you like this free resource and would like to immerse your students in more of these binary puzzle pictures then please check out my shop Pooley Productions.
Here you will find, in addition to a wide collection of resources, a range of different grid sized binary puzzles resources, including the bundle pack that contains all puzzles I have made.