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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.
Library Activity Worksheets - Search the Shelves!
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Library Activity Worksheets - Search the Shelves!

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5 library activity worksheets designed to get students searching the library shelves and learn their way around a library. Each sheet is a short activity to complement other activities a class does while in the library. Each sheet has two identical worksheet activities for making photocopying more paper friendly.
Binary Number Grid Puzzles - Sample
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Binary Number Grid Puzzles - Sample

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This resource is FREE, 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. 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.
Halloween Coding for Juniors – Using Scratch Jr
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Halloween Coding for Juniors – Using Scratch Jr

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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 Halloween themed 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 resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.
Inventions and Inventors
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Inventions and Inventors

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An activity to prompt thinking about famous inventions and inventors. This activity includes a recording sheet, a sheet of ‘notes’ to cut and glue on to the recording sheet and an answer sheet. Ideal for small groups. Excellent for discussing how and why famous inventions came about.
Easter Themed Coordinate Plane Graphing Pictures
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Easter Themed Coordinate Plane Graphing Pictures

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A collection of 5 Easter themed Coordinate Plane graphing pictures. These are ideal for teachers needing a supporting activity for maths coordinate plane graphing or Easter themed academic work. The images are of; Butterfly Chick in Egg Easter Basket of Eggs Easter Bunny Easter Egg There is a 1 quadrant version and a 4 quadrant version of each image. Each picture resource includes (for each quadrant version); the coordinate sets a recording sheet an answer sheet
Winter Theme Scale Factor Drawing, 7 pgs, teacher notes
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Winter Theme Scale Factor Drawing, 7 pgs, teacher notes

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These are worksheets with 3 opportunities each for students to practice drawing a Winter 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 Winter 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.
Christmas Binary Number 8x8 Grid Puzzles - 12 puzzles, no Prep, answers.
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Christmas Binary Number 8x8 Grid Puzzles - 12 puzzles, no Prep, answers.

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A quick, ready to go, little instruction required math activity. This resource is a fun hands-on Thanksgiving activity that uses the binary number system to create Christmas mini images. The images are; Stocking, snowflake, present 1, Santa hat, snowman, Christmas tree 1, mitten, bell, Christmas tree 2, candle, cracker, present 2 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.
Describing and Drawing 2D and 3D shapes
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Describing and Drawing 2D and 3D shapes

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3 sheets of 2D and 3D geometry shapes. The first two sheets are the same activity of describing shapes, but the shapes are different on each sheet. The third sheet asks the student to draw, in the correct columns the 2D and 3D shapes they have identified. Can be done individually, but originally designed to be completed collaboratively in small groups.
Volume:  Reading and Recording Measurements
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Volume: Reading and Recording Measurements

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A set of 4 activities designed for students to practice reading scales for liquid measurements. Students can also practice recording the readings given. One of the activities is a cut-and-paste example, where students relish the opportunity to have a kinesthetic element to their work. These activities can be used to provide diagnostic information on students’ prior knowledge of reading volume measures, support their learning or as a follow-up set of activities. Provided; 4 activities and a sheet of cut-outs.
Measurement Match-ups
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Measurement Match-ups

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A single worksheet where students cut and match up 4 measurement maths terms (area, length, perimeter and volume) with their definitions. A nice hands on activity for generating discussion.
Shape Scavenger Hunt - Middle and Upper Primary
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Shape Scavenger Hunt - Middle and Upper Primary

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These worksheets require students to record their knowledge of a range of 3D shapes. It includes asking them to draw the shape, describe the shape, draw from another angle and give an example of the shape outside the classroom. The Upper Elementary worksheet also asks them to draw the cross section. Can be done individually or in small groups. Suitable as an on-going activity. Best worked at A3 paper size.
The Big Maths Bundle (9  bundled resources)
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The Big Maths Bundle (9 bundled resources)

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This is a bundle collection of all my maths products to date, and I intend to add more over time. As this is a collection of all my maths products they range across strands and levels. You may only need some of what you find in this bundle, BUT…you get the bonus of having all that is included, some of which you may discover you can use. Included are worksheets and activities on; place value, fractions (junior primary), measurement (junior/middle primary), volume(junior/middle primary), shape (junior/middle primary), rotation (junior/middle primary) and scale factors (junior/middle primary). There are a total of 13 worksheets and activities, not including instruction sheets.
Place Value Warm Up Games, with teacher instructions
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Place Value Warm Up Games, with teacher instructions

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This resource is two games to support place value learning. Both are fun and are great warm-up activities. Each game involves throwing dice and recording the place value the student gives to the number shown on the dice. The winner of Game 1 is the student who makes the highest score. The winner of Game 2 is the student who has their answers in numerical order. For similar resources you may like to also check out these other place value resources of mine here: Two Digit Place Value Bingo Three Digit Place Value Bingo My Times Tables Workbook
Sight Words - 'I have... Who has...?' Game Sets
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Sight Words - 'I have... Who has...?' Game Sets

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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 Dolch sight words from Pre-Primer through to Third Grade and the first 225 Fry Instant words. In total there are 42 colour-coded game sets, with each set grouped – by tiers of 25 for the Fry Instant words and by grade level for the Dolch sight words. Just print off and use the sets you need. Included in the resource are word banks 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.
Acts of Kindness Advent Calendar
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Acts of Kindness Advent Calendar

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An Advent Calendar that promotes thinking of others. An activity that can be adapted to suit the ability of the students you have. This resource has instructions, a range of Christmas images to use and a list of suggested acts of kindness.
Reading an analogue clock - MINUTES PAST the hour, MINUTES TO the hour
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Reading an analogue clock - MINUTES PAST the hour, MINUTES TO the hour

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An excellent resource to focus students on exclusively MINUTES PAST the hour or exclusively MINUTES TO the next hour. This resource to allows students to simply concentrate on either just ‘minutes past’ or just ‘minutes to’. Each worksheet here only focusses on one at a time. This resource is for those students who have mastered telling the time to the hour, half hour, quarter to, quarter past and probably to the nearest 5 minutes. These worksheets are focussed on telling time to the nearest minute. Two worksheets, one for each ‘side’ of the clock. Teacher notes included.
Fractions for Juniors - Thirds
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Fractions for Juniors - Thirds

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A hands on activity for 1st and 2nd grade students. Students work with the concept of a third and cut and paste representations of a third. This resource includes; Teacher instructions, 1 recording sheet, images to cut into fractions, an answer sheet example Great for follow-up work, consolidation, revision and discussion about simple fractions.
Mapping New Zealand Battles - WW1 & WW2
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Mapping New Zealand Battles - WW1 & WW2

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Activity sheets that combine the maths concepts of position and direction within a New Zealand ANZAC unit study (with a focus on World War 1 and World War 2 battles). Students work on locating New Zealand battle locations in World War 1 and World War 2 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 sheets and information cards that contain information on three WW1 battles and four WW2 battles New Zealand was involved in, the dates of the battles and the countries. Please note - they are not in order on the cards! Using the information cards and the coordinates on the recording sheets students then work out which battle took place in which country and when. Includes; recording sheets, information cards, teacher instructions and answer sheets.