Posters suitable for a role-play area showing 15 countries from around the world. Each poster has a map shaped flag and landmark from the country, further resources are available which have key facts on.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the long vowel ‘oo’ sound. They’re the Blue family and like to dress in blue to reinforce their ‘oo’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

A slideshow for supporting children with quick recall of the graphemes for both the long and short sounds a, e, i, o and u. The graphemes are presented in phoneme families and have the phoneme family character present to support children with recalling the correct phoneme. I remind children of the family name to help them remember e.g. "This is the Grey family all their graphemes make the sound ‘ai’ . The first slides are all short vowel sounds.

Meet the /ure/ family one of the twenty vowel sounds in the English language. Children practise reading and spelling words containing this phoneme using sound spots as support. The end of the lesson children practise these spellings in dictated sentences. Use the phoneme dash and vowel family spelling mats to further support children’s spellings, both available in my shop. Thank you

Planning for the phoneme families includes year 1 and year 2 spelling mats. PowerPoint presentations for each of the families can be purchased from my shop. These include all the different graphemes for each Phoneme family. I am currently selling everything you need to teach the 20 long and short vowel families in a handy bundle for just £2.

This set of Powerpoints are used as starters for the Phoneme Families. Each set builds on the phoneme families that the children will have been taught in the previous week.

Meet eleven learning friends who help children understand about different learning characteristics and supports them to develop a growth mindset. These characters support continuous provision in Key Stage 1 . At the end of the Power Point there is a handy poster that summarizes each of the friends characteristics which could be shared with parents. Stickers are also available to print out and give to children when they have displayed the effective characteristics. These can be printed on avery

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An illustrated story introducing the Growth Mind-set Characters from the Elli project. Read how Bear and Elli set off to find a new home for Bear. Elli introduces Bear to a host of friends to help him overcome the problems he encounters on his journey. Children quickly identify with the different characters’ traits to help them overcome their own barriers to learning. Visit my shop at www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/suebee1 to get the motivational stickers, display posters and colouring sheets that go with this story. Thank you Sue

notebook file An illustrated rhyme with British Sign Language images to support children’s learning. Children sing the song to learn colours, vegetable names and days of the week.

A short introduction to the Numberland concept. A proven devise to support children with number recognition and count. This has been used to great success in my own school for the past 8 years in both Nursery and Reception classes as well as support for SEN children. Visiting teachers, child minders and even inspectors have enquired about it's availability. So I've finally decided to share it with the wider community. Thank you.

The Numberland Song, Numberlanders are a group of unique colourful characters who support the teaching of number recognition. Numberland works on the use of alliteration for the Numberlanders names to support memory of number recall, for more Numberland resources visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/suebee1, thank you

self correcting count game 1-10, children count the fireworks and select the correct number, if incorrect they're directed back to have another go. If they get it right they're rewarded with a firework display!

Use the smartboard resource to count presented sets of up to ten baubles, children select the correct number and are rewarded by a Christmas animation and sound effect. The word document with the large baubles, I make in to an interactive display, enlarge the tree to A3, laminate, cut out and laminate the baubles and attach with velcro, children can then dress the tree with their choosen amount of baubles. The other word document I use as a cut and stick activity for children which becomes a useful count assessment at the end of term.

Meet the fist five characters from Numberland. A unique resource to help children with early number recognition. Children often struggle to retain number recognition and this is a tried and tested approach which uses alliteration and colourful memorable characters to support children in their first steps in maths. The Numberland concept goes on to explore count and numeral and quantity match as well as tackling tricky teen numbers and place value. For more resources lease check out my shop. Thank you

An interactive self correcting PowerPoint, children are asked to collect 10 items to recycle, they choose from metal, glass and plastic, if they collect too many they will be directed back to previous slide to try again.

Meet Angelina Adjective, one of the Word Wizards who help children identify the different word types and the job they do in sentences. In this pack Angelina explains all about adjectives and how they can add to sentences. She also shows how children can add the suffixes, er and est. Angelina has some super spelling spells to help children remember the suffix rules. Suitable for both year 1 and year 2.

An acts of Kindness interactive advent calendar which is designed with Infant children in mind. All the acts can be performed within the class or school setting without support. Also included is a follow up activity where children can write down their acts of kindness which are placed into a jar full of kindness. These can be visited again later in the new year to continue the kindness. The resources are available in two fonts; Letterjoin and Infant Sassoon.