Bertha the bus is driving through the zoo and needs help to find all the animals that begin with the same initial phoneme. Includes bus base board, animal cards and activity card. Activity card has ‘step down’ and ‘step up’ suggestions to adapt the activity to suit the child/children.

Ideas to explore the topic/theme of birthdays in the Early Years, covers the 7 areas of learning and story suggestions too. Also comes with high quality resources including; Display ‘birthdays’ bunting Birthday cupcakes - one for each month of the year Candles that can be used for display with the birthday cupcakes or as part of an activity Birthday balloons - one for each month Birthday cake playdough mat Cake and candles number cars 1-10 Birthday pairs game Birthday themed photographs Animal balloon modelling picture cards

Silly Soup - Initial Phonemes Game comprises of silly soup song card, contents card lists, cards for 27 phonemes including ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ and an activity card. The activity card explains what to do including a ‘step down’ (to make it easier) and a ‘step up’ (to make it more challenging). All pictures have been carefully selected to emphasise the initial phoneme.

Pumpkin cards count the pumpkin seeds on the pumpkin and match to the correct numeral (1-10) put the correct number of ‘seeds’ on the pumpkin to match the numeral (1-10) large pumpkin (A4) can be used for lots of different activities (e.g. adding playdough seeds) Spider cards provide pegs for children to add the correct number of legs to match the number on the spiders large spider (A4) can be used for lots of different activities (e.g. group input, in the playdough area) Spider’s web - count out the correct number of spiders to place on the web

A pack full of resources including: Paw print numbers 1-10 Goldilocks topic cards Goldilocks emotions cards Cards relating to ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?’ Cards relating to ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ 2 Teddy Bear Rhyme Cards Bear outline for creating masks Bear colour cards - use on display or print multiple copies to play snap/pairs Bear positional language cards - use on display, or as part of activity Bear number cards - use on display or print multiple copies to play snap/pairs Bears 1-10 number line strips

This resource includes Story sequencing cards Characters and ‘props’ - print, laminate and add lollipop sticks to create a quick and easy storytelling resource Vocabulary cards Word mat to support early writing Prompts for continuous provision challenges Size matching activity Size vocabulary - thinking about alternative words for big and small to develop vocabulary

Create a calm corner to support children with self-regulation. This resource includes: *Calming corner A4 sign A4 posters with positive affirmations to display Affirmation circles which can be used on display and a selection can be displayed around a mirror to create an interactive aspect to your display Calming techniques A4 posters (e.g. 5 finger breathing and 5-4-3-2-1 calm) Emotions/feelings cards - real faces depicting a range of emotions/feelings

Use for display purposes, part of your continuous provision or as a focus activity Colour names with photograph depicting colour (e.g. red - strawberries) Colour names on crayons and paintbrushes - great for displaying in the mark making and painting area. Colour mixing posters Colour mixing title for display Rainbow sheet - place in a shallow tray cover with sand and encourage mark making to reveal the colours Colour Wheel A4 poster Colour Monsters - can be used to talk about emotions relating to colours (e.g. tickled pink, feeling blue)

PowerPoint with information about the lifecycle of a frog and fun facts. Contains high quality photo images and video clips. Key vocabulary is highlighted in a different colour text. Enjoy talking about the information and the images at your own pace with the children.

Use the cards to identify and talk about a range of emotions and feelings. Can be used as part of a display, as a focus activity or to create a lanyard/keyring resource.

What are schemas and why are they important? A look at 8 different schemas - what the schema is, what it might look like in the child’s play, how to support and extend the schema, vocabulary to introduce/reinforce when commenting on the play schema and story suggestions. These bright A4 cards would look fantastic on display with your own photographs of children demonstrating the schema. Also a useful resource to share with parents/carers so they can support the play schema at home.

A5 sized alphabet cards featuring different logos to enable discussions about print that we can see in the world around us. These will look great on display in any Early Years setting.