Thanks for stopping by my shop. I am an experienced chartered primary teacher who has taught predominantly in Scotland. I also taught in England, Australia and in the Middle East. I produce a range of quality resources that provide depth and breadth. These resources should enhance the learning experience of pupils. There are many opportunities for active learning as well as structured tasks that consolidate and reinforce knowledge and application. Enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by my shop. I am an experienced chartered primary teacher who has taught predominantly in Scotland. I also taught in England, Australia and in the Middle East. I produce a range of quality resources that provide depth and breadth. These resources should enhance the learning experience of pupils. There are many opportunities for active learning as well as structured tasks that consolidate and reinforce knowledge and application. Enjoy!
These resources deal with both seasons: Autumn and Winter.
The engaging, colourful PowerPoint presentation introduces each season clearly with opportunities to gain knowledge, reflect and complete a variety of accompanying tasks. There are also online links provided to consolidate and enhance the learning and appreciation of our natural world.
I have provided worksheets ( Microsoft Word) that are linked to each task.
The tasks include:
design an autumn outfit
use ‘autumn’ colours to shade a variety of leaves
label a bear
classify animals that migrate/adapt/hibernate
label winter animals
enjoy an autumn poem and answer questions ( oral or written response)
listen to a wonderful winter story and reflect on characters and actions
follow an online tutorial to draw a winter tree ( easy version)
the last slide provides online links to videos which will further enhance the children’s knowledge of seasonal changes. These can be used as a starter /plenary or a teacher may choose to show segments of the videos.
I created these presentations/resources for my class as a series of cross curricular lessons on minibeasts.
The resource bundle has simple and appealing presentations to introduce minibeasts and food chains. I have included tasks and active learning throughout the presentations. I feel that young learners benefit from clear and concise minibeast facts as many of the relevant non fiction texts are too difficult for early readers to access.
The Butterfly Presentation includes:
simple factual information about butterflies to read and discuss
opportunities to build up important ‘butterfly’ vocabulary before writing ( mini whiteboard task)
factual writing task with sentence stems
a labelling task and life cycle sequencing task
‘butterfly’ poems to read, enjoy, discuss and perform
simple ‘draw a butterfly’ task & alternative ‘cut and stick’ task
The Spider presentation includes:
simple factual information about spiders to read and discuss
opportunities to build up important ‘spider’ vocabulary before writing (mini whiteboard task)
factual writing task with sentence stems
a labelling task ( spider’s body)
‘spider’ poems to read, enjoy, discuss and perform
simple art lesson for a spider web
The Minibeast Poetry presentation provides an opportunity for learners to compose a minibeast poem. It details the structure
of the poem and has appealing graphics and suggestions to aid composition.
In addition, there is a basic introduction to food chains with pupil tasks.
Links are also provided throughout all the presentations to appropriate minibeast songs/stories that enhance and enrich the learners’ experience as well as active tasks/games e.g. complete the food chain.
Finally, some more general resources are included on living & non-living things and a ‘roll a dice’ task (minibeast body parts) which would be an ideal starting point for very young learners.
Would be delighted if you could leave feedback.
4 sets of resources that cover the transition from autumn to winter.
Lots of opportunities to gain insight about these wonderful seasons.
Resources include:
relevant facts to enjoy
cut and stick activities
matching tasks
early sentence construction relating to the seasons
online links to relevant seasonal stories
poems to share and enjoy
drawing tasks
introduction of seasonal vocabulary
active learning
winter word walls, handwriting,winter writing tasks
winter key words task ( mini whiteboards),
‘Jack Frost’ poem ,
winter weather cut and stick task,
winter clothes drawing and labelling task,
Further literacy tasks based on animals of the Arctic.
It contains:
factual passages about 4 Arctic creatures -
Snowy Owl
Arctic Fox,
Polar Bear
Arctic Wolf
There are:
grammar tasks about each creature,
writing tasks about each creature.
All of these resources are ideal for a winter themed topic.
I have included simple tasks for learners who need more support as well as more demanding tasks for learners that enjoy challenge.
Enjoy!