Looking for an activity for the first week of school?
This is a lesson PPT, Lesson plan and resources I used for a PSHE lesson I did for an interview (I got the job!) The lesson was on the book The Bad Seed and focuses on reputation. I use this for transition day for any children who may have been label as ‘the bad kid’ in their current year group to let them know that their year with me is an opportunity for a fresh start.
In this download, you will find the lesson PowerPoint I used as well as the resources I created to accompany it. As the children worked on a resource I amended from a product purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers, that resources has been linked on the first page of the RESOURCES file as well as links to the book or an read aloud on Youtube.
This resources was used with a Year 3 class but it easily adaptable for any year group.
I’m rolling out all the hits today!
My Timetable Cards… but editable!!
I realised that my cards were a bit… limited considering that I made them for my classroom so here are an editable version so you can add all the little bits that are unique to your classroom.
Include in this download are a range of icons including those used in my original timetable card download as well as some others that may be useful to you. Basically, if it looked vaguely like I could use it in a timetable, I included it.
Another print on card, laminate and cut resource, this can be ready for your classroom in no time!
For use in both EYFS and Key Stages 1 and 2, here are the transition day activities I showed on my Instagram.
These activities are what I plan to use on my transition day next week and I wanted to share them with you all! In this download there are three activities:
All About Me Poster
Find Someone Who
Letter Template
Activities 1 and 2 can be used together which I am planning to do using a gallery walk for children to go and find someone who but you can always do them independantly.
This download includes a PDF version of all three sheets for printing out but there will be an PPT (PowerPoint) version coming soon!
Here are my job application forms to match my classroom jobs!
These application forms include the skills required, the salary in Dojo Points and space for children to write why they think they’re good for the job but are editable for you to add your own description of the job.
Jobs included in this resource:
Water Bottle
News Reporter
Register Monitor
Lunch Counter
Class Librarian
Chair Stacker
Morning Greeter
Mail Person
Eco Team
Teaching Assistant
Photographer
Messenger
Line Leader
Tech Team
Class Leader
I am using these in my classroom to emphasise the importance of the jobs and their role in the classroom as well as get the children excited about the chance to be a part of the class!
To use this resource, simply click in the black box and start typing! I recommend saving the finished document as a PDF file and then printing them all 2 to a page. Keep these as originals and then you can photocopy as many as you need.
I’m also introducing the jobs to my class first and making these forms available for the children to fill in and hand in whenever they want!
Here’s a template in made to help me label and organise all my evidence for the teachind standards.
A simple templete to use for printing on Post It Notes that can then be attached to evidence and ready to file!
This download includes 1 blank template for placing Post Its, 2 sheets with the Standards and lines for making notes and guidelines for using the templates.
You asked? I answered!
These Visual Timetable cards can be used in any classroom from EYFS to Year Six; all with a friendly font and image to match.
Include in this download are lessons such as:
Art
Science
Guided Reading
Maths
Geography
STEM
As well as Special Events such as
Picture Days
Trip Out
Jigsaw Time
Play Practice
Celebration Assembly
Currently, there are 32 Timetable Cards include in the download available as a PDF file. Just print on card and laminate and they’ll be ready to use in your class to display tour daily or weekly timetable for your class!
Have some specific subjects? Look out in my store for my Editable Timetable Cards!!
When I recieved my timetable for the year, I was baffled! Between the colours, highlighting and confusing abbreivations, I couldn’t work out what I was teaching let alone when!
Here is a MUCH simpler template that I used to rewrite my timetable in a way I could actually understand! The download includes 2 completely editable templates , 1 horizontal and 1 vertical to suit your needs as well as a how to guide to help you make it your own!
Thank you for stopping by!! I made this product to set up my very first classroom and there was quite a bit of interest so I decided to upload it! Please note, it was made for MY classroom so I’ve only included the jobs that were suggested to me over on Instagram but if you’d like to edit the wording, I have embedded the fonts in the PowerPoint for you to edit!
Features of this product:
Cute icons to make it visible
12 Classroom Jobs included
Print, Laminate and Cut assembly
Low colour to save ink
Please read the note included for more details and assembly tips.
Debit Cards to use with Class Dojo
Encourage responsibility by encouraging your class to keep track of their dojo points. Fab to use if you use dojo points as currency and your class can use them to buy rewards and prizes.
Two versions - rounded rectangle and rectangle to save your wrists when cutting! I recommend printing on card and laminating for long term use each year!
In my classroom, I plan to have a learning focus wall with key vocabulary, exemplar work and… the national curriculum objective. I feel it’s important know that we’re sitting for 20 minutes a day practicing how to join the letters ay because we have to. With the curriculum objective on the wall for them to see, the children know what we’re working towards and are able to assess their progress.
These curriculum objectives are:
split into the different ‘topics’ stated in the national curriculum and colour coded
rewritten in kid speak where needed but otherwise use the wording from the curriculum
Landscape A4 to allow you to easily display them on your wall.
This download includes the English, Maths and Science Curriculum Aims for Year 1 in a PDF and just need printing and laminating ready to display! Please note, I am working on a low colour and black and white version as well as editable versions to change the wording to suit you.
These Letter Formation Sheets were designed to support phonics lesson I am teaching next week. They can be used as printed on card, colored paper and laminated for continuous provision or as part of a main lesson in EYFS or even as an early intervention in Year 1. They can be independent work, group work or completed with adult support.
There is a sheet for each letter and each one has six different ways for children to form the letter
Trace it
Make it
Scribble it
Draw it
Colour it
Dot it
and focuses on getting children comfortable and familiar with the shapes of each letter.
Here’s a worksheet for EYFS to help children practice forming numbers in numeral and written form.
This sheet asks children to read a numeral form, trace and write the written form and finally represent the number either in a drawing or on a ten frame. The sheet uses a box font to encourage children to think about tall, small and hanging letters.
There are two different forms of differentiation:
The Draw It! worksheet for LA students who can draw their representation
The Ten Frame It! worksheet for MA and HA students who can represent numbers on a ten frame
This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given. Dice It!, Domino It! and Numicon It! to be added at a later date.
Here’s my Fill the Gap worksheet
This is a very simple worksheet that focuses on number sequencing and encouraging children to think about one more and one less. This sheet asks children to fill in the missing numbers and has a number line at the bottom that can be removed or hidden for High Attaining Students.
There are three different worksheets that work as levels of differentiation:
A 1 to 10 worksheet for LA Students
A 5 to 15 worksheet for MA Students
A 10 - 20 Worksheet for HA Students
This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given. Numbers 20 - 50 to be added in the future.
Here’s my Exploring Numbers Around Us worksheet.
This is a simple counting activity that encouraged children to think about numbers in real world context such as counting up children in the class of the numbers that are important to them.
There are two worksheets included:
Numbers in ME! which encourages children to think about the numbers that are special to them such as their age or their birthday
Numbers in my Classroom! which encourages children to think about the numbers in their classroom such as the number of children with brown hair.
This product was one of my first and I’m super happy with how it turned out. I hope to update it to include other representations of numbers as ten frames aren’t often used in the UK.
Here’s my Making Patterns worksheet
This is a very simple worksheet that focuses on identifying, completing and making patterns. This sheet asks children to observe the patterns on the worksheet, complete it and them create their own.
These sheets come with two different levels of differentiation:
A sheet with missing elements at the end
A sheet with missing elements throughout the worksheet
This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given and gives children a chance to practice shape vocabulary.
Here’s my Shape Spotting worksheet for EYFS.
This download includes 4 worksheets that ask children to either color in specific shapes or count how many shapes that can see.
The objectives of this sheet is to encourage children to recognise shapes by their characteristics rather than what they know. i.e. this shape has no corners so it’s a circle. It’s useful as the shapes are in different rotations, translations and sizes so encourages children to really think about characteristics.
Differentiation is in the form of the two different sheets: LA can be encouraged to focus on improving their knowledge of shapes characteristics with the coloring sheet whereas MA and HA can incorporate number skills with the counting sheet. Furthermore, one set of sheets use ‘basic’ shapes such as square, rectangle, cirlce and the other has diamonds, hexagons etc.
Links to:
Shape, Space and Measure
Counting
Numbers
Here’s my Number Trains worksheet
This is a simple worksheet that focuses on Number Bonds from 4 to 8. This sheet asks children to investigate and records the numbers bonds for these numbers and can be used with manipulatives, specifically colored cubes.
The downloads includes 8 different worksheets (one for each one number 4 - 8), a thank you notes and a sample worksheet.
Here’s my Writing the Alphabet worksheet for EYFS and the very first product I created!
This sheet focuses on letter formation and asks children trace the letter 5 times then to represent the letters of the alphabet in 9 different ways:
Write It! - Simply write the letter
Trace It!
Dot It! - to write the letters in dots
Colour It! - use colouring pens/ pencils to write the letter
Cross It! - to write the letter in small crosses
Stamp It! - to stamp the letter in the space
Stick It! - to stick in the letter (foam letters, cut out letters)
Make It! - to make the letter out of string, wool, match sticks
Reveal It! - to write the letter in white crayon then reveal it in pen
This is useful as it allows children to become familiar with the formation of the letter through repetition.
Different means of support can be added to differentiate the activities such as allowing HA students to search for the correcrt letter stamp whilst LA students have the stamp provided.