Hand Signals > Hands up! In my class, I taught the children to use hand signals to communicate various needs including needing the toilet to needing help. This has cut down on shouting out, interruptions and has even supported the children’s communication and independence! If you want to know more about how (and why) I use hand signals, feel free to read my blog post! Note: These hand signals were made using a paid resource from Lidia Barbossa’s clip art so I haven’t included all the available hand signals!

The resource is Year 1 High Frequency Words written on wolves. I made the resource for my class to have a ‘wolf hunt’ as part of our Three Little Pigs Unit. The blank wolves are from Sparklebox

There’s a lot of debate around using PowerPoint in lessons, it’s a bit like marmite but for me, having slide provide a sense of routine and structure both for me and the children. I find that having the same thing on the board helps to set the day and start transition between lessons. Here are the Daily Slide I use every single day with my class! This PPT Set include: Morning Work Slides Morning Meeting Slides Break Time Slides Lunch Time Slides Hometime Slides Blank Slide for editing! The fonts used in these slide are KG Blank Space (available free on 1001Fonts) and LetterJoin (KG First time in Forever is a free alternative with a similar look)

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!

Love Powerpoint? Same! In my class, I use a weekly PowerPoint to keep my day in order from Monday’s morning work to Friday’s Goodbye message! This helps me to structure my day and have an idea of the week ahead as well as allowing me to easily swap around lessons when inevitable interruptions occur! This resource includes … slides for use in your weekly presentation including: Morning Work Slide Lesson Slide Transition Slides Misc. Use Slides I’ve also included tutorial slides on my commonly used ‘techniques’ for creating and editting my powerpoints such as converting videos from Youtube and changing images. Please note: this resources include the EDITABLE TEMPLATE used to created my weekly powerpoints and so DOESN’T include any icons or fonts used. These can be found at Flaticon and 1001 fonts Happy PowerPointing!!

For us with Goodnotes or another digital planner

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.

Some pastel green plant themed desktop wallpapers with motivational plant themed quotes! Use in my classroom this year as I had a green/ nature/ plant theme!

In this download is a file containing 37 slides that can be duplicated and rearranged to create a teaching presentation! I often (I mean, ALWAYS) use these to keep myself organised and on track during the day. The slides include: 2 slides containing video timers and icons to use in the Powerpoint. A selection of 8 morning slides A selection of 5 lesson slides (in blue, green and purple) 7 content slide to add videos, text or images for whole class teaching 2 Transition slide for break/ lunch and end of day! This presentation was created in response to my Instagram and there’s a video showing how I made it on my Youtube Channel (@oshierusensei) if you need and tips and tricks! Hope this is useful!!

Over 140 ‘would you rather’ questions to discuss with your class during circle times or spare moments! Can be used to create a display (I have mine on the window for children and parents to debate while they waited but can also fold them up and have them in a basket!

Levels of Understanding for your children to self assess with before or after a lesson

A 1 page Job application form with embedded fonts for you to change the jobs! If you have my classroom jobs, this was made to go along side it! If not, just change the job titles!

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!

I have so many resources from last year and wanted to share them to clear my hard drive! haha These are some visual instructions of how to use your brain break area (or calm corner!)

[EDITED] Changed ‘Miss Lewis’ to a general ‘my teacher’! Apologies! forgot to amend that! Please redownload if you’ve got it! A simple worry web to aid children in communicating their worries and needs to you.

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!

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!!

I wanted to some certificates that did more than reward children for good work or good behaviour and the “of the week” certificates were born! These certificates rewards values such as teamwork and friendliness as well as other learning qualities such as creativity, mathematical thinking and exploration. Each certificate have a quote relating to the award at the bottom of the page Certificates included in this resource: Mathematician Friend Team Player Explorer Musician Inventor Artist Inventor Scientist Author Reader Star I am using these in my classroom alongside Wholehearted School Counselling’s “I am an … when” resource to let children know what it means to have these qualities and will be giving them out during our weekly Friday afternoons to take home. To use this resource, simply print either full size or 2 to a page (depending on your preference), add the child’s name and comment, sign underneath the ‘Keep up the good work’ caption and hand out! The fonts SHOULD be embedded but if they aren’t the headings are KG Blank Space and the main text is KG First Time in Forever both found on dafont!

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!

Anyone else as excited to get into their classroom as me!? Being an NQT, I’m terrified of forgetting something crucial or being unprepared in my NQT year so I’ve put together a Classroom set up checklist and once I started, I couldn’t stop there!! In this download, you get: one ‘general’ classroom set up checklist filled with all the things I’m doing, in the order I’m doing it three blank checklists for you to fill in (classroom set up, first week of school prep, weekly lesson plan prep) I hope these help you with classroom set up and help your NQT week to smoothly!!