Ready-to-go editable slides for your students to See Think Feel & Wonder about the topic of Climate Change! The prep is all done for you - simply assign the Google Slides to your students on Google Classroom and your students will be all set to go with thought-provoking picture prompts and tables to record their responses. Easy!
If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce a new topic to your students, ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ is the way to go! It’s a way to spark discussions and unearth students’ prior knowledge and perceptions. The aim is to encourage students to dig deeper than just surface-level observations and GET CURIOUS about the world around them.
The pictures in this resource include: Transport, deforestation, farming, bush fires, glacier melting, factory pollution and protest for climate change. Photo credit to the following Pixabay artists (in order of pictures): makabera, MariaGullestrup, NickyPe, rauschenberger, shivaphotographyy, Picography, stevePB (2), Manubird, cubicroot
How I recommend using these Google Slides:
Complete the Bus Stop activity outlined in the printable version with students either just discussing their ideas or recording their responses on post-it notes.
Show students the Google Slides and model how to fill in the ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ charts, ensuring that you are specific about your personal expectations of length/quality of responses.
Make the slides available for students to complete independently through the ‘Create an Assignment’ function on Google Classroom (explained below).
Look at the assignments once they have been submitted by your students and use this information to identify prior knowledge, misconceptions and possible areas to explore further in following lessons.
If you haven’t used the ‘Create an Assignment’ function in Google Classroom before, you can check out instructions on Google support. There are also a bunch of videos out there you can watch on Youtube if that’s easier for you!
The most important thing is that when you first create the assignment, you select ‘Make a copy for each student’. This means that your students will all get their own copy of the slides with their name added to the document title. You and the student will be able to edit their copy of the document and, importantly, your students will not be able to edit your original copy of the slides (yes, I have made this mistake before!).
Please note: When you purchase this resource, you will download a PDF which gives you access to the Editable Google Slides. After clicking the link, you will be prompted to ‘Make a Copy’ of the resource which will automatically save to your personal Google Drive. Please ensure that you are signed into your Google account to enable this.
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Just what you always needed - the mighty hundred square!
This pack comes with:
A4 Hundred Square (1-100)
A5 Hundred Squares (2 per sheet to save paper!)
A4 Blank Number Square (10x10 blank squares)
A5 Blank Number Squares (2 per sheet to save paper!)
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Get your students generating ideas before a piece of writing!
Comes in present tense (I can see…) and past tense (I saw…) versions so you can use it for both those descriptive moment-in-time and recount pieces of writing!
2 pages, pdf
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Say goodbye to constant reminders about full stops and capital letters and say hello to student-led improvements with these proofreading and editing cards!
These differentiated cards are carefully crafted to suit various writing genres, ensuring that while success criteria may change, the core elements of effective writing remain consistent.
With this resource, students can take charge of their own writing by engaging in the essential steps of proofreading and editing (aka “re-crafting”). Encouraging independent checking and enhancing their written work not only cultivates valuable skills but also saves us precious time and preserves our teacher sanity during lessons!
Check out the different versions available within this resource to discover the perfect fit for each of your learners. You’ll find:
6x versions of proofreading cards
6x versions of editing/re-crafting cards (choose your preferred option)
These versatile cards transcend specific genres, making them ideal for narratives, descriptions, recounts, and beyond! All that’s left to do now is print, cut and laminate.
Bring on those literary masterpieces!
18 pages, pdf
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We’ve got to build positive school cultures if we want teachers to be able to thrive. If you’re looking to boost morale, promote well-being and increase motivation, here are some ideas you can use yourself, with your team or for the whole staff body.
I’m out to help teachers feel good and teach at their best. I believe that we can achieve this through four key areas:
Being purposeful - Having intent behind our actions and connecting with what’s important with us to stay motivated
Being in control - Focusing on what’s within our locus of control and building helpful habits into our daily routines
Being inspired - Being a learner at heart, open to new ways of doing things, taking opportunities to grow and keeping our teaching ‘fresh’
Knowing we’ve done enough - Valuing ourselves and fostering a school culture of positivity and celebration where we are all happy and proud to call ourselves teachers.
It’s a shame that ‘well-being’ initiatives and activities have a reputation for ‘missing the mark’ or feeling tokenistic because we have an undeniable need to see more of them in our schools. We’ve got to get the talk going, engage in authentic experiences and really build well-being into our school cultures so it’s a given - not a bonus.
I hope you find this resource helpful and that, at the very least, it sets the wheels in motion for building a community of happy and supportive teachers at your school. Together let’s make schools the positive environments they should be and make teaching the uplifting experience we all want it to be.
Go well, team! ☺
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Launch into learning about climate change with this set of picture prompts! This resource comes with 10 thought-provoking pictures as well as a recording worksheet for students.
If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce a new topic to your students, ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ is the way to go! Use this activity to spark discussion and explore students’ prior knowledge and perceptions. The aim is to encourage students to dig deeper than just surface-level observations and GET CURIOUS about the world around them.
My favourite way to use this in class is as a Bus Stop or Carousel activity. For this, you’ll want to print off the photos (A4 or A3-sized) and spread them out around the classroom. Split students into small groups and get them to move between each of the stations, discussing and recording their thoughts.
Post-it-notes are a great way for students to record their ideas anonymously and can later be collated to guide a whole class discussion. If you’d like students to record their responses for their workbooks, I’ve included a template for you to use at the end of this resource. I’ve also included some headings which you can print off to create a wall display alongside the picture prompts and student responses.
Photo credit to the following Pixabay artists (in order of pictures): makabera, MariaGullestrup, NickyPe, rauschenberger, shivaphotographyy, Picography, stevePB (2), Manubird, cubicroot
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How would you sum up 2022? How do you want to be able to sum up 2023? Start the year off with purpose and set yourself up to make the most of the year ahead.
I’m all about teachers taking back control and creating the conditions where we can all thrive. Teaching is tough but together we have the capability to excel AND feel good doing it.
This giveaway comes with a printable affirmation card, goal-setting activity for you (yes, teachers need goals much as their students), and a link to a desktop wallpaper template on Canva which you can customise.
Let me know how you get on!
Until next time,
Kath x
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Take a seat Hamburger Planners…say hello to a new range of graphic organizers! These printable planning templates are perfect for both teacher modelling and student recording in the pre-writing stage of the writing process!
Not to mention, each design is different because no writing genre is the same, right? So why wouldn’t we reflect that in our planning?
This 64-page resource contains a range of single page planning sheets with prompts and recording space. The planning sheets are designed to be used for students in Year 3-6 but knowing my past students, these would still be great fits for both my Year 2 and Year 7 students and I would just alter my expectation around detail, vocabulary, number of paragraphs etc to suit varying abilities.
This resource comes in both colour and grayscale versions for the following Writing genres:
Narrative (1)
Recount (1)
Information Report (1)
Explanation (3)
Biography (1)
Letter (1)
Persuasive (2)
Descriptive (3 - Character, Setting, Object)
Instructions (1)
It is part of a new line of teaching resources I’m working on called PLAN IT WRITE IT IMPROVE IT and for a limited time, ALSO includes the writing frames which correspond with each of the planning sheets!
Planning a piece of writing is one of my favourite things to do - generating ideas and vocabulary…seeing the seeds of a great piece of writing sprouting in front of my eyes…ooh it gets me excited! But I know that it is the stage of the writing process that a lot of students struggle with so I want to do the best I can to make it as easy and inspiring as I can.
64 pages, printable PDF
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Ready to dive into Biography Writing with your students? My students LOVE making little books (often for comics) so I figured why not turn Biography Writing into booklet form too?!
I’ve created several versions to help you differentiate for students of varying writing abilities. When you download this, have a scroll through to pick out what’ll work best for your students!
This resource contains 97 pages with multiple versions:
Year 1-2 booklet (8 pages x4 versions with sentence starter prompts)
Year 3-4 booklet (8 pages x2 versions)
Year 5-6 booklet (10 pages x1 version)
Year 7-8 booklet (12 pages x2 versions)
*Product last updated 27/06/23 (removal of square bordering and update of some fonts)
Biography Writing is great fun in that students get the opportunity to research a significant person of interest or influence. The trouble is that Biography Writing tends to get quite research-heavy. That’s why it’s important to make the recording of facts and writing up of information fun and achievable!
Using booklets gives students ownership of their writing and chunks the task into manageable bite-sized sections. And of course, the chance to colour in and add illustrations! You can even turn it into a group project by divvying up the pages amongst group members before securing them together into a full booklet!
I recommend printing out two pages per A4 sheet to make A5-sized booklets. Trim off any excess paper around the border before stapling or hole-punching and securing the pages together.
Let me know how your students get on with it! Happy writing!
If you’re after a biography planning template, check this out or if you’re looking for success criteria for biography writing have a look at this!
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Need a writing frame for an assessment or piece of published writing? This 12-page resource includes 3 blank writing frame templates; narrow lines and picture box, wide lines and picture box, and full page narrow lines.
Bonus: Also includes a diary writing template, summer-themed borders and heart borders, perfect for Valentine’s Day letters!
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Just what you need for your next Science experiment! On this worksheet, students will need to record the equipment and ingredients required to make salt crystals, the method they used to make them and observational drawings recorded once per week.
I created this worksheet to use with my Year 2 students during our Science unit on Rocks. My students loved this activity and especially liked how they could add food colouring to get different coloured salt crystals! Just a word of warning to ensure that all of your students create a super-saturated solution (to the point where no more salt can dissolve in the water), otherwise you’re at risk of getting some very disappointed little faces!
I also included a WALT (We Are Learning To) and Success Criteria at the top of the worksheet.
Hope you find it helpful!
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Who doesn’t love a bit of colouring in?! This resource contains 7 original hand drawn houses inspired by the colourful houses on the island of Burano. If you’re after a wall display for your classroom, you can get your students to cut out their houses and then stick them up in a row to make a piece of collective artwork - teamwork makes the dream work, right?!
I instantly fell in love with the island of Burano on my whistle-stop trip there last year. I loved how despite being a seemingly random array of colours and a little wonky, everything just looked so in place. Perfectly imperfect.
I’m super excited to create more classroom resources inspired by my travels! Here’s what I’ve created so far - hope you find something that takes your fancy!
Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Theme
Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Blush Theme
Word Wall | Alphabet & Sight Words | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice
Number Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Pastels
Student Name Tags for Desks | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Burano
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Check out these editable name labels, inspired by Burano, Venice! Simply type your students’ names, print and laminate!
This resource comes in a range of colour schemes and the option to edit the text and background colour on Google Slides. All of the artwork is original hand drawn pieces based on the photos I took on my whistle-stop trip to Burano!
The four different colour schemes to choose from are: Brights, Blush, Bright Pastels, and Cools. You will also find a black & white version which just has the outlines so that your students can customise their own name labels!
The start of term is always hectic but is also a super exciting time to recreate your classroom space for your next group of students! If you’re after some more travel-inspired classroom deco, check out these other products also inspired by Burano:
Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Theme
Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Blush Theme
Word Wall | Alphabet & Sight Words | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice
Number Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Pastels
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Count to 20 in style with this number wall display inspired by Burano, Venice! This is the perfect addition to your primary school classroom, giving you a taste of travel and creating a colourful display that students will love too!
This resource contains 3 sets of numbers 1-20, designed to be cut out, laminated and displayed. The first set were hand drawn by me - hope you like them! Just in case you’re after less ‘busy’ displays, I’ve also created a couple of simplified versions so you can still get your splash of colour without the extras! There are 2 numbers per A4 page (each letter is approx. A5 size).
My inspiration for this classroom display came from my whistle-stop trip to Burano, one of the islands north west of Venice. I instantly fell in love with the bright colours and how everything seemed so ‘in place’ despite the seemingly random placement of colours. Using my photos as the starting point, I came up with several colour schemes and sketched different housing designs to import into and edit on Illustrator. The colour scheme of this resource is bright pastels!
I’m going to continue designing classroom decor products inspired by my travels so keep your eyes peeled!
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Are you ready to smash out your planning? Grab these free lesson planning templates so you can get back to what’s really important: Creating your next inspiring lesson for your students!
This resource comes as 24-page PDF document with a link to Google Docs for the editable version.
Inside you’ll find the following editable lesson plan templates:
Stand-alone lesson plan
Weekly plan (one subject)
Tumble
Weekly timetable (all subjects)
Unit plan
Term overview
BONUS: Drag ‘n’ drop timetable builder!
Enjoy!
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Start the new term off with a bang! This booklet contains a range of activities from art to designing an app, to coding and sharing a powerful message with the world! There are 18 printable worksheets that can be used as stand-alone tasks or as a series of activities to get students engaged and excited about the school year ahead. 2024 & 2025 covers included.
Check out the 10 activities included in this pack:
Pixel selfie - Okay, so we don’t all have a flash camera. Colour in the squares to show what a pixelated photo of yourself would look like! Do you think you could recognise yourself?
Design your own denim jacket - Personalise your denim jacket with colours, patches, patterns and text to represent you!
Goal setting - Aim high this year and set yourself some challenging, but achievable goals. Set two personal and two academic goals and outline how you will work towards achieving them
Holiday storyboard - What adventures did you get up to over the holidays? Did you have some exciting moments or a series of unfortunate events? Draw or describe a moment, then show what happened 10 seconds before and after it!
Design an app - What problem could be easily be solved with the swipe of a screen and push of a button? Find a solution for your target audience then design an easy-to-use UI (user interface) for your app!
Create a character - Time to head to the character selection screen! Turn yourself into a character for an adventure video game. What are your character’s special abilities and what are their secret weaknesses?
My sphere - Where do you sit in this big-little world? Who are the people who influence you and, in turn, you influence back? Write their names in the appropriate circle:
Invent a game - You make the rules! Invent a game that could be played with your classmates, complete with an equipment list and diagram of how it works!
Encode it - Can you speak the language of computers? In this task, you will need to write a message to a buddy BUT you may only use two symbols: 0 and 1.
Message to the world - This is your chance to speak up! What message do you think the world needs to hear? S-t-r-e-t-c-h out your text to touch the lines.
Hope your students love it!
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Looking sharp in your #ORIGINAL denim jacket! This fun back to school activity will get your students’ creative juices flowing! Learn about what makes your students unique and create an eye-catching wall display for your classroom…it’s a win-win!
This PDF contains 16 versions of my hand-drawn denim jacket design worksheet so you can take your pick on which one you’d like to use! Variations include:
Cut & paste patches
Design own patches
Front/back of jacket
About me prompts
Display version
Blank version
Portrait/landscape
These are designed to be printed out A3 size and cut out to make classroom displays.
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Brighten up your classroom with these editable alphabet and sight word wall displays, inspired by Burano, Venice! These are perfect for junior classrooms to use as visual prompts on the wall or as a set of flash cards for reading and writing practice. This product includesthe hand-drawn Burano houses from Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Theme!
This resource contains:
Alphabet headers (3 versions)
Alphabet word cards (2 versions, editable)
Sight word (high frequency word) cards (2 versions, one editable)
There are 97 pages in the PDF version of this resource. This PDF includes a link to a 58-page Google Slides document in which the text can be edited.
My inspiration for this set of classroom decor products came from my whistle-stop trip to Burano, one of the islands north west of Venice. I instantly fell in love with the bright colours and how everything seemed so ‘in place’ despite the seemingly random placement of colours.
I’m going to continue designing classroom decor products inspired by my travels so keep your eyes peeled!
Enjoy!
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Change up your classroom decor this term with a little slice of Venice! This alphabet wall display (now in BRIGHT and BLUSH colour schemes) is the perfect addition to your primary school classroom. Taking inspiration from the colourful houses on the island of Burano, these sets of letters will give you a taste of travel and make a beautiful display that students will love too!
This resource contains 3 sets of alphabet letters in 2 colour schemes, designed to be cut out, laminated and displayed. The first set were hand drawn by me - hope you like them! Just in case you’re after less ‘busy’ displays, I’ve also created a couple of simplified versions so you can still get your splash of colour without the extras! There are 2 letters per A4 page (each letter is approx. A5 size).
My inspiration for this classroom display came from my whistle-stop trip to Burano, one of the islands north west of Venice. I instantly fell in love with the array of colours and how they all seemed so ‘in place’ despite being seemingly random. Using my photos as the starting point, I came up with several colour schemes and sketched different housing designs to import into and edit on Illustrator.
I’m going to continue designing classroom decor products inspired by my travels so keep your eyes peeled!
Enjoy!
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Get your students confidently multiplying and dividing fractions with this resource bundle! With cheat sheets to step through the processes of solving multiplication and division equations, your students will be well-equipped to work through the worksheet tasks.
This bundle contains:
How to Multiply Fractions Cheat Sheet
How to Divide Fractions Cheat Sheet
Worksheets for Multiplying Fractions - including word problems and answer keys
Worksheet on Dividing Fractions - including answer keys
Click on the individual resources to find out more about what’s included in each!
If you’re heading into a Fractions unit, get sorted with this Worksheets for Fractions bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12673231
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