Fun, colourful and engaging resources created over 17 years experience as a primary school teacher. Please have a look at my free and premium resources and let me know what you think. If you like my resources, 'follow me' to find out when more become available. The more followers, the merrier!
Fun, colourful and engaging resources created over 17 years experience as a primary school teacher. Please have a look at my free and premium resources and let me know what you think. If you like my resources, 'follow me' to find out when more become available. The more followers, the merrier!
*Added Powerpoint for each lesson*
A week long unit based on Peace at Last to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
Examples of text
Power Point re-telling of story with actions and sound effects.
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*Added Powerpoint for each lesson*
A week long unit based on Not Now, Bernard to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
Examples of text
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*Added Powerpoint for each lesson*
A week long unit based on Elmer to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
Examples of text
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A bumper pack of alphabet activities for children to recognise letters of the alphabet and to identify upper and lower case letters.
Pack includes:
26 page Alphabet Book
26 page Alphabet Colouring
26 page Alphabet Find and Colour
26 Alphabet Playdough Mats
26 page Dictionary Sheets
26 page Letter Sort
Magnetic Letter sheet - capitals
Magnetic Letter sheet - lower case
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A pack of 15 fun summer writing activities to keep everyone amused on those hot days summer days!
The pack includes:
Word Mat
Summer Writing Frames
Acrostic Poem templates
3 things to do this Summer
Noisy Seaside Poem
Summer Senses worksheet
Summer Vowels worksheet
Summer Sounds worksheet
Summer Alphabet worksheet
Summer Bucket List
You might also be interested in Transition Day Resources and Transition Day Power Point</>
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Make the most of those fidget spinners and use them to help with your children's phonics. Use them for daily phonics exercises, assessment or as an intervention.
Included in this pack:
Fidget Spinner Phonemes - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Phonics Words - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Tricky Words - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Alien Words
You might also be interested in Phase 5 Teaching Pack and Phase 3 Teaching Pack</>
Why not have a go at Fidget Spinner Maths
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A 43 page Power Point presentation and 9 activities to use with your new class at the start of the new school year or on transition day.
Slides include:
Would You Rather questions
Find A Friend game
Conversation Starters
Thoughts on new school year
School Tweets activity
If you like this, you might also be interested in Back to School for KS1 and KS2
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A fun pack to celebrate Father's Day. Suitable for KS1 and KS2.
The pack includes:
Father Acrostic Poem
Daddy Acrostic Poem
My Dad Apps
Recipe for a Perfect Dad
Father's Day Word Search
Similes About My Dad
My Dad worksheet
You might also find this All About Me resource useful.
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These alphabet sheets are great for use during morning work, guided reading, handwriting and any literacy activities - good for locating words in the dictionary and recording them. Ideal when laminated and then children can write on and wipe off.
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A set of 19 Phase 5 Phoneme Spotters. Each 'spotter' is written as a postcard and encourages children to read, recognise and find words containing a particular phoneme.
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A colourful word mat with matching pictures and words.
You might also be interested in Jack and The Beanstalk Planning and Resources
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A 2 week unit plan for teaching Jack and the Beanstalk. Children are actively involved in learning - activities are differentiated and the plan is adaptable to suit the needs of your children.
Resources include:
2 week unit plan with differentiated activities
PowerPoint and PDF of the story with actions(Pie Corbett technique)
Word Cards for display
Word Mat
Giant Character Portrait Worksheet
Pictures of Giant and Villains
Sequencing Pictures
Story Sequencing Snake(Pie Corbett technique)
Storyboard Worksheet - 3 levels of differentiation
Synonyms for BIG worksheet
You might also be interested in Plants and Butterflies Plan and Resources as a Science topic.
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A colourful word mat with pictures to help your children when writing.
If you like this you might also be interested in Handa’s Surprise Plan and Resources
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A KS1 English plan covering 5 lessons on teaching the story Handa's Surprise. The plan is adaptable to suit the needs of your children and activities are differentiated.
Resources Include:
Unit Plan with differentiated activities
Word Cards for display
Wordmat
Capital Letter Hunt worksheet and activity
Fruit Kebab Instructions
Blank Fruit Kebab Instructions worksheet
Letters on Fruits
Sequencing Pictures
Shopping List worksheet
Thank You Letter template
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Everything you need to teach Phase 5 and cheaper than if all the resources were bought individually!
Pack contains:
Buried Treasure
Nonsense word flashcards
Bingo
Word search
Phase 5 phonemes
Phase 5 words
Phoneme Spotters
Roll and Read game
You might also be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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A great game for children to read words containing Phase 5 sounds. Just roll the dice, read a word in that row and cover it with a counter.
To own a complete set of Phase 5 resources you might be interested in Phase 5 Teaching Pack
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A great game for children to read words containing Phase 3 sounds. Just roll the dice, read a word in that row and cover it with a counter.
To own a complete set of Phase 3 resources you might be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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A set of Bingo cards using words containing all the Phase 5 phonemes.
To own a complete set of Phase 5 resources you might be interested in Phase 5 Teaching Pack
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A colourful word mat with pictures to help your children when writing.
If you like this you might also be interested in The Very Hungry Caterpillar Plan and Resources
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A colourful word mat with pictures to help your children when writing.
If you like this then you might be interested in Peace at Last Plan and Resources
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