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Plan and relax with this unique 2018 Colouring Calendar! This is a great tool for your students (or even you!) to start off this brand new year on the right track with a growth mindset.
Each month has its own uniquely hand drawn monthly colouring page with a special section on each for “goals” and what you’re “grateful for”. You won’t see any other print like this as each one has been uniquely designed for this calendar by yours truly!
This is a fantastic tool for ensuring you are focused on gratitude during the month as well as keeping a regular sight on your monthly goals. It also makes as a great keepsake to look back on in the future too!
I hope you and your students enjoy planning, setting goals and focusing on the positive with this unique colouring calendar for 2018!
Christmas themed activities for older students at differentiated levels, ideal for art integration and developing problem solving skills!
We all know Christmas is an exciting time of year, but towards the end it can be really challenging to keep our students (and ourselves!?) motivated and engaged.
This resource will save your sanity in the last few days before the end of term at Christmas break!
You and your students will get:
• differentiated levels of challenge
• independent learning opportunities
• to practice fine motor skills
• opportunities for art integration
• to develop problem solving skills
• hand made gifts to take home
• fun and engaging activities for the end of the year - a more educational alternative to just sitting in front of yet another DVD!
There are a range of Christmas decorations included which are differentiated to suit a variety of abilities (3 of them are particularly challenging and are ideal for developing problem solving skills!)
There are both blank and already decorated templates to suit your students’ needs. All clip art is original, designed by me and can’t be found elsewhere! :)
For each decoration, there are visual instructions that you can choose to show your students (or not for some extra problem solving challenges!)
I hope your students enjoy making these fun paper craft ornaments this Christmas!
Your students are going to love these Interactive Notebook Emoji Exit Tickets – ideal for Growth Mindset! They are a great way for students to reflect on their Growth Mindset behaviour and thinking in a fun, interactive and relatable way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson that you can then use to plan differentiated lessons to suit their needs.
There are 10 types of Interactive Notebook Emoji exit tickets all prompting something different for students to reflect on. They work well for early finishers and as they come in different sizes, they work well for bulletin boards too!
I know your students will definitely think you are the most super awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson; this is a great way of getting them excited and enthused in your lessons - plus, they look fantastic up on display in your classroom!
Student self assessment is a great way to check for understanding. Students love Interactive Notebooks and this editable resource is a fun and unique set of printable foldable exit tickets that enable students to reflect on their learning in a fun and modern way! They are great for early finishers and also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson that you can then use to plan differentiated lessons to suit their needs.
There are 10 types of Interactive Notebook exit tickets all prompting something different for students to reflect on in their learning that will work for ANY topic! Each exit ticket comes in 3 different sizes to suit a range of books and even display boards!
I know your students will definitely think you are the most super awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson; this is a great way of getting them excited and enthused in your lessons - plus, they look fantastic up on display in your classroom!
Students love comics and this resource is a fun and unique set of printable comic themed emoji exit tickets that enable students to reflect on their learning in a fun and modern way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson that you can then use to plan differentiated lessons to suit their needs.
There are 8 types of comic themed exit tickets all prompting something different for students to reflect on in their learning. On each page you will get 2 exit tickets and they come in both colour and black and white for your convenience.
I know your students will definitely think you are the most super awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson; this is a great way of getting them excited and enthused in your lessons - plus, they look fantastic up on display in your classroom!
Encourage your students to reflect peacefully on Remembrance Day with these quote colouring pages for big kids.
There are 5 different quotes to choose from. Students can just colour in using whatever shades make them happy, but there is also some white space available for them to add their own doodles too!
So teach your students about the significance of Remembrance Day (see teaching resource) and also give them the opportunity to sit in silence and reflect on those who lost their lives so that we could live.
Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages with quotes by Martin Luther King Jr - great for MLK / Black History Month.
There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and all these inspiring quotes are by Martin Luther King Jr himself: great for teaching Growth Mindset on MLK day or during Black History Month!
Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love.
So take some time out of a hectic day to give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it (and so do you!)
Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages with quotes by Shakespeare!
There are 6 (1 free bonus page included!) different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and all these inspiring quotes are by Shakespeare himself: great for teaching Shakespeare units or for celebrating his birthday on April 23rd!
Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love.
So take some time out of a hectic day to give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it (and so do you!)
Check your students’ understanding with social media exit tickets and engage your students with media they are already so familiar with!
There are 4 different types of tickets included with prompts that are FULLY EDITABLE - ideal for subject personalisation and even for teaching foreign languages!
Each exit ticket is half a letter size and comes with 2 on a page to save on printing costs for your class.
These are simple and easy to use in your lessons allowing you to quickly see what students have learned in a fun and convenient way.
Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson!
Classrooom Decor Pennants: Growth Mindset, Motivating and Inspiring Colouring Pages about education and learning.
I’m a big advocate for colouring therapy for students and adults, and I already have quite an extensive collection of different quote colouring pages available in my store! They are wonderfully relaxing and especially effective for growth mindset as all quotes are inspirational and positive!
In this unique set, you will get a selection of doodle colouring pennants to help decorate your classroom with some positive quotes about education to keep your students inspired all year long! There are 10 different colouring pennants to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for students to add their own doodles too!
So take a few minutes at the start of the year to get students in the right frame of mind by colouring in positive quotes about education, then tie string through the pennants and decorate your classroom!
Beginning of the Year: Back to School Bundle!
This bundle includes the following resources to get you ready for back to school:
• Back to school activities for teens:
Back to school time is a great opportunity to encourage students to begin the new school year on the right foot. If you want some fun and quality back to school activities to use with your teenagers and young students that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you!
• Getting to know you icebreakers:
This resource pack contains everything you need to help break the ice with your students. This would be ideal for any new class whether they are just new to you or even new to each other!
• All about me social media templates
You can use these to learn more about your students at the beginning of the year. It is also helpful for other students to read these and learn more about each other and find common interests too!
So get yourself fully prepared with activities to settle your students in at the beginning of the year!
Test knowledge and understanding with these Entry Tickets
Your students will really enjoy reflecting on their previous learning with these entry tickets into your lesson! It also allows you to quickly assess students and find any areas where students might need further assistance. These work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use!
You will receive 2 different sized tickets for your convenience. Some come with ready made prompts for you and some are plain so you can provide your own prompts.
You can use these to test their knowledge of the previous lesson or topic, recap keywords, check understanding of a homework assignment, see what questions they still have on a particular topic - or whatever else you would like to review!
You can also use these entry tickets to target specific students to do individual or group work to differentiate and help them progress (see front cover of resource!)
Reward Students with 35 #Hashtag, Superhero Praise Cards
Are you looking for some modern and fun ways to reward your students and encourage positive behaviour?
These cards are very unique as ‘regular’ praise post cards all have the cute detail on the back of them, which, let’s face it is rather useless when you want to display the note as the image gets hidden anyway!
These cards are rare as they have the cute design on the side where you write your special notes, meaning the design isn’t wasted and looks adorable when on display!
The other thing that makes these special is that these don’t just focus on rewarding academic achievements - with these praise cards, all students can be rewarded on their best personal qualities too.
Simply print them onto card and write straight onto them. You could also edit them by overlaying a text box and typing straight onto the resource if you prefer. You can hand these straight to students or write their home addresses on the back and post them like a post card!
They include both the modern #hashtag trend that students are so familiar with as well as an awesome superhero call out theme that suits both boys and girls and a wide range of ages!
Your teenagers will think you are so awesome for writing them these praise cards and it will encourage positive behaviour in your lessons! They’re definitely cool enough to display in their lockers or on display boards to remind them of their awesome achievements and personal traits. Enjoy!
Exit Tickets Galore - Bundle!
Exit tickets are a quick, easy, fun and effective way of providing you with useful feedback to assess student progression and understanding. This bundle includes 4 different exit ticket sets in 27 styles, giving you lots of variety for use in your classroom! (Total value £17)
Bundle includes:
• Social Media Exit Tickets
• Emoji Exit Tickets
• Social Media Exit Tickets 2: mobile phone style
• Plenary Cards
Your students will enjoy filling these out at the end of your lessons and you will be able to assess their understanding effectively: win, win!
Summer holiday activities for teens to keep them busy over the summer!
As a teacher you can give this pack to your students / tutor group at end of the year for them to complete over summer and bring back next school year. This makes a good starting point for back to school discussions. This is also great if you are a parent /carer who is looking to keep your own children entertained with fun and educational activities while at home!
When traveling or over the holidays, young people will undoubtedly be glued to technology. That’s fine for a while, but it is healthy to give them a variety of activities to be doing whilst reflecting on their experiences, hence the reason I created this resource.
The activities in this pack are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and will entertain them when traveling and over the holiday period (be that a vacation or even a stay-cation!) They’re versatile enough for any experiences!
Product includes:
• Vacation plans
• Diary / poetry / story writing
• Sites to see
• Road trip Bingo
• Airport Bingo
• People Bingo
• Build your own Bingo Boards
• Gift ideas
• Photo diary
• Vacation word search
• Book reviews
• Noughts and Crosses
• Hang man
• Notes pages
You can print these off and even put them in a special binder so your young ones can complete them when they like. There are plenty to choose from and I think the option of choice is important in making sure they enjoy doing these!
The pages have been designed to be all black and white so they can be coloured in – an extra fun and relaxing element, plus it allows them to personalise their booklet!
Finally, this makes a great keepsake for the future to remind your young ones of their summer holidays! So get them off their technology for a while and encourage them to really observe and reflect on their experiences with this quality resource!
Need some end of year awards certificates to celebrate the individuality and success of your young and teenage students? They will love these End Of Year Certificate Awards in a cool #HashtagStyle!
These certificates are funky and edgy with some cool teen clip art images and #hashtag themed titles that your students will really relate to and think you're the coolest ever! (Even though we know you already are!)
These come in black line to save on printing costs, but feel free to print them on coloured card for even more impact!
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End of the Year Positive Mindset Quotes: Fun and Relaxing Colouring Pages
These “End of the Year” doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully relaxing and fun resource for your students to help calm and relax them during the crazy end of year period!
They work great for morning work or early finishers!
The end of the year is when students are hyper and us teachers are just exhausted! You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students some time to wind down and relax by colouring in – no matter what their age - it is something that is very therapeutic. There’s also a special colouring page for teachers to keep you smiling and calm too :)
There are 4 different colouring pages to choose from (plus an extra one US equivalent, and one just for teachers, so 6 in total!) Students can just colour in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also plenty of white space available for students to add their own doodles too!
So help keep calm and order in a really fun way at the end of the year, and give your students the opportunity to just relax, and enjoy themselves – they deserve it and so do YOU!
End of Year Activities for Teens: no preparation needed, just print and go! This resource is a great way for students to wrap up, reflect on life, dream of the future and remain entertained while us teachers are using all our energy just trying to claw our way to the finish line!
If you want some fun and quality activities to use with your students at tutor time that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative memory book style activities that will last weeks running up to the much anticipated end of the school year!
This resource will encourage students to reflect on their year at school in fun and engaging ways and get them look ahead to the future too. The activities also come with quality teenage appropriate graphics which your students will love!
Product includes:
• My Super Memories
• My Best Day
• The Blues
• Dear Future Me
• Top Things I’ve Learned
• What’s to Come
• My Dream Board
• What A Tune!
• What A Great Book!
• #ThrowbackThursday
• My Proudest Moments
• Autographs
• Acrostic Poetry
• End of School Plans
• My Legacy
• My Pearls of Wisdom
& 4 more pages!
These end of year activities can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all! Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability.
Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework if you like!
These are not only fun to do but they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older - these could even be used with the same group of students each year to see how they have developed over time!
Enjoy!
Need some fresh, new end of year awards certificates to celebrate the individuality and success of your young and teenage students? Get hold of these End Of Year Certificate Awards for Teens: Emoji Style!
These certificates are funky and edgy with some cool teen clip art images with a fun emoji theme that your students will really relate to and think you're the coolest ever! (Even though we know you already are!)
These come in both colour and black line with 30 different certificates to choose from! They can be used over again for almost any year group and any subject, and have a wide range of awards so every student can be celebrated for their uniqueness!
I hope your students enjoy these fun and edgy certificates to wrap up the end of the year using the oh-so-popular EMOJI theme! Be sure to check out the End Of Year Activities For Teens too, to give your students something fun to do in the final few weeks of school.
End Of Year Trivia Quiz (2016-17) - For Teens!
This is a fun way to wrap up the school year with your tutor group as it quizzes your students on current affairs and celebrity gossip that teens can relate to! The best part is, it’s specific to this current school year which is a lovely way to reflect and remember all that has happened. Some might learn a new fact or two as well!
There are 3 different options for delivering this quiz:
• One is a PowerPoint with a question on each slide so you can do the quiz as a whole class activity with students working in groups.
• The second is an individual quiz which students can do on their own or in pairs.
• The third is a set of cards which students can do in pairs or small groups. They take it in turns to read each other a question and answer them; if they get it correct they keep the card. The winner is the person with the most cards!
Save yourself hours of preparation and get your hands on this end of year quiz!
Enjoy!