A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
Times table sheets including division facts that can be laminated and used for daily practice. Children can record their daily score and their Top Score. Also included is an individual record sheet to record progress and an editable certificate that can be awarded as each set of tables is mastered. This resource includes times tables from 2 to 12 so would be suitable from Year 1 up to Year 4. There are blank templates also included!
Following the success of 'BARvember' these Christmas themed problems will be used throughout 'DecemBAR' (sign included) with my class to continue to promote problem-solving. In this pack there are 10 editable problems aimed at Year 2. I have been incentivising my class with all correct answers going into a prize draw to win a 'bar' of choccie at the end of the week!
This bundle includes problem solving and reasoning tasks, images for maths meetings to promote the use of mathematical language and maths ‘hinge’ questions linked to varied representations all of which support teaching for mastery.
A Powerpoint of maths questions using images and varied representations to elicit children's understanding of mathematical concepts including: place value, addition and subtraction, money, multiplication and division, fractions and shape. These questions work well to support a mastery approach to mathematics.
This pack includes PowerPoints and activities to use when writing Fairytale news, resources to set up your own Fairytale estate agents and a collection of fun code cracking activities linked to Fairytale crimes!
In this bundle is a Christmas Quiz with 5 handout rounds including: guess who, mystery objects, Christmas movies, gifts (12 days of Christmas) and a bonus round. Also included is a fun Christmas Crackers Codebreaking activity using 24 Christmas jokes - can the children crack the code to reveal the punchlines, a PowerPoint and fun group challenge linked to Christmas Around the World and a selection of PowerPoints that can be used for reinforcing phonics/spelling during the festive period. An ideal pack for the week before Christmas!
A fun Christmas activity for KS1. Children use the top secret code to find the punchlines to a selection of Christmas cracker jokes! There are 24 jokes included in this pack. Ideal as a stimulus for your own class Christmas joke competition too!
This bundle includes a range of fun, interactive activities to keep your class busy in the last week of term There is a 'Smartypants' quiz, MI5 Maths coding activities, a book trail, orienteering course and certificates and nomination forms for an end of year class awards - no planning needed!
A great open-ended and flexible activity that will encourage your class to think and reason about number. Add your chosen number to the poster or get the children to roll 2/3 dice to make a number and then ask them to show you what they know about the naughty number on the wanted poster: e.g. 21 is 10 + 10 + 1, 3 x 7, 30 - 9, 63 ÷3 etc
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Work out the missing number problems to get the 6 digit code to open the safe! Great activity for greater depth.
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A selection of adaptable maths, reading and writing challenges for children to complete independently - set up a challenge area and leave them to learn! This bundle also includes estimating activities and positional language PowerPoints linked to popular stories.
A series of PowerPoints and activity sheets aimed at KS1 but easily adaptable for KS2 which contain fun tasks linked to code breaking and packed with loads of maths activities. Once children have graduated from spy school they can tackle the Fairytale & Nursery Rhyme crimes! Perfect for end of term or for a whole school maths day!
A bumper collection of problemsolving and reasoning activities covering all areas of the KS1 maths curriculum. This pack includes 'Deal or No Deal', a money coding task, fairytale problems and many more activities that investigate number and measures.
A bundle of fun, practical activities to reinforce multiplication and division for Year 2 (games also easily adaptable for addition and subtraction). This pack includes: Flip a fact family game, solve the riddles, True and False - can the children reason their answers e.g. 5 x 13 = 66 is false because the answer does not end in a 0 or a 5 (good for Greater Depth), multiplication squares game, Bingo, Read it/ Write relays -
just put a number in the centre and set a time limit (great for starters) and differentiated word problems including remainders! (Greater Depth).
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A fun game played in pairs to reinforce fluency with times tables. Using a paperclip and pencil to make your spinner, children take it in turns to spin 2 numbers and multiply them e.g. 10 x 2 = 20 they then find the answer and claim that square by colouring it in their chosen colour or covering it with a counter. If the square is already covered miss a go! The winner is the player with the most squares at the end of the game.
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A fun and engaging way to teach measures. A PowerPoint introducing 5 events in the Mini Measures Olympics with record sheets and medals. Ideal for summer term!
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