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.
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!
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!
A collection of resources covering L&S Phases 2 - 5 including PowerPoints, activities and lots of fun, practical and easily adaptable spelling games which can be played in class or set as homework.
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 bumper range of challenges for KS1 or easily adapted to suit KS2 that include maths, english, science and art tasks. Great for early finishers or extension activities.
A bumper pack of activities to use when meeting your new class including: selfie templates, text it messages, wanted friends poster, a helping hand, Short & Tweets, class Chatter sheets & signs (so the ch have a chance to share their news/likes/dislikes/ best lessons etc) also bunting, jigsaw pieces and minion templates. This pack also contains a pack of challenge cards to keep your class busy from day 1 and a PowerPoint with ideas on abstract self portraits which would make a great start of term art project! Editable resources suitable for EYFS, KS1 or KS2.
What is a dragon? A PowerPoint all about dragons to stimulate writing with dragon images for ‘Quickwrite’ adjective activity. After sharing this introduction the children designed their own dragons, named them and then we watched ‘How to train a dragon featurette’. The children then wrote instructions on how to train their own dragons and we ended the unit of work by writing acrostic dragon poems.
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A collection of activity ideas and resource sheets for teaching plants in KS1. This pack includes: labelling a flower/tree, bean tweet sheets (to record observations when growing own beans), I spy plants for identifying/naming common plants, mystery objects task, Gimme 5 hand for identifying the needs of a plant, egg box challenge scavenger hunt (stick the challenge sheet to the lid of the egg box and let the children fill their box with objects to match the key words) and Teeny Tiny Treasure Hunt (using film canisters or an alternative small container), botany challenge for children to design and label their own new species of plant, seed packet templates and a selection of science starters to promote the use of children talking and reasoning scientifically.
This pack includes a range of science starters to get children talking, debating, reasoning and explaining. Also included: living things & their habitats pack, plants pack, materials CSI investigation, STEM egg drop challenge activity and extension ideas/review cards.
A very informative and adaptable all you need to know about minibeasts which could and a who wants to be a millionaire quiz suitable for EYFS, KS1 or KS2.
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