I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
Your students will love this fun pack of easy-prep printable Halloween-themed activities which cover idioms, maths, science, writing, and design skills.
There are plenty of options to appeal to all learners with word searches, a number search, creative design activities, labelling the skeletal system, writing ideas, and more.
This pack is suitable for Year 3 and up.
What’s included?
U.S and U.K versions
Halloween word search
Create a Halloween word search
Design a board game
Design a new sweet
Design a Halloween costume
Design carved pumpkins
Halloween crossword
Name 5 Halloween-related words for different topics
Halloween A to Z
Cat idioms and Halloween idioms
Number search - multiplication
Fraction word problems
Label the skeletal system
Cut out and make the skeletal system
Writing prompts (colour and ink saver)
Answer keys for activities which aren’t open-ended
Ideas for use:
whole class
stations
early finishers
I hope your students enjoy this Halloween pack.
You will receive a PDF file.
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Learning to weave a kete is a fun activity that enriches children’s learning about traditional Māori crafts. It can be used during Matariki to celebrate this special time of year or at any time of the year to teach children the skills of weaving. It is also a great way to build fine motor skills.
There are three differentiated versions to choose from:
The easiest level uses three strips of coloured paper and is ideal for young learners and those with limited fine motor skills.
The medium level also uses three strips of paper, but the number of under/over movements has increased.
The hardest level is great for older children and uses five strips of paper.
This activity is ideal for the whole class, small groups, early finishers, rotating stations, and library sessions.
I hope you and your children enjoy weaving their kete!
You will receive:
2 PDF files
If you have any trouble downloading, just reach out to me via email and I’ll help get these to you.
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SAVE MONEY with this complete hands-on unit bundle on ancient Shang dynasty history packed with fun activities including research organisers, a timeline, developments, leadership analysis, a fortune teller, and more to help your students learn about the first ancient Chinese civilization with a written record.
This pack contains lots of interesting learning activities that you can pick and choose from:
timeline cut and paste
colouring page (great for covers)
map work
comparison activities of the students’ lives with Shang life
social structure
reporter-style research page
archaeological dig research booklet
informational reading passage (text is editable, images/layout aren’t)
adapting to the environment interactive notebook
analysing leadership cut and paste
fortune teller of key social studies concepts
starting the inquiry process (KWL)
U.S and U.K versions included.
I hope your students love learning about the Shang Dynasty!
Hands-on activities:
Student instructions for:
Roleplay as archaeologists
Make a model Shang chariot
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
Make a soap “jade” carving
Make a clay bronze “ding”
Write oracle symbols - the first Chinese writing system on paper, but if you have clay students can make an oracle bone to write symbols on.
I hope you enjoy using this unit with your children, as much as I enjoyed making it!
You will receive a zip file with PDFs and a PPTX file.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Your learners can make their own 3D pyramid with this easy craft. All you need is scissors, glue and crayons, markers, or colouring pencils. Whether you’re studying ancient Egypt or 3D shapes, this craft is low-prep and makes a pyramid that kids will be proud of.
The pack comes with two size options - a smaller one (approx. 3in/7cm) which is easier to make as it’s all one piece, and a larger one (approx. 4.5in/11cm) which has two pieces to join, so it’s great for those that can handle more of a challenge - or pairs can work together to help each other.
Visual instructions are included for the larger version.
Colour and ink saver, plus U.S. and U.K. versions included.
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Shang Dynasty Activities
Shang Dynasty Hands-on Activities and Crafts
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These timeline activities are a hands-on visual way for students to see the changes that have been made in the history of flight, land, and sea transport.
History of Flight Timeline
This timeline focuses on seven key developments in the history of planes from the first hot air balloon in 1783 to the modern Boeing 747 airliner in 1970.
History of Sea Transport Timeline
This timeline focuses on eight key developments in the history of boats, starting from the Pesse canoe dating back to 10,000BCE, to container ships in 1956.
History of Land Transport Timeline
This timeline focuses on eight key developments in the history of vehicles from the time when people first domesticated horses to the hybrid car.
What’s included?
Timeline and real photos to match up to the dates
Differentiated with simple or detailed captions, and the easiest version has the photos and captions already together so students need to match it to the date, and the most difficult level students need to match the photo to the caption and write in the date
Interactive foldable with visual step-by-step instructions
Clue cards to solve the order of the timeline
Answer key
I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of transport with these timelines.
Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Ancient Egypt unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include carrying out an archaeological dig and five craft projects. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Make an amulet
Make a canopic jar
Make papyrus
Make a pyramid model (two sizes, a smaller, easier size, and a larger, more challenging size)
Make a scarab beetle
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
You will need:
paper, coloured paper
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint
pencils, markers, coloured pencils
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
containers, soil or sand, small objects
I hope your students enjoy making these activities.
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If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
This pack of six digital and printable worksheets, teaching notes, and assessment will have your students feeling confident with recognising and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
The worksheets explain the key concepts and give opportunities to practise:
identifying active and passive voice
identifying if a verb voice shift has occurred
keeping the verb voice consistent
identifying verb moods (indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive)
identifying if a verb mood shift has occurred
keeping the verb mood consistent
An assessment (or informal quiz) is included to assess if students have a thorough understanding of recognizing and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
Answer keys are provided for the worksheets and the assessment page.
Teaching notes can be used to put concepts on the board.
What’s included?
3 worksheets covering inappropriate shifts in verb voice
3 worksheets covering inappropriate shifts in verb mood
Answer keys
Teaching points
Editable PPT version
PowerPoint version
Link to Google Slides™ version
I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.
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Wordiness and Redundancy Worksheets
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This pack is full of hands-on, engaging activities for learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries and is aligned to the HASS curriculum.
There are map activities and graphic organisers which your students can use to help them locate Australia and its neighbours, and to find similarities and differences in daily life, climate, natural, managed, and constructed features, schools, festivals and holidays, houses, plants and animals, climate, and types of settlement.
Students can choose one country to do an in-depth research project on and present their information in a travel brochure. These would make a great classroom display for children to read and learn about other countries.
Students can use globes, atlases and digital maps to find the information they need for the map work. They can use online sources and books for other research tasks.
What’s included:
Label a map of Australia and its neighbours.
Label a map of the Pacific Island nations.
Foldable activity to show the directions of different neighbours.
Label a climate map of Australia with a title, key and north point. (new)
Travel brochure for children to write about one country.
Compare their house and a house in Indonesia.
Compare several traditional houses. (new)
Compare built structures (Jakarta city scene and Candi Prambanan Temple in Indonesia to a built structure of their choice in Australia)
Compare rice growing in Australia and Indonesia.
Natural features of different neighbours (new)
Types of settlements (new)
Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on
Foldable climate types activity (new)
Poster of Australia’s climate (new)
32 pages included
I hope your students enjoy learning about Australia and its neighbouring countries with these activities.
You will receive 8 PDFs and 3 editable PPTX files (text is editable, images/layout aren’t).
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Have some fun this Halloween with this hands-on 3D haunted house model. Your students will love making their own haunted house, adding their own details to make the house unique.
This pack includes options for a single-level house made up of three rooms and a roof, or a two level house which has six rooms. The model is put together by making rooms and gluing them together, so students could make just one or two rooms, or they could make all six.
The haunted house can be made using paper or light card. White glue is the easiest to work with for this project, and tape can be used if needed.
What’s included?
Instructions
4 outline pages for a one-level house
6 outline pages for a two-level house
Display box template for a “garden”
Photo examples
U.S and U.K versions
Note: 3D crafts can be challenging for students so please consider if your students have the fine motor skills needed before purchasing.
I hope your students enjoy making a haunted house this Halloween!
You will receive a PDF file.
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Are you looking for engaging plural noun activities for building your students’ ability to form regular and irregular plural nouns? Grammar is easy with 7 pages of printable worksheets that are designed to be fun and include crosswords, word finds, match ups, hunt for words and more.
The activities will appeal to children who are motivated by games by having levels to complete. It will appeal to children who love a puzzle, with codes to crack, word finds and crosswords, and there is even an opportunity for creative minds to apply their learning through drawing.
Children can complete all activities to cover all the rules for plural nouns, or choose which pages are relevant for your learners.
Each page gives examples and rules for students to refer to while completing their work.
Answer keys make it super-easy for marking. Display them on the wall, board or projected and students can self-check.
A version without levels is also included if you prefer to use this.
What’s included?
Regular plural nouns
Level one: nouns that add -s
Level two: nouns ending in -s, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z
Level three: nouns ending in a consonant + -y
Level four: nouns ending in -f and -fe
Irregular plural nouns
Level five: nouns ending in a consonant + -o, nouns that stay the same in the plural form, nouns that are different in the plural form
Level six: more practice activities
Regular and irregular plural nouns
Level seven: practice with both regular and irregular plural nouns
Wall posters of rules for regular plural nouns and irregular plural nouns
Exit tickets
UK (A4) version and US (Letter) version
If you’re looking for Year 1 regular plurals worksheets you can find those here.
I hope you enjoy using these activities with your learners.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Your students will love this pack of 4 digital and printable synonyms worksheets packed with learning activities which are carefully scaffolded to introduce adjective and verb synonyms before leading to creative writing, plus answer keys.
Level 1 introduces the definition of a synonym and builds vocabulary with adjectives.
Level 2 reinforces the learning by encouraging recall of all the new words students have come across in Level 1.
Level 3 explains why we need to use synonyms and introduces vocabulary for verb synonyms.
Level 4 is all about applying students’ knowledge by improving writing and creating their own writing within a structured format.
Why will children like it?
The activities will appeal to children who are motivated by games by having levels to complete. It will appeal to children who love a puzzle, with codes to crack, word-finds and crosswords, and there is an opportunity for creative minds to apply their learning through drawing.
What’s included?
Level 1 - Adjectives
Level 2 - Adjectives
Level 3 - Verbs
Level 4: Adjectives and Verbs
Answer key
U.K and U.S versions
You will receive a PDF version, a link to Google Slides™, and an editable PowerPoint™ version (text is editable, images and layout aren’t).
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Support your students with this pack of 2 Zen Zone area posters, 3 affirming wall posters, 7 activities, and 2 breathing exercises designed for students in upper primary and above.
Whether you can dedicate a space for a Zen Zone or just a basket of activities, this pack will give you ideas on how to set up a Zen Zone and the kinds of activities that build strategies, refocus attention, change perspective to a more positive one, and give an anxious mind something to do.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S Versions
2 Zen Zone area posters in peaceful watercolour and ink saver versions
3 wall posters with reassuring affirmations
7 activities that include grounding techniques, planning, drawing, and making lists
2 breathing exercises
Tips for setting up a Zen Zone
22 pages included
This set is ideal for students who experience anxiety or get overwhelmed at times.
I hope you find this pack helpful for your students.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Get your students making and creating beautiful arts and crafts from Mexico with this pack of 6 hands-on activities. Creating multicultural art is a great way to celebrate the diversity within our classrooms and around the world.
In this pack you’ll find six activities that include papier mache, papercraft, clay, weaving, drawing, and painting.
Visual step-by-step instructions are included so even if you’re not confident teaching art, students will be able to create something they can be proud of. You can either use these to outline the process, or the easiest option is to print copies for each table (or display them in plastic stands if you have them), for students to follow the instructions themselves. You could set these up as stations for students to rotate around, or do one activity per day.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S versions optimised for A4/Letter paper, spelling and vocabulary
Student instructions and notes for the teacher
Weaving
Papier mache cactus
Class mural inspired by Diego Rivera
Alebrijes (fantasy animals) mixed media
Talavera bowls using clay
Papercraft decorations
PDF slideshow version of the instructions
Self-reflection form
Artist’s statement
11 pages included
What materials are used:
Air-drying clay
Cartridge paper A4-A3 size, coloured paper
Oil pastels
Markers, colouring pencils
Paint
Cardboard
Yarn/Wool
Newspaper/newsprint
I hope your students enjoy creating Mexican art and feel super proud of what they make!
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Art Around the World Australia
Art Around the World Spain
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Are you looking for a lovely way to build a positive classroom environment with a focus on kindness this spring? With this pack, students will make a 3D flowerpot to go on the wall. There are then two ways for students to use the flowers they make. They could fill other students’ flowerpots with “flower compliments” or they could write the ways they show kindness on the flowers and put them in their plant pot.
What’s included?
3D craft to make a flowerpot with and without stripes, colour version also included
Flowers and stems plus two cacti options
Four phrases for a display, in black, pistachio, and jade
Visual student instructions
Ideas list for giving compliments and showing kindness
U.K and U.S versions
117 pages included
I hope your students enjoy making their spring flower pot craft and growing in kindness at the same time.
You will receive PDF files.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
This differentiated digital and printable reading passage about Amelia Earhart will give your students an introduction to who this amazing woman was, what sparked her interest in flying, and some of her many achievements.
The informational text is differentiated with four levels so you can use what works best for your students (year 2 to year 5 approximately). There is also an editable version so you can adapt it if you need to.
The comprehension questions are appropriate for the level of text and cover answering questions about details in the text, identifying the main topic or purpose, understanding the connection between ideas, identifying how a map contributes to understanding, and determining the meaning of vocabulary.
There are also two optional Amelia Earhart colouring pages to choose from, plus a word search with two levels of difficulty for your early finishers, or just for fun after their reading challenge.
Answer keys are provided to make marking quick and easy.
19 pages included.
You will receive a PDF version, an editable PowerPoint™ version (text is editable, images and layout aren’t), and a link to the Google Slides™ version.
If you’d like more Amelia Earhart activities, you may like this pack which includes the reading text.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
This one-page biography research organiser gives your students an interesting way to present their learning about Amelia Earhart.
There are two options, one with a space for students to draw a picture, and one with a portrait for students to colour. The widest lines come with the option of her Lockheed Vega 5B plane or an interesting fact. The narrower lines use cursive script.
The organiser comes with the option of three line sizes so you can choose the best one for your students.
Students will need to research online, in books, or use a reading passage to find the information.
The topics include key facts, achievements, important moment and influences, and an interesting fact.
U.S and U.K versions available.
You will receive a PDF.
If you’d like more Amelia Earhart activities, you may like this pack which includes the graphic organiser.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
This interactive Father’s Day card will be fun for your students to make and fun for their father or special person to open, discover, and read all the little ways that they are loved by their child.
Your students could make the card in two ways. For a simple version, use the pre-made cover template (or a plain piece of card) and students choose one or two interactive elements to put inside. Alternatively, students make the entire card interactive.
The interactive elements include:
a toolbox with removeable tool coupons
a picture to draw and “hang”
a pocket with a removeable car key to finish the sentence “I’m luc-KEY you’re my dad because…” (options for grandad, uncle, and special person included)
a foldable gift letter for students to write to their father or special person
What’s included?
Card template
Toolbox and tool coupons
Picture frame
Pocket and car key
Foldable gift letter with four line sizes to choose from
Visual instructions
U.K and U.S versions
Editable version so you can change “Father’s Day” if you need to (text is editable, images and layout aren’t)
I hope your students enjoy making this card for Father’s Day.
You will receive PDF and PPTX files.
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Celebrate diversity and create an inclusive learning environment with this set of over 40 multicultural greeting signs that will help every child and their family to feel a sense of belonging in your classroom, by learning, sharing, and using greetings in their language.
These “hello” wall posters would be fantastic in a school entry or hallway, or in your classroom. Your class could learn how to say hello in a different language every week, with children who speak the language of the week getting to be the expert.
There are four border designs: rainbows, pastels, neutrals, and ink saver.
The posters come 2 per page and 4 per page.
These signs look great printed on photo paper, or print them and laminate them.
I’ve created 5 sets specifically tailored to the 38 most commonly spoken languages in the U.S, U.K, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, along with up to 7 of the most commonly spoken indigenous languages in each of those countries.
As it’s not possible to include signs for all languages, I have included editable versions of the borders (2 per page), so that no child has to miss out - they’ll be happy to help you learn how to say “hello” in their language, and you will be able to get a sign made up quickly so they can feel proud of their language being displayed in your classroom. If you need a 4-per-page editable version, please email me with the border you need.
I also have this set with a border of flags of the world which you can find here for the transliterations and here for the script version.
You will receive five zip files with PDFs and PPTX files.
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This is a handy reference sheet for irregular verbs.
The English language has so many irregular past verbs, so here’s a handy list of the past simple forms and past participles.
This will be a great reference sheet for both teachers and students and can be displayed on the wall or glued into books.
Here is a handy reference sheet for forming plural nouns.
There are lots of rules for forming the plural of nouns in English, even with words that follow rules, there is inconsistency.
This printable outlines the different rules for “regular” plurals which follow rules, including their exceptions, irregular plurals, plus Latin and Greek root plurals.