We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
A sentence fixer PowerPoint activity designed to help those children who forget the simple sentence punctuation along with some commonly mixed up homophones. The Sentence Snake has stolen some punctuation / mixed up the spellings. The children must read the sentence and see if they can find all of the errors.
It’s a great way to get your children editing their writing, learning to spot the common mistakes and improve their writing.
Contents
- Slides 1 – 10: Capital letters & full stops
- Slides 11 – 21: Apostrophise
- Slides 22 – 32: Homophones
- Slides 33 – 39: Capital letters, full stops, question marks, & exclamation marks.
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This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn to recognise and use adjectives to improve their writing.
There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adjective.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Content
- 1 x Instruction Sheet
- 24 x Adjective Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it! Best of all, they now use adjectives effectively in their writing!
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This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn to recognise and use similes to improve their writing.
There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the simile.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 1 x Instruction Sheet
- 24 x Simile Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it! Best of all, they now use similes effectively in their writing!
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This poetry bundle is a refreshing way to teach poetry through the outdoors. It is designed to get your children into the outdoors exploring poetry through their senses while encouraging a rich use of language.
It contains the following products:
Spring Poetry Scrapbook
This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose.
I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher.
Contents:
- Scrapbook cover
- Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own)
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet
- ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas
- ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern)
- ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas
- ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern)
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet
- Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem)
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Poetry Introduction PowerPoint
A fun interactive PowerPoint designed to give your class an introduction into the wonderful world of poetry. This PowerPoint will teach your children the technical vocabulary, creative language used, and different poetry forms.
Contents:
- Slides 1 - 4: What is poetry
- Slides 5 – 7: Vocabulary
- Slides 8 – 26: Simile, personification, or metaphor game
- Slides 27 – 36: Poetry forms
- Slide 37 – Scrapbook follow up
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Poetry Help Cards
Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate.
Poetry rhyming schemes:
- Acrostic
- Couplet
- Quatrain (aaaa)
- Quatrain (aabb)
- Quatrain (abab)
- Quatrain (abca)
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Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate.
Poetry rhyming schemes:
- Acrostic
- Couplet
- Quatrain (aaaa)
- Quatrain (aabb)
- Quatrain (abab)
- Quatrain (abca)
A fun interactive PowerPoint designed to give your class an introduction into the wonderful world of poetry. This PowerPoint will teach your children the technical vocabulary, creative language used, and different poetry forms.
Contents:
- Slides 1 - 4: What is poetry
- Slides 5 – 7: Vocabulary
- Slides 8 – 26: Simile, personification, or metaphor game
- Slides 27 – 36: Poetry forms
- Slide 37 – Scrapbook follow up
This PowerPoint goes hand in hand with our Poetry Scrap book. Check it out in our store or via the link in our preview.
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This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose.
I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher.
Contents:
- Scrapbook cover
- Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own)
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet
- ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas
- ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern)
- ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas
- ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern)
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet
- Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem)
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This is your one stop bundle for everything you need for effective classroom management! This huge bundle is perfect if you are starting a new school or want to revamp your classroom management containing resources to allow your classroom to run smoothly! It fits in nicely with cooperative learning and growth mind-set.
We have implemented all of these is my classroom and it has made such a big difference!
This pack consists of the following resources:
Group Roles Badges and Job Plates
Group roles badges and plates that allow you to easily structure cooperative learning / group work so that each child has a specific responsibility that is crucial to their success. This pack includes role plates for the tables as well as badges that they can wear around their neck while taking part in the group work both with descriptions of what the role duties are.
The five roles are:
- Agent Manager
- Agent Time Manager
- Agent Volume
- Agent Materials Manager
- Agent Encourager
When children have a specific role that they are responsible for they seem to be much more focused and more involved in their learning. I normally change the roles each time they do group work so that every child experiences each role.
Contents:
- 5 x job plates with descriptions
- 5 x double sided job badges with descriptions
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Classroom Management: Self Help Poster and Bookmark
This resource is used to help children to become more independent learners.
Do you wish your children would think for themselves and know what to do when they don’t know what to do, well this is the resource for you! We decided we needed to try help our children become more independent, so we gave each of them a bookmark which goes through a checklist as to what they should do if they get stuck as well as putting the poster up in the classroom. It has saved us hours of our time!
Contents:
- 1 x Poster
- 1 x bookmark
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Classroom Management: Table Jobs / Duties
This is a great resource for classroom management, and the children love it too! The pack contains 6 table job / duty plates so that each child on the table has a specific responsibility which will not only aid their learning, but help the classroom run smoothly. Each plate contains instructions on the back to help the children understand what the responsibility involves.
Contents:
1 x Head Captain
1 x Vice Captain
1 x Captain Focus
1 x Captain Volume
1 x Captain Tidy
1 x Captain Collector
1 x Table Job Record Sheet
We noticed a big different in the children’s behaviour and work quality after introducing these responsibilities. We hope you find them as helpful as we do!
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Classroom Management: Reward Vouchers
These classroom management reward vouchers are a perfect addition to any behaviour system. They are a low cost resource that the children love! Simply print and laminate the vouchers and give them to your children who are working hard or showing good behaviour for them to redeem at an appropriate time.
There are 22 vouchers levelled from 1 – 3, 3 being the best rewards and should be used as a rarity.
You can either let your children choose which reward voucher they want (from the correct level) or have a lucky dip system in place.
I have noticed a huge difference in my class since introducing these vouchers. They have worked magic for me!
Contents:
Level 1:
- Pillow Time: Sit on a pillow for half a day
- Chair Half Day: Sit on the special chair for half a day
- Pick A Pen: Choose one of the special pens to write with all day
- Story Picker: Choose a story for the teacher to read to the class
- Wear A Hat: Wear your favourite hat to school for a day
- Any Job You Want: Choose a class job to do for the day
Level 2:
- Extra Recess: You get 2 minutes extra recess
- Board Artist: Use the whiteboard as your canvas, get creative!
- Sit By A Friend: Sit by a friend for 1 lesson
- Game Master: Pick a game for the class to play at the end of the day
- Extra Tech: 5 minutes extra computer or tech time
- Toy From Home: Bring in a toy from home to play with during recess
- Pillow Time: Sit on a pillow for a day
- Chair Day: Sit on the special chair for a day
- Desk Upgrade: Use the teacher’s desk for a lesson
- Reading Break: Take 5 minutes, have a relax, and read a book
Level 3:
- Extra Recess: You get 5 minutes extra recess
- Call Home: Your teacher will phone your parents to tell them that you’re a super star
- Sit By A Friend: Sit by a friend for 1 day
- Extra Tech: 10 minutes extra computer or tech time
- Mystery Box: Take a lucky dip from the box
- Table Treat: Your whole table gets 2 minutes extra recess
I hope your class enjoy this as much as mine have!
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Classroom Management: Effort Thermometer
This is a great classroom management resource / display which was created to help children think about how much effort they are putting into their learning. They must move their name-tag on the thermometer according to how much effort they are putting in. It fits in well with Growth Mindset.
It can be used in a few ways.
Self Reflection: At the end of or during a lesson the children place their name-tag onto the effortometer depending on how much effort they think they are putting in.
Teachers Assessment: During the lesson the teacher can move names around depending on how they are working. I sometimes give a reward token (see our store) if a child reaches the top of the scale.
This has made a huge difference in my class as children are starting to become aware of what they are capable of. I hope it does the same for you!
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Interactive Literacy Display & Help Cards: Improving Writing
These display resources and help cards will help your children become more independent with improving their writing. Not only will this allow your children to take more independence over their learning and writing, it will also save you a ton of time as they use this display to improve, and continue improving!
This pack consists of display resources and help cards for the following areas:
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Connectives
- Punctuation
- Sentence Openers
- Writing Checklist
This display has worked wonders in my classroom, and I hope it does in yours too!
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These display resources and help cards will help your children become more independent with improving their writing. Not only will this allow your children to take more independence over their learning and writing, it will also save you a ton of time as they use this display to improve, and continue improving!
This pack consists of display resources and help cards for the following areas:
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Connectives
- Punctuation
- Sentence Openers
- Writing Checklist
This display has worked wonders in my classroom, and I hope it does in yours too!
Contractions Bundle (Worksheets, Pair Cards, Activities, Display Posters): Our contraction pack is everything you could need to teach contractions all in one place. From differentiated worksheets to practical activities and displays, we have it all in this 54-page pack. We hope you enjoy teaching this unit as much as we did! For the individual resources please visit our store.
Contents:
55 pages in total
1 x differentiated cut and stick activity
2 x differentiated worksheets
1 x board game
1 x set of pairs cards + activity ideas
6 x sets of contraction dominoes train
Display resources
Adverbs: Complete Bundle (Worksheets / Activities, PowerPoint Game, Adverbs Acting) - Everything you need to introduce or recap adverbs in a fun an entertaining way that your children will love! Teaching adverbs is easy with this one stop bundle of worksheets, activities, games and PowerPoint.
Products Included:
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Adverbs: PowerPoint Game - This PowerPoint game is a fantastic and fun way to introduce or recap adverbs for your class. It consists of two interactive and entertaining games where the children will discover what an adverb is and why they are important, learning to recognise them within sentences.
Contents:
- Slide 1 – 4: Introduction to the game / adverbs
- Slide 5 – 40: Game 1 – Deciding whether the given words are an adverb or not
- Slide 41 – 54: Game 2 – Finding adverbs within the sentence
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Adverbs: Worksheets / Activities - These differentiated worksheets / activities will help your children practise recognising and using adverbs in a fun and practical way. They will learn that adverbs give the reader more detail by modifying the verb. This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs. Enjoy!
Contents:
- 1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting)
- 2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and stick)
- 1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and stick)
- 2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written)
- 4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written)
- 1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs
- Answer Key
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Adverbs: Adverb Acting:This game is played like charades. It is a great fun and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs.
There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 4 x Box Decorations
- 30 x Adverb Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!
Adjectives (Pair Cards): Adjectives have never been so easy with our set of 4 adjective pair cards. Engage your children with our fun activities either individually, as a group, or as a class and they will be Adjective Pros before you know it!
Check out our preview to see just how exciting you can make adjectives!
Contents:
- Opposites train - x1 (23 pairs)
- Opposite pair cards pack x 1 (11 pairs)
- Synonym pair cards pack x 1 (14 pairs)
- Who am I? pairs pack x 1 (17 pairs)
This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs.
It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way.
Enjoy!
Contents:
1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting)
2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and
stick)
1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and
stick)
2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written)
4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written)
1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs
Answer Key
Check out our store for more great adverbs resources, including our popular 'Acting Adverbs' game.
This game is a fantastic and fun way to introduce or recap adverbs for your class. It consists of two interactive and entertaining games where the children will discover what an adverb is and why they are important, learning to recognize them within sentences.
Contents:
- Slide 1 – 4: Introduction to the game / adverbs
- Slide 5 – 40: Game 1 – Deciding whether the given words are
adverbs or not
- Slide 41 – 54: Game 2 – Finding adverbs within the sentence
We hope you enjoy!
This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs.
There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 4 x Box Decorations
- 30 x Adverb Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!
Adjectives (Worksheets / Activities): Get your children practising their adjectives with this fun pack of differentiated worksheets / activities and they will be an adjective pro before you know it!
Contents:
- Adjectives Safari (highlight the adjectives) x 2
- Add The Adjective (cut and stick / fill the gap) x 2
- Adjective Surgery (fill the gap) x 2
- Describing Me x 1
- Invent An Animal x 2
- Scavenger Hunt (outdoor activity) x 2
- Sort The Mess (sorting adjectives from nouns) x 1
- Beat The Snake (board game) x 1
For more adjective related activities check out our store. We hope you enjoy!