Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
A word mat to write instructions on how to make a straw rocket launcher. Set out into V, C, O & P sections. Also contains butterbeer & Ilovemarmite's VCOP superheroes.
Two different pictures of hearts to be cut up and put back together. Suggestions of simple random acts of kindness they could do. Also a blank heart template for children to create their own ideas.
A pictorial recipe for making egg-free gingerbread men.
Focus on the structure of the text as non-fiction, with sections for the ingredients, equipment and method.
Including pictorial instruction sorting cards.
Great to use alongside the Gingerbread Man traditional tale.
We designed our own characters, looking at recounts, character descriptions and then moved onto a simple story and made it into a comic strip. Our superheroes focused on the good qualities they could have, and what human values (love, peace, truth, non-violence and right conduct) they display.
Non-fiction book on (pet) rabbits. Designed either to be viewed on the interactive whiteboard or printed and made into a book for shared reading sessions. Could be used as a topic introduction or independent reading.
Variety of writing resources to aid Literacy teaching. Letter of apology to the 3 bears, a worksheet with 3 boxes for illustrating the beginning, middle & end of the story, differentiated with lines for the more able to write sentences, and sentences prefilled for less able. Goldilocks dictionary sheets, to encourage alphabetical order, and for children to use when writing the story or sentences.
A KS1 instruction template for writing a recipe.
Includes sections for equipment, ingredients, method. The second page (photographs and then an evaluation) are for after following the instructions!
A PowerPoint to be used in conjunction with Fairy-tales introduction and Fairy-tale characters.
Describes what settings are, and ideas of different settings. Links to the story mountain concept.
Comparison of two differing settings in Jack and the Beanstalk
A set of classroom labels with an under the sea theme. Suitable for pegs, trays, books, folders and general classroom resources. Images courtesy of colourbox.com and shapes courtesy of Surfing to Success by Mercedes Hutchens.
Simple 4x4 grids with columns labelled A to D and rows labelled 1 to 4.
Images of superheroes, 2D shapes, dinosaurs and Mickey Mouse characters to find the grid co-ordinates for.
Children to remember to write the x-axis first and then the y-axis.
The first two grids are very simple with 4 image co-ordinates to record, the next two have either 6 or 9 co-ordinates to record.
SSEHV stands for Sathya Sai Education through Human Values, a PSED teaching method in many schools. Based on core human values of Love, Peace, Truth, Non Violence and Right Conduct.
The SSEHV lesson brings on various elements - a quotation to talk about, a warm-up game, a silent sitting/meditation, a story and discussion/questions, a song, and then a game or activity.
This lesson plan has been put together to focus on non-violence, and basic respect of similarities and differences, and what we can learn from the peace loving plant eating dinosaurs.
Quotation on family used to start a topic on families and family trees.
'We are all one family under the same sky.'
Respecting similarities and differences.
Board game designed to celebrate the 2012 Olympic games. Start at the Wenlock mascot and travel around. When you land on a medal space, get that coloured Olympic ring. Can move between rings using the 2012 logo space. Winner is the person that has collected all five coloured rings and raced to the Mandeville mascot to end. Hope you enjoy playing. If so, please rate and leave feedback :)
A PowerPoint book all about the original Justice League of America: Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, The Flash & Batman.
PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.
Introduction to space topic and letter writing.
Letter format for studying how a letter is written.
Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.
