A sheet designed for the child to draw an image of one of the farm animals in the story. To sound out and write the sound that that animal makes in the story. A nice short follow-up writing activity to a drama based lesson, based on the story What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson.

Listen and silent are spelt with the same letters quotation. Linked to What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson, so great for use when learning about good listening skills, as well as animals topics, especially farm animals

Board game based on the well-known Diwali story of Rama and Sita.

Designed for use at circle time/carpet time. A set of 5 questions describing 5 different zoo animals. Each question is made up of 3 hints, each getting easier. Could differentiate for younger children by displaying images/toys of the animals while they are listening to the questions/hints. This resource was inspired by Sorting Sprinkles blog - zoo week for pre-schoolers 2.

A matching pairs game using the skin patterns of a tiger, leopard, cow, giraffe, elephant, zebra, snake and peacock. To be printed double sided and laminated. This game links with my other zoo-themed resources.

4 images of zoo animals in a 'cage&'. To be laminated and hole-punched, or stuck onto thick card and small snips at the top and bottom edges made. The children can then lace a thread or weave some string/wool, depending on their fine motor ability. Their lacing/weaving will become the bars of the cage. Please also see my other Dear Zoo and zoo animal themed resources.

Based on my shared writing activity, I have made a zigzag style book. Created in Publisher on an A3 format, the page can be folded (and glued) in half horizontally and then folded to make the zigzags. Children can complete the missing words and draw a picture of their animal. They can then stick a post-it note over the picture or draw a picture of a box and sellotape it over the top to make the flap. Would be interesting to have flaps opening from different directions or different shapes!

A shared writing or independent work idea, linking up both Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell and learning the sequence of the days of the week.

Game board (to be enlarged to A3) and animal picture and word cards. To be cut and laminated. Children can match the picture/word card to the board in alphabet order. Note that 'X&' is fox (the x is underlined to help) Hope this resource is useful; please rate it if so xx

Based on ABC Does' blog posts this week on Dough Gym, but in PowerPoint form for staff training and parent workshops. Includes gross motor and fine motor development, ideas on how to create a dough gym, additional &'funky fingers&'; ideas for child initiated activities to improve fine motor control, and malleable material recipes/ideas.

Tutorial designed for EYFS and KS1 kids on the basic of using MS Paint. Drawing straight and free lines, inserting shapes, erasing mistakes, using the fill tool and inserting a text box. Please see the rest of my MS Office tutorials for Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Windows Explorer. If you like this resource, please rate it xx

A generic certificate created for all children entering a Pet Show activity. Please also see my certificates for Best in Show, Agility and Obedience categories.

Pet cards and skin texture boards. Children to sort the cards onto the correct board, depending on which skin type they have. Can provoke discussion around why animals have certain skins (temperature regulation, protection, sensory needs). Could also introduce camouflage.

Bread recipe taken from the Breville Compact breadmaker baker's oven. 750g loaf.

Instructional PowerPoint to be used at Harvest to make bread in a breadmaker. Pictures and text instructions.

A role-play assistance sheet designed to be kept in the topic resource box to help teachers and TAs/NNs set up the role-play area with the kids. Suggested resource list and possible scenarios

A sorting game designed to discuss foods that are suitable and not suitable for dogs, cats, rabbits and birds. Each child to have an animal board. Food cards to be laminated and cut; placed face down in a pile. Children to take it in turn to pick up a food card and decide whether it is safe for their animal to eat. If so, place on the tick column. If they are aware that the food is not safe, place on the cross column. If the food is not applicable for that animal, place the card back down on the bottom of the pile.

3 different categories: best in show, agility (obstacle course/tricks) and obedience. Certificates made for 1st, 2nd and 3rd, so can bring in ordinal numbers. I will also be uploading a generic participation certificate, so everyone gets something for joining in!

PowerPoint looking at the rhyming names and descriptions of characters. Hairy Maclary, Bottomley Potts, Hercules Morse, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney, Schnitzel von Krumm. Children to attempt to create their own rhyming names and descriptions of differing dog breeds.

Information on all the main body parts of a fish and what the fish uses them for. I have taken most of the content from vtaide.com and learning parade and made into an easy PowerPoint introduction. Children then will label a picture of the Rainbow fish, either laminated as a matching game, or individually as a writing exercise.