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.
Basic assembly script written about a boy who always shouts. Eventually no-one wants to be his friend, so he learns to talk quieter, although sometimes a loud voice can come in useful!
An assembly outline based on the fact that the main religions all pray to one god, just known by different names.
Contains prayers from Christianity, Hinduism and Islam.
Assembly script based on Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley. The story is based on a Chinese child who is new to the class and doesn't speak much English. He feels withdrawn as everyone has a special talent apart from him, until he shows the class how to use chopsticks.
A nice story/play to do as part of Chinese New Year.
Pictures of simple words containing the igh phoneme with a phoneme frame next to each one. To practice spelling by segmenting.
Phase 3 Letters and Sounds Phonics
Mindmap set out in 6 areas of learning + role-play. Road, rail, air and water transport covered. Activity ideas for a vehicle-based topic. Indoor and outdoor activities included.
Based on information from the National Maritime Museum's website with images.
Who were pirates, what did they do, how did they live and what can we learn to make ourselves better people?
A powerpoint designed to be used in assembly or in class for PSHE/PSED. Discussion point on what stealing is, to consider the consequences of stealing, and think of others’ feelings.
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.
A list of key vocabulary for the Numbers and Patterns publication, in Phase order.
I have designed to give to parents to go with the Numbers and Patterns parent workshop.
Posters to advertise collection of the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. Posters A5 landscape - designed to stick onto an A4 piece of card folded in half. One for contents of the shoebox, other for details of how to pack the shoebox
Quotation that Peter Parker aka Spiderman learnt, 'With great power must also come great responsibility.' Designed to be used as part of a PSED lesson on heroes and superheroes, focusing on non-violence, responsibility and helping others.
A classroom based shared poem based on Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
I was planning to use as a starter for writing our own poem, focussing on the rhyming words. We will be photographing areas of the classroom, and writing verses about them. Then laying a cut-out style window on top, and making the whole thing into a book.
Powerpoint presentation on how to Observe children in the Early Years. Designed mainly for classroom assistants, but could be tweaked to present to parents and other staff at school.
Additional word document case study.
Suggest staff go through the training, then look at any observations they have already completed, as well as complete a joint/paired observation, and then discuss what is exactly required.
An SSEHV lesson plan on learning the skill of patience through the sunflower
1. Quotation
2. Meditation (guided visualisation)
3. Story (SEAD Sam and the Sunflower) & questions
4. Song (I am learning patience)
5. Activity/game (The patience package)
SSEHV lesson plan on telling the truth
1. Quotation on truth
2. Guided visualisation meditation
3. Story and disussion - Tiddler by Julia Donaldson
4. Song - never tell a lie (SSEHV song)
5. Activity/game - pictionary/consequences
An SSEHV (education through human values) lesson on not wasting water.
1. Quotation
2. Meditation on the water cycle
3. Story and discussion
4. Song
5. Activity - completing a personal water usage chart
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.
A PowerPoint written for Reception to cover the Mesozoic era - triassic, jurassic and cretaceous periods. Looking at basic evolution of animals and the changes in the landscape.