I'm a primary school teacher with a passion for education, creativity and technology. I have 15 years experience teaching reception to year 5. In addition to developing interactive teaching resources, I also create and sell educational clip art.
I'm a primary school teacher with a passion for education, creativity and technology. I have 15 years experience teaching reception to year 5. In addition to developing interactive teaching resources, I also create and sell educational clip art.
Colors & Shapes (Posters) - Retro style! Here are bright retro color and shape posters. I've included two versions of the shape posters. Set A displays one shape per poster. Set B displays more than one version of the named shape per poster(please see the cover page or preview for an example).
Shapes included (17):
circle
triangle
square
rectangle
oval
trapezoid
parallelogram
semi circle
pentagon
hexagon
heptagon
octagon
nonagon
decagon
heart
star
diamond
Your class will love the bright and bold crayon color posters!
The following colors are included:
yellow
white
red
purple
pink
orange
green
black
grey
brown
blue
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Number Posters - Retro
This product contains number posters with ten frames. The images are bright and child friendly!
Numbers included: 0 - 20
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store:Lindy loves to teach)
Alphabet Posters - Retro
This product contains alphabet posters. The images are bright, doodly and very child friendly. They are available in full color and black line filled with white. I've also included multicultural options for "girl" and "queen".
I've included the following graphics:
* Apple
* Bee
* Cat
* Duck
* Egg
* Fish
* Girl (two multicultural images - to suit the needs of your class)
* Heart
* Igloo
* Kite
* Lion
* Moon
* Numbers
* Octopus
* Pig
* Queen (two multicultural images - to suit the needs of your class)
* Rabbit
* Sun
* Tomato
* Umbrella
* Vest
* Worm
* X-ray and Xylophone
* Yogurt
* Zebra
You will receive four options with this pack:
Option 1:
Letter formation and picture.
Option 2:
Letter formation, picture and word
Option 3:
Black line version of option 1 (perfect for tracing pictures).
Option 4:
Black line version of option 2 (perfect to send home for extra reinforcement).
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Helping Verbs Powerpoint and Printables. Community helpers are here to help your students understand helping verbs! Students learn about helping verbs through fun visuals and exercises. This PowerPoint introduces helping verbs and help students identify helping verbs in sentences. Students are encouraged to stay on task by using their whiteboards during the lesson. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of helping verbs (auxiliary verbs). Also included are five printables to further reinforce and consolidate helping verbs.
Included:
44 PowerPoint Slides
5 Printables / worksheets (answer keys included)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Fact or Opinion PowerPoint Game (20 question slides). Fact and opinion is easy to review when you play this interactive PowerPoint Game! Read about penguins and identify facts or opinions (read each sentence and choose the answer by clicking the correct button). The slides are self correcting and the illustrations are bright and beautiful!
Please remember to view the PPT in slide show mode for the animation and sound to work.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Fact or Opinion QR Code Task Cards - These are task cards with a huge twist! Join us on the farm and identify facts or opinions! Clip the answers with clothespins and scan the QR codes to check for accuracy. This is perfect for literacy centers!
For extra variation you can use the cards without the clothespins. Students can underline their answers on the answer sheet that's provided with this product. You can use these task cards for read and write the room, scoot or you can project them on your whiteboard for whole class work. You can even print out the black and white task cards and ask your students to color in the answers.
Contents:
32 Fact or opinion color cards
32 Fact or opinion black and white cards
Student answer sheet
Answer key
This product is linked to CCSS (W.1.1; W.1.2; W.2.1; W.2.2). Students have to understand fact and opinion before they can write opinion pieces or informative texts.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Fact or Opinion (PowerPoint and worksheets) - This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to fact or opinion! Students often struggle to distinguish between fact or opinion. This PowerPoint introduces and explains fact or opinion with 52 farm themed slides. Students work through the interactive slides to practice identifying facts and opinions. It's easy to use, you just click and teach!
Also included are four worksheets (including a flip flap book) to further reinforce and consolidate fact or opinion. The worksheets are perfect for literacy centers or to send home for extra review.
This product is linked to CCSS (W.1.1; W.1.2; W.2.1; W.2.2). Students have to understand fact and opinion before they can write opinion pieces or informative texts.
Included:
55 Fact or opinion PowerPoint slides
4 Fact or opinion worksheets (including a flip flap booklet)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Multiplication pencil toppers are novelty items that will motivate them to learn their tables. Just imagine the excitement of taking a cool pencil topper home to show the rest of the family!
Included:
- Color pencil toppers that include answers
- Black line versions that include answers
- Black line versions that do not include answers (students fill in the answers)
- Multiplication fact sheet (letter size)
Differentiation:
The pencil toppers can be used as a craftivity, for revision, or for additional student support (in class or at home). Students can use their pencil topper as a mini anchor chart or they can fill in their tables when they assemble their pencil topper. I've included a handy multiplication fact sheet that students can use for reference.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Division pencil toppers are novelty items that will motivate them to learn their division facts. Just imagine the excitement of taking a awesome skiing pencil topper home to show the rest of the family!
Included:
- Color pencil toppers that include answers
- Black line versions that include answers
- Black line versions where students fill in the quotient
- Black line versions where students fill in the dividend
- Division fact sheet
Differentiation:
The pencil toppers can be used as a craftivity, for revision, or for additional student support (in class or at home). Students can use their pencil topper as a mini anchor chart or they can fill in their answers when they assemble their pencil topper. I've included a handy division fact sheet that students can use for reference.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Comparative & Superlative Adjectives & Adverbs PowerPoint & Worksheets -
Included:
- Comparative & Superlative Adjectives & Adverbs PowerPoint (49 slides)
- Comparative & Superlative Adjectives & Adverbs Anchor chart
- 3 Comparative & Superlative Adjectives & Adverbs worksheets and answer sheets
The PowerPoint consists of 49 fully animated slides. The degrees of comparison are explained with animated examples. Spelling rules and tips are also explained with animated examples. Students are encouraged to use their whiteboards during the PowerPoint. This helps them to stay actively involved.
Three worksheets and answer sheets cover all the spelling rules and tips. The last worksheet has sentences that students have to complete with the correct form of the degree of comparison.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach). Single user license only.
Contractions Task Cards Clip It!
32 color contractions clip it task cards
32 black and white contractions clip it task cards
Contractions student answer worksheet
Contractions answer key
Here are contraction task cards with a twist! Every task card has a contraction on it. Students have to clip clothespins to the two words that combine to form the specific contraction. It's hands on and fun!
Common Core Aligned: L.2.2c
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Contractions (PowerPoint and Worksheets) - Contractions are easy to teach when you use this entertaining and interactive contractions PowerPoint. Students discover what contractions are through fun games and exercises.
70 Contractions PowerPoint slides
4 Contractions worksheets
The slides are fully animated and show how two words blend to form a contraction. This makes the correct placement of the apostrophe easy to understand and remember. By the end of this lesson your students will know exactly what contractions are and where to place the apostrophe when creating a contraction. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of contractions.
Students are encouraged to use their whiteboards throughout the PowerPoint - interactive learning always produces better results.
Common Core Aligned: L.2.2c
Created by Lindy du Plessis 2016. Single classroom license. Please do not share or place on the internet.
Conjunctions (PowerPoint and Worksheets) - Conjunctions are easy to teach when you use this no-prep PowerPoint! This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to conjunctions. Students discover how to identify conjunctions in sentences and how to combine sentences using coordinating conjunctions. Students are encouraged to use their whiteboards throughout the PPT.
This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of conjunctions.
45 PowerPoint slides
3 Worksheets and 3 answer keys
CCSS: ELA-LITERACY L.1.1.G
Created by Lindy du Plessis 2016. Single classroom license. This PPT may not be shared or placed on the internet.
Commas in a series (PowerPoint and Worksheets) - Commas are easy to teach when you use this no-prep PowerPoint! This is a highly visual, interactive and fun PowerPoint explaining the use of the Oxford comma. Students learn to write sentences using commas correctly. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of the Oxford comma.
Included:
30 PowerPoint Slides
3 Worksheets & 3 answer keys
Created by Lindy du Plessis 2016. This is a single user license only. Please do not share or place on the internet.
You are going to love this bright neon set of classroom rules!
x 6 neon classroom rules posters PDF
Have fun teaching!
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Name labels (editable) -
Here are bright name labels for your students. Print, write your students names on the labels and laminate for durability.
Name labels are available in 8 different patterns and two styles (plain or with Melonheadz clipart kids). Use the labels (without pictures) to label everything and anything in your class!
Perfect for back to school!
Name Labels (PDF - write the names)
Name Labels (PPT - type the names)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (storeL Lindy loves to teach).
Calendar Classroom Decor (Happy and Bright) - Perfect for calendar time!
Contents:
Today / Tomorrow / Yesterday
Days of the week
Months of the year
Weather chart (including temperature clip card)
Seasons
Ordinal numbers ( 1 - 20)
Calendar numbers 1 - 31
Calendar numbers 1 - 31 (even numbers in orange)
Tally the date (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
100 days smarter (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Countdown poster (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Today is... (special day poster - laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).