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'Your one stop shop for ENGAGING, AUTHENTIC ideas to keep your students busy, and schools wanting you to come back. Resources that are easy to use with links to some amazing websites and a host of free resources.'
Teaching is one of the most creative jobs I know, even after 30 years of teaching I realise that every day is different. You may be teaching the same subjects and grades, but it's children that make teaching both the challenging and rewarding profession that I have known.
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Are you looking for something to pep up your daily math numeracy routine?
Do you need a fun and engaging math warm-up for your younger students? Do you want to challenge your students to think deeply about math concepts?
Which one doesn’t belong?
Your students will find out with this fun interactive math game!
With this resource, children get practice sorting and categorizing shapes, numbers, objects and more as they determine which image isn’t like the others.
They’ll look at four pictures of which three have similar attributes and select the one that is different.
This math game provides an engaging way to help children classify objects and builds the foundation for more complex concepts such as grouping and data collection.
It also encourages your students to develop their persuasive text to convince their classmates to understand their choices. Fantastic for expressive and receptive language.
Develop deductive reasoning and persuasion.
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
This comprehensive pack is suitable for Distance learning as there is a Google Slides version included in the pack, so that it can be used in printed format or with a variety of devices that are able to utilise Google Slides. A PDF is included which has a link to the online version which will prompt you to make a copy first.
Week 1
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer
Week 2
Words with a long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions)
Week 3
Words with the long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions)
Week 4
Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning
Week 5
Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning
Week 6
Words with endings which sound like /shuhl/ after a vowel letter
Week 7
Words with endings which sound like /shuhl/ after a consonant letter
Week 8
Words with a ‘soft c’ spelt /ce/
Week 9
Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning
Week 1
Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning
Need to make a classroom agreement with your students or need a set of words to develop positive mindset in your classroom.
•These cards are designed to be used as a classroom display, however, my belief is that there needs to be authenticity around any activity we undertake with our students.
•Students need to understand what each of the terms/words mean or “look like”.
•Divide the class into groups and give them a set of words each…….get them to brainstorm how each word is relevant to the classroom and their learning goals.
Use a word as a teaching focus for a day or a week, and give students real life examples of each. Praise students who are demonstrating the mindset you may be focusing on eg Why is it important to be risk takers?
•Where do we use mathematics- what does a mathematician do?
•Why is it important to have music in our lives?
•How do we know a person is a great listener?
• How do inventors help our lives?
•What does being a good team mate look like?
•Students may like to add pictures of their own heads onto the various shapes and outlines.
•Use this on a poster board, or use your classroom door as a display for these motivating words.
•Have FUN!!!
Help your students become proficient persuasive writers in this easy to use way.
This persuasive writing unit will give you the tools necessary to successfully teach this topic in your classroom.
Rubrics, planning sheets, and handouts will help guide you through the process.
Persuasive language is in use all around us: from commercials, to movie posters to political speeches. Therefore, teaching persuasive techniques and language,
can be an extremely engaging task.
This resources aim to make persuasive techniques easy to understand, identify and use.
This is Powerpoint and PDF set which contains images and scaffolds to assist when teaching PEEL paragraphs.
Each organiser explains the different parts of the paragraph (the meaning of each letter P.E.E.L).
61 page Student handouts-print as required
8 slide PowerPoint template with guides to introduce and teach your students about Persuasive writing using the P.E.E.L technique
13 images with text features included
13 plain images without text features
Planning templates for each image
Lined paper
Editing prompts on each scaffold
PEEL prompt cards and images
You will receive a Zip file, so please ensure that you have the software to open these files
This comprehensive pack is suitable for Distance learning as there is a Google Slides version included in the pack, so that it can be used in printed format or with a variety of devices that are able to utilise Google Slides. A PDF is included which has a link to the online version which will prompt you to make a copy first.
The fonts will be different than the ones in the Powerpoint version
Week 1
Words with short /i/ sound spelt with ‘y’
Week 2
Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel (er/ed/ing) to words with more than one syllable (unstressed last syllable - DO NOT double the final consonant)
Week 3
Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel (er/ed/en/ing) to words with more than one syllable (stressed last syllable - double the final consonant)
Week 4
Creating negative meanings using prefix mis-
Week 5
Creating negative meanings using prefix dis-
Week 6
Words with a /k/ sound spelt with ‘ch’
Week 7
Homophones & Near Homophones
Week 8
Homophones & Near Homophones
Week 9
Adding the prefix bi- (meaning ‘two’ or ‘twice’) and Adding the prefix re- (meaning ‘again’ or back’)
Week 1
Words ending in the /g/ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the /k/ sound spelt ‘que’
Teaching Suggestions
Who doesn’t love a good game of Scattergories?
This file comes with a printable game and corresponding PowerPoint for easy classroom use.
Players come up with answers that start with the target letter.
Great as a whole group activity, literacy center, holiday party game, with staff members or even to play at home with family.
This download includes:
-Rules Sheet
-1 Round Cards
-automatic letter selector video (click and go)
-1 minute timer video (click and go)
-extra editable slide to create your own lists
PDF and PowerPoint versions of the game
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
Teaching Notes
•This choice board is designed to work with any list of words for a term.
•The activities specifically target middle primary students and encourage them to practice their spelling words., using Blooms taxonomy of thinking skills.
•There are 18 different activities to choose from, and students will monitor their own checklist. The maximum amount of times they can select an activity is 3 and this will be reflected on their checklist. Altogether that totals 54 activities.
•A high ink, low ink and black and white version are included for your needs.
•Many of the activities include technology so that it will be essential to have access to iPads in the classroom for this particular selection of choice boards.
•A separate slide is included to explain what each task involves, and these can be printed and laminated for class reference or as a PowerPoint presentation.
•The choice is yours. ENJOY
You will receive a zip file containing a PDF version and PowerPoint version for use with IWB. Please ensure you have the software to open a zip file
This BOOM product includes 28 slides that your students can practice their number recognition and dice patterns to 6. Reinforce your student’s recognition of dice patterns and numbers with this fun and interactive BOOM game.
These self correcting cards are ideal for any math rotation groups. Suitable for grades Prek -1, and your students will be fully engaged with the variety of activities included.
It can be used for whole group instruction or independent work. The beauty of BOOM cards is that they are self correcting so your students get instant feedback.
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
Looking for a fun way to test your students’ math knowledge around number representation using base ten blocks, tally marks and hands
Need a fun game to use as a reward for your students- especially the competitive ones!!!
Use this as an exit task after teaching a unit based on this theme
15 questions in this game
Guaranteed to be fun, engaging and keep your students amused while reinforcing and consolidating what your students have learned along the way. The animated characters in the resource keep your students on task.
This digital resource uses PowerPoint™ and can be assigned on Google Classroom or using a different platform, HOWEVER students must have PowerPoint on their devices to play this game.
Otherwise, this game can be played from the teacher’s desktop computer that has PowerPoint and projected, or using any other device that has PowerPoint installed. This resource is not compatible with Google Slides™ and will NOT work properly if opened using Google Slides™.
The resource will open up in Slideshow mode so you and your students can get right to playing the game.
You may not edit any part of this resource.
To exit out of the game, hit the ESC button.
Your PowerPoint Game is located in the zip file.
Just double click to start playing!
SPELLING TERM 4 GRADE 6
This makes a great addition to your primary spelling resources. I have created a set of spelling lists for each of the grades. This pack contains a set of activities for each spelling list.
· Instructions included in each of the sets of word lists
· On each page there is a new set of list words for you to practice (see the word list below)
· Firstly read each word in the word list
· Then copy and write each word 3 times
· Lastly, each letter has a value. Work out how much each word is worth using the table provided.
Week 1 In words ending in -ent and -ant, the e and a are often mistaken for one another.
Week 2 In many words, the letter i is confused with an e, y or a.
Week 3 Many English words use double consonants.
Week 4 Homophones are two words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.
Week 5 Words with an ‘o’ sometimes are misspelled because the ‘o’ is left out of the word.
Week 6 In English, an s is added to the end of a word for two reasons.
Week 7 Words with an o sometimes get misspelled because the ‘o’ is mispronounced or an extra vowel, such as an ‘i, ‘is added.
Week 8 Many English words use double consonants.
Week 9 Many English words use a prefix before a root word.
Week 1Many writers confuse -ent and -ant, -ence and -ance, and -ery and -ary.
Use this resource for…
Homework
Morning Work
Literacy Centres
Early Finisher Tasks
Spelling Intervention
Distance Learning
Looking for an easy, engaging andready to use math warm-upsfor your students?
This set of problem of the day challenges has everything you need to review key concepts and build mental math skills all year long.
Number of the day is perfect for practicing representing numbers in different ways. This Number of the Day sheet helps students to develop number sense by helping students to think about a number in a variety of different ways. These slides can be modified to be used with whole numbers, decimals and fractions.
-expand the numbe
-write the number
-write as a mixed fraction
-draw using MAB
-place value
-odd or even
-round the number
-write the decimal in words
-equivalent fractions
It could be used as part of a math assessment or as a daily math center or activity
An affordable and versatile resource for any classroom.
You will receive a powerpoint presentation
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
Terms of Use: Copyright of this material is reserved in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968. This purchase is for single classroom/home use only. Additional reproduction of part or all of this resource is prohibited without the written authority of Oceanview Resources.
How to use this resource
Subitising is the ability to recognise patterns of dots instantly without having to count them. This is integrated into the Early Mathematical framework as a basis for building further strategic thinking after the Emergent Stage. Counting by ones can often be a strategy that can be a hard one to shift with some learners. Ongoing exposure to these regular patterns can be useful to lead on to more complex strategies.
The following cards are an extension of this basic concept, the students look for those patterns within a larger group in order to get a notion of combining groups of patterns in order to ‘see’ a larger number without having to count.
The following video is an excellent example of how to open discussions with your students and encourage them to explain their mathematical thinking. Simply click onto this link, or the image to watch the presentation. You can ask your students to ‘draw’ an image of what they see, or simply discuss this in pairs, groups, or a teacher led discussion. (Counting by one is not encouraged with this activity).
You will get both a powerpoint and PDF presentation
65 pages in each
Animal Themed Logic Games
Animals are a great topic to use with all grades. This pack may be the answer to many of your preparation needs. Check out what is included in the resource bundle
What do you get?
60 Real animal photos
Clipart of environments
Photos of real environments
Word cards
Venn diagrams
Suggested games and activities to play with these cards
10 game cards with rules and how to play
Matrix game
Memory Game
Compound word animal puzzles
World maps of Continents (for animal sorting)
PDF version
Editable PowerPoint version
158 slides/pages
Easy Links- Wonderful Websites for Very Busy Teachers
Click here to see a video presentation
Why this book??
Have you bookmarked, pinned and saved hundreds of links?
Do you promise that one day you will sort them out?
This book may be the answer to your organisational dreams. It is designed to be an easy to use, interactive resource. It has been sorted into categories with links to provide answers and help for frequently asked questions posed in posts on Facebook and other social group forums.
What do you get?
105 page e-book
400 Web links
Attention getters (3 pages of ideas)
Behaviour Management Booklet (7 pages)
Suitable for Primary and Secondary Teachers
Time saving resource with a wealth of downloads to save you money
FLIPBOOK sample pages click here
A Survival Kit for Casual Relief Teachers
After 30 years of teaching, I thought it was well overdue to start sharing all those gems that you use in your day to day teaching that help make learning more meaningful and fun.
I began to build a resource kit for myself when I began casual teaching, and then I realised just how many ideas and activities I had been using over the years. I have spent many hours searching through websites, searching books for great ideas and activities.
I have now collected and compiled my book of activities and hints for casual teachers ......
A survival Kit to take with you when the phone rings, and you aren't sure what to take with you.
The eBook can be used with any storage, to access when you need a quick activity or web link. Copyright is granted to print off 1 copy for personal classroom use. 111 pages
Animals are a great topic to use with all grades. This pack may be the answer to many of your preparation needs. Check out what is included in the resource bundle
What do you get?
60 Real animal photos
Clipart of environments
Photos of real environments
Word cards
Venn diagrams
Suggested games and activities to play with these cards
10 game cards with rules and how to play
Matrix game
Memory Game
Compound word animal puzzles
World maps of Continents (for animal sorting)
PDF version
Editable PowerPoint version
158 slides/pages
Great family games to play with your own kids in the holidays.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Christmas Themed with BLM that can be printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Alien themed with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Halloween themed with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Sea Themed, with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
This bundle includes all of my Themed Brain Break, Time Fillers or Extension Activities
Aliens/Space
Christmas
Easter
Halloween
Harmony Day
Sea
Fairy Tale
Have you ever needed a last minute card to say thank you to a parent of volunteer worker?
Have you needed a birthday or congratulations card in a hurry?
This collection of Cactus themed cards and note tags are designed to be colored and decorated by students to give to that special person on their special day!!
Ideal to use as a Zentangle activity, or use a different design for each shape.
Design your own background for that extra pizzaz!!!
