Letter writing is an art! We love to receive letters and what better way than write one first. This pack will show you why and how we should write letters. There are posters, templates and ideas to use to get your students to write letters. This pack includes - • Posters for - Why do we write letters? Why write a letter, Parts of a letter • Rubric for letter Writing • What do we know about letter writing? • Why do we write letters? • What steps are needed after we write a letter? • What does a letter look like? • What does an envelope need on it? • Address an envelope to your family? • What other items do we post? • What are the busiest times at the post office? • Draw the logo for our postal service • Design and make your own mailbox • Design your own stamp • How to make an envelope #1 • How to make an envelope #2 • Add a graphic to a letter to say ‘Thank you to the Tooth Fairy" and ‘We Should Have More Recess • 12 different pages to use to write a letter COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Skip Counting - Addition - Problem Solving are all covered in this BBQ activity. Skip counting provides an understanding of number patterns. The skip counting skill helps with the four operations and gives confidence to solve problems. Our BBQ Problem Based Learning task explores a menu and solving the price of food eaten. Prompts for purchasing BBQ menu items There are prompts to use for display. They will motivate your students to draw, record their BBQ choices and then cost each order. Skip Counting Mats The skip counting mats are provided to review 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 7s and 10s from a zero and non zero starting point. Start at 0 or start at any number. Student Workbook Select the pages you want to be printed in your students’ books. Some students may not need all the pages. Use play money to help work out the skipping patterns. Small whiteboards can be used to record the skipping pattern. Interactive Note Book Pages These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work. Draw the BBQ order on the front and under the flap work out how much the order would cost. The answer key is provided at the back of this pack. Teach the students how to record dollars and cents. Answer Keys COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Lemonade Stand - Make a Model and create a Financial Plan. This Project Based Learning (PBL) task is to design a Lemonade Stand model to scale and produce a business plan to sell lemonade to customers. I use these steps for Project Based Learning in my teaching and learning space. Setting the stage for the learning that is about to happen and make a link back to a real life scenario The teacher negotiates the criteria for evaluating the projects Students become project designers Students discuss information needed for their designs Students accumulate the materials necessary for the project Students create their projects Students prepare to present their projects Students present their projects Students reflect on the process and evaluate the projects based on the agreed criteria Students can work individually, in pairs or in groups. They work through a task to design an outcome using their creative abilities. The task is usually interdisciplinary and can involve Numeracy, Literacy, Science, Design and Technology. The teacher’s role is to guide, check in and help to uncover content to be covered. Focus – Design Technology, Economics and Mathematics Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Skip Counting - Addition - Problem Solving are all covered in this BBQ activity. Skip counting provides an understanding of number patterns. The skip counting skill helps with the four operations and gives confidence to solve problems. Our BBQ Problem Based Learning task explores a menu and solving the price of food eaten. Prompts for purchasing BBQ menu items There are prompts to use for display. They will motivate your students to draw, record their BBQ choices and then cost each order. Skip Counting Mats The skip counting mats are provided to review 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 7s and 10s from a zero and non zero starting point. Start at 0 or start at any number. Student Workbook Select the pages you want printed in your students’ book. Some students may not need all the pages. Use play money to help work out the skipping patterns. Small whiteboards can be used to record the skipping pattern. Interactive Note Book Pages These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work. Draw the BBQ order on the front and under the flap work out how much the order would cost. Answer key provided at the back of this pack. This section has the answer keys for the Student Workbook and the Interactive Note Pages. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Who doesn’t love ice cream? This Ice Cream Math pack is engaging, colorful and full of addition ideas. Use this Ice Cream Shop to create your own ice creams and work out the cost for each one. It is your choice if you show your students how to record money. My extension students do, but my other students do not. Use bundling sticks or Base 10 blocks to work out the cost. Check on a calculator – they love doing this. Prompts for Ice Cream Shop This is a sample of the prompts to use for display. They will motivate your students to draw, record their ice cream and then cost each one. Number Bonds There are two types of mats in this pack. (plus two printing options). You can choose what dice to use – 6-10-20 sided! Set One – roll two dice and add both collections together. Set Two – Roll two dice and place the largest collection in the large ice cream. Now work out what you need to add to the smaller number rolled to make the larger number. Copy and laminate them use whiteboard marker to write your equations. Check with a buddy before rubbing out. Student Workbook This is a sample of the pages available. Select the pages you want in your students’ book. Work through the Number Bonds first – Answer Key at the end of this pack. Use the costing pages to work through the examples and then let the students design their own. The work with the previous number bonds will help you to work out which ones to include in the booklet for each child. Adding Ice Cream Scoops This section has two tasks. Set One – add to 10. You can use two or more scoops of ice cream. Set Two – add between 11-26 with two or more scoops of ice cream. Interactive Note Book Pages These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work. Draw the ice cream on the front and under the flap work out how much the ice cream would cost. Answer key provided at the back of this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Our Project Based Learning Design a Cubby House or Tree House has prompts, posters and rubrics that will help you to design some amazing cubbies or treehouses. Our students love designing and producing models that mean something to them. Explore tree/cubby houses and work out which design will influence your STEM process. There are five posters to help guide you through the Design a Cubby House process. There are four Cubby Designs to make comments on and reflect positives or negatives for your own design. Design a Cubby House Learning Book – Copy the pages and place them together in a book. Work through each page together and check in often. Share great work along the way and provide help with giving feedback Digital Learning Option Guide for Design a Cubby House We have used the free version of Book Creator and we made a new class assignment within the app. When they have completed the task they upload this to Showbie – which is also a free version. Rubric Assessment included for Design a Cubby House Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Time Lap Book - Learning to tell the time can be hard for some students. Use this colourful learning tool to engage and challenge students. This Time Lap Book is set up to record learning goals and show learning. The pack includes - Detailed photos to help you to put the Lap Book together with specific instructions. Pages can be copied onto white paper or on coloured paper as I have done. I have provided a colour version as a third printing option. Goals are clear and the Lap Book will show evidence for o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. The goals beyond this are to extend your students. Cards to help sequence days of the week, months of the year and seasons. These can be printed as is or on coloured card and laminated. You may wish to use them to glue into your everyday Math Book and then copy them into the Lap Book. They can be used as sorting cards too. Additional goals are given but they are not part of this Lap Book, they are for extension tasks. A tracking page to see where your students are and what their point of need for teaching is. An Excel spreadsheet is in the zipped file for you to keep track of digitally too. Just add your student names, the file is formatted so that it will colour according to skill level. A section that includes tasks to do with a focus group if they need work to consolidate the following tasks - a) Make your own clock before you add one to the Lap Book b) Work on days of the week, months of the year and sequencing the seasons. Goal tags to glue into the lap book. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Mother’s Day – Writing and Craftivity. A gorgeous coupon hand bag with a card is the end result of this task. There are many opportunities to write and discuss what Mother’s Day means and how we celebrate it as families. Word Wall Copy and then as a grade add words to the pages and display. Add words as you need to and then use these words in all reading and writing tasks Word Tasks Mothers can-do-have Why do we celebrate Mother’s Day? Wordfind with answer key Persuasive/Opinion Text A way of planning is provided. Display or copy the writing prompt. Plan – draft and edit and publish. Paper provided for draft and publishing. Assessment sheet provided. Recount Five prompts for writing plus a page with lines for longer stories My book about mom/mum These pages can be used to make a book for each child. You may choose to do all pages or some pages. Copy the pages and then staple together. Staple where the two marks are then cut in half for two books. Add your information and then decorate. A great addition to a gift for Mom. Card and poetry – A Haiku Poem Make a card for Mother’s Day and add a poem in the middle Handbag Craftivity with coupons Have fun making this coupon bag for Mother’s Day Related product Our Mother’s Day Bundle has these Packs - Mother’s Day Craft and Writing Tasks Mother’s Day PowerPoint of facts Mother’s Day – Make a Bouquet Mother’s Day an Interactive Card COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Mother’s Day Craft Make A Bouquet - Surprise the mothers in your room with a handmade bouquet this year. They will love this creation and you will have heaps of fun making this bouquet with your students. Mother’s Day Craft – Make a Bouquet How to make a bouquet – Print off the instructions and display for students to follow Step One Choose two colored straws for the stems. Place them on an angle to one another. Fasten with tape. We used two skewers and covered them in washi tape. Step Two are the flowers. Make sure there are enough flowers for two each. Choose two flowers. Cut them out. Attach to the top of the straw with tape. Step Three on yellow card if using the black and white template. Cut out two of the larger circles and cut to the middle line, making many cuts all around the circle. Glue this onto the centre of the flowers. Step Four Cut out two smaller circles and glue on the centre of the larger circle. Make your fringing stand out by gently separating the fringes. Step Five Cut out four leaves. Attach with tape. Step Six Use two pieces of tissue paper or cellophane to wrap your flowers in - approx. 20x10cm or 8x4in. Tie up with raffia, string or ribbon. Step Seven Use a second piece of raffia/string or ribbon to attach the card. Use a hole punch to put a hole in the corner before you attach it. Step Eight Cut out the ladybugs and attach them with tape. Make a card – black and white copy to design your own and then boy and girl templates provided COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

This Mother’s Day Interactive Card gives your students the opportunity to record memories, facts and thoughts about their mother. Every year when we make this card we get amazing feedback from our parents. This Mother’s Day pack will help create a large card that has many sections. There are instructions with photos to help assemble the card. The file contains pages for the following options - Mother, Mum, Mom, Grandma, Nan and Auntie. Instructions Photocopy all pages Choose an A3 card and fold in half Cut out the template pages and glue in Cut all the Memory Pages, staple and glue Cut and put together the ‘Our Holidays’ booklet and glue into place Put together the IOU booklet and glue in Now it is time to write…… Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Mother’s Day facts to share This PowerPoint will assist in building an understanding of Mother’s Day and why we hold it as an important calendar event and acknowledge it in the way we do. • Use this as a PowerPoint and share with your grade. • Discuss each slide and ask questions about their understanding. Mother’s Day is day that is dedicated to celebrating and caring for our mothers. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

This Angles – Read the Room pack aims to help your students discover the types of angles and the names we give them. Share the two photos with your grade and ask what sorts of angles they see. Use the ANGLES page to record what your grade knows or what individual students know. This can be added to as you progress through the tasks. The first set of cards are to determine if the angles are acute, obtuse or right angled. Print the cards (either blue background or black/white). Students record the type of angle by checking the correct box on the answer sheet. There is an answer key. The second set of cards are to determine if the angles are acute, obtuse, right, complete, straight or reflex angled. Print the cards (either yellow background or black/white). Students record the type of angle by writing the name of the angle in the correct box on the answer sheet. There is an answer key. Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

These Decoding and Comprehension Strategy Posters are great for displaying in your room to remind students which strategies to use when they are ‘stuck’ while reading texts. There are banners, bookmarks and buttons too! The following are provided for both Decoding and Comprehension Strategies Full size posters Bookmarks Banners Buttons Strategies included are Eagle Eye Lippy the Fish Stretchy Snake Chunky Monkey Skippy Frog Trying Lion Flippy Dolphin Caring Kangaroo Spinner the Spider Questioning Owl Rocky Racoon Digger Dog Jabber the Reteller Fix it up Bear Each section has options in full color and save ink versions. Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Christmas Around the World - Our Christmas Around the World templates are a great way to present research on how we celebrate Christmas around the world. I have provided photos of some of the finished products. Use library books and internet research to add the information for each section. The facts are not included in the pack. Templates included are for Africa, Australia, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, USA Copy and go – there are color and black/white versions. For some countries, there is a male and female version to use in black and white. It is not intended that you do your own country using these templates. Have two children work on recording the information and then place all work in a class book to share. There is a page for peer feedback. Celebrations around the World - Interactive Notebook Pages Looking at how we celebrate customs around the world is a great way to compare and discuss what we do. This pack will help you to record your research on templates for display around your room. These templates can also be used for comparing other customs at other times of the year ie Easter. This pack includes the following – Follow the instructions on how to cut and write on the INB page There are photos included to show what the finished research projects may look like. Copy and go – there are color and black/white versions. Use library books and internet research to add the information for each section. Have two children work on recording the information and then place all work in a class book to share or have on display. Countries included are – Africa, America, Australia, China, England, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden and Tanzania. Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Christmas Around the World - INB (Interactive Note Pages) Using our templates to look at how we celebrate customs around the world is a great way to compare and discuss what we do. This interactive note book will help you to record your research on templates for displaying around your room. These templates can also be used for Christmas to compare other customs at other times of the year ie Easter. This pack includes the following – Follow the instructions on how to cut and write on the INB page There are photos included to show what the finished research projects may look like. Copy and go – there are color and black/white versions. Use library books and internet research to add the information for each section. Have two children work on recording the information and then place all work in a class book to share or have on display. Countries included are – Africa, America, Australia, China, England, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden and Tanzania. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author

Design your own Christmas Tree with these fun prompts. There are posters, printables and learning centers to use to consolidate addition and using arrays in the project based learning activity pack. Prompts for designing a Christmas Tree Use these posters to set up your display area and motivate your students to design amazing Christmas Trees. Print and glue the three pages for the banner together and use the single posters too! Printable Workbook These books are available in color and black and white. Choose the pages you want printed. The pages that have the options for trees, baubles, decorations etc can be displayed around the room and not placed in the booklets. Student Workbook These books are available in color and black and white. Choose the pages you want printed. The pages that have the options for trees, baubles, decorations etc can be displayed around the room and not placed in the booklets. Roll a Tree Design Use these mats to make your own tree. Use the colored ones and laminate them or share the black and white copy with each student. Decide what differentiation you need for groups and they may add two objects or three or more. Record work in your Math Book or on small whiteboards. Check costs with a buddy. Making Arrays The problem solving cards can be placed around the room or sets can be copied for small groups. Draw the arrays or make them with counters. Check the work with a buddy. There is a recording sheet and answer key. Answer Keys Answer keys are provided but the individual trees will have a variety of answers. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Our Christmas Around the World templates are a great way to present research on how we celebrate Christmas around the world. I have provided photos of some of the finished products. These photos are of the product before I updated the pack and added different fonts. Use library books and internet research to add the information for each section. The facts are not included in the pack. Templates included are for Africa, Australia, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, USA Copy and go – there are color and black/white versions. For some countries, there is a male and female version to use in black and white. It is not intended that you do your own country using these templates. Have two children work on recording the information and then place all work in a class book to share. There is a page for peer feedback. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Write a letter to Santa – there are so many options available in this pack. This Letter to Santa pack explores why we use letters and what makes a letter so that we can write a great Letter to Santa. Tasks include - • Why do we write letters? Brainstorm ideas on the template. • List what we should include in a letter – what parts are necessary? • Write about something you want, you need, you want for someone else and what doesn’t cost money…. • What happens after we write the letter? • What does a letter look like? • What does an envelope need on it? • Design your own Christmas stamp • Planning page for writing your letter • What would you ask Santa? • Write a persuasive letter to Santa – 2 options • Write a recount – 2 options • Toppers for your writing when on display • How to make an envelope #1, #2, #3 • How to make an envelope #2 • Writing pages for your letter – 24 options to choose from Click here to follow my store COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

These Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Character Traits and Compare and Contrast Tasks are perfect for looking at the similarities and differences between the book and the movie/s. Instructions Read the novel to your grade and then watch the two versions of the movie. This will provide the information for your grade to engage in the tasks. The comparisons will have more rigour with this background immersion. Task One What are character traits? Choose a friend you know well. Together fill out the Venn Diagram and then complete the page on your friend. Draw a picture of them in the middle of the page. Record what you like about them. On the second page add the words with evidence. Task Two As you read to the grade or watch the movie/s, students are to add character details for a character of their choice. The three sections of beginning, middle and end allow you to record any changes in characters as the story develops. The ‘beginning’ tab is for your first impressions. The ‘end’ tab for your final thoughts Task Three Traits and gathering evidence. This is for adding notes prior to making your own poster. You must add your evidence. For example – Charlie shows humour when he jokes about winning the ticket. Task Four Posters and presentation. These posters can be used to record the final presentation of traits and evidence. Your students may decide to draw their own characters. Photos are provided at the start of this pack, if you would like to share them for motivation. Task Five Compare and contrast the two movies. We used our key word research skills to compile a list using the internet. This is by no means complete. Your grade can make a list of similarities of their own. There are recording sheets to use. Research in pairs and then combine with another pair to add items. Share as a whole grade to make a grade list. Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack. COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.

Koala Lou is a beautifully written book that children just love to study. Australian literature is often about some amazing animal that has a lesson to learn. This book study for Koala Lou contains the following tasks - Getting to know the text Alphabet Key Parts of speech – classify the words and make a display What I know, want to know and new learning Alphabet Wall for a class display Working through the text Beginning, middle and end Text Connections Problems and solutions Write a summary Story Elements I see, I think, I wonder A Koala is, can, has Use adjectives to describe Beyond the text Main Idea and sub plots Conversations Venn Diagrams compare koalas to Koala Lou Change the ending A training schedule Alternative coping methods Personality Traits Use adjectives List Australian animals Amazing illustration Visual Illustrations New Book Cover Book Reports Author Tools Interview Questions Conversation between Koala Lou and her mother Innovation on the text Sequel to text Make your own book **Non Fiction Responses – Informational Report ** Photos of koalas to use as display and conversation prompts Vocabulary cards for information text, plus a spare page to add your own Fact cards to share in colour and black/white Planners for the informational text Pages to use for writing text Information Text rubric Map of the world Interactive Note Page for planning COPYRIGHT ©Paula’s Place This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.