This book companion accompanies the lovely story of ‘The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin’ by Joe Troiano. The activities include: A craftivity to make your own Spookley Colored Sequencing cards to retell the story Character traits of Spookley writing sheet My favorite part of the story drawing and writing Graphic organisers All about Spookley worksheet Beginning, middle and end drawing or writing sheet Cause and effect worksheet plus a blank worksheet for the teacher to part fill or for more able children to fully complete by themselves Feelings worksheets I am special worksheet - compare how Spookley was special to how they are special If I were a pumpkin drawing and writing sheet Make the sentences cut and paste Making comparisons- a venn diagram to compare Spokley to the other pumpkins Retell the story writing worksheet Retell the story cut and paste picture worksheet Text-to-self connections - How Spookley helped and how they have helped someone Write three sentences about Spookley worksheet PLUS a bonus matching pairs game!

The pack includes: Large characters and story props pictures- these would be great on a display or are good when laminated and velcro added to the back for the children to use on a flannel board Small characters and story props pictures with A4 sized playboard- these are great for table top play and also great when laminated and stored with the story book or included in a story sack Story word cards- these are good for displays and also to use in the writing area when writing about the story Sentence cards to sequence of the story of The Billy Goats Gruff Black and white pictures of the characters and story props for the children to colour or collage Black and white and colour face masks of the Billy Goats and Troll A colourful bingo game with pictures from the story A matching pairs game with pictures from the story A large colourful board game to make including die and characters to make Finger puppets to colour and make- great for retelling the story and including in your story sack Photos of real goats A rhyming word wheel to generate rhyming words Plus many other resources.

This pack contains phonics pictures, words and flashcards of sounds taught in the Letters and Sounds scheme. Each phoneme has 6-8 colour pictures (most phonemes have 8 pictures) in A5 size using our own clip art images. Also included are the words for each of the pictures with the grapheme highlighted in red. There is also a set of phoneme posters in A4 size which could be printed smaller to make a set of flash cards. This set is great for teaching each phoneme, for creating colourful displays and for playing lots of phonics games such as matching pairs, bingo for different phonemes, matching word to picture etc.

Three colourful sets of alphabet bunting to hang in your classroom or the outside area- Just print and display! Each flag is approximately A4 in size but can be printed smaller The pack includes: Set 1 The letters of the alphabet on colourful star flags Set 2 Bunting flags with letters and a picture on each flag Set 3 To be made double sided or displayed side by side- the flags have the letter on one and pictures beginning with that sound on the other All of the sets are also included in black and white so they can be coloured in- they contain extra blank flags so that they can be made as a whole class activity with each child decorating their own flag- a great new term activity!

Two colourful initial sound bingo games In the set there are two sets of bingo game cards. Each set has 20 different bingo playing cards so they can be used for a whole class (the cards can be repeated for a larger class) or for group games. One bingo game has colourful pictures and other set has letters. The bingo games can be played in various ways- by calling a letter and the child covering a picture if it begins with that sound, by calling a letter and covering the letter on their board, by calling a picture and covering the initial sound letter or by calling a picture and covering that picture on their board. The calling cards can also be used in various ways- to play the bingo games, to play matching games to match pictures, letters or picture and initial sound, for phonics displays and many more ways. Also included in the pack is an activity sheet with details of these games and others that can be played using this resource. The bingo boards are approximately A4 size but by altering printer settings prior to printing you could print them larger or smaller.

Three colourful sets of alphabet bunting to hang in your classroom or the outside area- Just print and display! Each flag is approximately A4 in size but can be printed smaller The pack includes: Set 1 The letters of the alphabet on colourful star flags Set 2 Bunting flags with letters and a picture on each flag Set 3 To be made double sided or displayed side by side- the flags have the letter on one and pictures beginning with that sound on the other All of the sets are also included in black and white so they can be coloured in- they contain extra blank flags so that they can be made as a whole class activity with each child decorating their own flag- a great new term activity!

This pack is designed to be used with the story ‘The Biggest Pumpkin Ever’ by Steven Kroll which is a lovely story to share in Autumn or for Halloween. The pack includes: Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display Display border- a colourful themed border to print out as many times as you need for a display board of any size Word cards- words on pumpkins relating to the story Character posters- colourful posters of the two main characters Clayton and Desmond A4 word card- an A4 word card with words and pictures for the children to use when writing about the story Pumpkin alphabet- a lovely alphabet line on pumpkins with lower and upper case letters Writing sheets- a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Speech bubble worksheets- fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying Word search- a word search with words from the story to find Worksheets- a collection of worksheets about the story such as drawing and writing about their favourite part, writing about the characters, writing about different parts in the story, drawing and writing what happens next, question worksheets, sequencing sentences about the story and sorting statements about the two characters Clayton and Desmond Missing number worksheets- fill in the missing numbers on the pumpkins plus a blank worksheet so you can differentiate Size ordering worksheets- order the pumpkins by size- in colour and also black and white Counting worksheets- count the numbers of pumpkins Rhyming pairs- match the rhyming pumpkins Dominoes- a number dominoes game to make and play Tracing sheets- trace over the dotted lines on the pictures Stick puppets- colour and make your own stick puppets Halloween Pumpkin design- design your own pumpkin for Halloween Face masks- colour and decorate the face masks of Clayton and Desmond Play dough mats- make the correct number of pumpkins and the different faces on the Halloween pumpkins Colouring- a collection of colouring worksheets Sequence pictures- a set of coloured pictures to use when retelling the story Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story, or any related stories or products.

A great pack with lots of games and activities for teaching and consolidating rhyme. The resources in the pack include: Activity posters- 6 colourful A4 posters with questions about which words rhyme etc Rhyming bingo 1- collect the pictures that rhyme with your card Bingo game 2- a simpler game to match the pictures onto your rhyming mats Board game- a colourful rhyming board game to make and play Display materials- banner and titles for a rhyming word display and also a selection of question posters to add Dominoes- a rhyming picture dominoes game to make and play Large pictures- a large collection of coloured and black and white images of pictures that rhyme and rhyming groups Loop cards- 2 games to play Dice to make- onset and rhyme dice to make with activity ideas and recording sheet Posters- 4 colourful A4 posters with rhyming pictures for 4 different word families Flash cards- 18 rhyming pairs for whole class work and displays Rhyming pairs game- a colourful game to make and play Powerpoint- a powerpoint asking the children questions about rhyming words on each page Picture cards- small coloured and black and white cards with four pictures for each rhyme- great for sorting activities and making your own games Word wheels- 5 rhyming word wheels to make for the word families og, ip, at and an and also a blank word wheel Worksheets- a collection of rhyming worksheets including drawing activities, cut and stick and matching

Bumper Literacy resource on CD for the Early Years A great pack on a handy disk to print out and use in any Early Years setting The pack includes: A colourful alphabet tracing card with letters to trace and the initial sound pictures around the edge An initial sound alphabet bingo game to make and play The first 100 High Frequency words from the Letters and Sounds scheme on colourful bricks The next 200 High Frequency words from the Letters and Sounds scheme on colourful bricks CVC cards with pictures and spaces for the letters so children can choose the correct letter cards to spell the words Flash cards with missing letters for children to identify the missing sound- CVC, CCVC and CVCC cards Alphabet fans with a letter of the alphabet on each piece- choose letters the children are learning to make up your own fans to use in your teaching All of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on bees, a set on colourful butterflies and a set on transport pictures Phoneme flash cards each with the phoneme and a picture A4 desk cards with the letters of the alphabet and corresponding initial sound pictures A4 desk card with all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme and the corresponding pictures Alphabet lines on colourful parrots, a set on boats, a set on flowers and a set on frogs Alphabet tracing cards- each card has the upper and lower case letters and an intial sound picture in colour

A set of snowmen to create to practice initial sounds. Each snowman has the head with the sound on the hat and 5 picture snowballs to build your snowman. Great for independent and group phonics activities during winter and in the run up to Christmas.

A set of 30 snowmen to make to spell CVC words. There are 6 snowmen for each middle sound. Great for phonics activities during winter and in the run up to Christmas.

A bumper set of resources to use in your classroom or setting to create a stimulating and exciting writing and mark making area. The pack includes: Display materials: Phoneme bunting flags- 2 flags for each phoneme one with the phoneme on and the other with a word and picture containing that phoneme Alphabet line- Large colourful pencils each with the lower and upper case letters Alphabet desk card- an A4 card with lower and upper case letters and an initial sound picture for each letter Alphabet picture frieze- A5 cards with lower and upper case letters and a picture for each letter Alphabet strip- a table top alphabet strip on coloured pencils Alphabet books- a colourful set of books each with the lower case letter on Flashcards- coloured cards with days of the week, months of the year and the seasons Display border- a colourful pencil themed border to print out as many times as you need it Posters for your writing area- including ‘Our Writing’, ‘We like to write’, two posters for ‘What will you write today?’ Stationery labels- coloured picture and word labels for your stationery pots in the writing area Tray labels- 20 labels for your resources trays Word wall bricks- 100 bricks with Reception words Writing flash cards- 28 writing themed words such as sentence, full stop, character etc –a great addition to the writing area for older children Display banners- a long colourful banner ‘Writing area’ and ‘Writing’ Large post box- a large colourful post box which prints over 6 pages- print out and stick to a box to create a post box for the children to post their letters Writing materials: Birthday invitations- 3 different designs Book sheets- a book review and 2 different sheets about the children’s favourite books Letters to Santa- 5 different designs Postcards- 3 different holiday postcard designs Magic spell- 3 sheets for writing a magic spell Menus- 3 designs Newspapers- Lots of different designs for different abilities Recipes- 2 different designed sheets Shopping lists- 4 designs Thank you cards- 4 designs plus two blank cards to design Wanted posters- 5 different posters for different abilities Wedding invitations- 2 designs Activity sheets- trace over the numbers 1-10, trace over the alphabet letters, find and colour the letters of the alphabet Writing border sheets- a large collection of A4 photocopiable sheets with patterned borders- some of these are included in my other story and topic sets

The pack includes: DISPLAY Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display Display border- a themed display border to print out as many times as you need for a display board of any size Word cards Large coloured pictures- large pictures to print out and use on a display When we were babies- A display banner for creating a class display about when the children were babies Baby photos- colour photos of babies and Royal babies LITERACY Alphabet- a lovely alphabet line on crowns Writing sheets- a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Favourite part of the story- draw and write about your favourite part of the story ‘b’ for baby-a worksheet all about the letter b Guards alphabet line- a lovely alphabet line on Royal guards The nappy bag- draw and label the things in the nappy bag When I was a baby- a worksheet for children to fill in details about when they were babies Baby toys worksheets- various worksheets todesign a new baby toy, match the label to the picture and cut and stick the toys suitable for a baby NUMERACY Number line- a number line to 50 on baby bottles Guards number line- a colourful number line to 100 on Royal guards Counting worksheets- count the baby toys and bottles Missing number worksheets- differentiated worksheets to fill in the missing numbers and also a blank worksheet for you to write your own numbers Order the numbered nappies- cut and order the baby nappies GAMES Bingo- cover the different baby items Matching pairs- match the different nappies Number dominoes- a baby themed dominoes game to make and play ACTIVITIES Stick puppet- colour and make your own stick puppet of the Royal baby Colouring- a collection of colouring worksheets The Royal Nappy Cabinet-cut and stick the nappies into the nappy cabinet Tracing pictures- simple pictures to practice pencil control Design a nappy- design a new nappy for the Royal baby to wear Design a babygrow- design a babygrow fit for a Royal baby! Playdough mats- a collection of themed playdough mats Make a mobile- colour and make a Royal themed baby mobile Nappies for all occasions!- design nappies suitable for different occasions STORY TELLING Nappy pictures- pictures of some of the nappies in the story Character cards- coloured flash cards of the different characters in the story Stick puppets- a coloured stick puppet to use when retelling the story Story sack tag- a tag to add to your story telling sack

This set of grapheme flash cards has been produced using the graphemes taught in the Letters and Sounds scheme. There are a total of 69 flash cards to print and make (separate cards for f and ff etc). The flash cards are organised in files for each of the Letters and Sounds phases in which they are taught making them very easy to access and use. The flashcards are designed to have a picture on the front which contains the sound and on the back of the card (when assembled) it shows the grapheme. Each file page has a card with the grapheme and below a card with a coloured picture. To assemble the cards for use as flashcards the grapheme card needs to be glued to the back of the picture so either the grapheme can be shown to the children or the picture can be shown. The cards could also be used to make an interactive learning display for the children to match the pictures to the grapheme or could be used as flashcards with the grapheme and picture on the same side (as they are shown on the picture). They could also be made into a matching game for the children to play to match grapheme to a picture. The cards are approximately A5 size, however by altering your printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like.

This pack contains lots of resources which can be used for literacy and phonics at Key stage 1 and in the Early Years. Create colourful fun displays, make flashcards, make games and use in your lessons. The pack includes: An alphabet line on cute gingerbread men An alphabet line on cars with multicultural drivers Play dough mats from A-Z Alphabet picture posters- each poster has the letter in upper and lower case, an initial sound picture and then lines below for you to add words beginning with that sound- great to use as posters or to make into your own class dictionary An A4 table top alphabet mat Phoneme tracing cards Initial sounds bingo game Ch, sh, th bingo game ‘My tricky words’ table top mat A-Z bunting Phoneme fans Phoneme picture bunting Phonemes on washing line clothes Punctuation posters CVC flip cards CVC bingo game CCVC/ CVCC bingo game ABC train Upper case and lower case letters- match the upper case dogs to the lower case bones A collection of writing border sheets- great to add to your writing area Sorting pictures- all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme with 2-3 picture cards for each sound- great for displays/ sorting etc An alphabet line on footballs Alphabet pencils with lower and upper case letters Phoneme writing frames High frequency word bricks for the first 100 words and the next 200 words A Humpty Dumpty to sit on your word wall Rhyming word jigsaws High frequency words on bees Days of the week poster Months of the year poster Phoneme poster Various alphabet posters Five CVC posters –one for each vowel Initial sound cards- write the initial sound next to each picture Phoneme cards- fill in the missing phoneme on each card Tricky word stars- all of the tricky words from the Letters and Sounds scheme

A set of Christmas themed alphabet tracing worksheets for you to print and use as many times as you need with your group of children. Great for Early years teachers, nursery teachers, special needs teachers, childminders and parents to use with their children. Each letter is on a separate worksheet with a dotty picture to trace, a dotty border and dotty capital and lower case letters to trace. Great for developing pencil control and teaching the letters of the alphabet and initial sounds. When the children have traced the pictures they can be coloured to create a great learning display. Also included in the pack are worksheets with the same pictures which could be used as colouring sheets or as an alphabet line for your classroom or educational setting or alternatively they could be made into phonics flash cards to bring a touch of Christmas to your phonics lessons! Each of these sheets has the picture, border, letters in lower and upper case and the word. The worksheets are A4 size however by altering printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like.

The Snowy Day This pack is designed to be used with the story ‘The Snowy Day' by Ezra Jack Keats which is a lovely story to share in winter. The pack includes: Worksheets- a collection of worksheets about the story such as drawing and writing about their favourite part, writing about the character, writing about different parts in the story, drawing and writing what happens next, question worksheets, sequencing sentences about the story Writing worksheet- write about what Peter does in the snow and what the children do in the snow Snow and winter worksheets- a collection of worksheets to make lists of things the children do in the snow, write a story about the snow, design a snowman, sort summer and winter activities and clothes Sequence pictures- a set of coloured pictures to use when retelling the story Story worksheets to write about the different parts of the story Story map worksheets- draw the missing activities that Peter does on the snowy day or draw all of the activities in sequence A craft activity to cut and make Peter and write on the the sheet Write about what Peter does in the snow and what the children do- a great way to link themselves to the story What happens next worksheets- a collection of worksheets for children to look at the picture and then draw and write what happens next in the story Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story, or any related stories or products.

Gingerbread Man Maths and Literacy games A collection of 8 fun games with a cute Gingerbread Man theme for you to print out and play Literacy games: 1-Match the letters- Turn over two Gingerbread Man cards to match the lower and upper case letters. The game could also be played to match lower case letters together or upper case letters together. 2-Make the CVC word- Find the Gingerbread Man letters you need to make the word on your plate- how many plates can you fill? 3-Gingerbread Man bingo- Find all the Gingerbread Man letters on your bingo board the first to be the winner! 4-Gingerbread Man skittles- Cut out and make these cute Gingerbread Man letter skittles to knock down with a ball- various games can be played to identify letters, find initial sounds, make CVC words etc. Lots of ideas are included on the instruction and ideas card. Maths games: 1-Make a Gingerbread Man- Roll a die and collect the numbered part of your Gingerbread Man. How many Gingerbread Men can you make? 2-Colour the Gingerbread Man- Roll a die and find the number on your sheet. Can you be the first person to colour all your Gingerbread Men? 3-Add the numbers- Roll two dice and add the numbers together- can you cover all the numbered Gingerbread Men on your board first? 4-Stepping stones- Move your Gingerbread Man across the stepping stones to be the first to reach the other side. If you fall in the water you have to start again! Each game is supplied with full instructions and further ideas for using the materials. Each game is supplied in full colour and also in black and white so it can be printed out more economically and also photocopied to be sent home with the children.