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 huge pack of resources for use with children in the Early Years. This pack includes over 200 pages of planning, activities, games, crafts and worksheets to print out and use again and again. Although the activities are planned for children up to the age of 5, there are many which could be used with older children. The Nursery Rhyme packs included are: 1- Twinkle, twinkle little star 2- Jack and Jill 3- Baa baa black sheep 4- Little Miss Muffet 5- 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive 6- Hickory Dickory Dock 7- Humpty Dumpty 8- Hey diddle diddle 9- Incy Wincy spider 10- Little Bo Peep For each nursery rhyme there is a rhyme card in black and white and colour, rhyme sequencing pictures, craft ideas, colouring and activity sheets, puppets and face masks for acting out the nursery rhyme, literacy activities, maths activities plus a sheet of further activity ideas.

A great pack for creating a role play area of an airport in your setting. Contains lots of colourful posters and signs, lots of opportunities for mark making/ writing and banners and large posters for arrivals and departures both filled in and blank.

Writing Area Resources 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

Create a lovely colourful display. This alphabet line has boys and girls each with different hair colour and skin tone and some wearing glasses to promote a diverse environment for your teaching.

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

This pack is designed to be used with the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Christmas’ Display resources · Display banner · Story word cards- great to add to a display or use in the writing area · Display border · Title poster · Picture flashcards- Flashcards with words and pictures of the characters and props in the story · Story questions- colourful cards for a display with questions about the story · Large lighthouse- a large Christmas decorated lighthouse to print out- prints over several pages · Animal photos- colour photos of some of the sea animals seen in the book · Story sea photos- a collection of photos of stormy seas, lighthouses and snow storms- great for displays and for inspiration for art work Role play/ story props · Colour face masks- of thecharacters in the story- great to use for retelling the story or for making up new stories · Colour puppets- make your ownstick puppets of the characters in the story to retell the story or make up your own stories · Lighthouse role play ideas- ideas for setting up a role play area of alighthouse in your classroom Literacy · An A4 word card with pictures- great to use when writing about the story · Speech bubbles worksheets- worksheets for children to fill in the speech bubbles and then colour the picture · Letter to Father Christmas- write a letter to tell Father Christmas where theywill be for Christmas · Alphabet line- a colourful alphabet line on Christmas bunting · Christmas list worksheet- write your own or George’s Christmas list · Menu- write a menu for Christmas dinner · Lighthouse jobs worksheet- write the different jobs which the Lighthouse Keeper needs to do · Book review- a worksheet to write a book review about the story · Acrostic poem worksheet- write a Christmas acrostic poem · Character worksheets- various worksheets to write and draw about the different characters in the story · Word searches- 2 different word searches · Writing pages- various themed black and white pages to use for writing about the story or in the writing area · Match words to pictures- various worksheets to match words to pictures and fill in the initial letters Numeracy · A number line- A number line to 50 on colourful Christmas presents · Dot to dots- worksheets to join the dots on the lighthouses and seagulls · Colour by numbers- colour the scenes using the number key · Missing number worksheets- various worksheets to fill in the missing numbers on the lighthouses · Order size worksheet- cut out and order the Christmas trees in size order · Count the decorations worksheet- count the different decorations on the Christmas tree · Countingcards- count the number of decorations on each Christmas tree

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.

Winter resource pack A great pack for you to print out and use year after year. The pack includes: Display banner- A long display banner of ‘Winter’ decorated with snowflakes Large letters- Lower and upper case letters of the alphabet for display or making your own titles- each letter is decorated with small snowflakes Multicultural alphabet line- A colourful alphabet line of multicultural children all dressed up for the cold winter weather Photographs- A collection of colour photographs to print out and add to your displays- great for discussion Display border- A snowflake border to print out and use on your wintery displays Dress the teddy for winter- A blank teddy with clothes such as jumper, mittens, scarf etc. to put onto the teddy so he dressed for the cold weather Winter clothes- Winter clothes labels showing the word and picture- these are great for discussion or for your Winter displays Work borders- Various A4 borders for children to write on or to use as quick borders for work- these are supplied in colour ready for display and also in black and white for the children to colour Penguin and Igloo alphabet- A cute alphabet set with upper case letters on igloos and lower case letters on cute penguins Winter village- Create a wintery village display with snow covered houses, church and trees- there is a Christmas version with the houses and church being decorated for Christmas and a Santa and sleigh to include in your display and also a version without decorations. These are both supplied in colour and black and white Bingo- A winter themed bingo game Topic words- Words relating to winter on snowflakes- great to add to displays or hang in the windows Snowy alphabet- An alphabet line with a snowy border around each letter Counting cards- Cards to count the number of snowflakes from 1-10 Matching pairs- Match the wintery themed pictures Number lines- Individual number lines from 1-10 and 1-20 Penguin number line- A cute penguin number line to 50 Robin alphabet- A cute robin alphabet line- these look great on the window so it looks like they are sitting on the window ledge Snowmen odd and even numbers- A number line to 50 with odd and even numbers on snowmen Winter months- Decorated large labels for the three winter months – the other month labels are included in each of my other seasons packs and also the bumper seasons pack

A set of 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. The worksheets are A4 size however by altering printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like so they could even be printed smaller and coloured to create a set of flashcards.

The pack includes: A large display banner A smaller display title decorated with pictures from the story of Jack and the Beanstalk Large characters and story props in colour Large characters and black and white- great for creating displays or also great to laminate, add velcro to the back and the children to use to retell the story on a flannel board 48 story word cards on beans A beanstalk board game in colour - 3x A4 sized with 'Jack' playing pieces A moving Giant model to make using split pins Black and white face masks for the children to decorate and make Colour face masks- a great addition to your story sack for retelling the story and to make up your own stories Finger puppets to colour and make A number beanstalk with a number on each of the leaves A speech bubble worksheet Speech bubbles to add to your displays All of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on beanstalks- these would look great laminated and used in the outdoor area Black and white bean growing posters Colour bean growing posters Photographs of beans, bean plants and bean pods Leaf and stalk templates to make your own beanstalk in your classroom A 'collect a beanstalk' game- roll the die and pick a card to see how many beanstalk leaves you have Counting cards- count the number of magic beans

The pack includes: DISPLAY Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display ‘Katie Morag’ Display banner- ‘An Island Home’ display banner Display border- a tartan display border to print as many times as you need for a display board of any size Word cards- words relating to the story Word and picture flashcards- colourful cards of the buildings and characters to add to a display or writing area Colour characters- large pictures of the different characters in the Katie Morag stories Building posters- large colour posters showing the different buildings on the island Animal posters- large coloured posters showing the different animals on the island Title poster- an A4 poster with the title, authors name and illustrators name Story questions- a collection of question cards about the stories and characters- great to add to a display LITERACY A4 word card- an A4 word card with words and pictures for the children to use when writing about the story Writing sheets Speech bubble worksheets- fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying Tartan lettering Sheep phonemes Character writing sheets- a worksheet for each character with space to write An Island home- writing sheets about living on an island Word searches- two word searches with words from the Katie Morag stories Write a postcard Island newspaper NUMERACY Puffin number line Missing number worksheets Counting worksheets Addition and subtractions worksheets Odd and even number line GAMES Matching pairs Board game Collect the mail- collect the different parcels and letters needed for your mail bag Bingo ART AND CRAFT Design a stamp- design a stamp for the Island of Struay Stick puppets Face masks- Colouring worksheets Cut and assemble the boat Island map- cut and stick the buildings onto the map of Struay Scottish flag to colour Isle of Struay flag- design a flag for the Isle of Struay Paint a picture- paint a picture like the lady artist to show what you might see on the island of Struay Workbook cover STORY TELLING Face masks Stick puppets Story telling props POWER POINT Isle of Coll- a Power point about the island the stories are based on POST OFFICE ROLE PLAY A complete pack for settings up a role play area as the Isle of Struay Post Office including posters, banners, labels, postcards, stamps, name badges, post office signs and many opportunities for writing. 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.

The pack includes: Large letters to display in your baby clinic saying 'Baby clinic'. Each letter is decorated with small pictures relating to the baby clinic, Words relating to the baby clinic such as baby, dummy, medicine, scales etc - each word also has the picture of it, Large (A4 sized) pictures of things found in a baby clinic- these are great for decorating your baby clinic, displays or discussion, Forms to encourage writing in the role play area- an A5 sized folder to make to keep the baby's records in, height and weight charts, medicine forms etc, A large sign for the children to write on to show who the doctor and nurse is that day, Signs to display in the baby clinic such as for toilets, waiting room, office, reception- each is decorated with small pictures, A large (A3 sized) poster showing items for sale for babies in the clinic shop The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area either inside your classroom or in your outside area which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes

Ladybird Maths and Literacy games A collection of 8 fun games Literacy games: 1-Letter Bingo- Turn over the ladybird letter cards and cover the picture on your card with the initial sound. 2-Spotty Ladybirds- Read the letters on your spotty ladybird and then listen for the sound. 3-Lower and Upper case letters- Find the matching paid ladybirds with lower and upper case letters- use all the cards or just a few. 4-CVC words- Collect the correct three ladybird letter cards to spell the CVC word on your leaf. Maths games: 1-Dotty ladybirds- Roll the special die and add or take away 1 spot on your ladybird. If the die lands on the spotty side you can take a spot from someone else! 2-Double spots- A game of doubles- match the halves of the ladybird with the same amount of spots and say the total. 3-Matching pairs- Collect two ladybird cards and see if they match. Match numbers, spots or numbers and spots together. 4-Counting ladybirds- Roll the die and turn over a leaf card with the corresponding number. Count how many ladybirds you have found- the winner is the player who has found the most ladybirds! 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.