This Halloween themed resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. The extra challenge with this activity is that there is an extra superfluous block. The students need to decide which block is not needed to complete the code. The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.

This Halloween themed resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. The focus of this activity is being able to work out the correct right hand turn at the correct point. The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.

This Halloween themed resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. The focus of this activity is being able to work out the correct right hand turn at the correct point. The extra challenge with this activity is that there is an extra superfluous block. The students need to decide which block is not needed to complete the code. The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.

2 Digit Addition and Subtraction regrouping and no regrouping Worksheets. An excellent math center activity to allow your students practice and maintenance adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers. The challenge here is working out the digits under the splotches to make the equation correct. When I printed these off at home to proof-read before I knew it my own children were sitting at the kitchen table working them out. Practice, maintenance and mastery of adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers will allow for a smoother transition to 3 digit addition and subtraction. This resource includes; •1 worksheet of 2 digit addition with no regrouping •1 worksheet of 2 digit subtraction with no regrouping •1 worksheet of 2 digit addition with regrouping •1 worksheet of 2 digit subtraction with regrouping •Answer sheets

A quick, ready to go, little instruction required math activity. This resource is a fun hands-on Thanksgiving activity that uses the binary number system to create Christmas mini images. The images are; Stocking, snowflake, present 1, Santa hat, snowman, Christmas tree 1, mitten, bell, Christmas tree 2, candle, cracker, present 2 Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system. Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems. This resource includes; Three activity sheet sets of 4 puzzles Answer sheets If you like this free resource and would like to immerse your students in more of these binary puzzle pictures then please check out my shop Pooley Productions. Here you will find, in addition to a wide collection of resources, a range of different grid sized binary puzzles resources, including the bundle pack that contains all puzzles I have made.

This resource is a fun way to consolidate and practice place value from 100 to 999. Great as a support for a place value lesson focus, a quick break out game, or independent math center activity. This resource includes; Instructions 36 individually unique bingo cards 29 number calling cards, with blank spare card

These are worksheets that provide students an opportunity to practice two geometric transformation skills – reflection and resizing (Scale Factor, enlargement). Each sheet is a complete exercise in itself and there are 8 Christmas themed images to choose from. Each image has two choices of background to work with – 4x4 grid or 6x6 grid. You decide what is appropriate for your students. Teacher notes and answer sheets are provided for all images on both 4x4 and 6x6 grids.

This resource is a fun way to consolidate and practice place value from 10 to 99. Great as a support for a place value lesson focus, a quick break out game, or independent math center activity. This resource includes; Instructions 36 individually unique bingo cards 19 number calling cards, with spare blank cards

These are worksheets that provide students an opportunity to practice two geometric transformation skills – reflection and resizing (Scale Factor, enlargement). Each sheet is a complete exercise in itself and there are 4 Thanksgiving themed images to choose from. Each image has two choices of background to work with – 4x4 grid or 6x6 grid. You decide what is appropriate for your students. Teacher notes and answer sheets are provided for all images on both 4x4 and 6x6 grids.

This is a set of numeral cards on colorful present images. They were initially created by me for advent activities, but they have extensive uses as a math resource in the classroom. This resource includes a set of numeral cards and also a set of clipart images of the cards that can be used to create your own resources. You may already have an excellent range of uses for this set of numeral cards. Below are a number of suggested uses of these numeral cards. · Say the numbers · Talk about the numbers · Counting up · Counting down · Order the numbers · Create number sequences with gaps to fill · Match numerals to groups of objects · Comparing numbers · Notice patterns · Create an advent calendar · Guess the mystery number game This resource doubles as a clipart set for teachers and resource creators. Included in the resource is a set of all the individual numerals, including a blank set for any numbers (or letters) you may wish use. If you do use the images as clipart in resources you create please refer to my Terms of Use (included).

I have made this Thanksgiving themed resource to help begin meet the needs of our 21st Century learners. The skills they will need will involve a capability of working in a digital environment. This activity focusses on coding. However it can equally be seen as a sequencing activity, a problem solving activity or a positional maths activity. This is an introductory activity to using coding. It doesn’t require the use of a device or access to the internet. Though you may like to show students the actual Scratch Jr app as well. The success of these tasks is best achieved with plenty of prior discussion and modelling. The challenge with these activities is working with anticlockwise and clockwise turns This resource comes with; Four worksheets of simple coding. The four increase in challenge. Answers for each worksheet

Sentence Sudoku are 6x6 Sudoku puzzles using words. This is a fun activity that can be used for literacy (finding a sentence) and math (logical thinking) centers, as a bell ringer or morning work activity. One row in each puzzle will form a sensible sentence made from the six words. Can the students find them? This resource comprises of 12 sentence Sudoku puzzles. In terms of difficulty puzzles 1-2 are easy, puzzles 3-10 are medium and puzzles 11-12 are medium hard. Instructions on how to complete the Sudoku puzzles are provided on each sheet. This resource includes; A set of 12 sentence Sudoku puzzles, 2 to a sheet. An answer sheet

These are 10 Christmas themed zentangle coloring sheets. I have created these to be easier than the typical zentangle, which can be very detailed and complicated. This allows younger students to be able to create zentangles in a shorter time frame. The colouring-in sheets can be used for Christmas themed academic work, fast finishers, bell ringers, independent work or indoor breaks. The 10 images are; bauble, bells, candy cane, Christmas tree, gingerbread man, present, Santa hat, star, stocking and wreath. This resource includes; 10 zentangle images, with and without borders 10 blank outline images, with and without borders This is a total of 40 sheets. These zentangle images are not for commercial use in digital products.

This Thanksgiving themed resource provides an introduction to the concept of rotation around a point. This is a simple worksheet with a choice of two Thanksgiving images to rotate 4 times around a point. Students have the choice as to how they position their icons for rotation. This resource contains a recording sheet, 2 sheets of Thanksgiving images (4 per sheet) and a range of possible answers. You may also like to check out some of my other junior math resources: Measuring Length for Juniors Fractions for Juniors - Bundle Two Digit Place Value Bingo Coding for Juniors Pack – Using Scratch Jr

This is an excellent end of the year art activity to engage your students. Agamographs provide a unique way of viewing art. My students are fascinated and get so excited with this art idea. This resource is a hands-on Summer themed activity that combines two separate images into one are piece, which the viewer can then see – from different angles - each picture independently. This activity involves coloring-in, cutting, gluing and folding. You will require; coloring-in materials (pencils, felts, etc), scissors, glue-sticks. This resource has 7 Summer themed images (‘Summer’ and sun, Ice Cream Vendor, Beach Ball, Ice Cream and Watermelon, Shells and Starfish, Beach Scene, and Grasshopper) to put together and create the agamograph. This resource has all the combination pairs (21). There are two levels of challenge; the final image is composed of 8 strips (4 strips for one Summer image and 4 strips for the other), suitable for younger students the final image is composed of 16 strips (8 strips for one Summer image and 8 strips for the other) I have also included blank templates for students to create their own two images to combine.

Agamographs provide a fun unique way of viewing art. This resource is a fun hands-on Thanksgiving activity that combines two separate images into one are piece, which the viewer can then see – from different angles - each picture independently. This activity involves coloring-in, cutting, gluing and folding. You will require; coloring-in materials (pencils, felts, etc), scissors, glue-sticks. This resource has two Thanksgiving images (a Pilgrim hat and Mayflower ship) to put together and create the agamograph. There are two levels of challenge; the final image is composed of 8 strips (4 strips for the hat and 4 strips for the ship), suitable for younger students the final image is composed of 16 strips (8 strips for the hat and 8 strips for the ship) I have also included blank templates for students to create their own two images to combine. This resource also has a short stopmotion video ([watch here]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZ_5uPmo4s) demonstrating the construction of the agamograph. Note: this is my first ever Youtube video for this purpose and while the quality is not blockbuster material, it does show how the art is made.

This resource is a digital escape room. It is a fun and engaging online activity. It is NO PREP and paperless. It can be used with students in small groups, individually or whole class. It can be used in class or in distance learning. All you need to do is share the Google Sites™ website link with your students and away they go! I have created this resource primarily as a fun warm-up activity to begin a period of learning about Space, or it can be used as a fun celebratory activity at the completion of a period of learning about Space. Or, simply a fun online digital Escape Room activity in itself. What is a digital escape room? A digital escape room is an online game where students solve a series of puzzles or problems to find clues to codes. Once they have all the codes they can unlock their way out of the digital escape room. Students work collaboratively in groups of 2 or 3 or independently in order to escape or breakout. This escape room has 4 codes to break. Escape rooms are fun and engaging for students! This escape room is a medium level for Year 5-7 and should take your students 15-45 minutes to complete, depending on their ability levels. This resource is a Google Sites webpage with several different types of links hidden within it. You will receive a single document. This document contains directions and instructions on how to use the resource, a link to the activity website and all the answers to the codes. The link can be copied and shared with students. This resource includes; Teacher notes, with instructions, link to activity website and all answers to codes Escape rooms promote; Working collaboratively Using problem solving skills Communication Critical thinking skills Technology skills Working together to reach a goal Having fun Learning how to navigate the page, search for clues, and input answers into the form in a specific format are great skills for students to acquire. Please note: This resource uses Google Sites. Some schools have placed security restrictions on their student accounts, and students cannot open content from users outside their organization. I unfortunately do not have any way to grant access to them in this situation. This has been very rare, but if you know your students’ access is limited, you may want to check to see if they can access it before planning to use this resource. If your students can access my Test Site Escape Room then they will be able to use this resource. Test Site Escape Room link - Test Site Escape Room link - https://sites.google.com/view/pp-er-test/home TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS: Access to Computers, Laptops, Chromebooks or mobile devices Access to viewing Google Sites™ and Google Forms™

Here is a fun, engaging STEM activity that employs the 21st Century learning skills of Cooperation and Creativity. Students are tasked with designing and creating a marble maze. They are required to map out a marble maze in their design plan and then create their design out of card and matchsticks. This resource can be stratified for different age groups and capabilities. Those requiring more guidance may want to use the pre-drawn maze design. Then there is the Map Design Planning Sheet (with two grids in case students need to start again) allowing students to create their own maze. Finally any student may wish to add the extra challenges. The materials ideally required to make the maze in this resource are; · Map Design Planning Sheet · Large Maze Grid · Matchsticks · Gluestick · Pencils · Tape · Firm Card, US Letter size (8.5’ x 11’) or A4 will be suitable Included in this resource are; · Map Design Planning Sheet · Large Maze Grid · Visual Instructions · Teacher notes · Pre-drawn maze options

This resource is a digital escape room. It is a fun and engaging online activity. It is NO PREP and paperless. It can be used with students in small groups, individually or whole class. It can be used in class or in distance learning. All you need to do is share the Google Sites™ website link with your students and away they go! I have created this resource primarily as a fun warm-up activity to begin a period of learning about Space, or it can be used as a fun celebratory activity at the completion of a period of learning about Space. Or, simply a fun online digital Escape Room activity in itself. What is a digital escape room? A digital escape room is an online game where students solve a series of puzzles or problems to find clues to codes. Once they have all the codes they can unlock their way out of the digital escape room. Students work collaboratively in groups of 2 or 3 or independently in order to escape or breakout. This escape room has 3 codes to break. Escape rooms are fun and engaging for students! This escape room is a medium level for Year 4-6 and should take your students 15-45 minutes to complete, depending on their ability levels. This resource is a Google Sites webpage with several different types of links hidden within it. You will receive a single document. This document contains directions and instructions on how to use the resource, a link to the activity website and all the answers to the codes. The link can be copied and shared with students. This resource includes; Teacher notes, with instructions, link to activity website and all answers to codes Escape rooms promote; Working collaboratively Using problem solving skills Communication Critical thinking skills Technology skills Working together to reach a goal Having fun Learning how to navigate the page, search for clues, and input answers into the form in a specific format are great skills for students to acquire. **Please note:**This resource uses Google Sites. Some schools have placed security restrictions on their student accounts, and students cannot open content from users outside their organization. I unfortunately do not have any way to grant access to them in this situation. This has been very rare, but if you know your students’ access is limited, you may want to check to see if they can access it before planning to use this resource. If your students can access my Test Site Escape Room then they will be able to use this resource. Test Site Escape Room link - Test Site Escape Room link - https://sites.google.com/view/pp-er-test/home TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS: Access to Computers, Laptops, Chromebooks or mobile devices Access to viewing Google Sites™ and Google Forms™

These are worksheets with 3 opportunities each for students to practice drawing a Halloween themed picture to a different scale. There are two sheets with the second being more challenging than the first sheet. Each of the sheets also have an additional partially completed version, providing an easier option to complete the task. Each of these worksheets have two Halloween images and the opportunity for students to draw their own design to factor up (or down). Students will learn the need to note carefully looking at what parts of the images are in each box and transfer them correctly into the correct boxes in the blank spaces. Teacher notes included.