This pack consists of posters, a bookmark, worksheets, an inference card game and Graphic Organizers that can be printed out focusing on the reading strategy ‘Inferring’. Inferring is one of the key Reading Comprehension Strategies. If students can use the inferring strategies of using Prior Knowledge, making conclusions supported with evidence from the text then that will enable you to see how well the student comprehends the written text. This is an important research strategy as well. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of the inferring strategy through informative posters and interesting activities and worksheets. The Inferring Reading Strategy Activity pack can be printed out, posters can be laminated, and worksheets printed and shared with students. As an added bonus, teachers and students who have GAFE (Google Apps for Education) Google accounts can click on the shared links and use the resources in Google Slides.

Use the graphics, picture labels and the 4 steps to writing a haiku to motivate students to write Easter haikus. Print out the black line masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use the labels as motivation for writing haikus, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Easter story box to a Writing (Literacy) centre for independent students to plan, write and publish their Easter Haikus. Use the teaching PowerPoint ‘Writing a Haiku’ to show students how to write a haiku. This can also be printed out and added to classroom walls as a teaching display or presented through a projector or Interactive Whiteboard. This Story box contains 12 Picture labels of characters and settings with vocab words 4 copies of each graphic label 1 Writing framework, haiku 1 page of ‘4 stages of writing a haiku’ 21 black line masters for publishing 35 graphics, labels, Black and White, no white background 1 teaching Slideshow ‘Writing a Haiku’

These handwriting cards have been designed with the New Zealand font. The sky, grass, dirt colours help guide students when forming their letters. Letters with tall sticks touch the top of the sky, letters with no tall sticks or tails fit on the grass line, letters with tails go into the dirt. Print these practice pages These can be laminated for children to write on with whiteboard markers (take photos for evidence) printed out and put in L pockets, children write with whiteboard markers on the L pocket printed out and students use pencil the last line has been left for students to copy the sentence

This is an interactive PowerPoint where students can manipulate the Tangram pieces using the keyboard, mouse (trackpad) and tools available in PowerPoint. They will practise geometry skills by 'rotating', flipping and translating. They can color their assembled tangrams using the Fill color button. This PowerPoint can also be opened in Keynote on the iPad and students can use the available tools and their fingers to manipulate the shapes. After this PowerPoint is downloaded, please save a copy and put somewhere as a Master copy or alternatively, save this PowerPoint as a Template.

At the beginning of each month, fill in the calendar month with the dates, days and months. Add the appropriate weather symbols for each day as they happen. At the end of the month, tally up the results and analyse what the weather was for the month. This activity will encourage students to sort the days of the month in order, check they have the right season, month and year, and finally observe the weather patterns for the month.

These are a series of cards with a picture of an abacus that can be used as a wall display or printed out and laminated as smaller cards to use in teaching groups. The cards demonstrate the concepts of counting in 5s and 10s to a 100 and counting on.

This is an interactive PowerPoint where students can manipulate the Tangram pieces using the keyboard, mouse (trackpad) and tools available in PowerPoint. They will practise geometry skills by 'rotating', flipping and translating. They can color their assembled tangrams using the Fill color button. This PowerPoint can also be opened in Keynote on the iPad and students can use the available tools and their fingers to manipulate the shapes. After this PowerPoint is downloaded, please save a copy and put somewhere as a Master copy or alternatively, save this PowerPoint as a Template.

Students still need to know how to Touch Type even in this world of ‘swiping’ technology. This pack has activities and posters for Windows, Mac and Chrome Keyboards. Project to your whiteboard for the ‘Practice Letter’ of the day. You do not need access to a computer, just print out out a white keyboard for students to colour in the letter they are practising or print out a color keyboard and laminate so that students can practise with the color coded keyboard fingering. Print, laminate and bag all of the different Practice Keyboard Cards, put up some of the posters and create an independent Learning Centre that students can use when they have finished their work or for rainy days. If you have an old computer that is only good for wordprocessing, then stick the Keyboarding practice cards to the outside of the monitor so that students can practise on a real keyboard. This package contains 6 files A Keyboard Practice and a Keyboard Cards file for Windows A Keyboard Practice and a Keyboard Cards file for Mac A Keyboard Practice and a Keyboard Cards file for Chromebook 242 pages

Students still need to know how to Touch Type even in this world of ‘swiping’ technology. This pack has activities and posters for Windows, Mac and Chrome Keyboards. Project to your whiteboard for the ‘Practice Letter’ of the day. You do not need access to a computer, just print out out a white keyboard for students to colour in the letter they are practising or print out a color keyboard and laminate so that students can practise with the color coded keyboard fingering. Print, laminate and bag all of the different Practice Keyboard Cards, put up some of the posters and create an independent Learning Centre that students can use when they have finished their work or for rainy days. If you have an old computer that is only good for wordprocessing, then stick the Keyboarding practice cards to the outside of the monitor so that students can practise on a real keyboard. This package contains 6 files A Keyboard Practice and a Keyboard Cards file for Windows A Keyboard Practice and a Keyboard Cards file for Mac A Keyboard Practice and a Keyboard Cards file for Chromebook 242 pages

Spruce up your CV with these digital versions. Fonts and colours have been chosen to complement each other. Each page has prompts and ideas to help you in writing your CV. This pack consists of an online Google version of the templates and PowerPoint versions. There are 7 different versions of the template with different colours and fonts. This package contains 8 files - 7 PowerPoint files - One PDF Instructions with links to a folder of 7 different Google Slide templates

This pack consists of an Inquiry approach to the study of minibeasts. It is designed so that students can work on it independently or collaboratively with others. Students are scaffolded and guided through an Inquiry Process which focusses on them developing a research question based on what they have found out so far, finding the information and then synthesising it to develop new knowledge. Through a variety of websites, videos and Graphic Organisers students are able to find new knowledge and present it in innovative ways. These tasks are all included in a Google Slide or a PowerPoint. All graphics by Jacqui Sharp. This package contains 3 files Instructions: Step by step instructions for each slide so that the teacher and student are clear in what the learning intentions should be Student Task Slideshow: A Google Slideshow or a PowerPoint Slideshow with all of the independent or collaborative tasks students have to do to go through the Inquiry process. Minibeast graphics are provided for free student and teacher use. PDF with links to Google Slide Student Tasks

This pack consists of an online version and a printable version of a maths game that can be played using a variety of strategies of numbers between 1- 100 or 10-1000. This maths game can be used with strategies such as, knowing groupings within 100 or 1000; know multiplication and division facts; know Basic Facts; place value Students work in pairs with a game board each playing ‘Hider’ and ‘Seeker’. There is an online version created in Google Slides where both students hide their sea animals and seek by asking each other questions based around place value, multiplication and division and/or addition or subtraction. In the printed out version, one is the hider who has to answer the questions and the other is the seeker who has to create the questions. These printed out sheets will need to be laminated. This game could also be played in a group situation where the group are the hiders and one player is the seeker asking the questions. The winner would be the one whose animals are all found. This package contains 2 files One a printout version of the game One PDF Instructions with links to 2 Google Slide versions 1-100 and 10-100

This pack consists of an online version and a printable version of a maths game that can be played using a variety of strategies of numbers between 1- 100 or 10-1000. This maths game can be used with strategies such as, knowing groupings within 100 or 1000; know multiplication and division facts; know Basic Facts; place value Students work in pairs with a game board each playing ‘Hider’ and ‘Seeker’. There is an online version created in Google Slides where both students hide their sea animals and seek by asking each other questions based around place value, multiplication and division and/or addition or subtraction. In the printed out version, one is the hider who has to answer the questions and the other is the seeker who has to create the questions. These printed out sheets will need to be laminated. This game could also be played in a group situation where the group are the hiders and one player is the seeker asking the questions. The winner would be the one whose animals are all found. This package contains 2 files One a printout version of the game One PDF Instructions with links to 2 Google Slide versions 1-100 and 10-100

Encourage your students to observe and record weather patterns by identifying where on the Beaufort Scale what the weather today is. Record it on the monthly chart and on the Tally Chart. At the end of each month write an analysis of the weather.

This package contains 70 Graphic Organisers that have been created in both Google Docs and Slides and 4 in Draw. There are 140 graphic organisers in total. You and your students need to have Google Accounts. Click on the bit.ly links on the cards to go to the Google Doc, Slide or Draw file. Make a copy. You are free to make any adjustments to the files at this point. Share the file with your students and they will be able to use all Graphic Organisers on their computers, Chromebooks, iPads and Android devices. Most of these Graphic Organisers can be used for multiple purposes across many curriculum areas. There are 2 PDF files available for download. One shows the blank graphic organisers and the other file shows the examples. In each file there are 70 cards with instructions of how to use the Graphic Organiser with bit.ly links to both the Google Doc and the Google Slide for each Graphic Organiser.

Making Connections is one of the key Reading Comprehension Strategies. If students can make connections to themselves, their lives and what they see and hear around them, then that enables them to better understand what written text is all about. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of and write down what connections they have made. The Making Connections Activity pack can be printed out, posters and bookmarks can be laminated, and worksheets printed and shared with students. Use the bookmarks to remind students what connections they should be thinking of when they are reading their books. As an added bonus, teachers and students who have GAFE (Google Apps for Education) Google accounts can click on the shared links and use the worksheets in Google Slides. This package contains 5 posters 7 Worksheets 6 Bookmarks 8 Graphic Organizers

The Māori Alphabet ‘Arapu Reta’ Alphabet cards are designed to be used digitally on a computer as part of a teaching and learning lessons and/or downloaded, printed out and laminated. The 15 individual letter cards once laminated can be written on adding more words. The 5 pages of individual letters and pictures are designed to be laminated, cut out and used for matching letters and pictures. This package contains 1 colour Alphabet card with letters and pictures 1 colour Alphabet card with letters, words and pictures 15 cards, one for each letter of the alphabet 5 pages of individual letter and pictures

Give students the photocopied sheet of the letter they are practising. Practise saying the letter a few times. Students colour in the letter. Decorate with buttons, glitter, cut up material, what ever you have available. Students cut out the letter and glue it onto a large communal sheet. Students can draw pictures of things that start with the phonic sound or find pictures in magazines. The final sheet can be hung up in the classroom to view.

Students use counters and dice to play the game. throw the dice, move that many spaces, place the counter and say the letter if you throw a six, you go again First one to the end is the winner

These posters are ideal for putting up on your walls for students to refer to when they are solving area and perimeter problems.