'Your one stop shop for ENGAGING, AUTHENTIC ideas to keep your students busy, and schools wanting you to come back. Resources that are easy to use with links to some amazing websites and a host of free resources.'
Teaching is one of the most creative jobs I know, even after 30 years of teaching I realise that every day is different. You may be teaching the same subjects and grades, but it's children that make teaching both the challenging and rewarding profession that I have known.
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'Your one stop shop for ENGAGING, AUTHENTIC ideas to keep your students busy, and schools wanting you to come back. Resources that are easy to use with links to some amazing websites and a host of free resources.'
Teaching is one of the most creative jobs I know, even after 30 years of teaching I realise that every day is different. You may be teaching the same subjects and grades, but it's children that make teaching both the challenging and rewarding profession that I have known.
Creating
Great family games to play with your own kids in the holidays.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Christmas Themed with BLM that can be printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
Halloween Team Challenge
Have some fun this Halloween with a class group challenge. See who will be the first to solve all 6 problems. This could be used with Escape the Room, or Breakout style lessons. This resource is differentiated for easy, medium and harder levels of challenges for each stage. As each team works out a problem, they receive a part of the puzzle, or can have their progress marked off on the score sheet provided. If you wanted to add a bonus challenge at the end, offer the groups the puzzle as a seventh activity.
For durability, print the puzzle on cardstock and laminate.
A great 'go to activity' which will last you for many Halloweens to come.
You will receive a PDF with
The Island, by John Heffernan is a wonderful story about a blind boy who sees the beauty of the island he lives on, while the people around him cannot see it. A fantastic story with a link to a narration by the author. Some great links to accelerated literacy activities, and the theme of this booklet investigates our oceans and the threats to our marine life. Lots of links across all KLA's with a fully interactive timetable which links to my pinterest board. A free resource from GoTeachThis and Ripper Reading Resources, makes this amazing value for money and such a time saver. Stage 3 bundle is also available.
This resource could be differentiated for use with year 5 To use this resource effectively you need to explore all of the links provided and tailor make the suggested activities to suit your teaching style and the learning needs of your student.s All of the hard work searching the internet for inspiration and resources has been done for you.
The suggested timetable has interactive links to my Pinterest board, so that your resources will continue to grow as more pins are added. Within the book there are over 60 links to websites, and for those of you who follow my 'Surviving Casual Teaching' Facebook group, you will know that I have a good working knowledge of helpful teaching resources. I recommend that you buy copies of the picture books for days when you may not have IWB capability.You can never have enough picture books in your life!!!
Under the sea, is the theme of this set of booklets. The chosen picture books are 'Where the Forest meets the sea' by Jeannie Baker, and 'Magic Beach' by Alison Lester. this 28 booklet has 60 links to explore to support all KLA's. You can pick and choose the activities that suit your teaching style and the needs of the class. The ideas in this booklet can also be adjusted for kindergarten and year 2 children. A separate booklet with ideas for behaviour and classroom management is part of this valuable time saving resource.
This resource could be differentiated for use with year 2 or kindergarten class. To use this resource effectively you need to explore all of the links provided and tailor make the suggested activities to suit your teaching style and the learning needs of your student.s All of the hard work searching the internet for inspiration and resources has been done for you.
The suggested timetable has interactive links to my Pinterest board, so that your resources will continue to grow as more pins are added. Within the book there are over 60 links to websites, and for those of you who follow my 'Surviving Casual Teaching' facebook group, you will know that I have a good working knowledge of helpful teaching resources. I recommend that you buy copies of the picture books for days when you may not have IWB capability.You can never have enough picture books in your life!!!
How to use this resource
Subitising is the ability to recognise patterns of dots instantly without having to count them. This is integrated into the Early Mathematical framework as a basis for building further strategic thinking after the Emergent Stage. Counting by ones can often be a strategy that can be a hard one to shift with some learners. Ongoing exposure to these regular patterns can be useful to lead on to more complex strategies.
The following cards are an extension of this basic concept, the students look for those patterns within a larger group in order to get a notion of combining groups of patterns in order to ‘see’ a larger number without having to count.
The following video is an excellent example of how to open discussions with your students and encourage them to explain their mathematical thinking. Simply click onto this link, or the image to watch the presentation. You can ask your students to ‘draw’ an image of what they see, or simply discuss this in pairs, groups, or a teacher led discussion. (Counting by one is not encouraged with this activity).
You will get both a powerpoint and PDF presentation
65 pages in each
Animal Themed Logic Games
Animals are a great topic to use with all grades. This pack may be the answer to many of your preparation needs. Check out what is included in the resource bundle
What do you get?
60 Real animal photos
Clipart of environments
Photos of real environments
Word cards
Venn diagrams
Suggested games and activities to play with these cards
10 game cards with rules and how to play
Matrix game
Memory Game
Compound word animal puzzles
World maps of Continents (for animal sorting)
PDF version
Editable PowerPoint version
158 slides/pages
Easy Links- Wonderful Websites for Very Busy Teachers
Click here to see a video presentation
Why this book??
Have you bookmarked, pinned and saved hundreds of links?
Do you promise that one day you will sort them out?
This book may be the answer to your organisational dreams. It is designed to be an easy to use, interactive resource. It has been sorted into categories with links to provide answers and help for frequently asked questions posed in posts on Facebook and other social group forums.
What do you get?
105 page e-book
400 Web links
Attention getters (3 pages of ideas)
Behaviour Management Booklet (7 pages)
Suitable for Primary and Secondary Teachers
Time saving resource with a wealth of downloads to save you money
FLIPBOOK sample pages click here
A Survival Kit for Casual Relief Teachers
After 30 years of teaching, I thought it was well overdue to start sharing all those gems that you use in your day to day teaching that help make learning more meaningful and fun.
I began to build a resource kit for myself when I began casual teaching, and then I realised just how many ideas and activities I had been using over the years. I have spent many hours searching through websites, searching books for great ideas and activities.
I have now collected and compiled my book of activities and hints for casual teachers ......
A survival Kit to take with you when the phone rings, and you aren't sure what to take with you.
The eBook can be used with any storage, to access when you need a quick activity or web link. Copyright is granted to print off 1 copy for personal classroom use. 111 pages
Animals are a great topic to use with all grades. This pack may be the answer to many of your preparation needs. Check out what is included in the resource bundle
What do you get?
60 Real animal photos
Clipart of environments
Photos of real environments
Word cards
Venn diagrams
Suggested games and activities to play with these cards
10 game cards with rules and how to play
Matrix game
Memory Game
Compound word animal puzzles
World maps of Continents (for animal sorting)
PDF version
Editable PowerPoint version
158 slides/pages
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Alien themed with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Halloween themed with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Sea Themed, with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
This bundle includes all of my Themed Brain Break, Time Fillers or Extension Activities
Aliens/Space
Christmas
Easter
Halloween
Harmony Day
Sea
Fairy Tale
This comprehensive kit comprises a set of iPad screen templates with room for writing algorithms underneath. Designed to be laminated for durability and a great addition to your math rotation groups.
Also included in this resource is
*Hundreds Chart
*Multiplication Chart
*Number lines to ten and twenty
*Ten Frames
*Algorithm Frames for recording results.
You will receive a 20 page PDF
Subitising is the instant recognition of patterns of shapes to be able to determine a number. There are many different ways in which we all see these patterns and they are a lively discussion topic for any primary grade class to determine how we interpret these displays of dots.
I encourage you to view this dot number talk by Jo Boaler in one of her many inspirational presentations https://vimeo.com/129139086 where she works through this concept with a middle primary group of students.
This download comes with both a PowerPoint presentation and a PDF version with 27 slides/pages (including credits and terms of use).
As the slides increase in difficulty the students transfer their knowledge from class discussions and can readily determine a quite complex display of dots on a page.
The graphics are engaging and visually inviting for students with some wonderful clipart from Manny's Sketchpad .
A useful addition to any Maths Teaching resource kit for primary school teaching.
What will you need?
•Each player needs a gameboard, some MAB blocks (ten units, and whatever the goal number of tens and hundreds are for each game)
•One dice for games up to fifty.
•You can introduce two dice to play the game of Mouse Trap 50 and 100 trade.
HOW TO PLAY
•The person who throws the highest number goes first (or has longest hair, next birthday
....paper, scissors, rock etc).
•The aim of the game is to be the first player to cover all of their ten blocks (or all of the blocks on their playmat….this is determined by group agreement of the rules)
•Roll the die or dice, and collect the corresponding number of blocks to be placed on the game board on any of the spaces shown that will fit the block shape.
•When ten unit (one) blocks have been collected, they can be ‘traded’ for a long (Ten’) and placed on a long shape on the board.
•When playing with two dice, encourage students to take the amount from the ‘bank’ tens and ones, and place them on the board. If the player has enough ones in their turn they can trade using ones on the board that may already be in play.
•In the hundreds game, the winner is the first to trade to 100.
You will receive 5 playing boards in both colour and black and white, playing rules and variations of the game.
This is a PDF file.
The bright graphics in these game boards will certainly appeal to a range of age groups. This pack includes
* a set of 11 game boards that can be used with any game
* question cards for all of the tables facts from 2X to 12X
* fun penalty and advantage activities included in the tasks
* game rules and suggestions
* printing tips
* a fully editable version of the task cards so that you can create your own across all subject areas if you desire.
* The PowerPoint version enables you to use these game boards on the IWB in conjunction with the cards provided
You will receive a zip file with high color graphics (please note there are NO black and white versions of the games available)
A 50 page PDF, as well as a 20 page editable PowerPoint.
**Please note that the dice, counters, squinkies and playing pieces shown in the image previews are not included as part of this set.
This bundle of Christmas activities is well under half the price if you were to buy each product individually. There are over 200 pages of invaluable resources, information great websites to explore to use with the IWB or perhaps complete some of the fun web quests included in the K-6 thematic unit of work
**K-6 Thematic Unit of work- Cross Curricular **
This unit of work covers most subject areas so that the learning and activities involved in the pack are authentic, engaging and relevant to the theme of Celebrations (Particularly the theme of Christmas).
**Fast Finishing, Brain breaks or extension activities with a Christmas theme **
The Fast finishing activities would make great brain breaks or challenges to be used in group or for individual tasks in literacy or maths rotations. Plenty there to get the brain ticking over.
**Christmas Acts of Kindness **
Christmas is all about the spirit of giving so the editable acts of kindness will encourage your students to consider the needs and feelings of others around them. It is amazing what a positive classroom environment this resource creates
** Elf yourself and Reindeer yourself**
Both of the PDF's included in this pack make for a fun classroom Craft activity and classroom display. The results are hilarious and students love to see each others as Santa's little trusty elves or his tried and trusted Reindeer friends
**Christmas Mandalas - Geometry, concentric circles and symmetry **
All of these mathematical concepts are covered in this wonderful resource. The results are nothing short of impressive.
Encourage your students to examine symmetry and design using mirrors for inspiration.
Use the Christmas templates to create a personalized mandala where each child can express through art......the meaning of Christmas.
For those of you who love to teach line and zen tangles, these templates lend themselves beautifully to this activity.
This resource will be a winner over the Festive Season, I have used Mandalas and Geometry hand in hand with great success over the years. Experiment with shapes and mirrors and explore how a kaleidoscope actually works. I have included some fantastic links in this resource that will show you how to create a Mandala, how to divide your shape into concentric circles using a compass.
The YouTube videos included will show your students how to create some exciting Mandalas of their own.
This resource is designed to link mathematics, art and the theme of celebrations together in one neat activity.
Discuss with your students the definition of symmetry and find examples of it in the classroom, every day life and in historical mosaics and art pieces.
Concentric circles and geometry can be discussed within this activity, and students encouraged to use a compass to draw circles. This YouTube video may also be useful as a lead up activity or another lesson based on concentric circles
You will receive a 70 page PDF which includes 53 pages of images and 2 sheets of colored shapes that you can print of and laminate for use with mirrors to explore symmetry. Exciting stuff!!!!
This bundle is a great starter kit for anyone who is looking to build their resources for younger grades. These are suitable for children aged between 5-7 with plenty of activities to reinforce concepts of trading, number facts and subitising. The ipad screens are a great way for students to record their findings. Easily wiped if there is an error!!
Save 50% on the total price of these resources in this bundle
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Fairy Tale themed with BLM that can printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
This handy poster comes in both color and print friendly formats. Encourage your students to explore all of the rules in the poster and investigate and prove the results to be true.
These are not designed to be learned by rote, but as a tool for investigation
