Two sets of rhythm dice. Each face of the dice shows a one beat rhythm. Use the dice as a composition tool, to revise names of different rhythms or even note names. Students could come up with their own ideas for how to use the cubes in class.

A Second Level song pack for the traditional Jamaican song Hill and Gully Rider. The pack includes a short background of the song, the melody, lyrics, a game to play while singing the song, a rhythm task and instrument parts to add in while singing. Students will learn what a call and response song is, sing a traditional Jamaican song with a game, develop their knowledge of syncopation and play a bordun on tuned percussion and an ostinato rhythm on untuned percussion.

A First Level song pack for the traditional Jamaican song Hill and Gully Rider. The pack includes a short background of the song, the melody, lyrics, a game to play while singing the song, a rhythm task and an instrument part to add in while singing. Students will learn what a call and response song is, sing a traditional Jamaican song with a game, develop their recognition of ta and ti-ti and play on tuned percussion.

Two templates for Mandarin colour dice. Help your students learn their Mandarin colours by using these dice in a variety of ways. Get them to colour in the faces of the dice with the appropriate colour then use them to play different games. Can they roll the dice and find something that is that colour? Add in a challenge and make it a race. A favourite way to use these in my classroom is to roll the dice and then pick up a counter of the correct colour using chopsticks. Both characters and pinyin help the students to continue to develop their understanding and connection between the two.

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Print out these posters, get students to colour them in and make a beautiful mandarin language display in your classroom. Use of both characters and pinyin helps students to develop their understanding and connection of both forms of the language.

Presentation activity for students to create their own Chinese lego landmark. The example images are AI generated images from Canva. Provides names of four different Chinese landmarks and steps for students to create their own model and share learning on seesaw. This step can be adapted to suit your own setting. Help your students to experience memorable learning activities to further their knowledge and understanding of the world around us.

Support your student’s learning of Mandarin numbers 1-10 with this fun tear and stick activity. Set up a treasure hunt around the room with the number tear sheets and let the students find them all and match them with the correct digit on their answer sheet. There are two levels of tear sheets, level one which includes the character and the pinyin and level two which only includes the character. Easy to differentiate the learning for your students as required Print off the required number of tear sheets, cut along the dotted lines and hide around your room for an engaging treasure hunts. Print one answer sheet per student to provide an easy to mark assessment of your student’s learning.

Playdough mats to support Mandarin number recognition and character forming. Students will get to see the symbol, the pinyin and tone for each number. Print out a class set, laminate and enjoy!

Set of 8 Mandarin family member cards. Could be used as flashcards, snap cards, memory cards, etc. Simply print out as many copies as you need and start playing!