Early years teaching resources

Here’s a template for a board game where you can project it onto the screen and play as a class. In this one, the start point is in the middle. I’ve put in “challenge” and “question card” squares as suggestions.

Bright color number posters are great addition in your classroom. This packet have 0-20 number posters which includes numbers, ten frames and number words. This resource is perfect for Pre-K, Kindergarten and first graders.

Top tips for diary writing with an activity at the end of the PPT.

14 pages of 100 square number challenges. Children have to a range of addition and subtraction problems to workout. Once they have worked out the questions they can then colour the correct number on the number square. Difficulty increases for each challenge.

This Quiz is perfect for either ending or introducing the topic of the World Cup, especially as it is currently taking place. Contains 50 questions altogether, with 6 different rounds. Ideal for use in small teams within the classroom but can be used as individuals. Also includes an question and answer sheet, as well as a sheet for children to fill in their answers on. Includes simple ways to show the answers through buttons but also includes a button to allow you to return to the beginning of each round so you can show answers altogether rather than one by one. The rounds included within the quiz are: Past World Cups. World Cup Records. Who Am I? Picture Round. 2014 World Cup. 2018 World Cup.

This is a list to draw upon when preparing for a transition meeting of a child or young person with multiple needs and of any age. It is not intended that you discuss everything on the list but highlight the relevant statements as part of your meeting preparation and perhaps number the statements in an order you think most appropriate.

A set of place value arrow cards for ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands and hundred thousands. Each set includes two spares with the first digit blank to be used as spares.

End of term fun. Take students outside and play these shadow activities. Little or no preparation required. No curriculum objectives or assessment needed. A good time to be had by students and teacher. Enjoy!

Teach the sounds of letters B,A,T to read and write the word BAT with this printable handout. Capital and lowercase letters. Bb as in ball Aa as in apple Tt as in turtle Pictures included to teach sounds (and to color): ball, apple, turtle, bat. Thank you for using my printable handouts in your classroom! Please follow me for more. Reviews are welcome and very much appreciated.

This free support material has been produced to use alongside Peg and Pog the “highly recommended” educational app for young kids. Simply print off, cut out and add a bit of glue! Peg and Pog is a digital play adventure that helps children build early vocabulary and become familiar with the world around them. It is available worldwide on the App Store. Just visit www.appstore.com/pegandpog on your device. If you like our resources and have a moment to spare, please leave a review or rating. Thank you. ABOUT PEG AND POG Journey into space, dress up in adorable clothes, swim in the ocean, and much more. Learn new words and how they sound, as you build beautiful, animated scenes full of characters, animals, and objects. Pretend play with over 170 words and a choice of 5 languages. CREATE Bring to life 8 beautiful scenes full of sounds, words and animations. Play along with Peg, Pog and their adorable cat, Cosmo. Build and interact with each scene by dragging and dropping characters, animals and objects. EXPLORE & PLAY Play dress up, go shopping and fly in a hot air balloon. Explore the ocean, go on a sleigh ride and meet a helpful penguin. Travel into space, tidy the bedroom and go to a birthday party with a rather special guest DJ. DISCOVER Observe, ask questions and make guesses about the characters, animals and objects in a scene. Is Pog happy or sad? Does Peg like the hat? LEARN WORDS & SOUNDS Learn how to read and say words in a choice of 5 different spoken languages. Tap on a character, animal or object to listen to the word and hear its sound. Each scene has a slide-show where kids can see the objects and how they are spelled and sound. FEATURES Adorable interactive characters. 8 beautifully illustrated scenes. Play dress up with hundreds of possible outfits! Over 170 different spoken words in 5 languages. Original audio in English (US), English (UK), French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese. Safe, easy-to-use, and kid-friendly. Perfect for young learners. Play in peace! No in-app purchases or 3rd party advertising. Play wherever! No Wi-Fi or Internet required. ABOUT KENIKENI Kenikeni is an independent studio. We are artists, engineers and educators. We create beautiful, fun and immersive digital play experiences that stimulate the imagination and encourage children to discover and engage with the world around them. Visit us: kenikeni.com Believe in the magic of play.

Matériel à imprimer et à plastifier. Cette ressource contient: des suites logiques à reproduire de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à continuer de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à créer pour les 3 types (feuilles à photocopier)

Matériel à imprimer et à plastifier. Cette ressource contient: des suites logiques à reproduire de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à continuer de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à créer pour les 3 types (feuilles à photocopier)

Finding out all the different combinations. Simple but thought provoking.

Matériel à imprimer et à plastifier. Cette ressource contient: des suites logiques à reproduire de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à continuer de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à créer pour les 3 types (feuilles à photocopier)

Matériel à imprimer et à plastifier. Cette ressource contient: des suites logiques à reproduire de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à continuer de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à créer pour les 3 types (feuilles à photocopier)

Expanding on problem solving for this young age group. What is problem solving? How do I teach it? What are the five main categories? Simple, pragmatic examples and ideas.

Matériel à imprimer et à plastifier. Cette ressource contient: des suites logiques à reproduire de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à continuer de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à créer pour les 3 types (feuilles à photocopier)

Problem Solving for such a young age group? How do I start? A few simple, pragmatic ideas to get you and your pupils going.

Matériel à imprimer et à plastifier. Cette ressource contient: des suites logiques à reproduire de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à continuer de type AB, AAB, ABB des suites logiques à créer pour les 3 types (feuilles à photocopier)

New article for teachers. Free download from www.martysimon.org

I can use adjectives to describe characters from Little Red Riding Hood - templates for students to write adjectives into: Wolf Little Red Riding Hood Grandma

Watch the video and try the worksheet

Watch the video and try the worksheet

This is a Gap Analysis Excel Spreadsheet that enables you to type in each student’s mark for each question in an assessment/review etc and it will automatically total and grade each student. There is also the capability of automatically producing written feedback to each student and identifies the gaps in their knowledge based on the outcome of their scores. You can change it very simply to fit whatever you need and is a quick and efficient way of identifying gaps and showing your gap analysis for every class you teach.

This assembly explores what is a family? IT uses the book ‘and Tango makes Three’ as a stimulus - this is scanned on the slides. Tango (a penguin) has two dads - a great way to explore LGBT issues and tolerance. Ultimately love makes a family.

WHAT DO THEY USUALLY DO? / WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW? PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS. PRESENT SIMPLE VS Past Simple.

in this zip folder: 5 cliparts of hearts (see preview) No background For personal or commercial use

Scheme of work based on the Vikings for years 3 and 4, primary French. Created by adapting a pirates transition scheme of work from the ALL conference in 2011. Includes PowerPoints, lesson plans and worksheets.

A primary French scheme of work for year 1 and 2, based on the topic of the rainforest. Using weekly repetition of animals and adjectives, pupils build up to being able to describe animals and to produce sentences from memory by following a story. Lesson plans, PowerPoints, play script, outdoor activity, sondage and sorting activity included. I haven’t included the masks or monkey door hanger because I used printables from another site, which are easy to find on Google (i.e. not my work!). UPDATED ON 22/6 SO NOW HAS NO ERRORS.

End-of-year inspirational fun for your class. Contents: a dragon’s menu to complete (with alliteration), a sheet of dragon rhymes to chant, clap, enact, sing and add to, and 6 bright, lively dragon pictures to stimulate ideas for art, writing, drama and more.

This is a Powerpoint lesson with instant feedback. In this lesson, learners are able to: compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights [for example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half]. measure and begin to record lengths and heights. Lesson can be used as whole class teaching by teachers and at home by learners. Lots of independent activities with instant learner feedback. Lesson can be adapted by teachers according to learners’ need.

Ideal end-of-term fun for classes of all ages, with scope for physical movement and multi-arts development. Once there was a dragon dressed in red. He liked to stay all day in… - but you can guess the last word, and so can the children, although some may prefer to offer alternatives with other rhyming words. Red is just one example of the numerous colours featuring in these crazy dragon verses, which lend themselves to being enacted, and even sung to a made-up tune, as well as chanted and clapped. Follow on with dragon sketches or try my dragon’s menu for easy, crazy writing fun.

Two dragon display pictures feature here - a blue one clasping a diamond and a lazy red one, snoozing on a cloud; also a little clip art design of a fire-breathing dragon whizzing, swooping, blasting down through the sky (also red). These will inspire end-of-term drawing, colouring, writing and acting fun for your class, whatever their age and maturity. For more, see my earlier upload: 3 Crazy Dragons, or try the Dragon’s Menu.

Seven PowerPoints (showing 14 nursery rhymes in total) supporting Aspect 4 of Phase 1 Letters and Sounds.

Eight PowerPoints supporting different aspects of Phase 1 Letters and Sounds.

Three PowerPoints telling the Easter story plus an Easter Word Mat.

A set of times table board games for your pupils to practise all of their tables including a mixed game.

Resources to support topic of ‘People Who Help Us’.

Montessori 3-Part Cards of Invertebrates When creating this, I wanted a simple classification tool for introducing the classification of invertebrates. This set contains examples of one of each of six major groups of invertebrates. And because sometimes it’s easy to become confused as to just where the arthropods come in and what that involves, I’ve added a second set of cards just for classifying the arthropods. Come and visit us on Facebook

A word mat to support literacy work on ‘People Who Help Us’. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.

Invertebrates - Montessori Matching Cards What child can resist the lure of the opportunity to carefully inspect a worm in a puddle after a storm? Or chasing a butterfly with outstretched arms? What child can resist the lure of an opportunity for careful inspection of a worm in a puddle after a storm? Or chasing a butterfly with outstretched arms? These real-life photo cards give children a simple introduction to the world of invertebrates by matching, playing games and talking about six of the major groups. But that’s not all! I’ve also made a second set of cards just for the arthropods. There are so many of them and it’s confusing, sometimes, to sort them all out! Not just for a Montessori classroom, this work is a great addition to any unit when the topic is animals without backbones. Ages: 2 1/2 + Thank you for considering my work! https://www.facebook.com/marycarr51/ Join us on Facebook!

A PowerPoint to encourage discussion about people who help us. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.