Welcome to Goodeyedeers - the home of quality resources for primary teachers. Visit us and check out some great ideas.
I'm Mike Jackson, a former primary headteacher. I've teamed up with a fellow retiree David Horner who was a freelance children's poet delivering poetry workshops to children and teachers in schools across this country and abroad.
Between us, we bring an extensive wealth of knowledge and experience to the task of creating quality resources.
Welcome to Goodeyedeers - the home of quality resources for primary teachers. Visit us and check out some great ideas.
I'm Mike Jackson, a former primary headteacher. I've teamed up with a fellow retiree David Horner who was a freelance children's poet delivering poetry workshops to children and teachers in schools across this country and abroad.
Between us, we bring an extensive wealth of knowledge and experience to the task of creating quality resources.
40 growth mindset bookmarks to colour with a difference.
Each one contains an inspiring growth mindset quote, such as:
*It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity!
Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Believe you can and you are half way there.
*
… and many more (40 different facts in total).
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All the money raised from the sale of our resources goes to a charity called Medequip4Kids.
Show your children how to write some great spine-chilling Halloween Haiku poems.
Ideal for children in KS2 and lower KS3.
The PowerPoint lesson takes you through the process. It starts by explaining what a Haiku poem is and then has the children recognising and counting syllables.
They then have a chance to complete some half-finished Haiku. This can be done as a whole class, in pairs or groups or individually.
Finally, the children are given some picture prompts to help get them started on writing their own scary Halloween Haiku.
The Teachers’ Notes are written in the form of a script explaining what is contained in each slide of the PowerPoint and giving suggestions for you to explore with the children.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource we donate to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
We hope you enjoy this resource. If you do we would much appreciate you leaving us a review and don’t forget to tell your colleagues and friends about us.
This PDF contains six different templates/nets for the Christmas card envelopes and ten cards.
There are guidelines on how the envelopes should be cut out and assembled. There are six differently patterned envelope nets to choose from.
The PDF includes ten Christmas cards (two per page) for the children to cut out, colour and then add their Christmas greetings to before popping them into their envelopes.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a children’s charity called MedEqup4Kids.
If you enjoy this resource then we would love a review.
In this PowerPoint lesson your children will find out how to write wonderful Christmas Kennings poems.
Ideal for children in KS2 .
The PowerPoint lesson takes the children through the whole process. It starts by explaining what kennings are and their Anglo-Saxon background.
They then look at a few modern kennings before being shown how to create some Christmas kennings about Santa. These are then transformed into a poem and then a riddle.
Finally, the children are given some picture prompts to help get them started on writing their own magical Christmas kennings.
The Teachers’ Notes are written in the form of a script explaining what is contained in each slide of the PowerPoint and giving suggestions for you to explore with the children.
Also included with this resource are a set of colour and black and white Christmas writing frames for the children to use when they write out their finished poems and riddles.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource we donate to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
We hope you enjoy this resource. If you do we would much appreciate you leaving us a review and don’t forget to tell your colleagues and friends about us.
KS2 Poetry Writing
A great way to introduce your class to writing Haiku.
The PowerPoint takes you through the process. It starts by explaining what a Haiku poem is and then gets the children recognising and counting syllables.
They then have a chance to complete some half-finished Haiku. This can be done as a whole class, in pairs or groups or individually.
Finally, the children are given some word prompts to help get them started on writing their own Bonfire Night Haiku.
The Teachers’ Notes are written in the form of a script explaining what is contained in each slide of the PowerPoint and giving suggestions for you to explore with the children. There is also a section giving you some facts about Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot to share with the children.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource we donate to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
We hope you enjoy this resource. If you do we would much appreciate you leaving us a review and don’t forget to tell your colleagues and friends about us.
This free resource is to give you an idea of the quality of resources we are creating at ‘Goodeyedeers.’
It is a full lesson that will show children how to create their own kennings poems.
An animated reading of ‘Kennings For Kevin’ by the author David Horner is embedded in the presentation.
This reading is also included as a separate mp4 file and could be used as a lesson starter.
If you enjoy this then please have a look at our other resources and don’t forget to leaves us a review. Many thanks.
Show your children how to write some fantastic Christmas Haiku poems.
Ideal for children in KS2 .
The PowerPoint lesson takes you through the process. It starts by explaining what a Haiku poem is and then has the children recognising and counting syllables.
They then have a chance to complete some half-finished Haiku. This can be done as a whole class, in pairs or groups or individually.
Finally, the children are given some picture prompts to help get them started on writing their own magical Christmas Haiku.
The Teachers’ Notes are written in the form of a script explaining what is contained in each slide of the PowerPoint and giving suggestions for you to explore with the children.
Also included in this resource pack - a set of Christmas writing frames for the children to use for their completed poems.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource we donate to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
We hope you enjoy this resource. If you do we would much appreciate you leaving us a review and don’t forget to tell your colleagues and friends about us.
In this engrossing and creative game players meet – or possibly re-meet - Hetti, a smart and friendly alien living on the far off planet of SPaG.
The game is wholly about teaching, rather than testing the Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar demands for Y5 children as set out in the most recent National Curriculum for English.
The PowerPoint lesson leads the children, step by step, through the game. It also includes an embedded video introducing the children to Hetti. The Teachers’ Notes give more instructions for playing the game and suggested follow up activities.
The precise elements the game covers are:
relative clauses
relative pronouns
modal verbs
adverbs suggesting degrees of possibility.
In playing this version of the Great Grammar Game, children will also be revisiting and revising their SPaG knowledge from previous years. Like all other versions of the game it can be played more than once, either in small groups of 5 or more, or by a whole class.
The National Curriculum insists that building grammatical knowledge is best achieved through a focus on grammar within the teaching of reading, writing and speaking. This is exactly how this activity is designed to work.
The money raised from the sale of this resource is going to a children’s charity called MedEquip4Kids.
What do you know about Halloween and its origins?
Your children will love this Halloween Quiz with its spooky sound effects.
Each question comes with three possible answers - how well will you do.
Have fun!
All the money raised from the sale of resources here at Goodeyedeers goes to a charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
This set of 40 task cards is designed to give children opportunities to develop their knowledge of improper fractions and mixed numbers.
This set of 40 task cards looks at improper fractions and mixed numbers. On each card the children are asked to either change a mixed number to an improper fraction or an improper fraction to a mixed number.
The cards can be used in a variety of ways by individual children, pairs, small groups and even the whole class.
Here are a few ways you might use them:
Pairs can work together to solve cards and then quiz each other.
They can be used as an enrichment or revision activity for children who
finish their work early.
You can use task cards with simple traditional board games. The child has
to solve a card before they can take their turn.
Take them home as homework.
A great quiz to end the term or school year.
Suitable for KS2 and lower KS3 children.
This attractive PowerPoint contains five rounds in all, each round has ten questions. There are four possible answers to each question. Each round of questions is followed by the answers so that teams can swap answers and mark them.
The rounds are:
Round One - General Knowledge
Round Two - Sport
Round Three - Harry Potter
Round Four - Animals
Round Five - Science
Included is a PDF containing team sheets for teams to record their answers and an answer sheet.
All the money raised from the sale of our resources goes to a local charity for children called MedEqup4Kids.
Challenge your children with this set of 32 engaging two-digit subtraction riddle task cards. Suitable for years 2 and 3.
The resource includes 32 two-digit subtraction (with no regrouping) riddle task cards. One set in colour and another in black and white to help reduce printing costs.
Also included are 8 blank cards for children to create their own riddle task cards; an answer grid; a recording sheet for the children and a board game for them to play using their riddle task cards.
How can you use these task cards in your classroom?
Use a card as a warm-up session before your maths lesson.
Hide cards around the classroom; armed with clipboards and answering sheets the children look for them.
Assessment - use some of the cards to see if a child understands the concept.
Pairs can work together to solve cards and then quiz each other.
They can be used as an enrichment or revision activity for children who finish early.
Use them with simple traditional board games, each child having to solve a card before they can take a turn.
Use them as a start of the day activity.
Ideal for straight after play to help the children focus when they come in.
They can be taken home as homework.
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All the money raised from the sale of this resource we donate to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
We hope you enjoy this resource. If you do we would much appreciate you leaving us a review and please tell your colleagues and friends about us.
This resource consists of 5 growth mindset cube nets.
Each face has a pattern to be coloured in and a growth mindset quote on.
A total of 30 quotes in all.
A Few Ways You Might Use Them
Have one per child or group and each morning they roll their cube to see what quote is going to inspire them for that day.
Have a group of children roll a cube and then discuss the quote on top.
Individual children roll a cube and then write down how they might respond to the quote.
In this PowerPoint lesson the children discover how to create interesting haiku using synonyms.
This fun and engaging lesson will have your class using a thesaurus to find synonyms; discover what a haiku is; explore how all the words we use contain syllables and then use this information to create their own haiku.
The resource includes:
A PowerPoint lesson that takes the children through the entire process.
Teachers’ Notes including a worksheet to help the children write their haiku
The resulting haiku poems the children create would make an excellent addition to a class word wall.
If you find this resource useful please tell your friends and a review would be amazing. Many thanks.
Mike and David from Goodeyedeers.
-UPDATED 2020-
Aimed at children in Years 5, 6 and 7.
This popular PowerPoint lesson takes the children through the first verse of the poem ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll and gives them a strategy for turning this nonsensical poem into one that makes sense - almost!
The children have practice in recognising nouns, adjectives and verbs and in using the dictionary to find suitable replacement words.
The Teachers’ Notes gives background information to the creation of the poem and in particular, Lewis Carroll’s use of ‘portmanteau words’. They also have a number of suggestions for further activities.
There is a document with the text of the poem plus another where Humpty Dumpty explains the first verse of the poem to Alice. According to him, he can - “… explain all the poems that ever were invented - and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.”
If you enjoy this resource then please tell your colleagues and maybe leave us a review. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
In this entertaining and creative game players meet – or possibly re-meet - Hetti, a smart and friendly alien living on the far off planet of SPaG.
The game is wholly about teaching, rather than testing the Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar demands for Y2 children as set out in the most recent National Curriculum for English.
The PowerPoint presentation leads the children, step by step, through the game. It also includes an embedded video introducing the children to Hetti. The Teachers’ Notes give more instructions for playing the game and suggested follow up activities.
The precise elements the game covers are:
subordination
expanded noun phrases
the progressive form of verbs
commas to separate items in a list
apostrophes to mark letters missing in spelling.
The game also revisits much of the punctuation demands and the terminology introduced in Y1. It can be played more than once, either by small groups of 5 or more, or by a whole class.
The National Curriculum insists that building grammatical knowledge is best achieved through a focus on grammar within the teaching of reading, writing and speaking. This is exactly how this activity is designed to work.
Money raised from the sale of this resource will be going to a children’s charity called MedEquip4Kids.
This lesson is designed to enable children to deconstruct some common tongue twisters and create new ones of their own.
Suitable for all years across Key Stage 2.
The PowerPoint takes the children through, step by step, the whole process of deconstructing a tongue twister and then reconstructing it to make it their own.
The Tongue Twisters doc. file is a list of 20 tongue twisters for them to work on.
The Teacher's Notes gives you some interesting facts about tongue twisters to share with your class as well as ideas as to what the children might do with the ones they create.
If you enjoy this resource from Goodeyedeers then please tell your colleagues and maybe leave us a review. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
In this free resource there is a PowerPoint with an Advent Calendar made up of 25 snowmen. Behind each snowman is a puzzle for your children to explore.
The puzzles include:
word puzzles
maths puzzles
writing ideas
geography recipes
matchstick puzzles
The resource also includes the answers both as a PowerPoint and as a PDF document.
