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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.
Growth Mindset Colouring Banner.
These 30 black and white, growth mindset banner pennants are fun and need no-prep. Set 1 and set 2 have different shaped pennants and different growth mindset quotes, giving a total of 30 growth mindset quotes in all.
You can mix and match between the two sets.
Laminate and staple to a ribbon to display in your classroom, on a display board or in the corridor.
A great back to school activity.
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 the Christmas story is narrated by four cats who were there.
They are:
Oscar - Mary’s cat who was with her when the Angel Gabriel appeared.
Mia - a cat who lived in the stable where Jesus was born.
Cat - a wild cat who hangs out in the fields with the shepherds.
Simba - a royal cat from the palace of King Herod.
The children will enjoy listening to each one give an account of what they saw.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to MedEquip4Kids. This is a children’s charity raising money to provide paediatric medical equipment and facilities for hospitals and community health teams.
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.
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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.
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.
This resource contains:
A PowerPoint lesson explaining the game in detail and including a video clip message from Hetti
Teachers’ notes explaining how to play the game and giving links to the National Curriculum
A 5x4 grid to photocopy for the children
In this enjoyable 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 Y3 children as set out in the most recent National Curriculum for English.
The precise elements the game covers are:
forming nouns using prefixes
choosing a or an before the next word
expressing time using conjunctions.
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.
Money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a children’s charity called MedEquip4Kids.
In this PowerPoint presentation, children’s poet, David Horner, will talk your children through an ingenious way to write a poem for their dad for Father’s Day. It is a ‘Recipe Poem’. The presentation takes the children through the entire process step by step.
At the end they children will have written a recipe poem describing what goes in to making a great dad - it is bound to melt the hearts of the dads who receive them.
If you and your children enjoy this lesson then watch out for our other Father’s Day poetry lessons - there will be four in total.
Father’s Day Poetry - The Magic Box
Father’s Day Poetry - Using Metaphors
Father’s Day poetry - Word Association Game
We would love to know what you think of our resources, so please leave us a review.
All the money raised from the sale of our resources is donated to a local northwest charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
Get your KS2 class writing scary Halloween kennings poems.
The PowerPoint takes you through the whole process of writing kennings poetry.
The children meet Vlad the Vampire who tells them what kennings are. More information about the origins of kennings poetry is contained in the Teachers’ Notes.
The children are encouraged to complete two kennings poems, one about Vlad the Vampire and another about a ghost. 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 Halloween kennings poems.
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 awesome set of four resources for Haloween includes:
Creative writing booklet for children full of ideas for writing Halloween stories and poems.
A PowerPoint lesson showing the children how to write Halloween Haiku poetry. This includes a comprehensive set of teachers’ notes.
A PowerPoint lesson showing the children how to write Halloween Kennings poems. This includes a comprehensive set of teachers’ notes.
A PowerPoint lesson showing the children how to write Halloween recipe poems. This includes a comprehensive set of teachers’ notes.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource is donated to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
40 great bookmarks for your children to colour and use.
Each one contains a reading slogan such as:
Lost in a good book.
I’m a bookworm.
Dive into a good book.
Reading opens doors.
Time for reading.
I love reading.
Reading forever.
Sssh! I’m reading
… and many more.
We hope you enjoy this resource and will have a look a our shop for more amazing ideas.
All the money raised from the sale of our resources goes to a children’s charity called MedEquip4Kids.
Here are some great ideas for an amazing lesson to get your children writing scary haiku poems for Halloween.
Within the printable PDF you will find:
Facts about Halloween.
Details about what a haiku poem is and where it originates from.
A detailed lesson plan to get the children learning about syllables and write their own haiku.
Writing templates for the children to both draft their poems and display the finished ones.
If you enjoy this resource we would love you to tell your friends and leave us a review. Many thanks.
The money raised from the sale of this resource is donated to the charity MedEquip4Kids.
These three sets of Vocabulary Challenge Cards cover all the words in the Year 3/4 National Curriculum Word List.
For each card the children are given a word from the Word List with the letters jumbled up and they have to see how many words they can find from those letters.
Each letter has a number on it so the children can keep a score of the new words they create.
Each PDF contains two sets of the same cards - one in colour and one in black and white to make for easier photocopying.
Here is a fun and effective way to get your children using alliteration to write some amazing Christmas recipes.
The PowerPoint lesson takes the children, step by step, how to use a simple chart to write some wonderfully whacky Christmas recipes.
The resource includes:
a PowerPoint lesson
a set of detailed notes explaining each part of the lesson
a set of Christmas writing frames to display the finished Christmas Recipes
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a charity for children called [MedEquip4Kids](https://www.medequip4kids.org.uk/.
If you enjoy using this resource please let us know and tell your friends and colleagues about it.
A 50 question quiz for you to try out with your class this Christmas.
The PowerPoint includes questions and answers:
Round One - Christmas Food
Round Two - A Christmas Poem
Round Three - The Christmas Story
Round Four - Christmas General Knowledge
Round Five - Christmas Books and Films
The resource also includes a PDF containing blank team/answer sheets for the children to use.
In this lesson the children will learn what a haiku poem is and how to count syllables.
They will then work together to complete some Valentine’s Day haiku before going off and writing some of their own.
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You might also like to look at our other Valentine’s Day resources:
Valentine’s Day Quiz
Five Valentine’s Day Writing Ideas
In this set you will find 32 task cards about adding and subtracting fractions.
This set of 32 task cards looks at addition and subtraction of fractions. The answer sheet has room for the children to show their working out.
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.
Within this free PDF there are 18 different Christmas gift tags for your children to cut out and colour.
Here are links to more great Christmas resources from Goodeyedeers:
A ready-made Christmas Carol Service where a group of animals tell the Christmas story.
A PowerPoint lesson showing the children how to write some Cool Christmas Kennings.
A PowerPoint lesson all about Wonderfully Whacky Alliterating Christmas Recipes.
A series of templates for the children to make and colour their own Christmas Cards and Envelopes.
Two sets of task cards - 64 cards in total.
These cards give children in Years 5 and 6 activities to familiarize themselves with words/spellings in the Year 5/6 National Curriculum Word List.
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