A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over a 19 year teaching career which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a School based tutor for SCITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over a 19 year teaching career which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a School based tutor for SCITT.
PowerPoint of images and ideas to stimulate children's own shoebox habitat designs.
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Activity ideas for What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson to use to enhance learning across all areas of learning.
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A great open-ended and flexible activity that will encourage your class to think and reason about number. Add your chosen number to the poster or get the children to roll 2/3 dice to make a number and then ask them to show you what they know about the naughty number on the wanted poster: e.g. 21 is 10 + 10 + 1, 3 x 7, 30 - 9, 63 ÷3 etc
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Do you know about the great fire of Newcastle/Gateshead? An information PowerPoint and activities linked to the fire and the regeneration of the banks of The River Tyne.
Adaptable measures Scavenger Hunt - fun, interactive activity that can be done indoors or outdoors. More fun measure activities @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01
This pack contains a PowerPoint used in a network training session with loads of ideas for activities linked to Understanding the World. There is wealth of pictures, resource ideas, links to useful websites and some activity sheets.
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This bumper pack contains PowerPoints and fun interactive activities to reinforce word groups (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs) capital letters, commas, apostrophes for possession, coordination and subordination, exclamatory sentences and the four main sentence types. There is also a SPaG Scoot game which includes SATs style questions covering all areas of the SPaG curriculum.
Habitat FOR SALE - Powerpoint with examples of particulars to inspire children’s own writing and printable sheets of property details. Also included: PowerPoint linked to Zootropolis movie showing journey through different habitats and a blank map for children to design their own Zootopia habitat maps including the different animals who would live there. ‘Create an animal’ zoologist challenge, Gimme 5 animal characteristics and making human bodies activity ideas as well as ‘Shoebox Habitats’ DT project ideas PowerPoint. Images are included to show the work completed by pupils using these resources.
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A fun activity that can be carried out indoors or outdoors depending on the weather! All you need to do is print out the clues all linked to well-known story books (laminate) and lay out the trail. Children can work in pairs/teams to answer the questions and decipher the secret message! Answer sheets and certificates included. This activity is editable and would be a great introduction to a reading challenge or a ‘My favourite book day.’
A fun Christmas activity for KS1. Children use the top secret code to find the punchlines to a selection of Christmas cracker jokes! There are 24 jokes included in this pack. Ideal as a stimulus for your own class Christmas joke competition too!
A fun game played in pairs to reinforce fluency with times tables. Using a paperclip and pencil to make your spinner, children take it in turns to spin 2 numbers and multiply them e.g. 10 x 2 = 20 they then find the answer and claim that square by colouring it in their chosen colour or covering it with a counter. If the square is already covered miss a go! The winner is the player with the most squares at the end of the game.
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Curious Science Investigators: Can the children decide which object was used to break the caretaker's window? Powerpoint to introduce activity then you need to set out your objects (e.g. rubber duck, woollen gloves, football, brick etc) for children to investigate using the recording sheet. I extended this activity by inviting the children to become Curious Stem Inventors (label included) by giving them a brown paper bag containing objects such as a lollipop stick, an elastic band, a straw, paperclip, marble, newspaper etc and challenging them to invent! Also included is 'Bend me, Shape me' record sheet to investigate the properties of materials and extension activities.
This pack includes: What's in the teacher's bag? Mystery neighbours - collect a bin bag full of clues to share with the class and see if they can solve the mystery - commented on as 'an exciting and engaging' lesson in a recent Ofsted (images of ideas for clues included). A mystery letter - can the children use the clues to infer who the sender might be? (Example included) Using movie trailers for children to make inferences before they see the film is a great way to promote inference skills - editable template provided! Watch the movie trailers and see if the children's inferences remain the same. The Perfect Gift - using inference skills to determine a suitable gift for fairytale characters based on evidence from the stories. Cause and effect sheet with example.
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Get your class talking about science! I made BIG books and put my class into science 'cells' (labels for big books included e.g. Brilliant Bulbs, Terrific Test Tubes) and at the start of each lesson I give the class a science-themed question to discuss. The children each use a different coloured felt-tip pen to record their ideas on a page in their Bright Ideas BIG Books. Included in the pack are BIG questions such as What are our bodies made of? What If's e.g. What if there were no plants in the world, PMI's (i.e. give me a positive, a minus and tell me something interesting!) such as what if your bones were made of jelly? Odd One Outs and Chain Reaction. This is a great pack (that will last you all year!) to get children thinking, talking, predicting, justifying and debating science in a fun way! A couple of bonus extension ideas and some review cards are included too.
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