Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
A selection of real and 'alien' pseudo words containing either the /ee/ /ea/ or /e-e/ grapheme. Alien words have an image of alien to assist preparation for the Phonics Screening.
Children can write on their sound buttons to help read the word. Also a powerpoint containing all the words to read as a whole class
Powerpoint presentation for parents on the teaching of Numbers and Patterns in the Early Years and Year 1.
Covering counting, ordering, adding, subtracting, patterns, recognition and partitioning
A powerpoint designed to be used in assembly or in class for PSHE/PSED. Discussion point on what stealing is, to consider the consequences of stealing, and think of others’ feelings.
An Excel spreadsheet set up to record ages and stages of development within the EYFS. Mainly designed for Nursery children, although can also be used initially to track progress of Reception children also.
Quick easy to see children on track, working above and below (1 or 2+ development bands) for staff CPD as well as focus children.
Please also see my Tracker moderation to split ages and stages into beginning, Developing and Secure - useful for tracking progress across terms and the year, especially for Reception F2.
Behaviour reflections form based on form seen on lauracandler.com, but just updated in UK English spellings.
May be useful to record a meeting with parents before a behaviour IEP is put into place.
A PowerPoint lesson plan that could be used for Geography or RE teaching. Covers the story of bread from wheat seed to bread on the table. Has a Christian element looking at what harvest festival is and thanking god for the food we receive. Sequence the pictures from Grain Chain.
Information and images on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. Information on Easter Monday has not been included, as these events are secular nowadays.
Text courtesy of projectbritain.com.
Powerpoint presentation on how to Observe children in the Early Years. Designed mainly for classroom assistants, but could be tweaked to present to parents and other staff at school.
Additional word document case study.
Suggest staff go through the training, then look at any observations they have already completed, as well as complete a joint/paired observation, and then discuss what is exactly required.
A powerpoint and worksheet designed to help children read real and pseudo 'alien' words from the /air/ /ear/ /are/ phoneme family. Designed to help children prepare for the Y1 Phonics screening test.
A PowerPoint to get children thinking about how they prefer to learn.
Links to Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences. Activity for children to sort different activities by learning style (VAK)
Based on my LA's obs sheet from the Starting with the Child folder. Updated with new areas of learning for Revised EYFS 2012. Room for personal details, observation, analysis via the four themes, and then next steps. This is based on an idea displayed by our LA (sorry, not sure who originally designed it)
Profile guidance showing all profile points for PSED. Includes links to connected profile points in different area scales. Useful for co-ordinators when moderating profile scores.
A PowerPoint designed to be reduced to 4 or 6 to a page and stuck into Learning Journey books for summative assessment. Characteristics of Effective Learning and Areas of Learning statements for Foundation Stage (EYFS 2012) children.
I was inspired by a local EYFS teacher and their school's learning journeys to produce these. They will also be laminated and placed onto a ring to be carried by the staff during observations.
I hope you find them useful xx
