My shop contains primary school resources. Most resources are made for a Kindergarten/Year 1 level because these are resources I am currently creating and using in my own Kindergarten classroom.
I encourage buyers to purchase my resources and make small modifications so they are perfectly suited to their school and classroom context.
My shop contains primary school resources. Most resources are made for a Kindergarten/Year 1 level because these are resources I am currently creating and using in my own Kindergarten classroom.
I encourage buyers to purchase my resources and make small modifications so they are perfectly suited to their school and classroom context.
The first Australians and the settlers: An exposition writing prompt allows students to write an argument about whether the Aboriginal clans of the Sydney region had the right to engage in resistance against the settlers .
This writing prompt uses the resistance provided by Aboriginal warriors such as Pemulwuy and Windradyne . Students are asked to respond to the question 'Some people say that Aboriginal warriors such as Pemulwuy and Windradyne were pests who had no right to fight for their land settled by the colonists'. Eight points to support the first Australians engaging in resistance are provided. Students can research this topic further using resources such as 'First Australians' series http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/ .
This 7-page Home Reading Log is available in PDF and Publisher format.
It is designed to record Kindergarten student’s home reading habits. It contains a column to record the date, title of the reader, level of the reader, comment and number of books read. There is space for over 100 readers to be recorded. Milestones such as 10, 20, 30, 50, 75 and 100 books read are acknowledged and celebrated.
The log provides advice to parents on how to read with their child and expectations for home reading including how to fill out the log, importantly the comments column. It also provides student success criteria when reading at home.
The Publisher format allows teachers to change the font or days when readers need to be returned.
This resource is a student assessment record sheet for the ‘Counting Homework Cards’ by the same author. Use the assessment record sheet to record the dates when students achieve each level. Teachers can keep a copy of the record sheet that they can transfer to PLAN. Another copy can remain in the student’s homework folder to keep parents informed and motivated about their child’s progress through the counting levels of the Numeracy Continuum.
A single page worksheet for each multiplication fact.
The homework sheets practise skills of repeated addition and multiplication facts in a variety of representations. The homework worksheets also uses the look, say, cover, write, check format to build automaticity.
This is a visual schedule resource.
Use it for ASD students, yet all students benefit from knowing what they are going to do each day.
Print and laminate and display labels on the whiteboard. Coming soon-the same schedule resource will be available in Notebook format.
Publisher format allows teachers to adjust labels to their context. 32 most common Kindergarten activities listed.
A single page worksheet for the 10x multiplication facts.
The homework sheet practice skills of repeated addition and multiplication facts in a variety of representations. The homework worksheet also uses the look, say, cover, write, check format to build automaticity.
This resource provides a pictorial essay about how to create a recycling system in an urban primary school.
Use this resource to inspire your school to think about and actualise sorting rubbish in a 700+ student school.
A series of seven unique workbook labels for early years student workbooks. These labels offer an economical way to label class workbooks. Simply cut out and stick on workbook covers.
Publisher file format allows the labels to have student names and classes typed on. It also allows subject titles and font to be changed. Choose the duplicate page option in Publisher to create more labels.
This resource contains the most frequently occurring words used in the PM Reader series. The words are divided into 8 colour-coded levels corresponding to reader levels 1 to 8.
Use these levelled high frequency words as a part of an early Kindergarten literacy program to ensure early reading success They can be sent home, one level at a time, as homework and tested weekly. Once the student has automatic recall of one level they can move to the next.
Use high frequency words in literacy groups. Students can write words on mini whiteboards or type on keyboards. Laminate and cut up words to make games such as Snap and Memory.
Publisher version provided so font can be changed.
This Kindergarten writing lesson sequence is informed by a L3 approach. It uses the award winning picture book 'There's a sea in my bedroom' by Margaret Wild.
The lesson sequence includes L3 'Reading To' procedures 1, 2 and 3. It provides links to quality online versions of the text.Procedure 3 provides a differentiated writing 'responding to text' activity.
The NSW Syllabus outcomes and content this lesson sequence addresses, are highlighted.
This lesson sequence could be used even if a L3 approach to literacy is not implemented at your school.
This social story is about what to do at lunchtime. It is targeted at primary age students. It addresses the way a student can understand and follow the routines of lunchtime. It covers moving to the eating area, eating, packing away lunchboxes, play and lining up.
Use this social story as a whole class presentation. Print a copy for the class library or send it home for further independent practice.
This PowerPoint tells the story of the Emu in the Sky. The Emu in the Sky is the Aboriginal explanation of the Milky Way galaxy. This story is from the Papunya people of the Northern Territory. Use this story to provide an Aboriginal perspective when teaching about space.
This Kindergarten writing lesson sequence is informed by a L3 approach. It uses the award winning picture book, The Snail's Spell by Joanne Ryder.
The lesson sequence includes L3 'Reading To' procedures 1, 2 and 3. Procedure 3 provides a writing 'responding to text' activity that incorporates drama/yoga.
The NSW Syllabus outcomes and content this lesson sequence addresses, are highlighted.
This lesson sequence could be used even if a L3 approach to literacy is not implemented at your school.
This Aboriginal story (language group unknown) is a creation story about turtles.
It is in PowerPoint format.
Use this story to provide an Aboriginal perspective in literacy. The title slide references the source of the story. The final slide provides a link to an animated version of the story of Wayamba (Wayambeh). Compare representations of the story. Ask students to make their own representation.
This bundle contains 'I can' statements for phonics, phonemic awareness, writing and counting.
Stick statements in student workbooks to record achievement, create an assessment folder for each student containing statements or use statements in a 'bump it up' wall display.
This resource is a collection of Kindergarten/Foundation year phonics worksheets to compliment an explicit phonics program. It contains the graphemes ai, ar, ch, ee, igh, ng, oo, OO, sh and th.
The worksheets align with the phases of the UK Letters and Sounds sequence but also compliment any phonics commercial or Early Stage 1 (or equivalent) program.
They can be used as an independent activity after whole class instruction or as an independent literacy group activity.
The worksheets contain a phonics, vocabulary, handwriting and writing component. Students need to be introduced to the digraph and vocabulary containing the sound. They can then complete the worksheet by matching the vocab to the corresponding image and then write the word in the ‘word shape’ box. Students form the letters that represent the sound in a large ‘rainbow writing’ format and a smaller format on the lines provided. The final line on the worksheet is space for students to use the vocabulary to write a simple sentence.
The worksheets are differentiated. The support worksheet does not require students to engage in the more controlled fine motor handwriting on the lines. Students could be extended by adding more words containing the sound around the ‘rainbow writing’.
A printable Frayer Model for mathematics to be used as a pre and post assessment task.
Begin the unit by getting student to fill out the graphic organiser. It will show teachers what students already know on a topic. At the end of the topic provide the model again to show student achievement. Get students to reflect on their growth by comparing their pre and post assessment.
The model is colour coded to support young students and those that require additional support.
Teacher notes are provided.
A Word and PDF example are provided if teachers would like to make their own adjustments.
This 6 page PowerPoint presentation introduces the relatively unknown and unacknowledged Indigenous Australian fast bowler, Eddie Gilbert.
Use this presentation as a model for students to research and create their own presentation about an Indigenous Australian who is worthy of more recognition.
This is an appropriate Reconciliation Week activity or an activity to address Aboriginal perspectives in the English curriculum.
A series of four recycling posters to teach students how to sort their school rubbish.
The posters represent landfill, paper and cardboard, soft plastics and mixed containers. Each poster contains images of rubbish students are likely to encounter in a primary school setting and a brief description of each kind of rubbish.
The posters are specifically designed to be attached to school recycling bins to remind students how to sort their playground rubbish. Yet they can also be displayed in classrooms or around school as a part of a sustainability education program.
