A brilliant resource for supporting, consolidating and assessing students’ understanding of halves and quarters. Students place and glue half and quarter shapes to fill whole shapes on a recording sheet. In this resource are two recording sheets (one with guidelines and one without) and 4 sheets of cut out shapes. These 4 offer different levels of difficulty from simple halves only, to mixed sheets of halves and quarters, and finally a sheet of quarters only.

An activity sheet that combines the maths concepts of position and direction within a New Zealand ANZAC unit study (with a focus on World War 2 battles). Students work on locating New Zealand battle locations in World War 2 using longitude and latitude. Students will require access to an atlas or (more preferably) an online map app, such as Google Maps. Students are provided with the recording sheet and an information card that contains information on four battles New Zealand was involved in, the dates of the battles and the country. Please note - they are not in order on the card! Using the information cards and the coordinates on the recording sheet students then work out which battle took place in which country and when. Includes; recording sheet, information cards, teacher instructions and answer sheet.

This resource is ideally used as an assessment sheet. It can be used prior to a lesson plan or at the completion. It is designed to provide an indication of a student’s time knowledge, especially in regards to recording time. This resource covers; Recording from analogue to digital Recording from digital to analogue Recording minutes TO the next hour Recording minutes PAST the hour Students working on this resource will best have had prior experience with reading and recording digital and analogue times on the half hour, quarter hour and one minute intervals. Resource includes assessment sheet, answer sheet, teacher notes.

A worksheet for students to practice working with the rotation concept. The idea here is rotating two shapes around a point - one shape does a half turn, the other shape does a quarter turn. There are 6 exercises on the sheet, graduating in difficulty. Answer sheet are included.

New Zealand Maori Legend Hatupatu and the Birdwoman. This is a neat activity to do with younger students (I have done it with Year 1 and up), though older primary students may enjoy adding their own creative element to it. Students cut out cave ‘flaps’ and glue on the display sheet creating a space behind the flaps to hide Hatupatu. This resource includes; the display sheet for publishing, cave ‘flaps’, instructions (including where to find the text for Hatupatu and the Birdwoman’) and Hatupatu image.

This resource is a fun hands-on activity that uses the binary number system to create mini pictures. Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system. Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems. This resource includes; Two activity sheet sets of 12 puzzles each Answer sheets

This resource is a single assessment diagnostic worksheet. The sheet is an opportunity to gather formative or summative assessment of a student’s knowledge of basic geometric transformations. The transformations covered here are; -Reflection -Rotation -Tessellation -Resizing/Enlargement/Scale Factor drawing This sheet is not intended to provide a comprehensive picture of a student’s understanding in all aspects of geometric transformations. Rather, it is intended to provide a snapshot/an indication of what a student knows. This then can inform your future teaching and learning focus. This resource includes; -One geometric transformations worksheet -Answer sheet You may like to also check out these other related math resources of mine here: Bundle Rotate shapes around a point - Half turns and Quarter turns Scale Factor Drawing 3 Holidays Scale Factor Drawing 3 Holidays Reflection and Scale Factor Drawing

Are you in need of a quick ready to go, little instruction required math filler? This resource is a fun hands-on Halloween activity that uses the binary number system to create mini Halloween images. The images are; Jack’o’Lantern, evil face, bat, pumpkin, candle, skull, candy and ghost. Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system. Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems. This resource includes; Two activity sheet sets of 4 puzzles Answer sheets If you like this free resource and would like to immerse your students in more of these binary puzzle pictures then please check out my shop Pooley Productions. Here you will find, in addition to a wide collection of resources, a range of different grid sized binary puzzles resources, including the bundle pack that contains all puzzles I have made.

This is a resource to introduce young students to the world of coding. Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. This resource gives an opportunity to expose pre-school (and early elementary) students to the world of coding with the format used in the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a blank box sequence to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. There are two ways this resource can be used; As a cut and paste worksheet. There are 4 different Thanksgiving themed coding worksheets, with answers. As a reusable independent learning centre activity. There are 4 activity cards and a set of ‘coding blocks’ to cut out and laminate. These can all be kept in a tray or container and the students can then take the activity and work with it. This resource comes with; 4 activity worksheets Answer sheets 4 activity cards (card versions of the worksheets) 1 set of 12 ‘coding blocks’ If you have students ready to move beyond this then you may like to check out the next level of this type of resource I have made: Coding for Juniors – Using Scratch Jr Coding for Juniors - Using Scratch Jr, with 1 block too many Coding for Juniors - Using Scratch Jr, making turns Coding for Juniors - Using Scratch Jr, making turns, with 1 block extra Or get the entire set here: Coding for Juniors Pack – Using Scratch Jr

A worksheet for students to assign the correct labels for describing 2D and a 3D shapes. Can be completed individually or in pairs. Good for a quick diagnostic of mathematical language knowledge in describing 2D and 3D shapes.

An activity to prompt or reflect on learning about body systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory and nervous). This activity includes a recording sheet, a sheet of body part labels to cut and glue on to the recording sheet and a teacher note sheet. Ideal for small groups. Excellent for discussing understanding of body systems.

Success Mountain is an A3 sized poster for displaying aspirational achievement in student work and effort. These can be laminated and displayed. They are great to reference students to. Student names can be added to the stage they have achieved. Included are 4 mountains, each with a different set of indicators. This resource is in pdf and Word formats, allowing for you to edit to suit your classroom culture and needs. The text for each poster is; Poster 1: I do my work well and do it the best I can I do my work well, but it isn’t the best that I can do I do my work ok, but there is so much more that I can do better I do my work, but not well I hardly try at all Poster 2: I work until I am finished and then check to see if it is good I work until I am finished I start my work and do some or most of it I start my work and do a little bit I start my work and then I give up quickly Poster 3: I give my work the best effort I give my work a great effort I give my work a good effort I give my work some effort I give my work little or no effort Poster 4: Expert Skilled Practitioner Able Apprentice Novice

Worksheets to encourage student thinking about recycling. Designed for small group work, but can be done individually. This resource contains 3 worksheets, with the first two being able to be completed together and the third could be used as a follow up after further work and study of recycling.

Have students become familiar with words to use in describing degrees of probability. This is a single worksheet where students place 5 words describing the probability of an outcome of a dice roll. Then they explain the reasoning for giving an answer to the last question. The five words used in this resource are; Impossible, Poor, Equal, Good and Certain.

Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. This resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.

Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. This resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. The focus of this activity is being able to work out the correct right hand turn at the correct point. The extra challenge with this activity is that there is an extra superfluous block which students need to decide is not needed to complete the code. The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.

This Halloween themed resource gives an opportunity to expose junior students to the world of coding using the user friendly coding app Scratch Jr. Coding is an essential skill in the digital curriculum for 21st Century learners. Coding is the ability to create instructions that allow a set of actions to be carried out. The resource doesn’t require a device or access to the internet. Students can cut and past the missing pieces of code into a command to achieve the desired outcome on the worksheet. The focus of this activity is being able to work out the correct right hand turn at the correct point. The extra challenge with this activity is that there is an extra superfluous block. The students need to decide which block is not needed to complete the code. The resource has 2 activity sheets (2 levels of difficulty with the same task), answer sheet and teacher notes.

This resource is a fun hands-on activity that uses the binary number system to create mini pictures. Students will devour these and be wanting more! By then they will have a beginning understanding of the binary number system. Binary numbers are an essential part of understanding how computing works. Understanding binary numbers is not only learning within the digital curriculum and helping students become 21st Century learners, but they are also a core element of maths knowledge and learning about different counting systems. This resource includes; One activity sheet of 15 puzzles An answer sheet

2 Digit Addition and Subtraction regrouping and no regrouping Worksheets. An excellent math center activity to allow your students practice and maintenance adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers. The challenge here is working out the digits under the splotches to make the equation correct. When I printed these off at home to proof-read before I knew it my own children were sitting at the kitchen table working them out. Practice, maintenance and mastery of adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers will allow for a smoother transition to 3 digit addition and subtraction. This resource includes; •1 worksheet of 2 digit addition with no regrouping •1 worksheet of 2 digit subtraction with no regrouping •1 worksheet of 2 digit addition with regrouping •1 worksheet of 2 digit subtraction with regrouping •Answer sheets