I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I love activities that involve problem-solving and teamwork. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and get kids moving, using their hands to make things, and appeal to them visually. I also try to make my teaching have real-world applications whenever possible.
I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I love activities that involve problem-solving and teamwork. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and get kids moving, using their hands to make things, and appeal to them visually. I also try to make my teaching have real-world applications whenever possible.
Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Aztec Empire unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include 3 art projects, roleplay, make a codex, and carry out an archaeological dig, plus ideas for more fun activities. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of different curriculum areas, so you could be covering history/social studies, art, and oral language/drama at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Mosaic artwork
Make a Sun Stone
Illustrate the legend of Tenochtitlan
Make a codex
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
Interview an archaeologist
You will need:
paper, coloured paper
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint
pencils, markers, coloured pencils
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
containers, soil or sand, small objects
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Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Shang Dynasty unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include carrying out an archaeological dig, writing ancient Chinese, roleplay, making a model, and two art activities. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Roleplay as archaeologists
Make a model Shang chariot
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
Make a soap “jade” carving
Make a clay bronze “ding”
Write oracle symbols ( the first Chinese writing system) on paper, on the template included, or on clay.
17 pages included
You will need:
ivory soap (or clay if that’s easier)
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint
pencils, markers, coloured pencils
straws, wooden skewers, popsicle sticks, thick card
air-drying clay and marking tools
containers, soil or sand, small objects
glue, glue sticks, tape
I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.
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Australian wildlife, nature, and architecture offer so much to be inspired by.
In this pack you’ll find three activities that include collage, ceramics, painting, and mixed media.
Make a clay lizard
Mixed media/collage Sydney Opera House
Mixed media/collage Great Barrier Reef
Visual instructions are included for the students, which can be printed or displayed on a screen, and there is a list of materials you’ll need on the set-up page. All of these crafts use materials that are available in most classrooms, but please feel free to adapt the activities to your class.
I hope your students enjoy making and creating Australian art!
This resource is for personal classroom use only and is not to be altered, posted on any other site, or sold. The copyright is retained by me.
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Japan art projects
Mexico art projects
Spain art projects
African animals art projects
Ramadan art lanterns
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Are you looking for a cute Valentine’s Day craft that also gives your students maths practice with their 2D shapes? This pack includes differentiation options for students to practise naming and identifying 2D shapes and their attributes while making a letterbox to post their math envelopes.
Students find the shape stamp that matches the facts or clues on the envelope. They then complete the facts or clues, make the letterbox, and post their envelopes.
This pack includes envelopes suitable for lower and higher grades, or you can easily differentiate by using a combination of the two sets. There are 9 envelopes per set.
Lower years (2,3)
Shapes include: triangle, rectangle, circle, square, pentagon, rhombus, octagon, hexagon, and trapezium (trapezoid in US version)
Higher years (3,4,5)
Shapes include: parallelogram, pentagon, hexagon (irregular), trapezium (trapezoid in US version), right triangle (right-angle), quadrilateral, rectangle, rhombus, and isosceles triangle
Photo instructions are included to make the letterbox, and there is an answer key for easy reference, although the activity is self-checking as each stamp can only be used once.
The letterbox is approx. 2.5in x 4in / 6cm x 10cm
U.K and U.S versions included.
*15 pages included
I hope your students enjoy making their Valentine’s letterboxes and practising their 2D shapes at the same time.
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Valentine’s Day Positive Affirmation Posters
Valentine’s Day Kindness Craft and Bulletin Board
Valentine’s Day Gift Tags
Valentine’s Day Math Crafts
Valentines Fact Families Craftivity
Valentine Place Value Digital and Craft Activity
Valentine’s Day Addition and Subtraction Craftivity
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Have some fun practising addition and subtraction this Valentine’s Day with a fun letterbox craft where students stick on stamps and post math envelopes.
It’s easy to differentiate with the following options included:
Numbers within 20
Adding/subtracting a single digit to/from a 2-digit number
2-digit numbers without regrouping
2-digit numbers with regrouping
3-digit numbers without regrouping
3-digit numbers with regrouping
3-digit numbers without regrouping
For numbers within 20 and adding/subtracting a single digit to/from a 2-digit number, students choose which stamp to add, then use the number on the stamp to fill the math equation before working out the answer.
For 2-digit and 3-digit numbers, students solve the equations and then glue on the stamp that matches the answer.
What’s included?
Envelopes with differentiation options (5 addition envelopes and 5 subtraction envelopes per option)
3D letterbox craft
Photo instructions
U.K and U.S versions
29 pages included
I hope your students have fun practising their addition and subtraction and making a letterbox.
You may also like:
Valentine’s Day Positive Affirmation Posters
Valentine’s Day Kindness Craft and Bulletin Board
Valentine’s Day Gift Tags
Valentine’s Day Math Crafts
Valentines Fact Families Craftivity
Valentine’s 2D shapes Craftivity
Valentine Place Value Digital and Craft Activity
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This Valentine’s Day pack gives two fun ways to practise making 2-digit numbers using chocolate “tens” and “ones” with a digital version and a hands-on craft version.
With the digital version, there are 10 slides in which students add the tens and ones and move the correct number onto the note, and 10 slides in which students move chocolate “tens” and “ones” into the chocolate box to make the number shown on the note.
This activity can be used in PowerPoint or on Google Classroom™.
With the printable version, students cut and paste the chocolate “tens” and “ones” into the chocolate box and complete maths sentences to practise writing the 2-digit number as tens and ones, an addition sentence, a combined number, and a number bond.
The finished boxes would look great on a display.
With the download you will get a PowerPoint file and a link to copy the slides into your Google Drive™, so you can choose what works best for you.
59 pages included
I hope your students enjoy practising their place value skills with this activity.
You may also like:
Valentine’s Day Positive Affirmation Posters
Valentine’s Day Kindness Craft and Bulletin Board
Valentine’s Day Gift Tags
Valentine’s Day Math Crafts
Valentines Fact Families Craftivity
Valentine’s 2D shapes Craftivity
Valentine’s Day Addition and Subtraction Craftivity
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Get your students working collaboratively, solving problems, and thinking creatively and critically about sustainability with this set of 24 task cards. Students will develop key 21st century skills needed while addressing important issues about our interconnectedness with the environment, and our responsibility to take care of it.
Students will work together to come up with new ideas and new solutions - there are no right or wrong answers.
Ideas for use:
stations
turn and talk with a partner discussion starters
starters for further research and persuasive presentations
team challenges
Topics cover:
Reducing waste
Recycling
Thinking of new uses for items
Making sustainable products
Considering food waste
Changing habits
Consumerism
Electronic waste
Considering water usage
Overfishing
Transport
The impact of city growth on animal habitats
Addressing recycling issues
Addressing sustainability issues
What’s included?
24 task cards in colour and ink saver (1 per page for PowerPoint or Google Slides™, and 4 per page for printing)
U.K and U.S versions optimised for printing, spelling, and vocabulary
Teaching tips
Recording sheet in landscape and portrait
I hope you enjoy using these task cards with your class.
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This fun start-of-the-year pack of 11 “All About Me” and “Getting to Know You” activities will have your students making new friends, getting to know their teacher, and showing you a window into who they are.
In this pack you’ll find:
an “all about me” page that is a little more interesting than the usual “what’s your favorite colour?” type questions which make a great wall display
a page of questions to help you understand your learners, their strengths and weaknesses, and how you can help them to feel at home in the classroom
3 activities designed to help students get to know each other
3 team challenges because a little friendly competition can really help students to bond
a page for students to design their ideal classroom – add these to your wall display
a multiplication number search to get students back into math in a fun way
6 writing prompts about summer and the year ahead
U.K and U.S versions
Are you looking for a cute Valentine’s Day craft that also gives your students math practice with their families of facts? This pack includes differentiation options for students to practice addition and subtraction, or multiplication and division while making a box of chocolates!
There are three options:
students complete partially filled chocolate fact families using the three numbers given
students write the whole fact family using the three numbers given
students write their own fact families
After writing their fact families, students color and cut out the four chocolates, and make a chocolate box to glue them into.
These will look great on a bulletin board.
What’s included?
Craft template
Addition and subtraction (within 10, up to 20, partially filled, all gaps, student choice of fact family)
Multiplication and division (1-12x tables, partially filled, all gaps, student choice of fact family)
Photo instructions
26 pages included
I hope your students enjoy practicing their fact fluency with this craft.
You may also like:
Valentine’s Day Positive Affirmation Posters
Valentine’s Day Kindness Craft and Bulletin Board
Valentine’s Day Gift Tags
Valentine’s Day Math Crafts
Valentine’s 2D shapes Craftivity
Valentine’s Day Addition and Subtraction Craftivity
Valentine Place Value Digital and Craft Activity
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This is such a cute winter craft to make, and it’s going to make learning fact families so much fun! With this activity, children make a penguin, complete the fact families on the fish, and fill the penguin’s bucket.
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
Practise addition/subtraction
Practise multiplication/division
Partially-filled or fill-all-gaps
Student choice of fact family
Editable version so you can choose the fact families
I hope your students enjoy making their penguins!
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SAVE MONEY with this fun start-of-the-year pack of “All About Me” and “Getting to Know You” activities bundle that will have your students making new friends, getting to know their teacher, and showing you a window into who they are.
In this pack you’ll find:
a 3D name plate with four lettering templates and editable PowerPoint
an “all about me” page that is a little more interesting than the usual “what’s your favorite color?” type questions which make a great wall display
a page of questions to help you understand your learners, their strengths and weaknesses, and how you can help them to feel at home in the classroom
3 activities designed to help students get to know each other
3 team challenges because a little friendly competition can really help students to bond
a page for students to design their ideal classroom – add these to your wall display
a multiplication number search to get students back into math in a fun way
6 writing prompts about summer and the year ahead
UK and US versions
I hope you enjoy using this pack to get to know your students and to help them to build a great classroom community.
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This collection of 10 Fairytale Pattern Block mats and task cards will support your learners as they learn to identify, sort, flip, rotate and turn shapes. Great as part of a castle, medieval, or fairytale theme topic!
How challenging is it?
There are three levels of difficulty so you can tailor the activities to your learners:
full-size colour and ink saver version for practising matching
task cards for learners to put the shapes together without a mat
outline version for those that need an extra challenge
For a STEM challenge, there are also five sheets for students to design and build their own versions.
Develop creativity and problem-solving skills as they draw a design, build it and re-work it until it looks just like they want it to
The full-size matching mats come in colour and ink saver versions.
What’s included in the zip file?
Mats (colour and ink saver)
castle
crown
princess hat
jester’s hat
knight’s helmet
long sword
short sword
drawbridge
shield
goblet
Design sheets
Can you make a castle?
Can you make a crown?
Can you make a princess hat?
Can you make a sword?
Can you make a shield?
Task cards (A5 size)
40 pages included
Ideas for use:
supplemental materials
morning tables
math centres
stations
early finishers
I hope you enjoy using them with your learners.
TIPS FOR PRINTING:
These are optimised to print on 8.5x11 paper.
Please ensure that you select actual size or set scaling to none depending on your print options so that the shapes will match with your classroom set.
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Ramadan lanterns are so beautiful and a special symbol of Ramadan, so this hands-on craft is a great way for students to show what they know about Ramadan. Making a craft is fun, it’s engaging, and it makes learning about special days and months more memorable.
The craft is very easy to assemble, and I’ve included options for six designs, and three line sizes.
There are two possible ways you could use this craft:
Children write facts about Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr on a lantern craft.
Children make art projects using the templates, with crayon and dye, paint, torn paper, or markers.
What’s included?
templates for the lanterns in 1-inch, 3/4 inch, and 1/2 inch line sizes
templates for the lanterns for art
visual instructions
U.S and U.K versions
Extra pages are included for each line size for children who love to write a lot.
These would look stunning on a display.
I hope your children enjoy making their Ramadan lanterns!
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Children often find it hard to remember the difference between area and perimeter, which affects their ability to do calculations correctly.
So, the more memory aids we can use to help them, the more likely it is that they will remember the difference.
With this activity, children color in the word “AREA” which covers the area of the rectangle, and they write the word “PERIMETER” around the perimeter of the rectangle.
I’ve included a full page and half page option.
You may also like an engaging, real-world activity like this one to practise area and perimeter.
This resource is a free download for single-classroom use only. It can not be copied, shared, rewritten, amended, sold or distributed to others.
This caterpillar is such a cute spring craft to make, and it’s always great when children are learning something at the same time. With this activity, children write five fact families and make a caterpillar craft.
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
Practice addition/subtraction
Practice multiplication/division
Partially-filled or fill-all-gaps
Student choice of fact family
3 cute faces for children to choose from
Editable version so you can choose the fact families
The finished caterpillar is approximately 13in/39cm.
U.S and U.K versions included.
I hope your students enjoy making their caterpillars!
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If you want a fun way for your children to show their learning about Florence Nightingale, then you’ll love this hands-on craft where children make a craft of Florence Nightingale and write what they know on the lamp she is holding.
The lamp comes in three line sizes, and if you need more than one lamp, simply staple them together when the child has finished, and then glue the lamp on.
Crafts are fun, engaging, and they make learning about significant people in history memorable. Plus, they look great as a display!
I hope your students enjoy making their Florence Nightingale craft.
U.S and U.K versions included.
You may also like:
Marie Curie Writing Craft
Anne Frank Writing Craft
Bessie Coleman Writing Craft
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This hands-on craft is a great way for children to show what they know about Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to gain an international pilot’s license. Making a craft is fun, it’s engaging, and it makes learning about significant people in history more memorable.
The craft is very easy to assemble, and I’ve included options for three-line sizes depending on the age of your children.
These would look great on a display, so I’ve also added a display phrase if you’d like to use it.
Children make a craft of Bessie Coleman and write on the helmet she’s holding.
U.S and U.K versions included, along with visual instructions.
I hope your children enjoy making their Bessie Coleman craft!
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Florence Nightingale Writing Craft
Anne Frank Writing Craft
Marie Curie Writing Craft
This craft pack gives your students a fun way to practise their fact families during spring. There is a 2D and 3D option to make a flowerpot craft with flowers or cacti which would look great on a display.
There are lots of options for both you and the students:
choose from a range of flowers and cacti
choose which fact families on the stems to practise
3 bulletin board phrases in black, pistachio, and jade (1 word per page, A4, and A3 size)
make a 2D craft or 3D craft
editable stems to make your own fact families for the children to practise
practise addition and subtraction or multiplication and division
U.K and U.S versions included.
148 pages
I hope your students enjoy practising their fact fluency while making their spring flowerpot.
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This hands-on craft is a great way for students to show what they know about Anne Frank. With this craft, children write facts about Anne Frank or a diary entry and make an Anne Frank craft to hold the diary.
The craft is very easy to assemble, and I’ve included options for three-line sizes depending on the age of your children.
Two possible ways you could use this craft:
children write facts about Anne Frank
children write a diary (using the diary prompt pages)
Extra pages are included for each line size for children who love to write lots.
These would look great on a bulletin board.
What’s included?
template to make the craft
three line sizes
extra pages of diaries
visual instructions
U.S and U.K versions
I hope your children enjoy making their Anne Frank crafts!
You may also like:
Marie Curie Writing Craft
Florence Nightingale Craft
Bessie Coleman Writing Craft
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If you want a fun way for your children to show their learning about Marie Curie, then you’ll love this hands-on craft where children make a craft of Marie Curie and write what they know on the flask she is holding.
The flask comes in three line sizes, and if you need more than one flask, simply staple them together when the child has finished, and then glue the flask on.
Crafts are fun, engaging, and they make learning about significant people in history memorable. Plus, they look great on your bulletin board!
I hope your students enjoy making their Marie Curie craft.
U.S and U.K versions included.
You may also like:
Anne Frank Writing Craft
Florence Nightingale Craft
Bessie Coleman Writing Craft
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