I have been a teaching principal in a small rural school for the last 3 years. Before this I have over 10 years teaching experience teaching students ranging in age 5 through to 12 and have loved every minute.
“Students are engaged, motivated and keen to succeed. They take responsibility for their learning and increasingly know about themselves as learners. They stay on task, work well together and help each other. Positive and respectful interactions between students underpin learning”. Educ
I have been a teaching principal in a small rural school for the last 3 years. Before this I have over 10 years teaching experience teaching students ranging in age 5 through to 12 and have loved every minute.
“Students are engaged, motivated and keen to succeed. They take responsibility for their learning and increasingly know about themselves as learners. They stay on task, work well together and help each other. Positive and respectful interactions between students underpin learning”. Educ
Celebrate the start of the year with your class with this fun Back to School Positive Bingo game.This is a self running game on the computer, whiteboard or projector.
Included are words to reinforce positive behaviour in your class to create the perfect class from gamification. There are enough cards for the whole class. 30 bingo Cards Included. I have played this game with my own class at the start of last year and they loved it.
This Bingo game is also useful all year round when your are needing to reinforce positive classroom relationships. In particular perfect for those hard to reach classes all year round.
The games can run on computers, whiteboards or projectors. All that is required is that you print, cut and laminate the Boards and press start on the PowerPoint Show.
There are 30 different Boards for your students to choose from and with the shuffling ability of the game, every game is different so that your students do not get bored of it. This game is self timed with a 10 second interval between the questions giving the students enough time to mark off or put a counter on their Board.
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This 100 page PDF contains 100 positive words for your class on A4 bunting with the UK flag in the back ground. This bunting is very effective in bring out the class patriotism and in-turn your class relationships.
I haven't done, but could be used for Brexit discussions.
I have made a flap on top of the bunting so that it can fold over and be double sided. I have found that it lasts longer like this. once cut and folded over either feed string through the hole or use a whole punch at top on the left and right. Feed the string through these holes (this is how I do it). I also place sellotape on the back to support it even more. One year I cut the top flaps off and laminated.
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A Pokemon has taken over in this Creative Writing Scenario. This Creative Writing Scenario takes the students on an engaging journey to a football match where the game is hijacked by a Pokemon character. The students decide what happens next.
This pack includes a 5 senses graphic organizer to be completed while they watch the presentation. It is used to generate ideas and used as a basis for extending their vocabulary. This alongside the presentation will help students to produce a descriptively rich story.
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STEM Rotating Starship: A Science and Engineering Challenge.
STEM Rotating Starship: A Science and Engineering Challenge.
STEM Rotating Starship: A Science and Engineering Challenge.
These science and engineering challenges will see students create a Starship, Paper Helicopter and Flying Straw that rotate and fly when dropped and thrown. It engages the students and challenges to think about flight and what determines flight. These challenge looks at speed, direction, size and use of wings.
These packs contain everything you need. All you need to do is print it off and you are up and running. It can be used as either a group activity or individual. I usually do it as a group as then you can allocate members various roles within the group.
Included are instructions, templates and extension question sheet. As a bonus I have also include an A4 STEM Poster.
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These fun, bright, polka dot word wall cards will add a bright, colorful theme to your classroom! This pack includes the first 100 phase 2 to 5 words There are 3 words on each A4 sheet of paper. I have used contrasting colours for each word to make sure that the words pop out on your display. Also included, is another set with black writing if your prefer. With this set I have coloured the tricky words in red.
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These fun, bright, polka dot word wall cards will add a bright, colorful theme to your classroom! This pack includes the third hundred high frequency Fry words, a poster of the words and an individual check list profile of your students.
There are 3 words on each A4 sheet of paper. I have used contrasting colours for each word to make sure that the words pop out on your display. Also included, are the words in black if this suits your class better.
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These fun, bright, polka dot word wall cards will add a bright, colorful theme to your classroom! This pack includes the second hundred high frequency Fry words, a poster of the words and an individual check list profile of your students.
There are 3 words on each A4 sheet of paper. I have used contrasting colours for each word to make sure that the words pop out on your display. Also included, are the words in black if this suits your class better.
Enjoy.
These fun, bright, polka dot word wall cards will add a bright, colorful theme to your classroom! This pack includes the first 100 high frequency Fry words, a poster of the words and an individual check list profile of your students.
There are 3 words on each A4 sheet of paper. I have used contrasting colours for each word to make sure that the words pop out on your display. Also included, are the words in black if this suits your class better.
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About Me passport
An about me ticket to a well organised and well structured class. Everyone wants to go on an adventure to a great classroom with the promise of an exciting year ahead.
This is the students passport for their adventure and the student/teacher contract for a safe and fun filled time.
Instructions are given on how to make this effective passport. Students simply fold it and cut along the dotted line. When students have meet the requirements they color in the appropriate sticker.
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These compound word worksheets with an autumn fall theme are the perfect way for students to practice their literacy word work. No preparation is required. Simply print and go.
These compound word worksheets can be used for literacy stations, mini lessons, homework, substitute teachers, or just for your day to day teaching.
Included in this pack are 6 autumn fall themed activity worksheets, a template to create your own and a bonus word-find. All sheets are in an autumn fall theme to capture the students imagination for this special time of year.
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These compound word worksheets with a spring theme are the perfect way for students to practice their literacy word work. No preparation is required. Simply print and go.
These compound word worksheets can be used for literacy stations, mini lessons, homework, substitute teachers, or just for your day to day teaching.
Included in this pack are 6 spring themed activity worksheets, a template to create your own and a bonus word-find. All sheets are in a spring theme to capture the students imagination for this special time of year.
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These compound word worksheets with a winter theme are the perfect way for students to practice their literacy word work. No preparation is required. Simply print and go.
These compound word worksheets can be used for literacy stations, mini lessons, homework, substitute teachers, or just for your day to day teaching.
Included in this pack are 6 winter themed activity worksheets, a template to create your own and a bonus word-find. All sheets are in an winter theme to capture the students imagination for this special time of year.
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These compound word worksheets with a Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring theme are the perfect way for students to practice their literacy word work. No preparation is required. Simply print and go.
These compound word worksheets can be used for literacy stations, mini lessons, homework, substitute teachers, or just for your day to day teaching.
Included in this bundle are:
6 winter themed activity worksheets
6 summer themed activity worksheets
6 winter themed activity worksheets
4 template to create your own
4 seasonal compound word word-find.
All sheets are season themed to capture the students imagination for these special times of year.
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A set of fun and engaging Tour de France Vocabulary jigsaw puzzles. These puzzles help students master the vocabulary in the Tour de France.
Students match the correct word with the corresponding meaning to solve the puzzle.When the students complete the puzzle pieces they can capture the QR code included on each card to enable them to self mark. This means there are less questions for the teacher and we can focus on our teaching without interruptions.
To use the cards, all the teacher needs to do is print them off, laminate and cut out the jigsaw pieces and you are ready to go.
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Setting up your class rules or treaty at the start of the year is important for any class. These meeting houses make a perfect template to create a display for your class. I typically have a discussion with the students to talk about what rules they would like. The students then write them onto to the templates to make a colourful display on the wall.
I have include 4 different versions for you to chose from to so that you have one that best fits your students and class.
- Already coloured in traditional Maori colours.
- Needs to be coloured in with koru's already on Wharenui
- Basic shape of Wharenui (Koru's need to be added)
- Blank template with no lines.Students do it all
This resource is perfect for a Waitangi Day activity, Maori Language Week, or for your day to day Te Reo teaching in a Bi-Lingual, Full Immersion or normal primary class.
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These Whakatauki puzzles involve students converting Maori proverbs from English to Te Reo using a cryptogram.
This resource is perfect for a Waitangi Day activity, Maori Language Week, or for your day to day Te Reo teaching in a Bi-Lingual, Full Immersion or normal primary class.
Included in this pack are the following Whakatauki-Maori Proverbs:
- Pursue excellence – should you stumble, let it be to a lofty mountain.
- My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.
- Goodwill towards others is a precious treasure.
- With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.
- What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people! It is people!
- What is the food of the leader. It is knowledge. It is communication.
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Winter Olympics in PyeongChan is upon us. This Visually stunning writing scenario takes the audience on a journey to the Olympics in first person.
Included in this pack is a PowerPoint Presentation to show your students. The bigger the screen the better as these are high quality images. During the show, students discuss and fill in the 5 senses chart provided. These notes will help direct the students in their writing with a vocabulary rich story.
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This MEGA Winter Olympic Games Bundle has everything you need to make a fun and engagin unit before, during and after the Olympic game period. It includes 3 writing activities, math challenges, stem activities, and other fun stuff.
Winter Olympics CSI: The Case of the Missing Gold Medal STEM activity
This CSI themed multiplication and division activity will engage students by taking them on a journey to solve Winter Olympic Games math problems and puzzles. Students narrow down the suspects by completing the activities and marking them off from the suspect list until one person is left. Who stole the Gold Medal?
This case includes
Clue 1: Solving Division Problems
Clue 2: True or False Multiplication
Clue 3: Multiplication and Division Sequence
Clue 4: Moving up and down 10's, 100's amd 1000's
Clue 5: Multiplication and Division Cryptogram
Winter Olympic Games South Korea PyeongChan 2018 Narrative Writing Scenario
Winter Olympics in PyeongChan is upon us. This Visually stunning writing scenario takes the audience on a journey to the Olympics in first person.
Included in this pack is a PowerPoint Presentation to show your students. The bigger the screen the better as these are high quality images. During the show, students discuss and fill in the 5 senses chart provided. These notes will help direct the students in their writing with a vocabulary rich story.
Winter Olympic Games South Korea PyeongChan 2018 Newspaper Writing Scenario
Winter Olympics in PyeongChan is upon us. This Visually stunning writing scenario takes the audience on a journey to the PyeongChan Winter Olympics as a Newspaper reporter. During this presentation an Ice Hockey game is played out, with one country accused of cheating. Everything is included in this pack to make every student successful.Photos are taken and quotes are given.
Included in this pack is a PowerPoint Presentation to show your students. The bigger the screen the better as these are high quality images. During the show, students discuss and fill in the graphic organizers that are included. These notes will help direct the students in their writing with a detailed, accurate and rich story. Then complete the included newspaper templates.
STEM Winter Olympic Raising the Flag 2018: Engineering Math Challenge
The Winter Olympics is here
This STEM challenge includes both an engineering challenge and sheets for students to work out the median, mean, range and mode in the context of creating a flag pole that raises the Olympic flag the highest. Students are asked to both record and graph their results.
This challenge is perfect for the Olympic games and includes everything you need to actively engage your students in team work.
Winter Olympic Games South Korea PyeongChan 2018 Word Search Find
A word find with the Winter Olympic Sports to be found. A great fill in time for winter or a lead in for a bigger project.
Winter Olympic Games South Korea PyeongChan 2018 Hundreds Chart Hidden Picture
This fun Winter Olympic hidden picture will engage and excite your students. Everything you need is included. Just print and go. No preparation required.
This pack includes 2 Olympic themed Hundreds Chart Hidden Pictures. They include the rings and the torch
STEM Winter Olympic The Luge 2018: Engineering Math Challenge
This STEM challenge includes both an engineering challenge and sheets for students to work out the median, mean, range and mode in the context of creating the fastest Luge.. Students are asked to both record and graph their results.
This challenge is perfect for the Olympic games and includes everything you need to actively engage your students in team work.
Bloom;s Taxonomy cards for your class for higher order thinking in their reading comprehension.
These cards can be used during whole class lessons, small group, differentiated small groups, literature circles, literacy centers, independent work and much more! They are a great teaching tool and a great way to get students thinking and applying reading skills with selections!
Included in this download are 64 differentiated comprehension question cards:
- 10 Remembering questions
- 11 Understanding questions
- 10 Applying questions
- 10 Analyzing questions
- 15 Evaluating questions
- 7 Creating questions
All you need to do is print, cut and laminate and they are ready to go.
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This fun and engaging game is the perfect way to review the novel My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George . I typically put the class into small groups and ask a member of the group to choose a color and number. That is the question that they have to answer. If correct they get one point. Then I move to the next group. Alternatively the whole class answers and then we tally up the points to get a winner.
I run it on an interactive whiteboard but would be equally successful on a projector, computer or TV screen. Alternatively it could be run for an individual student on their own device.
When you start the game press the shuffle button to randomize the questions ensuring that no game is ever the same. This means that this Jeopardy game can be used multiple times with the one class as it is different every time.
Once you have unzipped the file you will find a PowerPoint Macro Show. To run the game double click the file and make sure you say "yes" to running macros. If you do not the questions will not shuffle correctly. I have tested on a PC but it should work on other devices. If this is your first time with Macros let me know by personal message and I am happy to answer all your questions.
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