Resources included are as follows:
60 PDF AND PPT files for you to print.
Story presentation - retelling the main points of the story.
A range display materials including long banner, large lettering, display borders, backing paper, letters bunting and plain bunting, key word flashcards, alphabet flashcards, famous phrases flashcards, folder and drawer labels, topic title page, book synopsis, resources sack tag, word mat.
Many writing and drawing tasks including character facts cards, character descriptions, favourite part of the story, speech bubbles to complete, retelling the story, fill in the missing words, questions sheet, I like this story because--, writing and drawing frames with pictures, story board to complete, story elements, work booklet cover, words beginning with a, flow chart to complete, colouring pages, door hanger to make, draw a tea party feast, ‘getting to wonderland’ writing task, ‘in a bottle’ writing task, anagram worksheet, questions for the characters, rabbits can have and are writing sheet, redesign the book cover task, story planning sheet for story extension, write a conversation task.
Other activities such as role play props, place mat for tea party, bingo game, make a mobile, hand puppets in colour for role plays, pairs cards matching game, make an invitation, reward charts, learning objective tracker, number square, word search, size order activity, well done cards.
A vast range of resources to compliment the stories:
•Anansi and the Pot of Beans
•How Anansi Got Eight Skinny Legs
•Anansi Goes to Lunch
Includes literacy, role play, numeracy, science and geography resources, and a full range of activities.
Display materials are also included.
INFORMATION
Shark information pack – including facts about habitats, species, diet, skills etc.
19 A4 posters about different types of sharks – includes photos and key facts about each shark type
Shark facts flashcards – good for discussions or display
Key word cards
Map of the world
Maps showing each ocean around the world
Shark facts poster – A4 – showing simple general information about sharks
Sharks photo pack
Sea life photo pack
Shark flashcards A5 size
LITERACY
Shark poem to read or display – great for using face masks or hand puppets
Contractions game – where the shark eats the letters that are replaced by apostrophes
Contractions matching cards
Contractions worksheets
Contractions poster
Verbs word cards
Nouns and verbs activity
Adjectives worksheet
Word mat
Sharks are, have, can worksheet to complete
‘Sh’ word cards
‘Sh’ worksheet
Words beginning and ending in ‘sh’ worksheet
‘Sh’ sorting activity
‘K’ word cards
Acrostic poem to complete
Word colouring sheet
Sentence writing worksheet
Work booklet cover to keep pupils work together
Blank storyboard to complete
Draw and describe a story setting
Bookmarks to colour
NUMERACY
Number bonds activity to 100
Size order and measuring activity – with shark images
Counting lesson starters
DISPLAY
Extra large letters to head display spelling ‘sharks’
Long banner to head display
2 blue borders to edge wall displays
Waves border for display board pattern
Triangle banner with shark images
Resources sack tag to label your resources
Folder cover to keep resources organised
Useful images to add to displays
Backing paper to print if needed
ACTIVITIES
Shark face mask to make and use for role plays
Shark hand puppet to make
Colouring pages
Book mark templates for pupils to create their own
Sea life bingo game
3 sea life jigsaws
All about sharks – booklet to complete (writing and drawing)
A day with the sharks – writing task
Shark face mask to colour in
Make a shark presentation activity – includes fact cards and blank cards for pupils to research and complete
Ocean animals word search
Shark word search
Land and sea animals sorting worksheet
Draw an under the sea scene
True or false quiz
Brain storm shark sheet
Write facts activity
Draw food for sharks activity
Blank thought and speech bubbles to use as evidence of role plays
Resources include:
Information packs for the following topics: who were the Vikings? Viking raids and land – with facts and picture, food, clothes, religion, home, language, long boats, sports, etc
Photo pack of Viking weapons, time lie posters and sorting cards, gods flashcards, key word cards, flags to display
Fact posters about Erik the Red, King Cnut, Leif Eriksson
Information packs about Norway, Sweden and Denmark today
Photo packs for Norway, Sweden and Denmark today
Drawing activities, designing activities, writing activities, craft activities, reward chart, bingo game, matching card game, face mask, quiz, word searches, cut and stick activity, jigsaw, bookmarks, flag activities
Days of the week flashcards, months flashcards, common phrases, number flashcards colour posters in Swedish
Maps of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe, the world, the Viking empire, maps to colour
Long banner, large lettering, bunting, display borders, backing paper and useful images for display
Resources Included:
Literacy:
Commotion in the Ocean Story presentation – illustrated with pictures from the book, each character on a different page – can be used on the whiteboard or as a great display item.
Whiteboard presentation of questions to ask before, during and after reading the book – each question A4 size displayed on a great underwater scene
100 high frequency words on gold coins and a large treasure chest, to use for spelling and writing activities and to make a great display.
Alphabet flashcards a-z in upper and lower case letters, each on whale pictures.
Table top alphabet line – sea life scene, great to support pupils during lessons
Colourful word mat including words from the story including the characters
16 A4 posters including questions about the story – with colourful crabs with speech bubbles – a novel way to assess reading comprehension
24 adjectives displayed on cute dolphins – great for spelling and writing tasks, and also make a great display item for your under water scene.
30 A5 flashcards of different phonics on great crab pictures
30 A4 sharks with verbs from the story
62 half A4 landscape words from the book, including character names and other underwater words.
28 writing practise sheets – including all the characters and other under water items, for pupils to trace the words and draw the word.
Write your own animal facts task cards
My underwater adventure writing task.
Colourful seashell border to frame pupils writing.
Octopus writing task
4 Antonym and synonym worksheets relevant to the story
Numeracy:
Numbers 1-100 flashcards, counting cards, number binds to 10 and 20 cards, odd and even flashcards, table top number line, size measuring task, snap cards, worksheets.
Role Play and Arts:
Lots of poems and rhymes about the animals with matching face masks, finger or hand puppets, plus other resources.
Display:
Animal flahcards, photo posters, key facts posters for each animal, deep sea creatures A4 poster, long banner, display borders, colour flashcards.
EXTRAS:
Bingo boards, loop cards, 4 in a row game, books marks, jigsaw, Word matching cards , Memory challenge game, Word search, bingo game etc
Resources include:
•Story presentation, large props, character flashcards, scene cards, face masks, hand puppets, character name cards, noun / verb / adjectives cards, key word cards, photo pack, lighthouse facts information pack, whale facts posters, alphabet flashcards, phonics flashcards, colouring pages, diary to write, writing exercises, drawing activities, cut and stick task, picture matching game, craft activities, jigsaw, word search, loop cards, bingo game, sight word cards, book cover, questions pack, extra large lighthouse to make a display, long banner, large lettering, display borders, word mat, sea and beach related flashcards, hand writing sheets, and other resources
Resources include:
•PDF files for you to print. You could also use them on the IWB.
•Santa and elves face masks in colour and black and white, animal face mask, hand puppets, long banners, buntings, large signs for adding to the role play area – including toy workshop, wrapping room, dispatch area, post area, sleigh shed, Santa's grotto, North Pole sign, entrance, exit, locker room, dressing room etc
•Direction signs to different locations such as gift shop, snowman sanctuary, winter wonderland, igloo hotel, snowman dressing room, mail centre, candy store, polar bear parade, reindeer stables, tree shop, choir service, penguin palace, stable, Bethlehem, sleigh storage, wrapping room, Santa's grotto, north pole, toy workshop.
•Arctic photo pack, maps, reindeer facts posters, Alphabet flashcards with snowflakes and santa hats, Christmas cards to make and colour, extra large post-box, spread over several pages, Elves on duty poster, sign – ‘post your letters to Santa here’, post office sign, Shape nets to make parcels of different shapes and sizes, wrapping paper to wrap gifts, gift images,
•Writing, drawing and designs activities, counting game, learning objective tracker, hand writing sheets, shapes posters, make a mobile, jobs checklist, number square, memory pairs game, word search, work booklet cover and pages, and other resources.
Ice-cream shop A4 sign to put outside your role play area
Welcome to our ice cream parlour sign
‘At our ice-cream parlour….’ sign
Location signs to put around your role play ice-cream parlour – such as ice-cream bar, drinks area, cutlery etc
On sale here sign
Menus to display around the shop
Price cards + blanks to differentiate
Large lettering, buntings, patterned and plain display borders
Please pay here sign
Thank you, please come again – sign
Special offer signs
Receipts to complete
Taking orders pad
Ice-cream photo flashcards showing different flavours – great for using during the role play
Parking bay signs for customers
Washing hands poster
Money poster, coins border and quiz, pretend money to use
Blank large and extra large labels to be used around the shop for anything needed
Ice-cream parlour open and closed signs, opening times
Messages pad
Ice-cream related word mini cards – such as wafer, sprinkles, syrup etc
Photo pack to use as inspiration
Long banner ‘ice-cream parlour’ with cute ice cream pictures
Bunting banner with pictures of different ice-creams – looks lovely in your role play ice-cream parlour
10 multicultural face masks, Staff role play badges
Alphabet flashcards, Colour flashcards, Number flashcards, ordinal numbers cards, Counting cards
Colouring pages
Word matching cards, picture matching cards
Hand hygiene writing task
Word search
Write sentences worksheet
Themed writing frames
Work booklet cover to keep pupils project work together
Acrostic poem task
Addition game
Blank thought and speech bubbles – useful for providing evidence of role plays
Draw your favourite flavour ice-cream task
Design your own menu activity
Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised
Resources sack tag
Bright and colourful posters for the new 7 areas of early years learning:
1.Personal, Social and Emotional Development
2.Communication and Language
3.Understanding of the World
4.Physical Development
5.Expressive Arts and Design
6.Literacy
7.Mathematics
8. A4 lettering is also included for all areas, great for creating classroom learning areas
Resources included are as follows:
PDF files for you to print.
All the signs showed on the signpost are included for you to print, cut and display similar to the example shown. Each sign is half an A4 page in size in landscape format. You can print them smaller or photocopy them larger.
Also there are 25 A5 preposition posters, each with the preposition, matching picture and example sentence.
Long banner to head wall display spelling ‘Prepositions’ is included too.
Also a picture of white wood grain is included to allow you to make the sign as small or large as you wish or use as backing paper if you wish.
Resources include:
LITERACY
Story presentation – illustrated presentation covering the story in full
3 writing pages with owl borders
My woodland adventure writing task
Word fans with owl babies pictures
7 cute A4 owls with room to write on their tummy
8 writing practice worksheets of woodland animals
Word mat with key words from the story
Poems with hand puppets and finger puppets
bookmarks
16 noun flashcards with owl pictures and nouns from the story
Owl antics speaking and listening game
Phrase flashcards – covering phrases said by the owl babies and their mother
25 handwriting practice worksheets
Question cards – for before, during and after reading the story
30 phonics flashcards
“I’m so scared” writing task
100 word cards for high frequency words with owl baby pictures
Story board to rewrite the story
A-Z flashcards with owl mother pictures on
Story sack tag
Blank speech and thought bubbles for pupils to complete
True or false question cards
Missing words worksheet
Woodland animal joke bookmarks
NUMERACY
Number 1-50 flashcards, 2 / 3 / 5 / 10 times tables games, doubles game, shape nets, shape fans, number bonds to 10 and 20, interaction operations task, size order activity
SCIENCE
Owl, mice, fox and bird flashcards. Woodland animal flashcards, bird fact posters, owl photo pack, label the owl body parts worksheet, food diary for owls, research task, animal type posters, nocturnal animal facts posters, animal habitat posters etc.
ACTIVITIES
finger puppets, hand puppets, face masks, word search, treasure hunt game, reward chart, colouring pages, colouring pages, drawing activities, bingo game etc.
EMOTIONS
Poster pack, face masks, face flashcards, snap game, writing tasks, drawing tasks, long banner, speaking and listening tasks, feelings tree to display, recognising body changes with emotions, and many other emotions resources.
DISPLAY
Long banner, large lettering, character flashcards, tree posters, characters for display, character name cards, speech bubbles from the story, drawer labels, key word flashcards, display borders and other display materials.
RESOURCES INCLUDED :
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Story Presentation– illustrated presentation of the story for pupils to read
Noun / verb / adjectives cards, rhyming pairs cards, alphabet cards, animal sounds poster, book cover, character flashcards, writing activities, hand writing worksheets, questions pack, word mat, phonics flashcards, book marks, number flashcards, odd and even cards, shapes flashcards, counting cards, size order activities, number snap cards,
SCIENCE
12 posters of different places from the story – for example fields, moors, reeds etc– A4 size, can be printed smaller if needed, can be used on IWB or printed.
Animal flashcards for different species of animals from the story, posters of omnivore, herbivore, carnivore, animal types posters – reptile, mammals, amphibians, birds and fish and other resources.
ROLE PLAY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Colouring pages, draw favourite scene, draw your own scary beast activity, make a mobile, other drawing activities, bingo games, face masks in colour and black/white, reward charts, jigsaw, word search, finger puppets, loop cards, treasure hunt game
DISPLAY
Large lettering, images from story, display borders, character faces, colour flashcards, number and alphabet line, drawer labels
Posters included are as follows:
1.Characteristics of effective learning title poster
2.Characteristics of effective learning overview poster in colour
3.Characteristics of effective learning overview poster in black and white
4.Active learning title poster
5.Active learning key points poster in colour
6.Active learning key points poster in black and white
7.Playing and exploring title poster
8.Playing and exploring key points poster in colour
9.Playing and exploring key points poster in black and white
10.Creating and thinking critically title poster
11.Creating and thinking critically key points poster in colour
12.Creating and thinking critically key points poster in black and white
13.Spotty border to edge display
14.Long banner to head display
15.Backing paper to print if needed
16.3 observation sheets to monitor the children
Resources include:
Frog Lifecycle
Frog fact posters – showing frogs and tadpole and key interesting facts. Information pack giving details about amphibians including lifecycles.
Colourful set of frog photo flashcards showing interesting frog species from around the world, description cards – describing each stage of the frog lifecycle – with easy to understand explanations, writing booklet, photo pack, extra large images for display, question cards, key word cards, shapes flashcards, drawing and writing activities, bingo games, counting activities, long banner, large letters for display, display borders, number flashcards, cut and stick activity, snap game, sequencing cards, word search, animal types posters and sorting activity, colour flashcards, word mat, and many more.
Resources included are as follows:
Over 50 PDF files for you to print.
Story presentation, large story props, colourful hand puppets, black and white hand puppets, colourful face masks, character and scene flashcards, alphabet mat, acrostic poem template, bingo game, addition games, large speech bubbles of quotes from the story, blank thought and speech bubbles to complete, themed writing exercises, character colouring pages, animals photo flashcards, farm / bakery and windmill photo packs, animals photos A4, write character facts, topic title page for introduction, display borders display if needed, long banner to head wall display, write an apology letter from the animals, large lettering to head display, 3 jigsaws fill in the speech bubbles activity sheet, draw your favourite part of the story, I like this story because…writing task, make words from letters task, make your own hand puppet, retell the story from the animals point of view, story board to complete, story elements to complete, story sequencing cut and stick activity, reward chart, questions for before, after and during the story, story sack tag, true or false quiz, can/have/are writing task, word cards from the story, word mat, word search, writing booklet cover to use for project work, themed writing borders to frame pupils work, words starting with ‘wh’ worksheets, sentence writing activity, add new animals task, binder and folder labels, draw a farmyard task, draw items from a bakery, photo pack for grains/wheat/flour/bread, helping others writing task, large characters for display, grains > bread process cards.
Resources included are as follows:
49 PDF or PPT files for you to print.
A range of alphabet flashcards – some plain, some patterned, some small, medium and large, several sets of character flashcards, A4 alphabet poster, Table top line, table mats to draw and colour, table mats with famous characters, Large set of letter A4 size flashcards with pictures, another set without pictures, A4 star shaped posters each with a different letter on, Mini pencils with letters on 8 per A4 page, 130 word cards – 5 for each letter of the alphabet
Alphabet bunting with pictures, another set of alphabet buntings with different patterns on each,
Alphabet mini cards to make words or sort into order, small set of cards for one to one work,
Bingo game with boards and selection cards, 2 sets of loop cards, Alphabet fans, alphabet game, Alliteration cards, handwriting cards showing how each letter is written,
Letter stencils, lucky dip game, play doh activity, certificate, badges, sack tag, folder cover, patterned display border, backing paper to print if needed,
Word and picture cards for simple words, odd one out posters for each letter of the alphabet, word cards with missing words and matching cards, 26 letter handwriting sheets, 26 word writing worksheets, writing booklet cover, lined paper with pink borders, plain paper with borders, long banner and large letters to head wall display
Resources included are as follows:
23 Pdf files for you to print.
Story presentation – retelling the story, with colourful illustrations.
Hand puppets, stockings bunting to hang, reward charts, writing borders, writing worksheets, acrostic poem to complete, addition game, adjectives cards, bingo game, work booklet cover, draw favourite part of story, draw view from window, pairs matching games with card, draw alternative scene, sequencing worksheet, true or false quiz, word search, other worksheets.
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S CHRISTMAS
STORY TEACHING and DISPLAY RESOURCES
Resources included are as follows:
36 PDF files for you to print.
Story presentation, story sack tag, face masks, questions pack for before/during/after the story, display borders, backing paper, character picture flashcards to use as display or props, long banner to head wall display, large lettering to spell story title, colourful buntings. 3D shape nets with Christmas wrapping paper designs to make gifts of different shapes and sizes, writing pages, anagrams worksheet, bingo game, matching pairs card game, describe favourite part of the story, hand puppets for role play or retelling the story, story board, work booklet cover for project work, word search, sentence writing sheets, writing frames, acrostic poem, alphabetical order worksheet, draw a lunch for Mr Grinling, Christmas cards to write and colour, stocking to design, seagull and Hamish colouring pages, gifts colouring page, Christmas at the lighthouse writing task, letter to Santa template, template letter for Santa’s reply, decorate a gingerbread man for the seagulls, diary of a lighthouse keeper to complete, draw a snow scene, jobs list for lighthouse keeper and helper, etc.
Resources included are as follows:
3 7 P D F files for you to print.
A range display materials including long banner, decorated letters spelling authors name, display borders, backing paper, book covers, non-fiction flashcards, author photo, buntings, author information and facts posters, labels, ‘What books have you read?’ poster, books borrowed chart and loan cards for books, book marks.
Many writing and drawing tasks about the books pupils are reading – such as review, character from the past, drawing favourite facts, mind map, writing frames, making a presentation, designing book cover, newspaper template, acrostic poem, about the author booklet to make, make a poster, etc.