Advent Calendar colour the stars

Sort from smallest to largest

Sort from smallest to largest

Print and laminate. Cut out and children to order from smallest to largest or vice versa

Snowman soup

Another lovely idea! Children could make these for their parents for a Christmas gift.

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Here is my snowman soup. I bought a cheap mug and snowman from 'Home bargains' - 99p, put in a galaxy hot chocolate, and a cadbury's hot chocolate, a candy cane, and some small marshmallows which I labelled as freeze dried snowballs.

Magic reindeer Food, Christmas dust

One of the members of the forum (blueliz) explained how she made christmas dust with the children each year. It is basically a mixture of oats and glitter. I have since read how it's best to use coloured sugar crystals due to the danger of birds eating the glitter. However, Liz explained how she made the dust and I thought it was lovely.

We sit in a circle, the lights off, so its dim. Depending on the children, I might have a large candle in the middle of the circle. I read a Christmas story, something about Santa Claus. I explain what we are making, Santa Dust, to sprinkle on our front step, front garden, driveway etc on Christmas Eve so Santa Claus will know a good little child lives there. The porrigde oats are for Rudolph and the other reindeers to eat, the glitter is the magic. We have a mixing bowl, a bag of porridge, and glitter. and take turns adding a small teaspoon of porridge and a pinch of glitter (the magic) to the bowl. Then stir it up, making a christmas wish. It's all very magical and atmospheric. When the bowl has gone round everybody we take turns to put a spoonful of the mixture into a small plastic bag, tied with a piece of thin parcel ribbon. I have little cards with a picture of Santa and a verse, which is attatched to the bag with the ribbons. Its a lovely calm, restful and magical activity at the end of term. just what the children need in the midst of the hustle and bustle. (And I love doing it to).

I found some other ways of making it, using birdseed, cheerios, coloured sugar crystals and of course rolled oats or oatmeal. To make coloured sugar crystals you basically add a couple of drops of food colouring to a bag of sugar and mix up well.

I made a couple of labels with two different poems but if you google there are loads more poems out there





click here and here for labels already set out and ready to print

I found out about it too late last year but I still made some for the children who live down my street and it went down very well.

Here is how I intend to do this activity. I am going to wrap up a parcel with brightly coloured Christmas paper. Inside will be a bag of oats, a bag of coloured sugar, a tablespoon, a teaspoon and a mixing bowl. There will also be a letter from Santa to read to the children. We will then make the Santa dust.

Here is the letter I have made



For lots more Christmas resources click here

Spaceman numberline 0-10

For a pdf with 5 numberlines
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Phase 2 letters and sounds bookmarks

Laminate back to back

Phase 2 letters and sounds bookmarks front and back

Print, cut out, write the children's name and laminate back to back.

Here are some I have put on a pdf. It will give you 3 bookmarks

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Numbers 0-10 on penguins

Penguin rhymes and songs

More penguin rhymes and craft

Heart number worksheets

Which is more?

Which is less?

Letters and Sounds planning, week 6 for children with SEN

Two of my children are struggling with the difference between /n/ and /m/. They just can't hear the difference. I have planned one little session using a rubbish bin and treasure box where they have to sort picture cards between rubbish and treasure. Also I plan to use mirrors so the children can look at the shape of their mouths when they say each sound. Apart from that the children are really starting to make progress. Their writing is improving but they still need more work on the PGCs. Hear the phoneme and write it down. So you will find lots of 'quickwrite' sessions too.


Planning week 6

Heart images for numeracy worksheets

Open the images, right click and save to your computer and then to make it so easy to make worksheets import into your clipart gallery.

Match the numbers

I used the Jellybean images posted previously

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

I read this book to 2 children with SEN the other day and it just reminded me of how much learning there is in this book. We were lucky because we had the story sack and I could really bring the book to life. I have collected some links together for this story.

Click here to buy the book (am sure most of you have it in school somewhere)

Click here for lots of craft activities

Lots of teaching ideas here and here

A fabulous animated video





And of course Sparklebox

Teddy Numberline 0-10

Bookmarks phase 2

Bookmarks phase 4 and 5 letters and sounds