Children's verse blog

A lovely blog came to my attention today with lots of poems that could be useful in school. If you want to use the poems then you should contact the author (ph71_uk@yahoo.co.uk )who I am sure will be delighted to allow you to do so.

Children's verse

World Book Day

World book day is on 6th March this year.

The official site

I hope you are all getting your outfits out to dress up for the day

The Sound collector worksheet

The Sound Collector worksheet for children to write their own poems. You could get the children to collect sounds from your school, or from the park or from the zoo.

Lesson plan and activities for 'The Sound Collector'
Click here

Make your own books

From paper and a few resources like glue, sticky tape and scissors

Make your own book

Make books with children

Write on shapes

These are great for the role play area or writing corner in the classroom.

Write on shapes

Here is an example of one

Teddy Bear with a heart

Learn words at the same time as feeding the world

Free rice

I love this site, great for all of us trying to expand our vocabulary and also for upper Keystage two and Secondary kids. The more answers you get right the more rice you win.

High frequency word mat

I made this one with only the tricky words and not the easier decodable ones. I have also included upper and lower case letters

Just had a go at making one. Hope you like it.

Revised ELS - New materials

http://www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63469/nls_els00767_book.pdf

I ran the old version for a couple of years and hated it.

This doesnt seem much better although I like the emphasis on phonics.

Poetry posters and worksheets

This is a worksheet I used when working with some bright year ones. They wrote some lovely Rain poems.

Also love this poem by Michael Rosen

Chocolate cake