Displays for Spring

Spring displays

Watch us grow

Sunflower display and Spring dreaming display

Ideas for spring displays

Make your own books

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

Make your own book

Make books with children

Typing games

Typing games

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.

Handwriting

Click the images to open them

Plastic Milk bottle lids

What do you do with yours?

We save ours at school and use them for giving each child in the class a little pva glue. They can be thrown away afterwards...no washing up! I have also started collecting the green, and blue ones. With a permanent marker you can write consonants on the green ones and vowels on the blue ones. Children can make words with them.

Use them for wheels on junk models also for filling larger containers to make shakers (Tezz)

Our school collects them and gives them to the local children's hospice who exchange them for money. I think alot of schools round here do the same so it adds up to a fair bit of money. (Juniper)

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Handprint heart for Mother's day

I loved this so have given it a separate post all of its own.

A Handprint heart for mother's day

Handprint Heart

You could make a card with this on the front and put one of the lovely handprint poems inside the card.

Handprints
There are always so many of my fingerprints to see,
On the furniture and walls from sticky, grubby me,
But if you stop and think a while,
You'll see I'm growing fast,
Those little handprints will disappear,
You can't bring back the past.
So here's a small reminder,
To keep not throw away,
Of how those tiny hands once looked,
To make you smile one day.

Ten Tiny Fingers
Ten tiny fingers, that always want to play,
That never stop exploring that wonder of today,
Ten tiny fingers, that from the very start,
Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart.

Number game

Use two packs of digit cards and children to 'add', or 'take away' depending where they land.

Modern foreign languages

http://www.digitaldialects.com/index.htm

Excellent link posted by Manns on the forum.

Certificate maker

Another site from Blueliz's link, thankyou!

A certificate maker

http://www.123certificates.com/

Dice maker

Blueliz sent me a link with lots of sites on.

I found this on one of them which I thought might be useful

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dice/

Teacher blogspot

I find this site useful and often check it out. Lots and lots of very useful information.

http://www.primary-teacher-uk.co.uk/

Maths vocabulary

Charlie set this post up on the forum

Vocabulary for each year group

http://www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/numeracy/Primary/Vocab/vocabhome.htm

Some flash cards

http://www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/numeracy/Primary/Flashcards/vocabulary_word_banks.htm

Some more flash cards from Vee

http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/mathsvocab.pdf

Number bonds

Ruby asked if anyone had any ideas for number bonds 1-10 and 1-20

Here are some of the replies

I used a deck of playing cards using the number only cards and using the joker for a zero. Then I turned them all over and we played a pairs game - having to find the 2 cards that added up together to make 10. e.g if you turn over the 5 of hearts you would have to find another 5 to make a pair. (Cazgal)

Matching game - in pairs give each child full et of 1-10 with numbers (and spots?). 1st child puts any card down (e.g. 3) and partner has to put down matching card (7) on top.

Two teams sat on floor opposite each other in lines. Going down the line, 1st child starts with 1, child opposite calls out 9, that child then calls 2, opposite child calls 8......... Must be quickfire - award point against team if they are too slow or incorrect. (charlie)

Get 10 white counters and paint one side red of each of them a piece of non slip matting and children throw/ drop all the counters and count the number of white/ red, see how many diff ways they can drop them (Daffy)

Throw 10 coins and count how many heads....how many tails will there be? (Debbie)

I'd use a dice with nos to 10 and asking what its partner would be. Also flash cards are good. Play a game of pairs where they have to turn over two cards which must be its partner. (KPnut)

I've made some Owls with blank square on their belly and written numbers 0 to 10 on each owl. The opposite side is identical but this time in the blank square is a corresponding number up to 10. [ I stick them together and laminate them] So for instance one side of owl has 8 in it's belly so the other side has 2 10 And 0 9 and 1 8 and 2 etc.......... I have also used some from sparkle box with different animals and kept them separate [for my wave 3 children] There are animals that match each other like two giraffe cards one with number 9 on the other giraffe has number 1 on it. http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/thumbs206-210/sb206prev.html Once the group are familiar with the number bonds that make ten. I play the game "last man standing" Where all the children stand in a circle I call out a number whilst two children at a time compete to be the first to shout out the number needed to make ten. One sits down whilst the other child remains standing. carry on like this until only one child left standing. Children really enjoy this game. (bluebell27)

number_houses.doc

Easter

Yes it will soon be upon us.

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/easter.htm

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/h_easter.htm

http://www.under5s.co.uk/easter.html#easter

Some brilliant ones from Vee

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/christianity/easter/easter.htm http://www.topmarks.co.uk/easter/
http://www.topicbox.org.uk/browse.php?subject=R.E.&topic=Christianity%20-%20Easter
http://infants.reonline.org.uk/
http://juniors.reonline.org.uk/topiclist.php?6
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/teacher/easter.htm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/easter/
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/

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.

Make your own writing paper

I like this site and use it a lot for producing writing paper for the role play area. Lots of themes and different line sizes. Have a go and you will be amazed at the lovely paper you can make.

http://www.dltk-cards.com/writingpaper/cpaper1.asp

Phonics International

http://www.phonicsinternational.com/

Debbie Hepplewhite's International Online Synthetic Phonics Programme

Download the first unit for free

Well worth a look!

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.