Super maths world

Supermathsworld

Wow I love this site. Spent ages on it!

Story props and much more

Just found this fabulous site, especially for those of us who are in Foundation or KS1. Lots of stories with props either to print in black and white or colour.

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Nursery rhymes with props

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Topic printables

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Winter clothes wordsearch

Counting in 2's using cherries

Print, laminate and cut out the cherries and the plate.
Children to practise counting in 2's

You could say a little rhyme 2 4 6 8 how many cherries on the plate?

Winter decorated writing frames

Letter mash

Love this, found it on the SEN teacher site. Great for pre-reading skills or scanning

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Magnetic letters and phoneme frames

This idea came to me the other day when teaching my little SEN group phonics. 3 of my children constantly start from right to left when making words with magnetic letters. We use magnetic letters most days. I thought if I had a phoneme frame on the magnetic board it would be so much easier because then I could put a little mark in the first box for them to start their word. I had some laminated 3 box phoneme frames already so I carefully cut them out and stuck them with a tiny bit of bluetac in each corner, to the magnetic board. With a permanent marker I made a little star in the first box. Absolute success! They worked a treat! And the magnetism goes right through the phoneme frame so the letters still stick.

Making Books

Making books, lots and lots of different ways

Christmas origami

These activities might be nice for older children. Would be nice to stick on the front of a home made card

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Letters and Sounds phase 1-4

Found a great site with free resources

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Christmas songs

Found this lovely site through 'sites for teachers' (link is down the right hand side of this blog)

Lots of nursery rhymes, pictures to go with the rhymes, music and songs. This is the Christmas section but do explore the rest of the site

Advent calendars

Advent train

Advent chest

The Nativity story

This is a nice one by Topmarks and here is a Nativity kit

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Stable template

Christmas wordsearch

Drag and drop snowman scene

This is a lovely drag and drop snowman scene

Nativity clip art

I found some clip art that can be used freely for educational use here Click on the images because there is more.

Advent calendar ideas

I love this idea where the children put a cotton ball on santa's face. I did this a few years ago for the class and also my little girl. I got a large sheet of paper and painted santa's face. We did it as a whole class.

Here is a link for a template

Below is my feeble effort of painting santa's face on a large sheet of paper. At least this way you could if necessary leave out the numbers so a child glues a piece of cotton wool on each day leading up to Christmas. Good if you have more than 24 in your class.

One teacher I worked with did a fabulous one where she got a bunch of twigs and basically stuck them to the wall with a big ribbon around the bottom. She then got the children to draw a picture and put their picture in a numbered envelope to hang on the branches

The paper chain advent calendar isn't a new idea but I thought I would mention it just incase someone doesn't know about it. Here are some instructions and a poem. You could write an activity on it each link for the children to do each day.

If anyone has any photographs or ideas then please email me and I would be happy to put them in this link

Santa's workshop role play

I have just started making somethings for my santa's role play area. Please keep checking back on this link because I will add things as I make them

Online Christmas fun

There are some fantastic sites out there. Here are a couple of my favourites

Light up all the Christmas lights

Penguin show (write your name in snow)

Mix and match santa, penguin and snowman

Print, laminate and cut along the grey lines. Children to put back together or perhaps even make a mixture?