Nursery rhyme cards

Love these nursery rhyme cards downloadable from here. Here is the website that they originated from.

5 little speckled frogs

I absolutely love this idea of creating a prop for the song '5 little speckled frogs' It could also be used to do numbers up to 5, adding, taking away etc

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Here are is some frog pictures which you could use or just go onto microsoft clipart and choose your own

You could adapt this tube idea for other songs or stories. Love it!

Colouring pages

There is some fab colouring pages on this site. I particularily like the Mr Men pages.

Emotional Literacy conference in Southampton

Emotional Literacy conference in Southampton. The details can be found on the ELSA website
It sounds very exciting if you live in that area.

Great Grub Club

This is a super website with lots of ideas for growing things etc

Fishing to make amends

We looked at 'guilt' and making amends today in our Friendship group. We thought we would try and make a bit of a game of it so I made this fishing game. We began by the children sorting the scenarios by 'how guilty they would feel' and have a discussion about why they felt that way. Then we thought for a bit of fun the children could fish for scenarios in pairs and then act out the scenario including making amends. Here are the fish on a pdf, the quality of the fish isn't brilliant but they are fine when printed off and laminated. We stuck paper clips around the edge (the metal ones are best for sticking to the magnet) and made a little fishing rod out of a stick, string and small magnet at the end of the string. They were quite tricky to pick up but that gave the children such a boost once they 'caught' one! Here are the fish on a worddocument so you can change the scenarios if you wish. We had some budding actors in the making!
Happy fishing!


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Doughnuts activity

On Wednesday during our friendship group snack time we had some little mini doughnuts and one year 4 girl said to me 'Do you remember when we were in year 2 you gave us big doughnuts and we had to eat them without licking our lips?' I did remember and was amazed that she had too. It was an idea in the SEAL resources on Changes and the children had to eat a sugary doughnut without licking their lips. It is extremely difficult to do. The whole idea is for the child to realise that sometimes they do things without thinking for example thumb sucking, calling out on the carpet, things that become a habit. It is very difficult to break those habits but it can be done just as eating a doughnut without licking your lips can be done.

I did reflect on the fact that this child had remembered this 2 years later and it makes you look at yourself and think carefully on how to get these teaching points across to children. Something that really stands out in their mind and makes them remember. Anyway here is a little sheet I have made which could be used for the children in pairs. Of course you could do it as a group activity/circletime. I think this activity could be done with any child no matter what the age. Even adults!

Make sure you get an extra doughnut for yourself - you deserve it!

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Who is your superhero? Self esteem booster

This is an activity that I hope will make children look at other people's qualities and make them aspire to get those good qualities too. To begin with show children the image of batman and discuss the qualities he has. Then children to think of someone they know who they admire. They can draw a picture and think of 3 positive qualities the person has. This could be extended to asking the children if they have these qualities and if not how could they get them. Giving them something to aim for. For example they may choose a famous footballer, try to get them to come up with attributes though and not just because they are famous or rich or have big cars etc.

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Self esteem board game

This board game is played with a group of children. The aim being to collect tokens/counters/coins when they land on a treasure chest square. The other squares are self explanatory. I have saved it on a pdf over 2 pages so it is big enough to play.

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Emotional Literacy Support Assistant

If you are an ELSA or teaching assistant who teaches emotional literacy or a class teacher you may find some useful links/resources on this site.

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Olympic craft

Olympic torches

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Olympic ring craft

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Flag handprint wreath

Use your senses

Use this simple game to help children with their writing or speaking skills. Children to throw a die, count that number of squares and they either land on 'what can I see, what can I hear, what can I touch, what can I smell?' They must give a sentence describing what they see, hear, smell or touch. Obviously you can play this game anywhere, sitting in the playground, in the garden, in the school canteen, in the classroom etc.

Blogging event on the 29th Feb

I found this article on TES and found it very interesting. A blog will be opened on 29th Feb and people from all over the world will be able to write on it, including children. This will give a real sense of purpose for writing.

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This is the blog's link

Jelly Bean maths

Of course you could use real Jelly Beans but if you just want an activity which is better for teeth the use these cards and questions.

Phoneme frames with sound reminders

Print, laminate and use dry wipe pens for children to practise writing words. Use the one with lines for children to write a sentence.

100 square game

Learning objective is 1 more or 1 less
Children to play in pairs. Each throw a die in turn and move that number of squares. If they land on the red square they must move one forward. If they land on a blue square then they must move one backwards. If they land on a yellow then they win.

100 square game

Learning objective is adding and taking away 10
Children to play in pairs. Each throw a die in turn and move that number of squares. If they land on the red square they must move 10 forward (down 1). If they land on a blue square then they must move 10 backwards (up 1). If they land on a yellow then they win.

Here is the pdf version

Letters and Sounds Apply

I thought I would write about this part of a Letters and Sounds lesson as I have recently made a bit of a breakthrough with my SEN children. They all struggle to read, retain then write a caption or sentence. One of the things I think is very useful for young children is for them to spot their own mistakes and then correct them. With this in mind I split my children into pairs. I gave them a book each for writing in and a pencil between 2 of them. I then wrote lots of sentences using the targetted sound for the lesson on some bright card. I gave one child in the pair a sentence which they had to read to the other child. No peeping allowed. The child had to read and read until they were perfect. So after the first attempt where they were sounding out every word they became fluent. This fluency was needed so the other child knew what to write. When the child had eventually written the sentence I got them as a pair to look at my sentence and decided between them what was wrong. They then corrected. They then swapped and the other child read whilst their partner wrote. I have found this very effective. Within a week of doing this their fluency has improved and their ability to retain a sentence then write has improved. I have written some simple sentences for you to try this. Please let me know if it works with your children. My focus was on ch/sh/ng

Letters and Sounds phase 6 resources

Someone has asked if I have any resources for phase 6. I did a search and there is quite a lot out there but you need to look under 'support for spelling' . I have put a few things here and if anyone can help and provide any resources they have made I will be happy to put them up for others to share.

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Support for spelling

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CVC cards