Looking at conjunctions in your classroom and writing programme? Use this helpful poster to extend your students who are writing both compound and complex sentences.

Sometimes students always use the same conjunction 'and' this 'and' that; and this might help you try something new!

Free to download - just click on the file download below!

On Instagram this week there has been lots of questions about planning! How to best plan, how to plan in general, ways to streamline. 
So late last night when I was up for Ephron teething I mapped out this 'how to plan' tip sheet for teachers to use to help with planning!

​Every school and teacher plans differently so keep that in mind when reading this! It is always very confronting sharing how you do things and people tend to always look for negatives. 
This is how I work; this is what works for me. 

I always spend a long time in the holidays creating really decent long term plans so that my planning throughout the term doesn't become tiresome or tricky. 

Last week I shared a snippet of some slime I did with my class and lots of you asked for the recipe. It was lots of fun and super easy to make. 

The main ingredients used were white glue, baking soda, shaving cream, food colouring, foam soap and contact solution. I had two students with me at a time making their slime and it took about 5 minutes per group. 

Download and use my freebie slime recipe below!

This week I brought back a class favourite - guess the number! A great game for students to practice place value concepts but also a great guessing game! We play in as a whole class and have students be the 'master' where they think of the number and then choose students to make guesses. Any wrong guesses are placed in the bottom so you can see what numbers have been used already; and then once the right number is chosen it is added to the box. 

This game is lots of fun and the kids are always obsessed with guessing the right number! Lots of fun competitiveness. 

​Make a copy of this freebie template below!

Do your students get confused between b and d and which why they face? 

I had this resource requested by a teacher to have a bat and donut - things that match in with her students interests. So I made this letter reversal resource that you can use in your classroom too. 

The b starts with a bat - so the tall stick first and then the d starts with a donut - so the circle part first. 

​Download this freebie here below!