Teachers Pay Teachers Sale Time!

Well it's THAT time of the year again!

The Teachers Pay Teachers Cyber Sale is on for only 2 days starting the 30th November.

Visit the TechTeacherPto3 store and grab yourself a 20% discount on all of our products - but wait there's more! When you checkout use the code SMILE and you can get an extra 8% discount on your purchases! That's 28% discount in total on everything you buy but only for 2 days!

Christmas Around The World - Time to explore and celebrate!

Christmas is such a fun time in the classroom and a perfect opportunity to explore how other countries and cultures celebrate.

The Christmas Around The World pack contains everything you need to take students on an adventure to 9 different countries. see my new updated pack with 10 countries in it now!

Passport stamps and 12 page activity booklet

In this pack you will find 9 10 passport stamps from each country visited and an Activity Book.

As you visit each country and explore their traditions, you can contrast and compare their events, location and culture with your own.

Complete the passport page and then allow students to glue in a passport stamp - just like a real passport!

p.s this also doubles as a neat little formative assessment tool.

Or download the individual packs here (click each picture to download)

Play Doh/Dough Mats - Literacy Rotations idea

 My students usually enjoy their sight word Play Doh mats when we do literacy rotations however, I've noticed they have become bored with them and needed something new. I wanted to extend them with short and long vowel sounds but still wanted them to strengthen their fingers with the Play Doh.

I created these quick little Play Doh mats for both Short A and Short E and they really enjoy them.

They have fun trying to work out what the word is and by making the missing letter with Play Doh it reinforces their spelling and phonics knowledge.

Other Play Doh mats available at TechTeacherPto3 are the Play Doh 10s Frames Mats - another fun maths rotation activity.

 

Fun Maths Activities: Teen Numbers

 Teaching teen numbers can be tricky for young students. They often struggle with the concept of 'more than 10', parts of the whole and where to place the 1 (in front or behind).

It can be hard to make maths interesting for kinder kids so here are 6 fun differentiated maths activities to introduce and reinforce teen numbers.

 

1. Kids love a puzzle and this one is no exception! Match the number to the symbol to the tens frame (look you've just shown me 3 ways to represent that teen  number!). 

 

2. "Show me 14!", "Now show me the two parts that make 14?", these flip and fold number strips allow all students to show they can tell you two parts of the whole. To differentiate this task for higher students give them two different parts of the teen number (6 and 7) and ask them to show you the number. 

 

3. A fun whole class activity, first to 20! Put students into two groups (boys or girls works best) and place the numbers on the floor (another opportunity to count as a class and sometimes you can be sneaky and leave a number out to see if they notice!). Then roll a dice and race to 20! Higher students could race to 50 or even 100 (use chalk to extend the line out). 

 

4. Tens frames and flip cards work great as a maths rotation as students can easily test each other in pairs. Higher students should try and use the non-numeral cards to see if they can read the word. Additional activities can involve a timer, race to see who can show that number first! 

 

5. My students love a craftivity and this butterfly doubled as a formative assessment tool. Students pick a number between 11 and 19 and then must represent the two parts in as many different ways they can. Cut and hang in the classroom for a fun display. 

 6. Flash cards with matching tens frames make useful visuals around the room I print, laminate and attach magnets to the back of mine so I can throw them on the to board at a moments notice and call out "Show me fourteen!". Use with whiteboards and pens for a quick formative assessment tool.

These 6 products are available now at the TechTeacherPto3 TPT store.

Reading Around Australia - encouraging independent reading

Reading Around Australia - 16 Book Challenge by Ripper Reading Resources is a lovely way to get your students to read more independently.

Students are encouraged to read 16 books in total (two per State or Territory). They cut and paste one of the book icons on the next page into their “passports” each time they have completed a book and they record the title, author and a review of the book within their passports.

Teachers have the discretion to decide whether this challenge is completed over a term, a semester or a school year, depending on the age and the stage of the students. The passport, in particular, is a nifty little tool to keep students engaged with the activity and even slightly competitive! What a great idea!