Chrissy Holidays - Newbies
Snapshot 21st Century Learning
Added 24.1.17
Added 22.1.17
Point of View - Mini lesson freebie
Added 21.1.17
Ziba Comes on A Boat - Unit by Dawne Furze
Whatever Next - Unit of activities by Dawne Furze
Parts of A Story Poster - freebieRounding to The Nearest Ten - freebie
Valentines - Ideas and a freebie
Biography Craft - Writing Idea - Freebie and a great back to school activity.
Flexible Seating Rules Poster - freebie
Primers, Brainbreaks and Mindfulness - Easy and fun ideas that put smiles on faces
Rich Texts
Added 17.1.17
Have you seen Google Drive Slides? It uses a folder of photos in your Google Drive to create a new Google Slides presentation and adds each photo in that folder to its own slide in the presentation. (i.e. A folder with 15 photos has 15 slides … one for each photo.)
3 new online readers links which are bright and engaging.
Y5-7 Spooky Descriptive Writing - An AC Lesson.
Brain Breaks - 18 Action Songs suitable for K-1 students...fun.
I Cans @ AMSI - Based on the Numeracy Continuum.
Growth Mindset Through Writing - Y3-5 lessons @ Australian Curriculum Lessons.
Recount Lesson - K-1 - An AC Lesson.
Sebastian Lives On A Hat - K-1 recount lesson.
Added 16.1.17
2017 Accreditation Documents - From 1 January 2018, all NSW school teachers will need to be accredited to start, continue or return to teaching.
ES1 English Unit - Kissing Hand created by Sue Yee
Added 15.1.1.7
Visible Learning, Flexible Learning, Data Walls - Heaps of new ideas to inspire you and your colleagues!
Poodwaddle - Provides current statistics of World's population, calendars & time.Ocean Lesson Plans - Students learn what marine debris is and why it is a problem through exploration of the ocean as an ecosystem while covering indigenous concepts of interconnectedness and respect for the environment.
Cloud Type - Window Display Idea...cool!
Group Activities using Lego - Adapt this concept and apply to your other lessons.
Added 11.1.17
She created a website to accompany her ebook.
Teaching Kids to Struggle to Build Growth Mindset - a perplexing problem to solve and a lesson that was inspired by this activity.
Gratisography - provides free, inspirational pictures that are ideal to use as writing prompts, as poster and lesson stimuli.
Dr Seuss - lesson idea.
Summarising Using Comic Strips
Restating The Question - Redaing lesson idea, easy and effective.
Using Pictures to Teach Reading & Writing Skills - a great lesson idea
Another Book Tasting Idea - so simple and so fun!
Added 10.1.17
Thank You Meredith ....your resource srae amazing!!!!
Added 3rd January
Mindfulness on The Classroom - Contains loads of great ideas, links and free downloads.
Guided Relaxation - a series of clips created by Cosmic Kids.
PE Skills - 5 clips
Host a Book Tasting Idea - A fun idea which you can adapt to meet the needs of your students. ...maybe even hold a Book Tasting Picnic..a yummo idea!
Reading Ninjas - Another great idea for learning goals/intentions to adapt.
Visual Writing Prompts - great ideas for S3-4. Whilst you are on this page, check out the other links to some great writing prompts websites.
Mindset Brag Tags - freebie
Exit Slips - freebies
Paragraphing - freebie
Printing on A Sticky Note - Of course you've wondered and tried but this free ppt will make it a much easier task.
Free 2017 Calendars - I noticed some links had been broken but when I searched on the relevant website I was able to locate the 2017 calendar. Worth a try.
Silent Film and Brain Ball Games - 2 "oldie but goldie" games to adapt for your classroom.
Teaching Mean and Mode - Great lesson idea and free download, grab your copy now.
Fairy Tale Drama Circle Cards - Freebie with 32 activities.
Added 1st January
Added 31st January
Festisite Links - A free site which allows you to add faces to Minecraft people, playing cards, and money. Also create animated gifs, plus "endless movies". Plus word clouds in the form of a wave, heart etc. Your images are free to download and with no log in.
Added 30th January
Growth Mindset Kit - great PL.
QR Codes - Shared by Kimberley Au - QR Code Listening Centres
Guided Reading Prompts and Questions to Improve Comprehension - Contains questions to guide you during your guided reading lesson. Grab you copy now!Visualising Reading Response - 2 free templates.
Guided Reading - free templates.
Inferring - 2 Reading responses templates
Story Elements - Free reading response template
Main Idea - Links to 2 teaching slideshows plus a template to create a Main Idea Table Top.
Added 29th January
Narratives - How To Build Stories, a series of 7 clips from Splash
TEN - Domino Double freebie, Add Ten freebie, link to "Counting" on the Sightwords site.Minecraft - 100 Free Printables
Picture Books for Cross Curriculum Planning
Comprehension Strategy freebie- a collection of sentence stems for thinkmarks, reader's response, plus to teach students the language to use when comprehending a text.
Information Literacy Process link and a link to 734 Read Aloud books
Rich Texts - Are you looking for rich texts for your 2017 units? If so, check out this pinterest board.
Free Reading-Comprehension Charts - heaps of quality freebies and ideas to adapt...Literature Circle roles, Reading & Spelling, Decoding, Middle School. The Reading Stamina charts are cute!