New Year Post

Christmas Day has been and gone and I hope you all had a lovely day. This year we had a quiet Christmas Day with just the four of us. 

I cannot believe that the new year is just around the corner!

I have two packs for New Year that your kids will love and you can just print and go!

This first pack will be able to used until 2020. Then I will add more pages for you. 

Click here to see this in my TpT store.

New Year’s Pack – Year 2/3/4/5

There are 8 tasks to choose from. 

The first 7 tasks will make your students think about their achievements for the New Year. 

Reflection for last year - This page will help to record three highlights for last year. You can then celebrate these milestones and build on them for the New Year.

Pennants for display - Color and display. The first pennant can be copied and glued on the back of each one for each student.

All about Me poster - There are two versions containing spelling for favourite/favorite, colour/color. Add the information and then display or place into a class book to help to get to know one another.

Interactive note pages with 6 different fonts - Record what you: would like to be, what you would like to be able to do, would like to do and what you would like to see happen this year.

Mobile cards for display - Each child is to fill out either the color version or the black/white version. Then cut out each rectangle – use string to attach them together and hang in the classroom.

Goal Book - Copy one for each child and brainstorm the information before they record in their own booklet.

Countdown Book - Copy and staple where the staple marks are. Cut in half to make two books. On each page record goals for last year with Number One being the most important.

Autographs - Have a go at writing your autograph and collecting those of your classmates. Do this task at the end of the year again and compare signatures.

This pack is for K-1 and you may like to laminate some of the tasks so that you have them ready for next year!

New Year’s Eve Unit

Mathematics Tasks

Arrange numbers 0-12 forward and backward

Make a clock

Put times in sequence from 1pm to midnight.

Match analogue to digital times

Sequence tasks we might do on New Year’s Eve

Complete an Alphabet Key

English Tasks

Record New Year’s Resolutions

Make a Shopping List for a party

Invitation to a party

Recount tasks 

Happy New Year everyone - be safe, have fun and enjoy...

Updated Learning Intention Tags

I have added an extra set of tags with topic specific clip art. 

If you already own it, you can download the updated file straight away at no cost to you. 

This is a great way to have learning visible in your classroom and make your learners accountable for tasks. It is a great way to bring all your grade together at share or reflection time. 

The display of the learning Intention makes your learning sequence clear and everything relates back to that and there is no confusion as to what learning needs to take place. 

The Learning Intentions make goal setting more streamlined and related to relevant assessment. 

Here is the link 

Word work

Last year we started 'daily 5' mid year. This year we have started day one.

Today we began to revise what is best fit and how this looks in 'word work'.

My Preps are all learning different coloured words using M100W's and this is the basis for our best fit word work. Some groups are working on silly sentences, which is a commercial kit and reading them independently.

Another group are using salt words to write their red words. This is in a container with about 2cm of salt in the bottom, like an old fashioned sand tray.

I also introduced LSCWC. They look at the word, say it out loud, cover it, write it and then check it.


They gave it a good go and I can see that I need to look at letter reversals and word reversals. I also noticed that we need to work on spaces between words too! An easy way to set learning goals.

There was also a group that are working on rhyming words and this was a lot of fun. There was lots of laughter about what else rhymes.