Melbourne Cup - First Tuesday in November

Melbourne Cup is a horse race that stops a nation!

I have two packs to share with you to help your grade find out more about Melbourne Cup. 

Find out some facts to help write an Information Text. 

This first pack is a new one and provides facts, planners, rubrics to help assist you to write a information text. 

This is for Years 2-5.

 Melbourne Cup – Information Text pack

This pack provides information about Melbourne Cup. This information will assist in the writing of your own Information Text, guided by a rubric. (58 Pages)

KWHL - for Melbourne Cup. There are colour, plus black/white versions and a one page version

This will assist in assessing what your grade knows and will help when writing the Information Text

This is what we know about…

This is what we want to know …

This is how we will find out what we want to know…

This is our new learning about …

Facts - These cards can be used as discussion starters or to display these facts about Melbourne Cup and discuss what they mean. They can be used as starters for the Information Text to help build the paragraphs

Photos - These photos are to be used to assist in writing the text. Print off and display around the finished Information Text

Reading - This text is to be used to record the main ideas and the supporting information. The second task is to paraphrase the text

Writing – Use the photos provided in the photo section to assist in writing the text. Print off and display around the finished Information Text. The rubrics are helpful in assessing the text. A planner is included for the Information text. There are a variety of papers and planners provided.

This second pack is aimed at younger kids. 

This pack is great for K-2.

Melbourne Cup

15 pages

Horse words – to use in writing and word work

Concept Map – to describe a horse

How to ride a horse

How to train a horse

Can – are – have

A jockey’s silk

My horse’s information

BOGGLE – Melbourne Cup

Label parts of the horse

Melbourne Cup game – for three players. See who comes 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd - plus a coloured version

I hope that your class sweep is successful and you choose the horse that wins!

Book count down for Christmas - getting ready

I have so wanted to do this for a few years and I have finally done it. 

I have got all my Christmas material and ribbon together and bought some extra bits and pieces and made bags for 24 Christmas books. 

I then made tags for each bag with numbers on them!

Laminated them then added the ribbons...

Attached them to bags and then put my books in them in.

You can wrap them in Christmas wrap instead and just add a tag for the number. 

I have a love of books (yep - you know this already)

But I saw some new ones, including some cooking ones and just had to buy them. 

This year I spied some Aussie ones and just had to have these too.

Watch as I open each bag starting on the 1st of December. I will blog each day from the 1st to the 24th of December. If you have some great books - please link up from the 1st. 

There may even be some ideas to use with each book. 

Total make overs

In my quest to update some covers - I looked closely at some of my first packs and decided to update them with new fonts, clip art and papers. A labour of love!

Here are some of revised work - click here to got to TPT and check them out in more detail. 

If you have already purchased them - re download them to get the newer version. 

I have added print and go options to them and will continue to work through my packs and include this.