Vegetable Garden

Kitchen gardens are all the rage at schools around Australia. It is something parents, teachers and the wider community are all keen to get behind - and with good reason. There are so many positives to having a kitchen garden at school, especially when the children are able to take responsibility and ownership of it for themselves.

What's in the vegetable garden?

Geography Activities

Geography can be a really fun area to explore and with a little thought and inspiration you can turn geography into a cross-curricula activity to include language, maths and science.

Having great references for students to access can really spark their interest. I like to have a two or

Shades of Meaning

Shades of Meaning - Synonyms

I love this work with synonyms - it is a great way to get students thinking about their word choices in both their writing and everyday conversation.

Some ideas for use:

• classifying the degrees of meaning of each synonym
• play charades or password
• allow children to choose 2 - 3 words for sentences or stories
• as a group create sentences and switch synonyms to see how each modifies the sentence

Counting in LOTE

Here is my next offering in my LOTE (Languages Other Than English)  series of three part cards.

Three part cards for numbers 1 - 10 in three different languages: French, Italian and Japanese.

Numbers 1 - 10 in French

Numbers 1 - 10 in Italian

Numbers in 1 - 10 in Japanese 

For the rationale behind the pattern of dots read this post. 

Colours in French

My own children are learning several languages, through school and through their own interests. My youngest is learning French at school so I have been making some resources to help him revise and extend himself at home.

Colours in Japanese

I have made some three part cards for the Japanese names of colours. For some idea's on how to extend the use of these check out this post.

You can find the file for free HERE and HERE.

Colours in Italian

Learning colours in Italian? These three part cards are great way to reinforce and revise the child's knowledge. Looking for idea's on how to extend the use of this resources? Take a look at this post.

You can find the file for free HERE and HERE.

Mammalian Orders

I love classification work! It is so much fun, I think because language and etymology really come into play and it can be one way of engaging students with some lively discussion.

This set of mammal cards serve as an introduction to the main orders within the class mammalia. There is a picture card and information/description card for the orders covered (18). They have been colour coded as these are the first in a series of resources, as I hope to cover each of the classes.

Earth & It's Seasons

My favourite learning area outside of Language would have to be Geography. So I was really excited when I was approached by a former colleague who is now a home-school mama to put some resources together for her.

This pack provides the foundation for understanding how the Earth's movement around the Sun effects changes in the seasons. The task/activity cards are designed to appeal to different ways of learning (multiple intelligences) and encourage students to enrich their understanding.