Paula's Place Teaching Resources

Use the magical picture story book “Room on the Broom’ to explore language,  have shared experiences, and look at the character, setting and plot development. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions, make these activities perfect for centres. Your students will love exploring new vocabulary, sharing what they discover, listing parts of speech, sequencing, and writing tasks through this book study. Tasks included in our product -Words – There are words from the story on cards for

Teaching the difference between living and non living easy! This pack includes low prep printables and centers that guide your students to learn the difference between living and non living. Watch your students categorize items with confidence. Lead your students to discover the concepts of living and non living through sequenced activities that are planned for you. Your students will be guided through a learning sequence that builds their knowledge about living and non living.  Your student

Possum Magic is a great Australian picture story book written by Mem Fox. It has amazing illustrations of the wildlife and it makes strong connections with each State or Territory. As the characters travel around the country they eat some amazing Australian food. What will you get in this product?Printables to record learning Tasks for learning centersWriting prompts  Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging c

This Wizard Of Oz – Book Companion Pack is an excellent way to explore language, have shared experiences and look at character, setting and plot development. It contains the following tasks Word Wall – add to this as you move through the unit. It is great for early writers to check the spelling of words. Vocabulary Cards– to sort into various categories or use as a word wallKWHL– record what you know, want to know, how you will find this out and new learning that takes placesWord Splashes– rec

ANZAC Day is a huge part of our Australian and New Zealand shared history. It is a huge responsibility to make sure we engage our students in the recognition and commemoration of this event. This pack will assist in building their knowledge and understanding of the sacrifices that have been made by all ANZACs and their families. This pack is also included in our ANZAC Day Bundle at a discounted price. Tasks include - Word Wall – brainstorm words with your students and record them on the colour

Read through 'The Doorbell Rang' and experiment with division and multiplication strategies. There are many activities to show learning and understanding. Print and GoAnchor chart to show different strategies for division and multiplicationPrint and go tasks for exploring sharing of cookies in different ways. Don’t forget to record the fact families 3x4=12, 4x3=12, 12 div 3=4, 12 div 4=3 Baking CookiesThis task is a great task for focus groups to show arrays for multiplication and division. Rea

Our Princess and the Pea Pack has writing tasks that build vocabulary and descriptions to write a retell of this Fairy Tale. There are photos that help you through three different craftivities. Your students will love learning about this Fairy Tale and working through these tasks.  A Little Reader - Print and go!• This will give you two books – copy and staple together and then cut in half. • Use these each day to consolidate common sight words and the letter/sound relationship.  Language Vocab

Read and share the ‘ Diary of a Wombat” by Jackie French and enjoy the simplicity of the text! This book is great for consolidating days of the week and establishing what routines are. Work through the initial tasks to become familiar with the text and then record your own diary. All the tasks included for Diary of a Wombat are all print and go- Word splash for a wombatA wombat is-has-canCompare the two – wombat and koalaRecount of the bookRecount of my weekChange the endingStudents choose an

Our Plants and Seeds Inquiry Unit will make the teaching of this topic engaging and full of learning. Discover how plants grow in a cycle and explore the vocabulary to strengthen your grade's knowledge about plants. This is a print and go pack. What will you get in this product?A task based on ‘The Tiny Seed’ to tune your grade into plants and what happens to seeds.A  KWHL to see what your students know about plants before you start.A Word Wall poster set allows you to list words you will nee

These printables provide templates that will help you to explore The Elves and the Shoemaker and respond to the text in a variety of ways. KWHL - What I know – What I want to know – How will I find it out – My new learning Sequencing tasks x2Word splash – Elves – Shoemaker – wifeCharacter Traits – wife –Shoemaker – ElfInstructions for INBINB for beginning, middle and endINB for Elf, Shoemaker, wife – is-has-canAdd a picture to your story instructionsRecount Pictures to add to storyWord focusC

Who doesn't love ice cream? This Ice Cream Math pack is engaging, colorful and full of addition ideas. Use this Ice Cream Shop to create your own ice creams and work out the cost for each one. It is your choice if you show your students how to record dollars and cents. My extension students do, but my other students do not. Use bundling sticks or Base 10 blocks to work out the cost.Check on a calculator – they love doing this.Prompts for Ice Cream ShopThis is a sample of the prompts to use for

Lemonade Stand - Make a Model and create a Financial Plan. This Project Based Learning (PBL) task is to design a Lemonade Stand model to scale and produce a business plan to sell lemonade to customers. I use these steps for Project Based Learning in my teaching and learning space. Setting the stage for the learning that is about to happen and make a link back to a real life scenarioThe teacher negotiates the criteria for evaluating the projectsStudents become project designersStudents discuss i

Genius Hour or Passion Project time is a great motivator to share independent learning. This learning comes from an interest that is motivated by trying to dig deeper, change thinking or share knowledge that our students have. There are two files in the zipped folder. One is a Genius Hour Teacher Pack and the other is a Genius Hour PowerPoint to share with students. This Genius Hour pack suits all Inquiries as each one requires a big question to explore and your students may need help in framin

Literature Circles or Book Clubs are my favorite way to work with reading groups that have independent skills and that need to be extended. This pack encourages holding hearty discussions about texts. Through Literature Circles you will see your students devise questions, share roles and challenge each other. The Literature Circles pack is included in a bundle - Reading Groups - A Strategy Bundlewith Reciprocal Reading - An IntroductionWhen starting Literature Circles or Book Clubs introduce

Sharing books we love passes that passion of reading onto our students. Mrs Wishy Washy is a well loved book that is repetitive and just right for early readers to explore. The printables can be used for reading and writing tasks and allow for differentiation in your classroom. Tasks include - USA CCSS and Australian Curriculum aligned references for you to use in your planning Alphabet Key x 2Words to describe Mrs Wishy WashyMatching animal to name (noun)Missing wordsWordfindIs, can, hasNoun

This pack focuses on one Fairy Tale – Goldilocks and the Three Bears and gives many opportunities to explore and interpret the text through reading and writing. The variety of tasks lets you choose which aspects will suit your grade before you print. Explore all facets of the story with these planners and the prepared prompt sheets. Encourage planning before writing and allow for lots of discussions. The pack includes - Curriculum Links – USA CCSS and Australian Curriculum KWHL – What we know

This is a much loved book by Roald Dahl. Fantastic Mr Fox is the perfect book to start serial reading as a class novel. Engage in the text by selecting from the many options this pack provides for you and your students. Vocabulary Cards can be used as FlashcardsSorting cards by using the Parts of speech labels Writing prompts by displaying around the room Word study prompts for class or individual listsThey can be copied as they are or on colored card Word Wall There are two versions for p

This Phonics Bundle S-A-T-P-I-N is great for the sounds that the letters SATPIN make. Full of posters, sound cards, printables and a small readers. There are lots of packs around for phonics, sounds and letters – so why this one? I have been teaching sounds/letters for almost 30 years and this is what works for me. This is the first in a series of packs to help make connections that are engaging and ensure connections happen and are sustained. Each section has an explanation pageAll letter/so

This Ants on the apple a-a-a is a great chant to say every day to consolidate the initial sounds for our alphabet. There are three files - one with capitals, one with less color and one with just the chant. Use Ants on the apple a-a-a as a PowerPoint on a PC, laptop or Smartboard.As each slide is shown chant the rhyme together.You can also encourage students to draw the letter in the air as they chant. Each slide could be printed and made into a class book. Slides included areAnts on the apple

Convict Australian History Interactive Notebook - Convict History was the beginning of white history here in Australia. It was a dangerous and a hard life in the new colony. Learn about the challenges and make an interactive note book. Year 5 Curriculum - The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants…and how the environment changed (ACHHK094) This pack contains• Instructions on how to put t