Beacon Learning Materials

A set of material for teaching children to tell the time on the analog clock. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be used in a presentation, or as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: Printable clock face with marked hours and minute divisions.Hour and Minute hands.12x Five bead bar counters.Fives skip counting markers to 60.Five minute interval time markers.Clock face fraction shapes.

A set of 5-part matching cards on the Platonic Solids. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. Includes extension activities and an information card about the platonic solids and the philosopher Plato. Ideal as material to support learning in geometry and ancient history. To be presented as a three period lesson or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: Picture CardsName CardsDefinition CardsControl CardsExtension Activity Cards

A set of fact cards on rivers around the world. Each card contains details an river's length, area of the drainage basin, elevation of the source, average discharge, maximum width, and the nations along it's course. Students can use the cards 'top trumps style' memory games, or a prompt for independent research. Useful for practicing place value, and extending geographical knowledge. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum Curriculum and Homeschooling. Appropriate for use a

A set of cards for constructing and recording numbers using hierarchies up to 9,999,999. For use in place value activities, and recording for maths activities such as bank game, stamp game, bead frame, checker board, test tube game. A printable PDF file. Includes 63 number hierarchy cards: UnitsTensHundredsThousandsTen thousandsHundred thousandsMillions

A set of matching cards on famous monuments and landmarks from around the world. Composed of pairs of picture and fact cards that detail the country where the landmark is located, when and by whom it was built, and some key facts. Ideal for use alongside physical models of the landmarks and a world map, where students can place the monuments in their locations around the world. Can also be used as a starting point for independent research by students into the featured monuments, or the countries

A set of 5-part matching cards on common electrical circuit components and their symbols. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. Includes fill the gap comprehension and a circuit builder extension activity. Ideal as material to support learning in physics topics. To be presented as a three period lesson or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: Picture CardsName CardsDefinition CardsControl CardsFill the Gap Comprehension cards

A set of matching activities on collective nouns where students will be tasked with matching the correct collective with each group Divided into themed sets on animals, food, objects, and people. An ideal activity for expanding vocabulary, and practicing spelling and reading skills. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be delivered as a presentation, or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: 196x Collective Matching Cards8

These alphabetical sorting activities provide an opportunity for students to practice their knowledge of alphabetical order, alongside expanding their vocabulary via exploring one of six themed sets; animals, cities, flowers, food, names, and clothing. Provides a starting point for extension activities such as creating alphabetical lists on their own categories, or mini-research into unfamiliar words. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be delivered

An activity to introduce students to the paragraph structure for factual and fiction writing. Incudes two sheets describing how paragraphs can be sued to help lay out informational text and how to construct them. There is also an additional matching activity where the student is asked to arrange sentences into a logical paragraph structure via the concept of the paragraph burger. Students must introduce the topic being discussed and include the tasty fillings to provide detail before summing up

A set of matching activities where students will be tasked with finding the correct home for an inhabitant in the categories of people, animals, and objects. An ideal activity for expanding vocabulary, and practicing spelling and reading skills. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be delivered as a presentation, or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: 148x Matching Cards6x Category Header Cards4x Box Labels4x Foldable A

A set of five classification activities where students will be tasked with sorting groups of words into one of two categories. An ideal activity for expanding vocabulary, and practicing spelling and reading skills. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be delivered as a presentation, or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: 135x Classification Sorting Cards10x Category Header Cards5x Box LabelsApproximate card sizes: (Depe

A set of five classification activities where students will be tasked with sorting groups of words into one of two categories. An ideal activity for expanding vocabulary, and practicing spelling and reading skills. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be delivered as a presentation, or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. Includes: 135x Classification Sorting Cards10x Category Header Cards5x Box LabelsApproximate card sizes: (Dep

This set contains a pair of matching activities on capitonyms and retronyms. Capitonyms are a special type of homonym than are spelt the same, but change meaning depending on whether they are written as proper nouns with a capital letter. Retronyms are words that describe an object, idea or event, that has been superseded by a more recent version and are used to distinguish the older version from their successor. This is an ideal set of activities for extending a student's vocabulary, and introd

Anagrams are pairs or sets of words that contain the same letters. These anagram matching activities are an ideal extension activity to help broaden a students vocabulary, and practice their spelling. Provides a starting point for extension activities such as creating their own anagrams or investigating unfamiliar words. Suitable for a Montessori Elementary (UK Primary) Curriculum and Homeschooling. To be delivered as a presentation, or used as independent work material. A printable PDF file. In