Jacqui Sharp Resources

At the beginning of each month, fill in the calendar month with the dates, days and months. Add the appropriate weather symbols for each day as they happen. At the end of the month, tally up the results and analyse what the weather was for the month. This activity will encourage students to sort the days of the month in order, check they have the right season, month and year, and finally observe the weather patterns for the month.

Encourage your students to observe and record weather patterns by identifying where on the Beaufort Scale what the weather today is. Record it on the monthly chart and on the Tally Chart. At the end of each month write an analysis of the weather.

This package contains 70 Graphic Organisers that have been created in both Google Docs, Google Slides and 4 in Google Draw. There is 140 graphic organisers in total. You and your students will have to have Google Accounts to use these Graphic Organisers. Click on the bit.ly links on the cards. This will take you to the Google Doc, Slide or Draw file. Make a copy. You are free to make any adjustments to the files at this point, to make them more suitable for your students. Share the file with you

The Maori Alphabet ‘Arapu Reta’ Alphabet cards are designed to be used digitally on a computer as part of a teaching and learning lessons and/or downloaded, printed out and laminated. The 15 individual letter cards once laminated can be written on adding more words. The 5 pages of individual letters and pictures are designed to be laminated, cut out and used for matching letters and pictures. This package contains 1 colour Alphabet card with letters and pictures 1 colour Alphabet card with le

These handwriting cards have been designed with the New Zealand font. You can print these practice pages 1 per page or 2 per page These can be laminated for children to use as independent writing practice where they copy what is on the card into their handwriting books. Teachers could also show them on a screen for all to copy from once the teacher has modelled formation of the letter.

Use the graphics, character labels and the 7 steps to narrative writing to motivate students to write Fairytales. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use this for modelling narrative writing, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Fairytale storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their fairytales. This Storybox contains • 18 Picture labels of ch

Students still need to know how to Touch Type even in this world of ‘swiping’ technology. This pack has activities and posters for Windows, Mac and Chrome Keyboards. Project to your whiteboard for the ‘Practice Letter’ of the day. You do not need access to a computer, just print out out a white keyboard for students to colour in the letter they are practising or print out a color keyboard and laminate so that students can practise with the color coded keyboard fingering. Print, laminate and bag

Making Connections is one of the key Reading Comprehension Strategies. If students can make connections to themselves, their lives and what they see and hear around them, then that enables them to better understand what written text is all about. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of and write down what connections they have made. The Making Connections Activity pack can be printed out, posters and bookmarks can be laminated, and worksheets printed and shared with stu

Independent Spelling Activities are designed to be used digitally either online as a Google Slide, a PowerPoint download or you could print them so that students can write on them. There are 60 slides with 49 different activities. Students can use these for homework, or for practice in the classroom. They could do one a day, or it could be a homework task. This activity is designed so that students independently make choices about what activity they want to do and are a fun way to practise their

Summarizing is one of the key Reading Comprehension and Writing Strategies. If students can use the summarizing strategies of identifying keywords, recognizing the big idea and then writing a summary of what they have read, then that enables you to see how well the student comprehends the written text. This is an important research strategy as well, so at the same time you will be teaching your students valuable research skills. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of th

Use the graphics, character labels and the 7 steps to narrative writing to motivate students to write Spring Animal stories. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use these for modelling narrative writing, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Spring Animal storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their Spring Animals stories This Storybox contains

Use these fun graphics to create your own Fall or Autumn activities, banners and Posters. Students can use them for their projects or for publishing. Print out the blackline and colour masters for students to publish their writing. This Package contains 25 graphics with • 25 colour with transparent backgrounds (large resolution) • 25 colour transparent backgrounds (small file size) • 25 Black and White (large resolution) • 25 Black and White (small file size) Publishing Paper • 18 Colour la

This pack consists of an Inquiry approach to the study of minibeasts. It is designed so that students can work on it independently or collaboratively with others. Students are scaffolded and guided through an Inquiry Process which focusses on them developing a research question based on what they have found out so far, finding the information and then synthesizing it to develop new knowledge. Through a variety of websites, videos and Graphic Organizers students are able to find new knowledge and

Sky, grass, dirt handwriting practice These handwriting cards have been designed with the New Zealand font. The sky, grass, dirt colours help guide students when forming their letters. Letters with tall sticks touch the top of the sky, letters with no tall sticks or tails fit on the grass line, letters with tails go into the dirt. Print these practice pages  These can be laminated for children to write on with whiteboard markers (take photos for evidence)printed out and put in L pockets, childre

Use the graphics, picture labels and the 4 steps to writing a haiku to motivate students to write Easter haikus. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use the labels as motivation for writing haikus, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Easter storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their Easter Haikus. Use the teaching PowerPoint ‘Writing a Haik

Students place the pegs on the picture that matches the letter sound. Encourage them to make the initial sounds of each picture. use the letter sound cards that students have learnedyou could use the sound wheels in Seesaw where students circle the correct picture, sounding out the initial letter and saying the word

Alphabet and Phonics CardsThis pack consists of a series of alphabet and phonic cards designed to develop letter recognition and  letter sound relationships. The pack includes posters and games showing alphabet (upper and lower case letters) blends, consonant clusters and digraphs. All can be printed out and laminated, some could be used as an interactive slideshow or inserted into a workshop. These cards have upper and lower case letters. All graphics by Jacqui Sharp. This package contains  4 f

This pack consists of posters, a bookmark, worksheets, an inference card game and Graphic Organizers that can be printed out focusing on the reading strategy ‘Inferring’. Inferring is one of the key Reading Comprehension Strategies. If students can use the inferring strategies of using Prior Knowledge, making conclusions supported with evidence from the text then that will enable you to see how well the student comprehends the written text. This is an important research strategy as well, so at

These are a series of cards with a picture of an abacus that can be used as a wall display or printed out and laminated as smaller cards to use in teaching groups. The cards demonstrate the concepts of counting in 5s and 10s to a 100 and counting on.

Print out, cut up and laminate the pages from this PowerPoint. Put in a bag with some pointers and whiteboard marker pens. Students choose a card, pointer and a pen and walk around the room finding the blend that is on their card. Students write down all the blends they can find that match with that card.