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A simple and effective way to track student progress on their letter recognition and sound knowledge. This information allows teachers to look at students who need more support so they can provide targeted teaching to them in whole-class activities or literacy groups. This assessment tracker provides ongoing data for yourself, leadership and parents.

This activity is a simple and effective way to introduce students to sculpture. Using clay, wire and beads, students create a simple 3D sculpture (person, item or animal), whilst also helping to develop their fine motor skills.

What is clay? Clay is a natural material made up of tiny particles of rock. When clay is mixed with enough water, it feels like soft, gluey mud, however, unlike mud, clay can hold its shape Below you will find a list that includes images and instructions on the various ways you can manipulate clay. This resource is a fantastic way to commence any art activity or project involving the use of clay. Depending on your art project, you can select the relevant strategies for students to use. This res

Starting with a simple guided drawing, students will explore their understanding of watercolour painting and place their own style into an artwork inspired by Paul Klee's 'Cat and Bird' This lesson plan includes how the activity links to the elements of art.

This activity is perfect for Junior year levels, particularly Foundation (Prep) or Kindergarten students. It involves students using a variety of different lines in an artwork and developing their use of various art tools and materials.

Easy to use rubric used to assess students' reading abilities against the Victorian Curriculum. This Reading Rubric assesses decoding, text structure, high-frequency words, retelling, reading strategies, text type, text response, self-correction, and vocabulary. The far left column of the rubric aligns these with the Victorian Curriculum progression points including 0, 0.5, F, F.5, 1 & 1.5. The far-right column aligns with PM readers and PROBE. This column can be altered to suit your school

Perfect for all ages! This activity guides you as the teacher, as well as students, in creating a clay instrument sculpture. These lessons also explore numerous artwork by Pablo Picasso, linking with musical instruments. This resource includes posters of different types of instruments to inspire your students, as well as research and planning templates for your students to use! It has both junior and senior school tips to make sure you are providing the appropriate level of difficulty and skil

What is a sculpture? Sculpture is a branch of the visual arts, involving the creation of objects in 3-dimensions (3D); length, width and height. The main feature of a sculpture's design is the way its forms extend through space. This activity guides you as the teacher, as well as students, in creating a clay guitar sculpture inspired by Pablo Picasso.

Simple and effective! This EDITABLE weekly planner outlines important links to Curriculum areas with structured lesson timings to adapt into your school's timetable and subject areas. Word document.

Using Paul Klee artwork as an inspiration, students can use this activity to expand their knowledge and skills when using watercolour paints. The perfect opportunity to create a beautiful and unique artwork whilst assessing or practising their brush strokes.

180 subtraction flash cards with variations in subtraction between numbers 0-20. Your students can use a number of strategies to solve these subtraction problems. Great to use for a fun game to commence your lesson, as a part of your explicit teaching, for independent and paired work, and more...

A simple and easy to follow guide to Literacy Groups in a Prep - Year 1 classroom. Featuring advice for setting up and running your Guided Reading group and follow up activity ideas. Includes an example of a weekly Literacy Group rotation timetable.

This project is highly engaging for all students, as students use their agency to create an artwork important to them. This project outline is for middle to upper primary school students. Students will view paintings by artist Paul Klee and analyse them using the Art Elements. They will do this by answering various questions about Paul Klee's artworks. Next students will use this knowledge to plan an artwork of a famous building or landmark in the style of Paul Klee. Finally, students will use

16 simple poster styles to write your own letters or words and display in student books or around your classroom. As simple as... 1. print your favourite design 2. write & draw your own pictures, letters and words 3. display in your room

Print the 'Things I Can See' resource to create mini-books for students in your class. Students are able to use these books to create texts based on; - The letter your class is focussing on - The digraph / blend your class is focussing on - Objects or words students can see in the classroom or around the school - Objects based on your current Inquiry topic - Objects your students have at home

Editable Learning Intention and Success Criteria for Secretarial writing (Prep / Foundation). Teachers to introduce each Success Criteria one by one with explicit teaching. This resource can then be used by teachers for each student's writing piece. Each success criteria accompanied by an image to remind students of the meaning behind each criteria

Comprehension questions to support both teachers, parents, and older students. Questions used to target students before, during and after reading.

Record your students' Running Record level, Magic Words data and Literacy Groups all on the one document! To accurately assess and monitor your students' reading abilities.

Poster to assess or grow students' understanding of The Elements of Art. Students can show their understanding of the Elements of Art.

For students to practise painting using the primary colours, as well as painting different types of lines.