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Whooo's at school?

21 January 2012

WARNING!!! I am not an artist, the pictures you are about to see may be offensive to the eye ;)

I have finally (after much procrastination) started to get things ready for the new school year. One of the first things I have began to work on is creating a name recognition/ school arrival chart. Using the owls from this resource I have assigned each student their own owl. I then painted a "tree" onto a large canvas. There are 20 velcro spots on the tree - one for each owl. The plan is that each morning the students will find their owl and place it onto the tree. At the end of the day one student will be chosen to remove the owls from the tree and place them back into the nest (brown basket).

Here are some photos...


First I worked out how many branches I would need...	This is the stage where I wanted to abort the mission!	The finished product! Much better than first anticipated.

Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!

Top Teacher xx

Flash sale 2 days only!

20 January 2012

Did you know that you can earn yourself a free years membership simply by referring our website to 3 of your friends? To celebrate our first member to do this we are having a flash sale! If you haven't joined us yet today is the day! Save 20% on the price of your membership by using the code CARMEL at the checkout.

Please let all your friends know about this sale (and tell them to quote your name in the comments field so that you too can earn a free year on your membership!!)

Looking forward to having lots of new people join us here at Top Teacher and sharing our resources and ideas with you.

Remember keep calm and get your sale on!

Top Teacher xx

Assessment! Assessment! Assessment!

19 January 2012

We don't know about you, but in our classrooms paperwork has a nasty way of breeding overnight! It is also never where we left it or handy when we need it! To combat this dilemma we have created an assessment overview which can be used to collate all your assessment data in one handy spot.

This is the first year we will be trialling it in a Kindergarten room (4 years old), at this stage the plan is to use the same sheet all year and each time we assess throughout the year we will mark it using a different coloured pen. This should assist in showcasing the students improvement throughout the year.

Click here to download now or add to your pigeonhole for future reference.

Do you have any great hints on controlling the paperwork monster? We would love to hear from you! Share your ideas with us via our Facebook page.

Remember to keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!

Top Teacher xx

Picture perfect

17 January 2012

Looking for a cute way to commemorate the first day at school? Why not take a photo of your kiddies holding one of these signs? Children change so much over the course of the year, this will provide a keepsake that the parents (and kids!) will love to look back on.

The first sign is relatively pain free to use – print, hold, click!

Click here to download now

The second one requires each student to think about what they want to do when they grow up. It’s a little more “personal” than the first sign, but will need some time dedicated to creating an individual sign for each child. If you are thinking of using this sign then maybe you might like to set it as a morning task for parents to complete with their child when they drop them off at school?

Click here to download now.

We have signs for kindergarten, prep, pre school, pre-primary and school. If you require a different year level contact us via the facebook page and we will endeavour to create it for you.

At the end of the school year we plan on printing these photos out and taking a new photo of each child holding their first day of school photo. We will post these at the end of the year for you to see, it should make for a great comparison!

We hope your preparations for the new school year are moving along!

Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!

Top Teacher xx

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