Santa is Dropping Gifts!


I love fixing things up and making them better, I always have - I blame my dad for that! I just updated a few items in my store. First one is my popular FREE game - Santa's Sleigh Drop. It has been downloaded  close to 20, 000 times but a super sleuth popped in to tell me she preferred her math sentences with full stops (periods). Well, what better motivation for me than to overhaul the whole thing! 

So I added a few additional pages and refreshed the formatting. You can find it HERE if you would like the updated copy.

The game includes ten AND twenty frames and will help your little learners with early subtraction.


It is best to teach early subtraction with words, not symbols. The difficulty lies in the fact that most little kinder students do not read many words. So I have deliberately kept the language and grammar SIMPLE so that they do not get overwhelmed with too many words! Effective kindergarten teaching is about starting with the most simple language patterns possible, and building up.

You may need to do some prior teaching before you play this game, and introduce the sentences that feature on each card. The first number is in green and the second in red. Teach your students to GO with green and STOP with red! This will scaffold them towards looking just at the numbers, and ignoring the words... which is where you want this to lead. 


Use any classroom equipment as 'gifts' on the sleigh game boards. 





My Gingerbread People got a little makeover too. I also added some plain gingerbread people that would be perfect for activities and centres (you can add content to their tummy!). 




The next review was LONG overdue! Here is the thumbnail (don't laugh) of one of my first eBay products in 2005 - Write'n'Wipe boards for numeral writing review. Featuring some of my very early clipart (yes cupcakes were a theme for me even back then!)



Now they are looking a little different, but still perfect for K-2 learners! 


It also motivated me to get them listed on TpT! The website is next, and yes I will do them in Aussie fonts!


Because I love giving gifts away just as much as Santa, please feel free to enter the rafflecopter below to win a $50 TpT gift voucher. I truly appreciate my kind supporters, and love to give back to you! I may not always get to answer each and every blog comment and feedback comment that you make, but I do read them all. This is my way of saying thanks! 

 I wish I could send you all one, imagine the fun spending that voucher! 

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Word Family Flip Flap Houses


The term 'Word Families' really means any set of words that carry a similarity. When I think of word families however, I mainly think of the vowel-consonant combinations that come in cvc words, for example.

After my kindies have learnt a good chunk of their single sounds and short vowel sounds, I am on to these! Get them blending! I got more confident with this after using the Jolly Phonics program. It suggests teaching students to blend cvc words after learning the first 6 sounds.. why not!?

Looking at cvc (and some ccvc and cvcc) words within a framework of 'word families' is a good way of introducing a spelling program of sorts in the kindergarten program. I like to focus on a different short vowel for every 2 week period. 

This new set of worksheets in my TpT store will help you to work with short vowels, word families and cvc words (a few ccvc are included also). You can use them as individual worksheet, or group them together to make a student workbook. 


Each page has a different word family house. Students use the pictures to help them write word-window flaps. 


Students love to lift flaps to see what is underneath, and this book will become a favourite way for them to remember their learning of word families!


You can find it HERE in my TpT store

And speaking of houses - here is a very cute haunted one - to remind you that there is a super fun blog hop on its way! Stay tuned - you will not want to miss it! 


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FREE Classroom "Glasses" Poster

Glasses Poster

Do you have any sweeties that have recently been prescribed glasses to read in the classroom? I am sure you will make them feel very special - as it can be a big adjustment for them.


This printable poster will help them - and youU, remember to have their glasses either on their face - or in the case!


Find it FREE in Google Drive: Glasses Poster for the Classroom


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cvc Write and Wipe


The original just got even better! I made our write and wipe cards for cvc words quite a few years ago and I have wanted to update them for a while now. I am happy to say that job has now been crossed off my to-do list!

This resources has gone from 20 pages to a whopping 103 fun-packed pages! 

If you have already purchased this file, just grab the new updates from your 'My Purchases' tab at TpT!

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Pin the Tail on the Bird



My daughter did a painting of some cute little birds, sprinkling sale on to change how the paint dried. 

I made these cute little bird counting cards after our art-making. There is a bird for each number 1-10. We did lots of activities with them that you could also use in the classroom. Here are a few ideas on how to differentiate and cater for all your levels of children in number. 

1. Numeral Identification - use the cards for a quick number recognition activity - spread them out face up, call a number and get your students to 'catch the bird' with that numeral on it.

2. Counting - get your students to put the cards in number order and count them. Count forwards and backwards.

3. Matching Quantities - ask your students to pin the same number of clothespins/pegs onto each bird to become their tail feathers!

Bird counting

4. Counting-on - Ask your students to peg on the number of feathers to make a total of ten. In this example, my daughter pegged 6 more to make a total of ten on the 4 bird.

Bird Counting

5. Addition - peg two birds together with the same number of pegs as the combined total of teh two numerals. So if the 2 and 3 birds were put together, students join them with 5 pegs. 

You can download these bird templates from Google Drive for free. Find them HERE

Race and Trace

Race and Trace is a new printable play on the page game in our TpT store HERE

Each worksheet sees your student help to 'race' the letters to see which is completed first. 

An easy spinner is provided on the worksheet - just use a paper clip and pencil.


As they spin a letter, they trace it! The first shape to have all letters traced is the winner.


Your students can add up how many letters of each they traced. This activity can be easily adapted to make it a partner activity, with two students working on the same worksheet - just ask students to use a different colour.

They got the tick of approval when my Little Miss 6 said to me "Mum, these are the best worksheets EVER'!



If you love this activity - you may like to browse our growing collection of Play on the Page games - so fast to prep and very engaging for reviewing skills and concepts!