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Great resources for teaching Lower Primary students, helpfully sorted by learning area.
Story Starter Cards
Book Tie-ins
Creative Arts
Celebrations
Maths
English
HSIE/SOSE
PE/H/PD
Science & Technology
Story Starter Cards
Click here to download Story Starter Cards - Lower Primary.
Click here to download Story Starter Cards - Lower Primary.
Book Tie-ins
All About Nicholas Ickle Worksheet
Alpha Quest Classroom Activity Design Your Own Coat of Arms
Bindi Wildlife Adventures Teaching Support Kit
Butterflies Fly
Carnival Costume Design
Clifford's Manners
Clifford's Pals
Desert Dust Up; The Craziest Car Ride on Earth
Down in the Woods
First Friend
Franklin Goes to School
Franklin Plants a Tree
King Pig's Crimes Activity 1
King Pig's Crimes Activity 2
King Pig's Crimes Sorry Activity
King Pig's Sentence Jumbles
Maudie and Bear Cut-outs
Never Ever Before - Visual Arts Focus
Pear in the Pear Tree
- A great tie-in to Pamela Allen's book.
Pip the Penguin
- Help students learn about the importance of obedience with this great tie-in.
Postman Bear
- Tie-in to Axel Scheffler's book.
Sage's Ark
- Use as a tie-in to Felicity Marshall's book about extinction.
Singenpoo's Secret Weapon
- Writing activities for your class based on Paul Jenning's book.
Solo Transport: Trains
- Exercises for students relating to trains.
Surprise in a Mailbox
- Teach your students how to address and send letters to each other.
Telling Stories
Visit Rio
What Makes It Rain
- Teach your students about the water cycle.
Creative Arts
Animal Noses
Carnival Costume Design
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Proverbs
Colour Mixed Hand Prints
Colour Your Own Wombat
Clown Stationery 1
Clown Stationery 2
Dress the Clown
Create a Clown Face
Clown's Balloons: Fine-Motor Skills
Felt Chinese Fortune Cookies
Desert Dust Up; The Craziest Car Ride on Earth
Didjeridu
Great Barrier Reef Collage Template
I Can Draw an Elephant Worksheet
Icons and Symbols Memory Game
King Pig's Crimes Activity 1
King Pig's Crimes Activity 2
Lucky Money Envelopes
Make a Carton Pirate Ship
Make a Clown Joke Book
Make Your Own Chinese Paper Lanterns
Map of the World
Maudie and Bear Cut-outs
Max
- Have your class create their own capes.
Moon and Stars Mobile
Moroccan Geometric Design Template
Moveable Clown Pattern
Mr Clown Display Pattern
Paper Plate Maracas
Paper Plate Craft
Pirate Flag
Pirate Hat
Pirate Hook
Pirate Ship
Rainy Day Activity
- We all like making shapes out of clouds.
Revenge of the Evil Bee
Sandcastle Design Template
Sandcastle Design Template 2
Shooting Star Craft
Sleeping Cat Craft
Spider Song
Telling Stories
Thank You Card
Traditional Flowers
Treasure Chest
Trees
Trace-and-Paint Elephant
Sparkle Salt Paint and Milk Paint
Visit Rio
Wobbly Octopus Craft
Celebrations
Acrostic Poems for Mum
- Write an acrostic poem about your special mum.
Anzac Day
Bilby Easter Card Template
Book Week Bridge
Candy Cane Mouse
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Proverbs
Christmas Activities:Set of 11 Blackline Masters
Christmas in Australia
Christmas Cookie Gift Bag
Christmas Miracle
Christmas Thinking Skills
Christmas Trees from Maths Shapes
Christmas Tree Stencil
Colour-in Santa
Colour Your Own Wombat
Create an Easter Card
- Have your class create their own cards and send them to each other.
Great Barrier Reef Collage Template
Crooked Little Xmas Tree
- A lovely resource to use with the book by Michael Cutting.
Dear Santa
Decorative Easter Eggs
- A fun Easter tie-in to make with your class, or something to give them as homework.
Easter Bilby Card Template
Easter Bunny Colouring In
- Colouring-in fun for Easter.
Easter Count & Colour
- Students will learn about Easter symbols as they count and colour their way through this resource.
Easter Craft Around the World
Easter Eggs!
- Create a classroom Easter collage with this resource.
Easter Fun
- A great idea for students' Easter presents for their parents.
Easter In Australia
Egg Find-A-Word
- Students will learn that chickens aren't the only ones to lay eggs!
Easter Word Search
Favourite Fairytales Cover Sheet
Festive Fun
- A great introduction to different festivals students may or may not celebrate.
Gingerbread Trees Recipe
Graphic Organiser: Cause and Effect
Graphic Organiser: Cyclical Pattern
Graphic Organiser: Five Ws
Graphic Organiser: Idea Web
Graphic Organiser: KWL Chart
Graphic Organiser: Overlapping Concepts
Graphic Organiser: Sequence of Events
Hansel and Gretel
Headband Reindeer Antlers
Holiday Bells ' Colouring
Holiday Tree ' Colouring
Holiday Word Find
How to Use Chopsticks
Lucky Money Envelopes
Make a Birthday Card
- Use this resource whenever one of your students has a birthday.
Make Party Hats
- A fun activity to complete on someone's birthday.
Make Your Own Bunny Ears
- A great resource to use for an Easter parade!
Make Your Own Chinese Paper Lanterns
Make Your Own Invitations
Map of the World
Mother's Day Flower
- Decorate the flower and give to your mum on Mother's Day
My Christmas Day
My Favourite Fairytale
No-Bake Christmas Ornaments
Rudolph Ornament
Santa Bulletin Board Trim
Santa Card ' Cut and Colour
Santa Sequence Cards
Six Christmas Activities
Snowman Card Cut and Colour
Stocking Awards
Spot the Difference
- A fun Easter activity.
Tin Can Santa Claus
Traditional Flowers
Trim a Tree Treasure Hunt
Maths
Addition
- What is the sum of 4 + 4?
Australian Money Activity Guide
Book Week Bridge
Christmas Trees from Maths Shapes
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Proverbs
Colours and Shapes 1
Colours and Shapes 2
Colours and Shapes 3
Counting Money - Coins
Counting Money - Notes
Counting Skills
- A fun, learn-to-count activity.
Evening Routines
From Farm to Table
Graphic Organiser: Cause and Effect
Graphic Organiser:Cyclical Pattern
Graphic Organiser: Five Ws
Graphic Organiser: Idea Web
Graphic Organiser: KWL Chart
Graphic Organiser: Overlapping Concepts
Graphic Organiser: Sequence of Events
How Many Days in Each Month?
- Use the rhyme Thirty days hath September... to complete this worksheet.
Life on a Farm
- A great introduction to telling the time.
Make a Rocket with Maths Shapes
Missing links
Money Bingo
Night Lights Dot-to-Dot ' Addition
Night & Day
- A great resource to help students understand the concept of night and day time.
Number Lines
Number Squares
Number lines
- Use these number lines to work out the answers.
Our Shape Train
Patterns - What Comes Next?
Pattern Puzzles
Seeing Circles
Shape Scavenger Hunt
Shapes
- Colour all the circles red.
Shopping
Symmetry Worksheet
Tangram Maths Activities
Wall Frieze Numbers
- A great wall frieze with a numbers theme.
What is the time?
English
A-Z Reading Chart
Acrostic Poems
- Write an acrostic poem about a teacher.
Book Plates
- A great way to personalise books used as a reward.
Book Review Bookmarks
Book Week Bridge
Book Week Greetings Postcard
Bug Colouring-In
- A great tie-in to learning the alphabet.
Book Week Treasure Hunt Chart
Clowning Around - Upper and Lower Case Practice Worksheet
Fact or Fiction Worksheet
Descriptive Words
- Label things around your classroom using descriptive words.
Family Words
Favourite Fairytales Cover Sheet
Graphic Organiser: Cause and Effect
Graphic Organiser: Cyclical Pattern
Graphic Organiser: Five Ws
Graphic Organiser: Idea Web
Graphic Organiser: KWL Chart
Graphic Organiser: Overlapping Concepts
Graphic Organiser: Sequence of Events
Hansel and Gretel
Heroes in Literature
Fun Awards
- Give this out to students as a reward.
How to Nurture a Love of Reading in Preschoolers
Information Report
- Find information in the report that can be placed in the Report Plan.
Jungle Maze
Kindergarten 'Super Cool' Book Reviews
King Pig's Crimes Activity 1
King Pig's Crimes Activity 2
King Pig's Crimes Sorry Activity
King Pig's Sentence Jumbles
Laugh Out Loud Jokes Activities
Literary Dice: Beginnings
Literary Dice: Endings
Literary Dice: Vowels
Lucky Book Facts
- Teach students about finding and recording book information.
Lucky Design a Book Cover
Lucky Find-A-Book
- A fun alphabet activity.
Lucky's Adventures
- A great creative writing resource.
Lucky's Schoolbag
- Introduction to your students' favourite books.
Make Your Own Postcard blackline master
Map of the World
Match the Pirate Pictures and Words
Mirror Pairs
My Christmas Day
My Family s Summer Reading Tree
My Favourite Fairytale
My Holiday Adventure!
My Library
My Summer Reading Target
One World, Many Stories Cultural Heritage Day Invitation
Our Favourite Book
- An introduction to book reviews.
Parent's Guide to Literacy
Tips for parents of early and independent readers.
Parts of a Book
Parts of a Book Worksheet
Patterns in Language
Pirate Classroom Quiz
Poetry for early learners
- Use The Colour Poem to introduce poetry to young learners.
Possum Magic
- A great activity tying in to Mem Fox's award-winning book.
Possum Magic
Party Ideas
Preview and Predict Worksheet
Procedure
- Paste these pictures in the correct order.
Reading Is Everywhere
- Great activities for your classroom.
Reef Word Find
Readers are Winners Reading Log Book
Encourage your students to set a new personal best! A personal logbook in which they can record their reading achievements. Simply print both pages, photocopy double-sided and fold to create the four-page A5 booklet.
Readers are Winners Bookmarks
Encourage your students to set their own reading goals. Five bookmarks per template.
Readers are Winners Certificate
Recognition for those who achieve their goals.
Reading in the Home Booklet
Especially for teachers and parents of Wombat-age children, a booklet of helpful tips for encouraging the youngest readers.Simply print both pages, photocopy double-sided and fold to create the four-page A5 booklet.
Revenge of the Evil Bee
Shape Poems
- What is a diamante?
Sight Words Bingo
Sounds Review
Spike
- Teach students about ways to find a lost pet.
Space Word Search - Easy
Sports Reporter
- Teach students the art of sports reporting.
Spot the Difference
- A fun Easter activity.
Story Map Clock
Story Strips
Summer Reading Buddies
The Enormous Crocodile Wanted Poster
The Enormous Crocodile Adjectives Worksheet
There Was an Old Lady - Make a Book
Twister Flash Cards
Recount - What did you do on your last holiday?
Recount Identify the parts of a recount passage
Talk Like a Pirate
The 'ack' Family
The 'ail' Family
The 'ain' Family
The 'ake' Family
The 'an' Family
The 'ap' Family
The 'ash' Family
The 'at' Family
The 'ay' Family
The 'ell' Family
The 'ice' Family
The 'ick' Family
The 'ill' Family
The 'in' Family
The 'ing' Family
The 'ot' Family
Tips for Parents of Emergent and Early Readers
Tips for Parents of Early and Independent Readers
What Rhymes with?
Wonky Donkey Words
Word Building 'ack' Family
Word Building 'and' Family
Word Building 'at' Family
Word Building 'ell' Family
Word Building 'et' Family
Word Building 'ice' Family
Word Building 'ick' Family
Word Building 'in' Family
Word Building 'ing' Family
Word Building 'ock' Family
Word Building 'ot' Family
Word Families and Nursery Rhymes
Word Family Bingo
Word Family Lists
Tips for Parents of Emergent and Early Readers
Vocabulary and Spelling
- A fun introduction to spelling and vocabulary.
Wombat Stew Parts of a Book
HSIE/SOSE
Aboriginal Tools
All Things Australian
Aboriginal Culture
Australian Animal Bingo
Australia at a Glance
Australian Heroes-1
Australian Heroes-2
Australia's Heritage-1
Australia's Heritage-2
Australian Fact File
Australian Flags
Be an Energy Saver
Bindi Wildlife Adventures Teaching Support Kit
Book Week Bridge
Book Week Greetings Postcard
Bush Foods
Candy Cane Mouse
Character Profile
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Proverbs
Christmas Activities - A Set of 11 Blackline Masters
City and Country
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Community
Colour in Australia
- Introduction to the map of Australia.
Country Profile
Creating Compost
Flip-o-Rama
'Cuz' Worksheet
'Deadly' Worksheet
Design an Animal
Didgeridoo
Dot Painting - Boomerang
Diwali Flower Garland
Earth Day Colouring Page
Endangered Animal Report
Family Member Profile
Flags
Flags
- Design a flag with colours and symbols.
Flags with the Southern Cross
Felt Chinese Fortune Cookies
Goodbye, Adios
- Teach your students three different languages!
Graphic Organiser: Cause and Effect
Graphic Organiser: Cyclical Pattern
Graphic Organiser: Five Ws
Graphic Organiser: Idea Web
Graphic Organiser: KWL Chart
Graphic Organiser: Overlapping Concepts
Graphic Organiser: Sequence of Events
Great Barrier Reef Warning Sign
Great Barrier Reef Who Owns the Reef?
Headband Reindeer Antlers
Heroes Around the World
Heroes-Debating the Issue
Holiday Tree
How Much Rubbish Is Around Your School?
How to Use Chopsticks
Hunting and Gathering Worksheet
The History of Australia's Coat of Arms
How can we make activities safer ?
I Can Draw an Elephant Worksheet
Icons and Symbols Memory Game
Invertebrate Study
King Pig's Sentence Jumbles
Label the Cyclone Diagram
Living in Harmony: Set of 8 Blackline Masters
Lucky Money Envelopes
Make Your Own Chinese Paper Lanterns
Map of the World
Traditional Flowers
Make a Carton Pirate Ship
Make Your Own Cyclone in a Bottle
Make Your Own Dilly Bag
Map of Australia
Mapping Your Community
Match the Pirate Pictures and Words
Mirror Pairs
My Family s Recycling Report
National Park Worksheet
One World, Many Stories Cultural Heritage Day Invitation
Ostrich is a desert animal
- Draw a line to correct body parts of ostrich.
Our Nation
- Help students learn Australia's states and capital cities.
Our National Flag
Pirate Classroom Quiz
Pirate Hat
Pirate Hook
Pirate Ship
Portrait of a Hero
Rangoli Design ' Circle Pattern
Rangoli Design ' Flower Pattern
Rangoli Design ' Mirror Pattern
Rangoli Design ' Square Pattern
Rangoli Design ' Swirl Pattern
Recycling - Do You Know What Items Can Be Recycled?
School Comparison
School Then and Now
Seasonal Local Guide Template
Summer Clothes
Superheroes
Toilet Roll Christmas Angel
Uluru Plants and Animals
Unsung Heroes
Water-Wise Contract
Winter Clothes
What Am I?
What Is a Hero?
Where Does Rubbish Go?
Where do you belong?
PE/H/PD
A Good Friend
All About Me
- A great way for students to express themselves. Also a great start of the year introduction.
Book Week Bridge
Brown Paper Bag Family Memories
Community Patchwork
Caring for Your Pet
Confidence
Exercise Dice
Feelings Worksheet
Food Club
- Students will learn to identify similar food types with this fun resource.
Food Pyramid
- A great resource to help students learn about healthy eating.
Friendship Fact File
- A great way to see what students have in common with each other.
The Friendship File blackline master
Friendship Flag
- Design a classroom flag with your class.
From Farm to Table
- A fun food-related activity.
Grandfriends Day
- Great activities to honour community elders.
Graphic Organiser: Cause and Effect
Graphic Organiser: Cyclical Pattern
Graphic Organiser: Five Ws
Graphic Organiser: Idea Web
Graphic Organiser: KWL Chart
Graphic Organiser: Overlapping Concepts
Graphic Organiser: Sequence of Events
Human Body Basics
- An introduction to parts of the human body for younger students.
Human Body Word Search
- An easy exercise for students learning about the human body.
I Am Special
I'm Feeling
Labelled and Unlabelled Simple Rocket
Make a Healthy Choice
My Pet
Our Friendship Chain Links us Together
Outdoor Activities
Play Safe Rules
- This great resource will help studentsdistinguish between safe play and unsafe play.
Pyramid Relay
Water Safety
- Teach students the importance of safety near water.
What healthy foods do you eat ?
You're A Star
Science & Technology
Animal Coverings
- Can you put each animal in the correct category?
Animal Families
Animal Patterns 1
Animal Patterns 2
Animal Report Worksheet
Aussie Invention
Australian Animal Bingo
Baby Animals
Big and Little Planets
Bindi Wildlife Adventures Teaching Support Kit
Bingo Calling Cards
Book Week Bridge
Cicada Blackline Master
Cicada Life Cycle
Classifying Endangered Animals Worksheet
Colour in the Aussie Invention
Design a New Star Constellation
Dinosaurs - Set of 8 Blackline Masters
Dinosaur Mobile
Earth Inside Cross-Section
Earth's Tectonic Plate Experiment
Easy Chewy Anzac Biscuit Recipe
Elephant Mask Pattern
Endangered Animal Report
Environment
Environment Threats
- What are the threats to the beach?
Favourite Animal
Flip-o-Rama
Freshwater Animals
- Fun activities that help students learn about freshwater animals.
Frog Life Cycle
Graphic Organiser: Cause and Effect
Graphic Organiser: Cyclical Pattern
Graphic Organiser: Five Ws
Graphic Organiser: Idea Web
Graphic Organiser: KWL Chart
Graphic Organiser: Overlapping Concepts
Graphic Organiser: Sequence of Events
Great Barrier Reef Collage Template
Great Barrier Reef Ocean Currents
Great Barrier Reef Warning Signs
Green Sea Turtle
- Celebrate Sea Week!
Inventions: What Is It?
Koalas
- Join the dots to see what is in the tree!
Label a Croc
Label the Cyclone Diagram
Label the Planets
Land or Water?
Let's Be Water Wise
- Fun water-related activities for your class.
Make Your Own Cyclone in a Bottle
Match the Bilby Fact
Matching Spider and Web Patterns
Minibeasts Lesson Plan
My Animal Report
My Family's Recycling Report
My Place in Space
Our Amazing Sun - Cut and Paste
Patterns in Nature
Picture This
Phases of the Moon - Cut and Paste
Puffin Outline
Rainbows
- A research project to find the whys and wherefores of rainbows.
Rainforest Riddle Template
Sand and Water
Sandcastle Design Template
Sandcastle Design Template 2
Scissor Skills: Spider
Simple Science
- Introduction to the world of science.
Space Memory Game
Space Memory Game - Easy
Space Word Search - Easy
Space Timeline Worksheet
Spider Pattern
Spinning Bucket Experiment - Outdoor Science!
Sumatran Tiger Fact Sheet
Tectonic Plates Map of the World
Ten Little Quolls, All in a Line
Time for Trees
Trees
- Trace over the words and colour in the picture!
Universal Words
The Water Cycle
Weather Chart
Weather Colouring-In
- A colouring-in activity for rainy days.
Weather Teacher's Notes
- A resource to help you with your weather theme.
Weather Word Pictures
- A great weather tie-in.
Wet and Dry
What Am I? Hills Hoist
What do you know about deserts?
- Fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.
What Food Is This?
- A great introduction to writing and where food comes from.