Foundation Year Teaching Resources
Teach Starter has an extensive collection of Foundation year resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. They have been created for primary school children aged four through to six years, featuring simple and clear layouts, minimal text, interactive elements, appealing images and colourful illustrations. The collection encompasses a range of resource types and student activities including worksheets, posters, educational games, interactive PowerPoints, engaging widgets and so much more! Using Teach Starter resources in your classroom will help your foundation students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults, assisting with the development of independence, speaking, listening, language and comprehension skills as they begin the smooth transition to the early years of school life. In their first year of education, a child should develop understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning, and observe and explore the world around them.
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Build and Write a Sentence – Worksheets
A set of 10 worksheets to enable students to practise building and writing sentences.
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2D Shapes and 3D Objects - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Learn the difference between 2D shapes and 3D objects with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Count and Colour by 3D Objects - Worksheet
Practise identifying 3D objects with a code-based colouring task!
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Printable Person Outline - Craft Template
Create fun likenesses of your students and famous figures with a printable person online template.
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Digraph Handwriting - Worksheets
24 digraph worksheets that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities.
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Colour By Number - Numbers 10-20
An engaging activity to consolidate your students’ recognition of two-digit numbers.
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2D Shape Match
A fun match-up activity to consolidate your students’ knowledge of 2D shapes and their properties.
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Open-Ended Maths Problem Solving PowerPoint - Lower Primary
A PowerPoint with 20 open-ended problem solving questions covering a range of mathematical concepts.
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Pandora's Party Palace Maths Activity – Lower Years
16 mathematics problem solving task cards involving money in a real-world context.
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Visual First-Then Schedule for the Classroom
Communicate a sequence of events with this visual first-then board and set of 48 picture cards.
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Bowerbird Colouring Sheets
Celebrate the wonderful world of birds with this set of Bowerbird mindful colouring pages.
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We're Going On a Shape Hunt! Graphing Game
Consolidate students' knowledge of 2D shapes while teaching about data collection, recording and graphing!
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Observing Matter - Foundation Year Science Game
Practise observing the properties of matter with an engaging science game for foundation year students.
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Months of the Year Worksheets - Ordering
Use these Months of the Year printables to help your students with the months of the year.
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Four Seasons Tree Activity
Create a visual representation of the 4 seasons with a printable tree template.
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Days of the Week Poster
Display the days of the week with a bright and cheery Days of the Week Poster.
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Story Beginning, Middle and End - Graphic Organiser
Help your students write and draw about the beginning, middle and end of stories with this set of differentiated graphic organisers.
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Aiming For Inference Posters
Six mini posters showing different scenarios that can be used when encouraging students to use inference.
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Telling the Time Clock Template
Start telling time to the nearest five-minute increment with a hands-on printable clock template.
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Maths Symbols Posters with Vocabulary
A set of posters depicting the vocabulary related to each mathematical operation.
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Managing Emotions Mini-Book
Help your early years students explore and manage their emotional responses with this printable mini-book.
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Capitalise It! Task Cards
Reinforce capitalisation of proper nouns, the pronoun ‘I’ and the beginning of sentences with this set of task cards.
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Complete the Sentences – Worksheets for Beginning Writers
A set of 10 worksheets for students to practise completing simple sentences.
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How Long Does It Take? – Seconds, Minutes & Hours Worksheets
Estimate the duration of time it takes to complete an action with a pair of Seconds, Minutes, or Hours? Cut and Sort Worksheets.
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Volume and Capacity Sort Game
A volume and capacity sort game for lower grades.
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Report Card Comments
Sample report card comments for General, English and Mathematics.
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Colour Me Carefully Worksheets
A set of four colouring pages to be used as speaking and listening activities.
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Apple Tree Addition and Subtraction Mat
Solve addition and subtraction problems up to 10 with a hands-on apple maths centre.
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Interactive Google Slides Activity - Who Am I? 2D Shapes
This interactive digital teaching resource helps students to recognise and name 2D shapes in component parts of everyday items in their environment.
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Friendship Flower Template
Reflect on how a good friend acts with this charming friendship writing exercise.
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Positional Words Interactive PowerPoint
A game-like interactive PowerPoint that explores positional language.
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Count and Graph – Fruity Treats
A fruit-themed hands-on activity to introduce graphing skills.