Wordle for Kids - Spellie

Are you a big Wordle fan like me? Do you get stuck into Wordle, Quordle, Octordle, Sedecordle or any of the other variants? 

Did you know that there’s a child-friendly version? It’s called Spellie. It was created by a Canadian dad who felt his 5 year old could solve Wordle if it had words within her vocabulary range. This also means that Spellie contains age-appropriate words that don’t thwart their innocence! It has three different levels available daily. Here are examples of yesterday’s daily puzzles: 

EASY:

MEDIUM:

HARD:

It also has the following settings to make it more accessible to students with different needs. 

Though not specifically designed for children, another great Wordle variant is “Worldle” where you have to identify a country when given a silhouette. The site is ad-free so looks to be child-friendly. 

Below is a screenshot, explaining how Worldle works. 

These could be lovely challenges in your classroom. If you’d like QR codes to print so your students can easily access them, click here! 

If you’d prefer an editable version, click here to create a copy of my file in Google Slides (already set up for A4 paper).

FREE International Events Calendar 2022-2023 for Teachers

I've just updated my FREE editable calendar featuring international events taking place in the 2022-2023 school year such as international celebrations, UN events, religious festivals and others...  Feel free to delete what you are not interested and add celebrations related to the country you are in! Some of the events include links to websites about them. 

Download the file for free from my TPT store by clicking here!

The FIFA World Cup will be taking place from 21st November to 18th December. If you're interested in my World Cup resources, have a look at my blog post about those.

FIFA World Cup 2022 Teaching Resources and Activities

The FIFA World Cup is on it's way. It will take place from 21st November to 18th December 2022 in Qatar. If you want to follow it with your class, download this free A3 wall planner where they can record the scores:

FREE FIXTURES WALL CHART:

I've also created a pack with over 100 pages of teaching resources, posters, flashcards, worksheets, sample lesson plans, lesson ideas, bunting, word searches etc. The lesson plans and related resources are most suitable for upper/middle primary school. 

The full contents are:

• 2 title posters (FIFA World Cup)
• Groups posters
• Flashcards with names of each participating country
• Sweepstake kit
• Bunting for the children to colour
• Table quiz questions and answer sheet
• Maths lesson plan, worksheets and self-assessment sheet
• English lesson plan and prompt cards
• PE lesson plan and station teaching cards
• Science lesson plan
• Geography lesson plan and project template
• Visual arts lesson plans and ideas
• Drama lesson plan and related resource materials
• Music lesson plan and related resource materials
• Flag hunt sheet and solution sheet
• 2 differentiated word searches with solution sheets

Here's an idea of some of the contents:

Some things to note:

-The geography project is in the same format as that of my previous Rugby World Cup/UEFA Euros/FIFA World Cup resource packs

-Some of the objectives in the lesson plans include objectives from the Irish primary school curriculum. These should be easily adaptable to any primary/elementary school curriculum. These are the same lesson plans as in my UEFA Euro 2016 and FIFA World Cup 2018 packs.

If you're interested in this pack, you can get it for $3.50 (about €3.40) from my TPT store.

If you're an Irish teacher - there's also a separate pack with a leagan Gaeilge (Irish language version) of the posters, flashcards, bunting, project template and sweepstake kit available on its own for $2 (approx €1.95) or as a 166 page bumper pack with this English-language pack for $4 (approx €3.90). See the preview below for some of the contents.