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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
These pond life ID cards are the perfect addition to your trip down to explore the pond. Simply print them off, laminate them and have them available for the next time you head down to investigate this fascinating habitat.
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This resource is the perfect addition to our ‘Underwater Viewer’ pond investigation.
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Introduce a refreshing twist to your sessions with this Phase 5 phonics activity. It provides students with ample practice in decoding words and identifying sounds within them. During the activity, students venture outdoors to hunt for word cards, bringing them back to place on the appropriate sound map. This resource contains Phonics Phase 5 sounds.
Check out our Phase 2 ‘Match The Sound’ activity.
Check out our Phase 3 ‘Match The Sound Activity’.
Check out our phase 4 'Match The Sound Activity.
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These tree ID cards for the UK and Europe are the perfect addition to your outdoor classroom. Simply print them off, laminate them and have them available for the students to take outside to help them identify the the trees in your outdoor area.
Check out our other ID Guides.
- British Woodland and Garden Birds ID Guide
- North American Woodland Birds ID Guide
- 24 Pond Life ID Cards
- Butterfly ID Guide
- A4 Pond Life Identification Sheet
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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 2 - 3. The bar model is great to help children visualize and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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**Download the full pack here: **Problem Solving Easter Addition and Subtraction Bar Model Word Problems.
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A set of Easter themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the ‘part-part-whole’ bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 1 - 2. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
Have a fantastic Easter break!
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Whether it’s blowing a gale, raining or bright sunshine this is the perfect lesson to encourage descriptive writing through the use of figurative language. The weather is such a powerful learning tool that can spark worlds of imagination. For this activity you will take the students outside in a variety of different conditions and allow them to use their senses to come up with similes, metaphors, and alliteration to describe the conditions.
This is a great activity to do before writing a story when thinking about setting descriptions.
We have loads more weather themed resources to check out!
- Weather Diary
- Weather Investigation
- Weather Word Wall
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This is a great bingo activity for Halloween to get your students exploring the outdoors as they hunt for all the different creepy critters, sounds, and feelings they can find in your outdoor space. They’ll use all of their senses to complete their bingo sheet as they, listen, look, and feel for different things.
A useful resource that can be laminated and taken outside for your students to explore and identify different mini-beasts.
This resource fits in perfectly with our outdoor science activities.
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A FREE sample of our Christmas themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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Observing weather changes over time is simple but fascinating and a great learning experience for students where they will look at measuring and reading scales before presenting their results in a line graph (for the older children). For this activity they will record the temperature everyday for a week.
There is two activity sheets. One where they record the temperature once a day, the other where they will record the temperature twice a day.
You may also be interested in our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt.
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A great FREE activity for Halloween, a topic on African tribes, or just for fun, this mask activity will let your class’ imagination run wild. After completing the design sheet then choosing and cutting out a template they will head outside to find natural materials that they’ll use to create their mask.
Sticking the natural materials onto the mask is a great temporary solution for this activity, however if you want them to last longer it is a good idea to then laminate the masks.
Resources needed:
Design sheet
Crayons
Templates
Scissors
Glue
Stapler (optional)
Laminator (optional)
-Outdoor space with
natural materials
Check out our other outdoor Halloween resources:
My Magical Potion
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Liven up your spelling list homework with this fun outdoor spelling activity sheet. Simply get the children to write down their spelling lists and take the activity sheet home to complete the challenges. The activities require very few resources and should be done easily at home or in a local outdoor area.
You may also like ‘20 Outdoor Challenges To Do Before I’m 8’.
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This activity is a great starting point to get your students’ eyes into spotting and continuing patterns. They will head outside with the differentiated task cards to create and continue the pattern given to them. This can then be photographed or simply acknowledged!
This pack contains three differentiated levels.
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Resources needed:**
Differentiated pattern task cards
Natural materials (leaves, sticks, and stones)
Get outside and enjoy learning with your class!
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Unlock creativity and enhance descriptive writing skills through this engaging personification activity. Nature serves as a rich source for improving descriptive writing, particularly when incorporating personification. This hands-on exercise provides students with the opportunity to experiment with personification while immersing themselves in the natural world.
Check out our Outdoor Onomatopoeia Activity!
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This free activity is a great way to get your class thinking about which foods create a healthy balanced diet as part of your health and nutrition topic. They will take a look in their lunch box to see what goodies are waiting for them and investigate the sugar content of each item using our sugar sheet, food packages, and the internet for research.
They will then complete the results table and answer some simple questions getting them to think carefully about what’s in their lunchbox, if it’s healthy, and what they could do to make it even healthier.
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Sugar Sheet
Results Table & Questions
This activity also has great links to addition with decimals.
Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic.
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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
Check out the full pack here.
A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for grades 1 - 2. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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This activity is a great lesson to do before our ‘simple addition’ task cards as it’s slightly more adult led. Students will look at dividing a group of sticks into equal groups and seeing if there are any left over. It’s a great way to introduce multiplication and division to your students in a very visual and practical way.
Teaching directions:
Give your students an amount of time (1-2 minutes works well) to collect as many sticks as they can.
Come back together with their sticks and get them to work through the differentiated worksheets.
You can either let students complete the worksheet individually / in small groups or go through the worksheet as a group or class together.
As you go through the sheet, try to introduce them to vocabulary such as ‘divide, division, share, remainder, etc.
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Easter Maths Activity Freebie! This download is one differentiated puzzle from the following product:
A fun Easter maths activity for grades 1 – 2 which consists of differentiated maths puzzles that make Easter themed shapes where children must work out the answers to questions to match the pieces together. This is a perfect activity for fun revision lessons as you are winding down for the holidays!
This pack contains four puzzles that are differentiated 2 ways (8 puzzles in total), which cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Contents:
- Addition puzzle X 2
- Subtraction puzzle X2
- Division puzzle X 2
- Multiplication puzzle X 2
Although each puzzle is differentiated, you can also change the level of challenge by asking the children to work out the answers in their head or by allowing them to write down their workings out.
If you like this freebie why not check out our complete Easter Maths Puzzles Bundle for grades 1 - 6!
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Minibeast hunts are great fun and easy to do. Print out the sheet for your students to take into your outdoor space and mark off the minibeasts as they find them.
It’s great if you can provide a magnifying glass so they can look at all the amazing details of each minibeast.
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It’s time for an adjective hunt! This activity will get your student thinking about adjectives for all letters of the alphabet in and around your outdoor space.
Simply provide your students with the activity sheet and let them walk around your outdoor or indoor space and think of adjectives for each letter of the alphabet to describe items they can see.
This activity is great to be used as an extension challenge for your early finishers.
Check out our fun phonics word searches here!
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