Get muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures. Explain to your class that they will be creating a character using mud and other natural materials. You can either let them create whatever they like or get them to create a character from a book they’ve recently read. Once they’ve created their character they’ll either take a picture or draw it on the sheets and complete the blanks to describe their character. Extension: Get them to draw or tell a story involving the character they created. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A set of 5 NO PREP worksheets using the bar model to look at inverse operations. 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 while giving them loads of practise at using it to solve inverse operation problems. Contents 5 differentiated inverse operation worksheets + answer key. Check out our grade 1 inverse operations worksheets. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A set of 4 NO PREP worksheets using the bar model to look at inverse operations. 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 while giving them loads of practise at using it to solve inverse operation problems. Contents 4 differentiated inverse operation worksheets. Check out our grade 1 Bar Model addition worksheets here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These space themed task cards gets your students looking at fact families through the very popular bar model. This pack contains 12 task cards where they must use the bar model to help them to complete each fact family with bonds to 20 and 30. You can use the task cards in lots of different ways. We love to hide them around our outdoor space and get the students to go on a scavenger hunt to find the cards while filling in the answer sheet. The bar model is a great visual way to help students solve problems. Check out our grade 1 Bar Model addition worksheets here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These space themed task cards gets your students looking at fact families through the very popular bar model. This pack contains 12 task cards where they must use the bar model to help them to complete each fact family with bonds to 100 and 200. You can use the task cards in lots of different ways. We love to hide them around our outdoor space and get the students to go on a scavenger hunt to find the cards while filling in the answer sheet. The bar model is a great visual way to help students solve problems. Check out our Bar Model fact families operations task cards for year 2 here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These 12 outdoor spellings task cards are a great way to spice up your spelling lessons. Students will go outside and practice their spelling lists through a range of fun and practical activities. Print out the task cards, laminate them, and then hand them out to the students. Once a student has completed an activity they can come back and swap their card for a new activity. It’s a good idea to keep track of which activities the students have done so that they don’t end up repeating the same ones. Check out our Phonics and Handwriting Dice Game for phase 2 - 5 sounds. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This session is best done in autumn when there is a significant difference between the trees. It’s also important to ensure that there are coniferous / evergreen trees in the area where you’re doing this activity. Once the students have completed the sheet we suggest they are laminated to make them last. It can make a fantastic display! Equipment needed: Resource sheets Internet access / tree identification sheets or books Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

13 visual animal adaptations vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid. Contents 13 X Key Vocabulary Cards Display Title 2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own) Vocabulary Included Adaptation Camouflage Carnivore Endangered Species Extinct Habitat Herbivore Instinct Mimicry Omnivore Predator Prey Behaviour Check out our other Word Walls: - Forces and Motion - The Rock Cycle - Weather & The Water Cycle Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun activity to experiment with measuring and units of measure. Children will find objects to measure in your outdoor space, however instead of using standard units of measure, they’ll create their own wonderful units of measure, for example, leaves. If they chose leaves as their units of measurement they’d use a leaf to measure the item and record their answers in the table. As an extension students can convert their ‘weird units’ to cm. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun activity to experiment with measuring and units of measure. Children will find objects to measure in your outdoor space, however instead of using standard units of measure, they’ll create their own wonderful units of measure, for example, leaves. If they chose leaves as their units of measurement they’d use a leaf to measure the item and record their answers in the table. As an extension students can convert their ‘weird units’ to cm. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Rain is great fun and no reason to stop outdoor learning. This pack contains cross curricular resources and activities that you can do in the rain. So put those waterproofs on and enjoy the rain! This resource includes science, literacy, and math activities for ages 7 - 10. Activities included: Rain Description: Children will go outside and use adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe what they can see, hear, feel and touch. Rain poetry: Children will use their descriptions to write a poem about the rain. It’s great if they can do this outside using a whiteboard or scrap paper before writing it up in neat inside. Rain Gauge Investigation: For this investigation children will design and build their own rain gauge to record the amount of rainfall over a decided period of time. It’s good to give children the chance to experiment with their ideas, however you may need to give them some guidance. We find this investigation works best when done in teams of 3 or 4. You can use these teams to provide differentiation and support by using mixed ability groups. Once they’ve collected their rainfall data they can then answer some questions based on their results as well as input their results into a line graph. Puddle Size: This activity is all about measuring using diameters, radius, and perimeter. Children will find 5 puddles to measure, recording their results onto a line graph before answering some questions on their results. Vibrant Rain: This activity is all about the colors of nature. Children will find different colored natural items, crush them with stones, and use the colors to create some rain art. It’s best to print this activity sheet on card so that it does not get too soggy when using the damp natural resources to paint with.

This is a nice non-fiction writing activity where students will explore your outdoor space while they write their very own nature guide for friends, family, or other students. They will go around your outdoor space and choose four subjects to focus on (trees, animals, habitats, etc.). After carrying out some observations and research (using books / the internet) on each of their chosen subjects they can complete the guide templates. You could laminate their guides or scan them and turn them into QR codes to be displayed in the outdoor area. We hope you find this resource useful and enjoy working outside with your class! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This Parts of a Catholic Mass visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your key vocabulary for your topic and help students learn the key terms. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning. **Key Vocabulary: ** Beatitudes Clean of Heart Hunger Meek Merciful Mourn Peacemakers Poor in Spirit Righteousness Check out our other word searches: - Hail Mary - The Lord’s Prayer - Parts of The Mass Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun and practical concrete addition activity that will help your little ones carry out basic sums using cubes to help them. For this game students will roll the dice, find the corresponding square, complete the addition and stack the correct number of cubes on the square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, complete the addition (using the cubes to help), and stack that many cubes on top of the square. This pack contains three levels of differentiation. Activity sheet 1 – Numbers 3 – 10 Activity sheet 2 - Numbers 5 – 15 Activity sheet 3 – Numbers 5 – 20 Check out our number recognition / counting roll and stack activity. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun and practical concrete subtraction activity that will help your little ones carry out basic subtractions using cubes to help them.For this game students will roll the dice, find the corresponding square, complete the subtraction and stack the correct number of cubes on the square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, complete the subtraction (using the cubes to help), and stack that many cubes on top of the square. This pack contains three levels of differentiation. Activity sheet 1 – Numbers 3 – 10 Activity sheet 2 - Numbers 5 – 15 Activity sheet 3 – Numbers 5 – 16 Check out our roll and stick for: - Number recognition / counting roll and stack activity. - Addition Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is all about measuring circumferences. Children will go outside and find 8 trees to measure the circumference of, recording their answers in the table. It’s good to discuss what the easiest way to measure the circumference of a tree trunk is, hopefully coming to the conclusion that using string is a quick and easy way to measure the circumference. You can either mark out length of string or get them to measure the string after each trunk measurement. Once they’ve recorded the circumference of 8 tree trunks they can then complete the differentiated question sheets. The second sheet has a focus on averages whereas the first sheet focuses on simple questions about the data they’ve collected. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a great spelling / phonics activity to introduce or recap rhyming and initial sounds that can be used in a variety of ways. This pack contains 14 CVC rhyming pairs with visual prompts on each card. Outdoor Activity – Rhyming pairs hunt (whole class or small groups). Cut out and laminate the cards. Hide them around your outdoor space. Get the students to go find as many rhyming pairs as they can. To extend this activity you could get them to write a short poem or sentence using the rhyming pairs that they’ve found. Memory Pairs (in pairs or small groups). Put the cards face down spread out on the table or floor. Taking it in turns, the students will flip over two cards. If they find a rhyming pair they take the cards and have another go, if not then the cards get turned facedown and the next player tries to find a pair. Match The Pairs (individual or pairs). This is a very simple but effective activity where students will simply match the cards with their correct rhyming pair. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a great cross curricular activity where students will create a video tour on the nature around your outdoor area. It’s perfect if you’re looking at script writing, living things (habitats, animals, etc.) and video making. This activity is best done in pairs or small groups. Teaching Structure: Explain to the students that they’re going to create a virtual video tour for nature around your outdoor space. Get them to complete the ideas sheet that encourages them to think about what they may want to include and how they will create the video. It can be good for them to walk around the outdoor space while doing this to help them get ideas. Examples of things they could talk about: different habitats, trees, plants, animals, etc. After this they will complete the script where they’ll write exactly what they are going to say and what video will be played during the audio. Once they’ve completed their script it’s time to film, record the audio, and edit it all together. These videos can be used in loads of different ways. You can create them into QR codes and put them up in your outdoor space, put them online, or simply share them with friends, family or other students. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Long jump subtraction is a fun and practical way for students to get loads of practice with subtraction using the column method while improving their measuring skills. For this outdoor math activity they will perform and measure two long jumps, either by themselves or with a partner and see the difference in distance between the jumps by using column subtraction. For this activity students need to understand how to use the column method for subtraction before taking part in the activity. **Teaching Method: ** Go through the column method for subtraction with the students. Explain that they will be going outside in partners to see how far they can jump and who can jump the furthest. Partner 1 jumps and partner 2 measures how far they’ve jumped. They then swap over and complete the jump before using column subtraction to see the difference in the distances they’ve jumped. This can be done multiple times for them to get lots of practice with column subtraction. This activity can be differentiated by getting students to measure to multiple decimal places. Equipment needed: - Tape measure / equivalent Activity sheets Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming

This is a nice activity to explore the world around us through our 5 senses. It’s great if you’re looking at the human body in science or setting descriptions in literacy. Students will head outside and complete the differentiated sheets as they explore your outdoor space through their 5 senses. It can be nice to do this activity a few times throughout the year in different seasons and weather. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!