These fun activity sheets were created to celebrate #WorldSpaceWeek 2023 (October 4–10). They feature cute and colourful clip art and invite students to make as many words as they can from the letters in ‘astronaut’. The simpler sheet encourages students to complete the countdown by finding ten words. A sneaky way to squeeze in some spelling! There are colour and ink-saving versions of activity and answer sheets. Also check out the Teachers Telling Tales free Planet Anagrams / solar system spelling activity. You may also like this fun Alien poem reading and drawing activity: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-alien-read-and-draw-12166304

A picture story book and linked activities for children who have to stay at home during school closures as a result of the corona virus pandemic. The story is based on the familiar tale of the three little pigs and uses humour while reinforcing important messages about keeping safe and healthy. Activities include matching, colouring, creating signs and writing ideas. All the resources including the story are free to download and share. Please take the time to add a review if you find them helpful and share your children’s work related to the story on the Teachers Telling Tales page.

Skills: These activities are good for counting with 1-1 correspondence, beginning to count in twos, beginning to notice patterns (doubles and halves). Pointing to each foot or sock will help with accuracy and children can also circle or cross off objects when they count to help keep track. Contents: Worksheets worksheets ‘Animals Love Socks’ and ‘If Minibeasts Wore Socks’ (colour and ink saving versions included) Colouring pages, sock-topus and incey wincey spider for designing socks. Teacher’s Guide These resources are great for awareness days: #oddsocksday November 16th (part of Anti-bullying Week) #LotsOfSocksDay 21st March (World Down Syndrome Day) Related resources are available from Teachers Telling Tales, including an Odd Socks pack, sock-themed repeat patterns and Fantastic Footwear which includes templates for socks and a variety of shoes and themed design challenge task cards. You can purchase a bundle at a discounted price.

Having a theme for each day is a good way to build community with a group of learners, especially when teaching online. It adds structure to the week and gives students an opportunity to participate. This pack contains alliterative ideas for each day, such as ‘tongue-twister Tuesday’ or ‘fact or fiction Friday’. There is inspiration for starter activities, quizzes, a range of subject areas and fun dressing up activities. Ideas can be printed on individual cards for each day or a chart for the week to add to your wall or stick in your planner. The cards come with UK and US spelling versions, A4 and letter size. Charts also in UK/US spelling with landscape and portrait variations. PDF and PNG files (so you can adjust the size to suit). New Update (22.01.21) Now includes example cards for Would You Rather, This or That and Friday Faves, blank cards for each day and lists of discussion points for Would You Rather and This or That. Further Update (28.08.22) Printable cards for Would You Rather (new examples) and This or That for one-to-one or small group discussion. I found these helpful for social games working in alternative provision.

Celebrate #WorldBeeDay with some bee-themed handwriting patterns and cutting skills! For more minibeast-themed resources including card and board games, mazes, sudoku and book making check out https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/minibeasts-big-bug-bundle-12340248 Teachers Telling Tales also have a free bee-themed maths activity here which can be adapted for different ages and abilities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/buzz-off-square-numbers-multistep-game-12521661