An activity children can do independently or at home. Ordering trees by size. Great for fine motor control when cutting and gluing.

Individual and group reading trackers where you can note down books and comments on childs reading.

Titles for planning wall

Children to use WB pens or counters to cover the sound they have (that the adult has said) First one to cover all sounds – shouts “bingo” and is the winner Great way to see if children know their sounds and making teaching sounds FUN!

Real and Alien words game Print and stick aliens onto small bin (baskets) Basket of real & alien words for children to read. Real words go into Tim bin Alien words go into Mit bin Great for helping children segment and blend the simple words and decide if it is a real word or an alien word (great to support children going into Year1 for phonics test)

Scissor/Cutting skills Halloween themed activity to help children use scissors and have better motor control.

Halloween initial sounds worksheet for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. A great way to link Halloween into your phonics sessions.

Ordering numbers 1-10 themed for Halloween Children in the Early Years Foundation stages and KS1

Addition to 5 in a Halloween theme

Halloween themed addition to 10 for children in the EYFS and/or KS1

Pictures to help children with initial sounds

Simple CVC words themed for Halloween (cat, bat, hat, web, rat, bug).

Children to draw or cut/stick pictures of their family onto the family tree. Children love talking about their family! A great topic in the EYFS - All about us

Name cards for around your classroom for children to use.

Different ways of showing and/or explaining numbers. Every day we focus on a different number - we look at the numeral(number), name, counting it, showing it on a 10s frame, on a dice, showing how to tally it, 1 more and 1 less.

Initial sounds using Christmas pictures.

Addition to 5 using Christmas pictures

Worksheet for children to recognise numbers in a range of ways. Roll it, write it, tally it, and show it number work

Positional Language cards to help children understand the language

Woodland hunt - children to explore woodland area and look out for certain things