Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
A bundle of 10 fun Chirstmas activities suitable across Key Stage Two. Select individual activities or create your own Christmas activity booklet.
Plan a Christmas party with a budget.
Mindfulness colouring.
Christmas elf and bauble colouring and craft.
Spell check a Christmas letter (activities for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6).
Addition and subtraction Christmas trees.
Christmas story writing.
Snowflake symmetry.
Sorting the 12 days of Christmas.
Rearranging instructions for a Christmas recipe.
Sort and identify Merry Christmas in different languages on map of the world.
These activities are also available as part of our Advent Calendar, along with many more Christmas themed activities.
This fantastic bundle has everything you need to get you through the Christmas season in school. A bundle of activities for those tricky days full of singing rehearsals and Christmas parties and a full code breaker lesson to add some festive cheer to your Maths lessons.
This fantastic bundle has everything you need to get you through the Christmas season in school. A bundle of activities for those tricky days full of singing rehearsals and Christmas parties and a full code breaker lesson to add some festive cheer to your Maths lessons.
New and improved for 2024
Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems using formal written methods in order to crack the Christmas themed codes. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a missing number addition problem.
Code breaker activity with three levels of differentiation.
Addition and subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers involving some carrying for addition and no exchanging for subtraction.
Addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers involving carrying for addition and exchanging for subtraction.
Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers involving carrying for addition and exchanging for subtraction.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation, challenges 1 and 2 involve missing number calculations. Challenge 3 involves word problems using different words to mean addition and subtraction.
Answers.
Looking for more Christmas themed activities? Try our KS2 Advent Calendar or our KS2 activity bundle.
New and improved for 2024
Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems using formal written methods in order to crack the Christmas themed codes. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistakes’ activity.
Code breaker activity with three levels of differentiation.
Addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with up to 6 digit numbers.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. The challengese include spotting the mistakes, following written clues to fill in a keypad and completing the Christmas maths story with Maths problems within the story.
Answers.
Looking for more Christmas themed activities? Try our KS2 Advent Calendar or our KS2 activity bundle.
Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve a range of mental and written code breaker problems using the four operations. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistake’ task.
Code breaker activity where students read and solve clues to crack three padlock codes, before using formal written methods, times tables and related division facts to crack the final code. The activity sheets have three levels of differentiation:
– Addition and subtraction with 1, 2 and 3 digit numbers. 2, 5 and 10 times tables problems.
– Addition and subtraction up to 3 digit numbers. 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables problems and their related division facts.
– Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers, a mix of times tables problems and their related division facts, formal written methods for multiplication and division.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. Challenge 1 involves spotting the mistakes in addition and subtraction problems (3 digits), challenge 2 requires students to complete a Maths story, solving problems along the way. Finally, challenge 3 gives students the chance to solve a range of clues to fill in the mystery keypad.
Answers included.
This fantastic lesson is aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve a range of mental and written code breaker problems using the four operations.
This code breaker resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistake’ task.
Code breaker activity where students read and solve clues to crack three padlock codes, before using formal written methods, multiplication and division problems to crack the final code. The activity sheets have three levels of differentiation.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. Challenge 1 involves spotting the mistakes in addition and subtraction problems (3 digits), challenge 2 requires students to solve Maths riddles. Finally, challenge 3 gives students the chance to solve a range of clues to fill in the mystery keypad.
Answers included.
The activities and answers are downloaded as PDF files