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.
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.
This animal themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic.
This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column.
This pack has a fun animal theme with graphics for each statement.
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!
Wild story telling is a great way to let your students’ imaginations run wild as they use natural items they find in your outdoor space to plan and tell their very own wild story. It’s perfect if you’re looking at descriptive language or as a stimulus before they begin to write down their own stories. For this activity they will head outside and collect 6 items that will be used within their story. These items could be imagined into anything from characters in their stories to powerful magical items. Encourage them to collect varied items as this will help when planning their stories.
Once they’ve got their 6 items they can either tape or draw one item per box on the activity sheet. They must now think about what their item could be within their story. You can either get them to include the items in chronological order or allow them to use them randomly within the story. Once they’ve planned their story they can get into small groups and use their activity sheet and items to help them as they tell their wild story to others.
This activity is designed to be done verbally while in your outdoor area. They can plan their stories either individually or in pairs.
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!
Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Harry Kane with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions
Answer key
Check out our other famous footballers reading:
Ronaldo
Messi
Neymar
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!
Who doesn’t love a treasure hunt!? This is a great activity for looking at compass bearings and use as well as instruction writing. For this lesson students will hide some treasure before writing instructions to get from the starting point to the treasure using compass bearings.
Once the instructions are complete they can swap with a friend and see if they can find each other’s treasure.
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 is a fantastic topic or project with links to living things, maths, art, and business. Your class will create their very own business selling seed bombs where they’ll need to create their business before making, advertising, and selling their seed bombs. It’s great if you can also find some space for them to test and use the seed bombs themselves.
This project is fantastic for developing team skills as well as making their learning relevant and meaningful.
**Teaching Structure: **
Read through the instruction sheet explaining that they are going to make a business selling seed bombs. Encourage them to think about the importance of local flowers and the benefits they have on the local wildlife.
Put the students into teams of 4 or 5 and get them to mind map their business ideas (name, who they’ll sell to, how they’ll advertise them etc.).
The following activities and worksheets can be taught in an order which suites you and your class best. Below we have split them into subject areas which best relate to the activities.
**Art / Design: **
Design a logo
Packaging design
**Science: **
Which Flowers: Research which native flowers would be good to include (you can collect or order seeds online).
Make the seed bombs by following the instructions.
Optional: Design their own seed bombs by changing or adding to the ingredients used. They can then re-write the instructions on how to make their own seed bombs. You could go a step further and get them to create a TV advert for their seed bombs.
**Literacy: **
Seed bomb instructions: Highlight the key features of the instructions.
My Seed Bomb instructions: Re-write the seed bomb instructions with their own unique ideas.
Advertisement: Students will create a poster for their seed bombs.
**Math: **
Cost and profits / sale prices: For these activity sheets students will work out how much it costs to produce the seed bombs, decide how much they will sell them for, and figure out their profits.
Sales Report: Students will keep a record of their sales, recording their profits on 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!
This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs.
It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way.
Enjoy!
Contents:
1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting)
2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and
stick)
1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and
stick)
2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written)
4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written)
1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs
Answer Key
Check out our store for more great adverbs resources, including our popular 'Acting Adverbs' game.
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!
A big set of literacy games that are perfect for a mid lesson brain break or as some fun lesson starters to get your classes minds in gear! Each game is designed to help improve literacy skills, from reading to spelling and writing, they have it all!
Contents
- Slides 1 – 15: The Riddle Challenge
- Slides 16 – 34: Amazing Anagrams
- Slides 35 – 41: Describe The Picture
- Slides 42 – 47: The Persuasion Game
- Slides 48 – 55: The Alphabet Game
- Slides 56 – 60: Compare And Contrast
- Slides 61 – 66: Complete The Sentence
------------------------
Enjoy! :)
Teach sentence structure with this fun outdoor scavenger hunt. Each sentence is split into three parts. Simply hide the sentence cards around your outdoor area and get your class to collect the cards and create the sentences. Once they’ve created a sentence they can write it down on the differentiated sentence record sheets.
This is a great activity for students to understand how to create a sentence and the key components of a sentence (subject, verb, and complete thought).
You may also like our ‘Sentence Fixers PowerPoint’.
Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think.
Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Can you have an outdoor learning area without a mud kitchen? These fun labels are the perfect addition for your mud kitchens. Simply print them out, laminate, and stick them around your mud kitchen. Each label comes with a helpful visual to aid those early readers and EAL students.
This pack contains 29 labels as well as an editable version for you to create your own. Click here for the editable version.
You may also like our ‘Mud Kitchen Recipe Cards’.
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 poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose.
I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher.
Contents:
- Scrapbook cover
- Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own)
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet
- ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas
- ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern)
- ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas
- ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern)
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet
- Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem)
-----------------------------------
Your students will love using alliteration with this fun poetry lesson. For this activity they will head outside and choose a variety of different items for them to describe and complete the table. Once they have done a few items they can piece together their alliteration poem.
This lesson will help students to understand what alliteration is and how to use it in their own writing.
Check out our Outdoor Writing Bundle.
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
Who doesn’t love scavenger hunts? This is a great activity to get your students thinking about adjectives and how they can be used to describe things. They will go on a hunt to find objects that match the adjectives in the table. It’s a great way to introduce adjectives to your class or just as a fun recap activity.
Resources needed:
Scavenger hunt sheet
Clipboard (optional)
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 outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think carefully about the differences between facts and opinions as they produce their own statements with about your outdoor area.
Students will go to your outdoor area (this can also be done inside) and complete the table by writing facts in the left column and opinions in the right column about the area you are using. This activity is great when done both in pairs and individually.
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!
It’s time for a Christmas themed outdoor scavenger hunt! This simple activity will get your students exploring the outdoors while they find items that start with each letter of the word ‘Christmas’. This activity is perfect as a brain break, extension, or fun Christmas party 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.
Autumn is a wonderful time of year where there are a lot of changes happening. This can be a fantastic opportunity to look at poetry and description. These lessons will get your students looking descriptive language and adjectives to describe the world around them through an acrostic poem.
They will look at adjectives and other descriptive techniques to describe autumn before writing their own acrostic poems.
Part 1: Get the students to go outside to find the most interesting leaf they can. They will then stick the leaf in the middle of the worksheet and write adjectives / descriptive phrases around the outside to describe the leaf.
Part 2: This lesson is all about thinking of adjectives and descriptive phrases to describe Autumn. They must find somewhere outside (ideally around trees) and use their descriptive language techniques to describe the changes happening in autumn.
Part 3: It’s now time for the students to write their acrostic poems using the descriptive language they’ve been looking at. This pack contains a few different poem templates for them to use.
Love teaching outdoors?
Check out our year of outdoor home learning challenges 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!
This is a great resource to introduce or recap rhyming that can be used in a variety of ways. This pack contains 32 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.
This video comprehension takes a look at the ozone layer and its depletion. Your students will watch a video where they will learn about what the ozone layer is as well as what is damaging it and the issues that this has on life on Earth before answering a set of questions about what they’ve just seen.
This pack contains 3 levels of differentiation as well as an extension activity where they will draw a diagram to show how the ozone layer works.
What is video comprehension?
Our video comprehension series is designed to facilitate the learning of those students who find reading tricky. It allows them to access the same level of learning without the need to read large amounts of information as they will watch a video on the topic rather than reading large amounts of text. We have found it especially helpful with our SEN students.
Each set is differentiated three times. With the first level of differentiation requiring them to simply circle the correct answers.
These worksheets work best if each student has their own device as they can re-watch parts of the video to find the correct answers. However if you don’t have one device per students or pair we have done this with great success by having the video on repeat on the board / tv at the front of the classroom.
These activities are also perfect for home and distance learning.
We are constantly expanding our range of video comprehension worksheets so be sure to check back frequently for new resources.
Check out our other video comprehension packs:
- Compost
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!
Get your students involved with this drawing scavenger hunt where they’ll head outside to see if they can find and draw all the items on the sheet. It’s great if you’re looking at your local area, wildlife, and observation skills. You can also use this activity to help introduce habitats.
This resource contains a few different activity sheets that allow you to differentiate based on the things they are required to find.
It’s great if you can have a discussion about the scavenger hunt after they’ve completed it. What did they enjoy drawing the most? What did they find exciting to see? What were they surprised they saw?
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!
Debating is a great way to get students thinking creatively about persuasive language. For this activity students will go and find the most interesting item they can from your outdoor space and write a list of points as to why their item is the best using their persuasive language techniques.
Once they have put together a strong argument they can then get into groups of 3 or 4 and have a debate about whose item is the best. As an extension, you could then turn their arguments into a piece of persuasive writing.
This is a fantastic and fun activity to encourage the use of persuasive language, especially for your reluctant writers.
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!