This lesson plan, based on an original story: Brave Bear and Worried Bear, helps children explore emotions,explore self-regulation and behaviour management while enhancing literacy skills. Children learn to identify and express feelings, understand coping strategies, and recognize that it’s okay to feel a range of emotions. Suitable for EYFS, KS1 and SEND pupils. Lessons Include: Story Time: Share the story and discuss Brave Bear’s coping techniques. Creative Drawing: Children draw their Brave Bear, focusing on strength and colour. Reflection: Children complete prompts about bravery and Brave Bear’s powers. Exploring Worry: Draw and discuss Worried Bear’s expressions. Coping Strategies: Brainstorm ways to help Worried Bear feel better. Emotional Check-In: Identify feelings and discuss ways to improve. Drawing Skills: Drawing bears and emotions. Facial Expressions: Add expressions to Brave and Worried Bear. This kit provides everything educators need to guide EYFS and KS1 children in emotional learning through storytelling and creativity.

Get ready for Halloween with “Halloween Fun Awaits,” designed for EYFS and KS1 children. The resource features nine activities that link to literacy, numeracy, sensory exploration, and art. It blends learning with Halloween fun. Poem: Halloween Fun Awaits Share and enjoy a Halloween poem to introduce the theme. Comprehension Questions Answer seven questions to check understanding and encourage critical thinking about the poem. Halloween Collage Create a festive Halloween collage using craft supplies to boost creativity. Word Search Find Halloween-themed words to enhance letter recognition and spelling. Count How Many Legs Count the legs of Halloween creatures up to 8 to practice numeracy skills. Initial Sounds Activity Complete Halloween-themed words with initial sounds and match pictures to the words. Match the Halloween Pictures Pair Halloween pictures to build visual discrimination. Create a Halloween Sensory Bin Make a sensory bin with Halloween-themed items for sensory exploration and imaginative play. Read and Write Read and trace over nine Halloween words to improve reading and fine motor skills. Final Page: Answer Sheet for comprehension questions and word search.

This resource, “10 Quick Fire Quizzes for Children,” is perfect for Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2 children. It’s an engaging activity for wet play, end of year fun, or any time of the day. Each of the 10 quizzes includes 12 colourful cards and 12 corresponding questions, making it great for a mixed-ability group. Children can work alone, in pairs, or in groups to match the pictures with the right answers. The quizzes cover a variety of topics such as landmarks, shapes, types of vehicles, animals, musical instruments, famous buildings, and famous people. These quizzes are designed to be both educational and entertaining, encouraging children to learn while having fun. The colourful cards help to capture the children’s attention. Whether they are identifying different animals, recognizing famous buildings, or matching musical instruments to their names, children will be engaged. Cut off the questions and answers and laminate the picture quizzes for durability. Boardmaker licenced

This resource, linked to “Ourselves, Me, Feelings,” offers a collection of 11 pages of colour flashcards, each containing six pictures of child characters. Designed for EYFS and KS1, these flashcards can be utilised individually as worksheets, allowing children to cut out the characters and pair them based on matching emotions. The characters included have varying skin tones, clothing, accessories, and expressions, providing a rich basis for exploring feelings and personal identities. For extended use, you can cut and laminate the individual characters from all 11 pages, enabling children to sort them in multiple ways e.g. by hairstyle, hair colour, skin tones, expressions, and feelings such as happy, sad, or annoyed. This flexibility enhances emotional recognition and understanding but also fosters discussions on diversity in the classroom. The final page shows 6 outlines of characters for children to add their own features and emotions to.

This resource for EYFS and KS1 is centred around the theme “Ourselves / Me” and linked to clothing, matching and speaking and listening. The resource includes 10 pages with 6 colour cards on each. There are 5 children featured and each child has 12 cards showing different outfits / activities, allowing children to engage in observation and speaking and listening activities. By carefully observing the pictures, children can discuss the characters and their outfits, speculating about their interests, such as reading books, singing, or playing football. They can talk about their own similarities and differences. Teachers can duplicate, cut out, and laminate the cards for versatile use in matching games and activities. Examples include playing pairs, matching children with similar interests, or identifying outfits appropriate for different seasons or occasions. This interactive resource fosters observation, discussion, and social interaction among children.

A pack of resources for children based around the topics of the Seaside / Beach / Tropics / Hot Countries and Weather. There are 3 activity types: Matching words and pictures: There are 10 worksheets both in colour and in black and white. Children cut and match the words and pictures. Symbols and pictures are used. Boarmaker licenced. Scavenger Hunt: There are 2 Scavenger Hunt sheets in black and white. You can use the colour or black and white cards from the worksheets, cut these out, enlarge (if desired) and place around the classroom, school or play ground. Children locate the cards and tick off what they have found. They can then colour the sheets. Matching Words and Descriptions: Sheet 1 shows a list of words related to the topic and descriptions. Children match the correct description to the right words. Sheet 2 is a list of words and children write a brief description for each word.

This resource is designed to offer Key Stage 1 children an introduction to global cultures through the lens of clothing and diversity. Children can talk about the colour pictures of people from around the world, explore the traditional dress and reflect on how relevant these may be today. Children can discuss continuity and change. There is a planning table with 4 lessons including objectives, resources needed and step by stop instructions. There are 18 colour pictures and matching black and white versions for children to colour in. Each lesson encourages children to participate actively through colouring, storytelling, crafting, and designing. By exploring traditional dress from various countries, children will learn about different styles and purposes of clothing but also develop an appreciation for cultural diversity. This approach fosters respect and curiosity about the world around them helping children to build a foundation of inclusivity and global awareness. Links include Art and Design, Geography and Literacy.

A unit of work, complete with resources, for Key Stage 1, focusing on the theme of the four seasons using a fun heart puzzle. This unit or work is designed to be interactive and engaging, encouraging children to learn about the seasons through a combination of artistic expression, discussion, reading, writing and hands-on activities. The progression from tracing outlines, colouring and cutting to more complex tasks like vocabulary matching and personal expression caters to a range of skills and learning styles. There are 6 activities with corresponding worksheets, together with a planning sheet showing objectives, resources needed and step by stop instructions. The resource includes picture and symbols. *Boardmaker licenced. Links to Weather, Seasons, Phonics, Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening and games.

A fun lesson, or unit of work based around festive food characters that each have their own character, rhyme and culminating in a charming story. This resource is created around 8 food cartoon characters that you might find on your Christmas dinner plate. Each character comes in colour cards or black and white cards for the children to colour in. Included are Stella Sprout, Percy Pudding and Tulula Turkey and more. There is a sheet where the character names are written under the black and white characters for children to trace over. There is also a little rhyme to go with each character. Finally, there is a story: A Merry Feast: The Christmas Adventures of the Kitchen Friends. This is a charming story to share and to act out as part of a festive assembly or Christmas play. As an extension activity, children could create their own festive food characters.

This Autumn resource is aimed at Early Years (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1) children through the magic of storytelling, creativity, and literacy. The resource is based on an original story about a curious young boy named Sam and his magical paintbrush. Story Overview: In this tale, children will follow the adventures of Sam and his newfound friend, Squirry Whip, as they explore the wonders of autumn. Sam’s magical paintbrush brings their world to life, and together, they embark on a mission to create joy and happiness in their town. The story conveys the importance of friendship, creativity, and spreading happiness. Resource Highlights: Planning Sheet: There are seven lessons, each with objectives and the necessary resources outlined. Full and Simplified Story: The simplified version allows children to trace the text and colour in the illustration. Colouring Sheets: Children can colour in scenes from the story, bringing the characters and settings to life. Flashcards: These 12 flashcards provide a fun way for children to reinforce their phonics skills by matching, reading, and discussing key story-related words. Children can use the cards to tell the story in their own words. Comprehension Sheet: Assess comprehension and reading skills with the comprehension sheet containing eight questions based on the story. Word Search: Children can explore autumn-related vocabulary from the story in a word search activity, complete with answers. This activity can also serve as a springboard for creative writing and poetry. Pattern Creation: This lesson is based on the zig zags and swirls in the story.

This Autumn resource comprises nine pages, each with six colour ideas boxes tailored for both teachers and children to utilize during the autumn season. The ideas encapsulate the essence of Autumn, offering sensory experiences such as tasting toffee apples and autumnal jams. There’s an emphasis on tactile learning, with opportunities to handle autumn-hued sand, clay and playdough, or feel the textures of woollen toys, gloves, and hats. Additionally, the resource encourages fine motor skill development with boxes of autumn-coloured beads for threading. Creativity is further encouraged with wallpapers for cutting and bricks for constructive play. Overall, the resource is an autumn-themed ideas toolkit that enhances hands-on learning and creativity in the classroom. Individual cards could be duplicated, cut and matched as well as used as visual aids for displays or speaking and listening.

A collection of colour flashcards for your topic on Food. Page 1 shows all 15 pictures in a small format. These can be cut out and matched to the word cards on page 2, or to the larger flashcards provided. The larger flashcards are 2 to a page. These are duplicated so that you can make matching games. Laminate for durability. The flashcards are useful for displays in class and for cookery lessons. They can be used as a maths lesson for a favourite food survey. Also use as a basis for speaking and listening and for discussing healthy eating.

10 activities for EYFS and KS1 with a Bonfire Night theme. Children talk about the scene in the picture and colour in the black and white version to match the colour picture. Children have a colour picture showing children with their sparklers. Children write about the picture. A counting and writing activity. Children count and answer the questions e.g. how many rockets can they see. A starter for a Bonfire Night poster for children to complete. Children write in the missing numbers on the rockets and then colour them in. The beginning of a story about Peter on Bonfire Night for children to complete. The beginning of a story about Stella on Bonfire Night for children to complete. 5 Safety First rules for children to read and then trace over. The pictures support reading. Children write out 5 safety rules of their own on this sheet. Children read the number rhyme and then write and illustrate a simple one of their own.

With this resource, children learn about a fun game called ‘Sudoku’, but with a twist! Instead of numbers, it uses animal pictures! *Explain how to play to your class with these fun instructions. * Imagine a big square, with 4 little boxes in a row and 4 little boxes in a column. That makes it 4 by 4. We have 10 different puzzles, each with a special animal theme: Squirrels - Cute little creatures with bushy tails! Animal Sounds x 2 - Match the first letter with the animal! Like ‘E’ for Elephant! Bears - Cuddly animals. Tigers - Striped big cats that roar! Fish - Animals that live in the water and swim around! Under the Sea - Discover different animals living beneath the waves! On the Farm - Say hello to the friendly animals living on a farm! Flying High - Look up to find birds and animals that fly in the sky! Animals - A mix of all kinds of animals! Blank Template - Create your own Sudoku with your favourite animals! On each work sheet, animals already make up a puzzle. Your job is to make your own picture puzzle in the empty grids. If you like, you can also count and colour the pictures on the ready made puzzles to make sure they are correct. Each row (that’s the line going across) can only have one of each animal! No duplicates allowed! Each column (that’s the line going up and down) also can only have one of each animal! And of course, each little box of 4 inside the big box can only have one of each animal too! Ready to have some fun and solve the animal Sudoku puzzles? Let’s get started!

A cross-curricular topic on animals. This theme links to literacy, art and number and offers a chance for children to broaden their understanding of the world around them. Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children. This bumper pack includes 10 worksheets. Parrot Colour by Numbers: A fun way to mix mathematics and art, as children use numbers as cues to create an animal masterpiece. Animal Sudoku: Challenges logical reasoning while having fun. A Party in the Jungle Story - read and answer/write the questions. Animal Facts: Read and handwrite the animal facts then answer the questions. Word Search: A game to reinforce vocabulary related to animals. 5 animal words to find. Answer sheet included. Animal Colouring Sheet: Children colour the animals to match the example or use their own designs and colours. Animal Poem: A captivating poem to share – An Animal Show. Guide children to craft their own poems. Writing Template: Stimulate thinking with a structured template for writing facts about animals or an animal of their choice. A Lion Maze: Enhance problem-solving skills with this maze. One in colour and one in black and white. Handwriting Sheet: Refine handwriting with focused practice on the initial letters of 5 animals. Then children overwrite a fun fact about each animal. Use as a unit or work or dip in to support your work on animals, habitats, literacy, art or number.

A cross-curricular topic on animals, with a focus on tigers. This theme links to literacy and number and offers a chance for children to broaden their understanding of the world around them. Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children. This bumper pack includes 10 worksheets. Tiger Sudoku: Challenges logical reasoning while having fun. Story Read and Answer: A tiger tale to read and share and answer comprehension questions. Tiger Facts: Read about tiger facts and encourage children to answer the questions. Word Search: A game to reinforce vocabulary related to tigers. 5 words to find. Tiger Colouring Sheet: Children colour the tiger to match the example or use their own design and colour. Tigers Tale Poem: A captivating acrostic poem. Guide children to craft their own poem using the initial letters of “Tiger a cat”. Writing Template: Stimulate thinking with a structured template for writing 8 facts about tigers and writing about tigers in general. Tiger Maze: Enhance problem-solving skills with this maze. One in colour and one in black and white. Tiger Colour by Numbers: A fun way to mix mathematics and art, as children use numbers as cues to create a tiger masterpiece. Handwriting Sheet: Refine handwriting with focused practice on the letters ‘t’ and ‘T’ and tiger-related words. Use as a unit or work or dip in to support your work on animals or Tigers, literacy or number.

The "Food Bumper Resource Pack " is tailored for educators working with SEND, KS1, and EYFS children. The resource pack aligns with a thematic focus on Food , and its cross-curricular connections. Use as a unit of work or dip into the resources for relevant lessons. Contents of the Resource Pack: 3 Planning Sheets Objectives: Clearly defined goals to ensure structured and purposeful learning. Resources: A list of required materials and tools for each activity. Activity Descriptions: Step-by-step breakdowns for each learning activity. Adult Support Needed: Guidelines on how staff can aid and facilitate each activity. 10 Activity Ideas: These include links with a range of subjects e.g. Science: Hot and cold, the sense of taste, as well as Plants. Literacy: Phonics, speaking and listening, and storytelling exercises revolving around food themes. Mathematics: Practical applications e.g. money through buying and selling food items. 80 Colour Picture Symbols: Symbols related to food, ready to be cut out. They can be laminated for durability and for reuse in various activities and games. Worksheets: These are designed to align with the activity ideas and includes a bingo template. The inclusion of symbols and visual aids caters to a diverse range of learning styles, ensuring that children with SEND can equally benefit and engage with the content. Boardmaker licenced.

Welcome to “Toys, Tales, and Tasks” - a six-part lesson for young learners, with special emphasis on SEND, EYFS and KS1 children. Link to your lessons on Toys, Ourselves, Me, Emotions, History and Speaking and Listening. The pack includes lesson plans showing objectives, resources, activities and extension ideas. There are 10 sheets which include 9 black and white symbols of toys on each. Use the sheets as stand-alone worksheets or cut up the cards for games and activities. Emphasizing Inclusivity: Recognizing the diverse needs of SEND pupils, symbols are integrated into the resources to aid communication. These symbols act as familiar visual cues, aiding comprehension. Boardmaker licenced User. Lessons 1 to 6 Overview: Toy Stories: Dive into narratives, enhancing creativity, story skills and vocabulary. Sorting and Matching: Encourage logical reasoning by sorting, classifying and matching toys. Descriptive Adjectives: Build vocabulary and language skills using toys as a reference. Toy History : Understand change over time, introducing a historical perspective. Money and Toy Pricing: Develop mathematical skills around number and money. Emotions : Explore feelings, promoting emotional intelligence and empathy.

The "Clothes Bumper Resource Pack " is tailored for educators working with SEND, KS1 , and EYFS children. The resource pack aligns with a thematic focus on clothing, getting dressed, and its cross-curricular connections. Use as a unit of work or take from the resources for relevant lessons. Contents of the Resource Pack: 3 Planning Sheets Objectives: Clearly defined goals to ensure structured and purposeful learning. Resources: A list of required materials and tools for each activity. Activity Descriptions: Step-by-step breakdowns for each learning activity. Adult Support Needed: Guidelines on how staff can aid and facilitate each activity. 11 Activity Ideas : These include links with a range of subjects e.g. Science: Exploration of different materials used in clothing. Literacy: Phonics, spelling, and storytelling exercises revolving around clothing themes. Mathematics: Practical applications e.g. money through buying and selling clothing items. 80 Colour Picture Symbols: Symbols related to clothing, ready to be cut out. They can be laminated for durability and reuse in various activities and games. Worksheets: These are designed to align with the activity ideas. The inclusion of symbols and visual aids caters to a diverse range of learning styles, ensuring that children with SEND can equally benefit and engage with the content. Boardmaker licenced.

This is a Collection of 5 fun Short Stories about Dinosaurs for young children. The stories are entertaining and stimulate childrens imagination encouraging them to create their own dinosaur stories. Each story incorporates a simple lesson such as friendship, perseverance, and kindness. The stories can be incorporated into various subjects, from science (studying prehistoric life) to art (drawing and imagining dinosaur worlds) to language arts (writing their own dino-tales or poems). Teachers can create activities based on the stories, like discussions, role-playing, or even field trips to museums, amplifying the learning experience. There is a colouring sheet for each of the stories. Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children.