A bumper range of challenges for KS1 or easily adapted to suit KS2 that include maths, english, science and art tasks. Great for early finishers or extension activities.

What is a dragon? A PowerPoint all about dragons to stimulate writing with dragon images for ‘Quickwrite’ adjective activity. After sharing this introduction the children designed their own dragons, named them and then we watched ‘How to train a dragon featurette’. The children then wrote instructions on how to train their own dragons and we ended the unit of work by writing acrostic dragon poems. For more practical activities and resources visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A collection of activity ideas and resource sheets for teaching plants in KS1. This pack includes: labelling a flower/tree, bean tweet sheets (to record observations when growing own beans), I spy plants for identifying/naming common plants, mystery objects task, Gimme 5 hand for identifying the needs of a plant, egg box challenge scavenger hunt (stick the challenge sheet to the lid of the egg box and let the children fill their box with objects to match the key words) and Teeny Tiny Treasure Hunt (using film canisters or an alternative small container), botany challenge for children to design and label their own new species of plant, seed packet templates and a selection of science starters to promote the use of children talking and reasoning scientifically.