Hi,
We are Sally and Amanda from Guinea Pig Education. We present a range of complimentary teaching aids and workbooks to use in your classroom or as homework – in both print and digital format.
We aim to raise reading standards and to develop literacy skills, with our ‘fun for kids’ phonic reading resources.
We also offer support for pupils aged 4-16 years. We highly recommend our comprehension and creative writing resources - which build confidence and develop imagination.
Hi,
We are Sally and Amanda from Guinea Pig Education. We present a range of complimentary teaching aids and workbooks to use in your classroom or as homework – in both print and digital format.
We aim to raise reading standards and to develop literacy skills, with our ‘fun for kids’ phonic reading resources.
We also offer support for pupils aged 4-16 years. We highly recommend our comprehension and creative writing resources - which build confidence and develop imagination.
Practise Writing Christmas Simple Sentences - Age 6-8
These fun, festive worksheets will help kids, age 6-8, to practise writing simple Christmas sentences.
10 pages
Practise Writing Sentences About Christmas- Age 7-10
Use the questions to write sentences about Christmas. Then, colour the outline shapes. A fun, festive writing activity that kids, age 7-10, will love completing.
8 pages
The Little Match Girl Comprehension
Read our illustrated version of the classic fairy tale The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, and answer the comprehension questions.
A thought-provoking activity that will encourage kids, age 7-10, to think about those less fortunate than them during the holiday season and the importance of being charitable and kind.
Design a Christmas Jumper
Download, print and cut out the Christmas jumper template from card, paper, fabric, or felt. Then, get creative and design your own novelty patterns. This is a brilliant Christmas craft activity that kids will love making.
Included in this pack are lots of Christmas shapes that you can use for inspiration. Just cut them out, colour them in and stick them on. Alternatively, create your own designs from scratch.
Be inventive: decorate your jumper with sequins, fluffy pom poms, glitter, tinsel, stickers etc. You could even come up with a fun Christmas slogan.
Most importantly, have fun and get in the Christmas Spirit!
8 pages
Design and decorate a Christmas living room. A super fun craft activity for kids that will ignite your child’s imagination and help them get creative.
Simply colour your chosen furniture and Christmas decorations, and then, cut them out. Next, arrange all the pieces in the room outline and stick down with glue. Alternatively, you can cut and stick everything first, then colour.
Younger children may need help with cutting out and fixing the different elements. It is best to leave a small border when you cut round the more intricate, little pieces; then, when stuck, colour the border to blend the pieces into your design.
Be inventive - you can use felt tips, colouring pencils, paint, glitter, sequins, bits of fabric, or felt. Plus, you could design and draw your own furniture, or decorations.
We are confident kids will love designing their own Christmas living rooms.
Included in this pack (to download and print) is an A4 room outline and eleven A4 pages of furniture and decoration options to cut and stick.
Send this free e-card to wish your students and colleagues a happy Christmas break.
‘Relax and enjoy your Christmas break’
Download the jpeg and insert the image directly into the body of your email, or alternatively, print and send.
Download our FREE printable Christmas Planner.
Contains lots of space to plan your perfect Christmas! Enabling you to stay organised and stress free this holiday season.
23 pages
Read the heart-warming story, based on the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas and John Mason Neale’s original tale, and answer the comprehension questions.
A wonderful activity that will encourage kids, age 6-9, to think about why we give to those less fortunate and the importance of being kind and generous.
18 pages
Can you spell the twenty tricky words in Santa’s Christmas themed spelling test?
The test consists of two colourful sheets with the twenty words to learn, twenty questions and a spelling transcript. It is based on the spelling tests given to 11 year olds in their SATs.
The spellings include words with: prefixes; endings; homophones; silent letters; soft g, as in ge, gi and gy; soft c, as in ce, ci and cy; words with ei, eigh,ey; suffixes as in ous and silent o.
20 pages
Do you enjoy walking round the shops at Christmas?
In this Christmas themed pack, you will read a description of what you see in the shops at Christmas that will inspire young children, age 6-9, to write about their own Christmas shopping experiences. It includes a series of comprehension questions and an example story that will encourage kids to write their own.
20 pages
What would you do if you saw a fox in the supermarket?
Read this delightful Christmas story, for children age 6-9, then, answer the comprehension questions.
25 pages
Send this free ‘Welcome Back To School’ e-card to wish your students the best of luck as they head back to school.
Download the jpeg and insert the image directly into the body of your email, or alternatively, print and send.
Send this free back to school e-card to wish your students the best of luck as they head back to school.
Download the jpeg and insert the image directly into the body of your email, or alternatively, print and send.
Our basic algebra worksheets are designed to help pupils, age 9-12, get to grips with simple algebra. The questions provide lots of practice in simplifying expressions, removing brackets, substituting a number for a variable and solving simple equations.
We have devised these packs as a supplementary aid to learning maths. They have been created to help teach the problem areas that children struggle with most. Through my work as a tutor, I’ve discovered that children would have problems with particular areas in maths and would find it hard to get their head round difficult concepts. I found that most textbooks contained only a couple of pages of exercises to work through, which does not solve the problem. Therefore, I have devised some structured packs that deal with each subject in greater detail, giving the child loads of examples and questions to work through. If they work through the packs ‘the penny will drop’ and they will grasp the concept.
Answers included.
51 pages
A comprehensive pack of percentage practice questions, with answers, that are designed to help kids, age 9-12, get to grips with percentages. The exercises include questions on:
understanding how percentages are out of 100
finding or working out the percentage of a shape that is shaded
linking percentages to fractions and decimals
finding the percentage of a whole number
finding the percentage of an amount and calculating a new price
solving percentage word problems
We have devised these packs as a supplementary aid to learning maths. They have been created to help teach the problem areas that children struggle with most. Through my work as a tutor, I’ve discovered that children would have problems with particular areas in maths and would find it hard to get their head round difficult concepts. I found that most textbooks contained only a couple of pages of exercises to work through, which does not solve the problem. Therefore, I have devised some structured packs that deal with each subject in greater detail, giving the child loads of examples to work through. If they work through the packs ‘the penny will drop’ and they will grasp the concept.
This is an incredible resource and will help children develop stronger maths skills. Plus, children will love practising percentages alongside the glamorous Patsy Perfect Percentage of Mathsland High.
Answers included.
79 pages
A comprehensive pack of division and long division practice questions, with answers, that are designed to help kids, age 9-12, get to grips with all areas of division. The exercises include questions on:
simple division facts and mental division skills
division with and without remainders
division with a missing dividend or divisor
prime numbers
factors and HCF
dividing by 10, 100, 1000
long division
written division problems
We have devised these packs as a supplementary aid to learning maths. They have been created to help teach the problem areas that children struggle with most. Through my work as a tutor, I’ve discovered that children would have problems with particular areas in maths and would find it hard to get their head round difficult concepts. I found that most textbooks contained only a couple of pages of exercises to work through, which does not solve the problem. Therefore, I have devised some structured packs that deal with each subject in greater detail, giving the child loads of examples to work through. If they work through the packs ‘the penny will drop’ and they will grasp the concept.
This is a great resource and children will love practising division alongside the kids of Mathsland High - Doubtful Darren Divides, Felicity Factor, Petite Penelope Prime and Loud Lenny Long Division.
Answers included.
92 pages
A comprehensive pack of multiplication and long multiplication practice questions, with answers, that are designed to help kids, age 9-12, get to grips with multiplying. The exercises include questions on:
simple multiplying facts and times tables charts, with matching game
times tables timed tests
square numbers
doubling
multiplying with 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers using the column method
multiplying amounts of money
multiples
solving missing number problems for multiplication
multiplying by 10, 100, and a 1000
long multiplication
multiplication word problems
We have devised these packs as a supplementary aid to learning maths. They have been created to help teach the problem areas that children struggle with most. Through my work as a tutor, I’ve discovered that children would have problems with particular areas in maths and would find it hard to get their head round difficult concepts. I found that most textbooks contained only a couple of pages of exercises to work through, which does not solve the problem. Therefore, I have devised some structured packs that deal with each subject in greater detail, giving the child loads of examples to work through. If they work through the packs ‘the penny will drop’ and they will grasp the concept.
This is an incredible resource and will help children develop stronger maths skills. Plus, children will love practising multiplication alongside the kids of Mathsland High - Morgan Multiplier, Mad Matt Multiple and Long Lily Multiplication.
Answers included.
99 pages
A comprehensive pack of subtraction practice questions, with answers, that are designed to help kids, age 9-12, get to grips with subtracting both small and large numbers. The exercises include questions on:
simple subtraction sums using number bonds
subtraction with 2, 3 and 4 digits using the column method
subtraction with borrowing from the tens or hundreds column
subtraction sums with missing numbers
subtracting in your head
problem solving for subtraction
We have devised these packs as a supplementary aid to learning maths. They have been created to help teach the problem areas that children struggle with most. Through my work as a tutor, I’ve discovered that children would have problems with particular areas in maths and would find it hard to get their head round difficult concepts. I found that most textbooks contained only a couple of pages of exercises to work through, which does not solve the problem. Therefore, I have devised some structured packs that deal with each subject in greater detail, giving the child loads of examples to work through. If they work through the packs ‘the penny will drop’ and they will grasp the concept.
Answers included.
49 pages
Let’s Practise Addition with Anita Addition
A large resource, with 43 pages of questions on addition.
A comprehensive guide to understanding addition. We have devised these packs as a supplementary aid to learning maths. They are designed to help teach the problem areas your child struggles with most. Through my work as a tutor, I discovered that children would have problems with particular areas in maths – subtraction and equivalent fractions, for example. Sometimes, children find it hard to get their head round these difficult concepts. I found that most textbooks contained only a couple of pages of exercises to work through, which does not solve the problem. Therefore, I have devised some structured packs that deal with each subject in greater detail, giving the child loads of examples to work through. If they work through the packs ‘the penny will drop’ and they will grasp the concept.
Answers included.
43 pages
Our maths tests for home and school assess the mathematical ability of children according to their age.
If your child is 9, in his current school year, I suggest you work through Maths Test for 9 year olds. However, if you know your child has a higher or lower ability in maths, select a suitable test e.g. 10 years, 8 years.
As a tutor and primary school teacher, I have been administrating these tests for over 25 years to determine the child’s attainment in maths. I usually allow 45/50 minutes for a test. I also sit beside children who need help reading questions - but I encourage them to answer all questions without help, leaving out any they do not understand for a true score.
The tests contain especially chosen questions to test a wide range of mathematical concepts. taught at a particular age - number, measure, shapes, recording data. They examine your child’s ability to interpret different tasks: computational skills, reasoning skills, solving problems and recalling facts.
The raw score is your child’s mark out of the total number of questions, e.g. 50. If he or she scores 38 out of 50, he or she has got 76%. if you would like a standardised score to see your child’s average, please email guineapigeducation@yahoo.co.uk with your child’s raw score and date of birth in years and months.
Have fun doing the test. If your child is stressed, stop and resume the test.
36 pages