Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Children will enjoy these observation activities where they look carefully at the colour pictures and find the 20 objects shown underneath. Children can work in small groups, on their own or with adult support.
Links to Ourseves, Homes, Speaking and Listening and Writing.
Activity Sheets
In the Living Room
In the Kitchen
In the Bedroom
At the Park
Differentiate:
a. Children can tick off the objects they find.
b. Children can write the words of the objects they find and then think of some more they can spot in the pictures.
8 cross - curricular worksheets in this collection of resources based on the hands.
1.Poster to discuss showing ways we use our hands.
2. A labelling sheet - children label the pictures which show things they can do with their hands.
3. A writing frame - children write 12 more ways we use our hands.
4. Colour and label the outline hands.
5. Make paint hand prints on this page.
6. Make fingerprint patterns on this page.
7. Circle all the hands that are the same colour using colour pens. Count how many of each colour there are.
8. Re - order the letters in HANDS to spell the word correctly.
12 pictures for children to colour in and talk about showing popular things that they can or like to do.
Children can trace over the key words or write them. Those that can, can write a sentence about the pictures.
An animated PPT for Nursery or KS1.
There are 10 slides to show on your Smart Board.
Each slide shows 2 children who like the same thing e.g. Christmas or Animals.
Lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and to find out what your children have in common.
Follow up with a class survey to find out likes or dislikes.
The final page shows pictures of all the characters for cutting and matching activities.
Teacher’s Guide: The resources offer a practical approach to help children explore their emotions effectively. It includes a captivating poem and accompanying worksheets, designed to encourage self-expression and reflection.
The 4 worksheets provide visual prompts for children to identify and express their feelings. They’ll have the opportunity to overwrite the emotions displayed in the pictures and articulate/ write how they feel in the present moment.
Links with Ourselves, Me, Emotions, Well Being, Feelings and Literacy.
Sadie has a special Christmas wish that she keeps to herself.
Sadie soon realises that if she wants her wish to come true, she needs to take matters into her own hands!
Here is a sneak preview in the form of a story sequencing sheet.
Enlarge on your smart board or download the ebook.
A wonderfully illustrated colouring book to go with the picture book:
Sadie and her Red Shiny Shoes
10 colouring sheets included :
Sadie and her Red Shiny Shoes
Sadie and dad in the garden
Sadie and her best friend Una
Sadie plays football
Sadie plays in the sand tray
Sadie has a birthday
Sadie loves elephants
Sadie plays with Fluff the cat
Sadie and Daisy make a snowman
Sadie at Christmas
A resource designed to captivate the imagination through the world of frogs.
There are an array of activities including colouring, matching, fine motor skills, sensory exploration, literacy, and numeracy.
Resources Include:
Frog Colouring Pages
Cutting and Matching Exercises
Sets of flashcards in colour and in black and white in large and small sizes.
Encourage early literacy with frog-themed writing frames in colour and black and white. Children can practice handwriting with froggy patterns that mimic the leaps and bounds of frogs.
Children can cut out and arrange frogs smallest to largest, fostering understanding of basic math principles. These are in colour and black and white.
Sensory Frog Bin: Dive into sensory play with a guide to creating a frog-themed sensory bin, offering a tactile experience to explore textures, sights and sounds associated with pond life.
Whether as part of a science unit, a literacy program, or simply for fun, this resource promises to foster curiosity and exploration in young children.
Write about what Sadie likes and dislikes.
Write about what you and your best friend like.
Write short descriptions and key words to describe your self and best friend.
Show your pupils how a story character was created and link to the ebook, paperback and the video of the character being painted.
Activities include what to think about when creating a character, planning and writing a story.
Links beautifully with Art too.
A counting and matching activity for young children with an Easter theme.
Sheet one shows numbers from 1 to 10 for children to trace over and cut out.
Sheet two and three show 2 versions of Easter egg cards from 1 to 10 to cut out.
Sheet three is a template for children to design, count and colour in the Easter eggs.
Scissors, pencils, crayons or felt pens are all you will need for this activity.
Cut and laminate for reusing in class.
Have fun with your children this Easter or Spring with this Scavenger Hunt game.
The idea is to place your colour posters around the outside area / playground or school for children to locate.
They then mark off what they have found on the Scavenger sheets.
There is a colour and a black and white version of the recording sheets.
There are 16 colour posters included.
There are also 16 sheets where there is a colour and black and white picture of each of the items in the hunt e.g. chick, sun, leaf and bee. Children can colour in the black and white pictures to make them the same.
They could also cut these out to add to a class frieze or display.
There is also a labelling sheet in colour and black and white for children to write the words of each picture onto.
Links to data handling - recording, as well as matching and writing.
Cut and laminate these cards for matching games for EYFS and KS1.
Eggs can also be sorted by colour and pattern.
Lots of ideas here, too, for children who are decorating their own eggs or making Easter cards.
10 pages of Easter activities for children including:
2 cards to make
Colour and black and white posters
Cards to colour, cut and match
Number bunnies to sequence to 10
Letter bunnies to cut and order to make ‘Happy Easter’
Bunny writing frames
A fun activity for Easter where children count and colour the eggs on the Easter egg tree.
Links to colour, pattern, data handling and numbers.
There are 4 worksheets:
Children count how many of each egg are on the tree and then colour them according to the code given. They write the number next to the eggs.
Children count the eggs on the tree and use their own colours to colour them in and write the numbers.
Children add eggs to the tree and write how many of each added.
Children make their own egg tree.
A simple counting activity with an Easter egg theme.
There are 3 lots of cards to cut out, match or order
Numbers with eggs
Numbers
Number Words
Boardmaker licenced
10 black and white Easter Egg designs for children to colour in and cut out.
There are 2 eggs of the same design per sheet.
Enlarge the pictures and children can use paint or felt pens .
The Easter eggs make lovely Easter cards too!
Suitable for EYFS and KS1.