This free scavenger hunt template lets children develop their creativity by designing their own hunt for friends. They can fill in each box with an item of their choice, sending their friends on a mission to collect them all! Perfect for indoor or outdoor adventures. Check out our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt! ------------------------** 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 great FREE activity for Halloween, a topic on African tribes, or just for fun, this mask activity will let your class’ imagination run wild. After completing the design sheet then choosing and cutting out a template they will head outside to find natural materials that they’ll use to create their mask. Sticking the natural materials onto the mask is a great temporary solution for this activity, however if you want them to last longer it is a good idea to then laminate the masks. Resources needed: Design sheet Crayons Templates Scissors Glue Stapler (optional) Laminator (optional) -Outdoor space with natural materials Check out our other outdoor Halloween resources: My Magical Potion Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

The “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet guides young explorers through the exciting moments of their beach day. From the arrival at the beach to the playful activities, seashell hunts, and sandcastle building, students will have the opportunity to relive the highlights of their seaside exploration. Teachers and parents can use this “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet to encourage children’s writing proficiency, creativity, and memory recall while providing a platform for sharing their beach tales with friends and family. This resource contains just one recount template. Check out our full pack to get all three templates 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 free activity is a great way to get your class thinking about which foods create a healthy balanced diet as part of your health and nutrition topic. They will take a look in their lunch box to see what goodies are waiting for them and investigate the sugar content of each item using our sugar sheet, food packages, and the internet for research. They will then complete the results table and answer some simple questions getting them to think carefully about what’s in their lunchbox, if it’s healthy, and what they could do to make it even healthier. Contents: Teacher’s Guide Sugar Sheet Results Table & Questions This activity also has great links to addition with decimals. Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic. 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 activity is a great lesson to do before our ‘simple addition’ task cards as it’s slightly more adult led. Students will look at dividing a group of sticks into equal groups and seeing if there are any left over. It’s a great way to introduce multiplication and division to your students in a very visual and practical way. Teaching directions: Give your students an amount of time (1-2 minutes works well) to collect as many sticks as they can. Come back together with their sticks and get them to work through the differentiated worksheets. You can either let students complete the worksheet individually / in small groups or go through the worksheet as a group or class together. As you go through the sheet, try to introduce them to vocabulary such as ‘divide, division, share, remainder, etc. 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!

Welcome the arrival of spring with this free downloadable scavenger hunt! Get your students outdoors to spot all sorts of spring-related items. Perfect for all ages, this scavenger hunt is a delightful activity for a sunny afternoon, whether at school or home. You may also like our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt! 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!

Estimation, measuring and subtraction - this activity has it all! Your class will choose an object, estimate the length, measure the correct length and then see how close their estimation is by working out the difference. This activity can be differentiated by asking students to use different units of measurement as well as measuring and estimating to a whole number, or one or two decimal places. To give students an extra challenge we have included a sheet where they must convert between measurements within the 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!

For this instructions writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with their initials on, etc.) and create a set of instructions to guide their partner to their object from a designated starting point. Teaching structure: Share different examples of instructions with your students. Get them to spot any key features. You may want to do a lesson on imperative verbs before this session. Explain that they are going to hide an object and create a set of instructions for to get from the designated starting point (that you can decide) to their object. Once they’ve written their instructions they can swap with their partner and see if they can follow them to find the hidden treasure. This activity is perfect for introducing instruction writing, but can also be a great activity to link in with your measuring math topic. 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!

In this active math lesson your students will use subtraction with carrying to work out whether they are better at certain activities first or second time around. They will complete each practical activity twice, working out the difference between their scores using column subtraction or different preferred method. ** This resource contains 3 levels of differentiation.** Diff. 1: Whole number subtraction Diff. 2: One decimal place subtraction Diff. 3: Two decimal place subtraction ** Resources needed:** Activity sheets Timers Tape Measure Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new resources and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is all about students exploring the properties of different materials in the outdoors. This lesson can be done anywhere, from the beach to your garden. If access to the outdoors is limited you can easily adapt it to be done inside. For this activity students will find items matching the properties on the sheet and record what they’ve found by either writing or drawing. Encourage students to think carefully about their decisions. What makes something heavy? Would that be heavy for a giant? 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!

These tree ID cards for the UK and Europe are the perfect addition to your outdoor classroom. Simply print them off, laminate them and have them available for the students to take outside to help them identify the the trees in your outdoor area. Check out our other ID Guides. - British Woodland and Garden Birds ID Guide - North American Woodland Birds ID Guide - 24 Pond Life ID Cards - Butterfly ID Guide - A4 Pond Life Identification Sheet 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!

Introduce a refreshing twist to your sessions with this Phase 5 phonics activity. It provides students with ample practice in decoding words and identifying sounds within them. During the activity, students venture outdoors to hunt for word cards, bringing them back to place on the appropriate sound map. This resource contains Phonics Phase 5 sounds. Check out our Phase 2 ‘Match The Sound’ activity. Check out our Phase 3 ‘Match The Sound Activity’. Check out our phase 4 'Match The Sound 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

Minibeast hunts are great fun and easy to do. Print out the sheet for your students to take into your outdoor space and mark off the minibeasts as they find them. It’s great if you can provide a magnifying glass so they can look at all the amazing details of each minibeast. 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!

Whether it’s blowing a gale, raining or bright sunshine this is the perfect lesson to encourage descriptive writing through the use of figurative language. The weather is such a powerful learning tool that can spark worlds of imagination. For this activity you will take the students outside in a variety of different conditions and allow them to use their senses to come up with similes, metaphors, and alliteration to describe the conditions. This is a great activity to do before writing a story when thinking about setting descriptions. We have loads more weather themed resources to check out! - Weather Diary - Weather Investigation - Weather Word Wall 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 FREE sample of our Christmas themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model. Check out the full pack here. A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 and 6. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems. The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation. Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model. Check out the full resource pack! Full description: A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 - 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems. This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation. Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This investigation gets your class to look closely at their shadow, specifically looking at how it changes throughout the day. They will measure the length of their shadow at set time intervals and try to spot patterns in their results before thinking about the reasons behind these patterns. It is a great way to introduce the concept of the earth’s rotation while thinking about how you can use the sun to help tell the time. For this investigation students (in pairs or small groups) will mark a spot with chalk and draw around and measure their shadow at set intervals throughout the day being sure to record their results on the table. Teaching structure: Investigation plan Results table Bar graph Results questions Please don’t forget to rate resource if you enjoyed it. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity will get students sorting leaves and looking at different percentages as well as getting them to convert between percentages, decimals, and fractions. **Teaching Structure: ** Before this activity students need to have an input on working out fractions and converting them to percentages and decimals. Take students outside and ask them to collect the specified number of leaves (ability dependent). Get them to complete the table by sorting out the leaves into certain groups before working out the fraction, percent, and decimal. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. Diff.1: Students will work out the percentage after collecting 10 leaves and sorting them into groups. Diff. 2: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 10 leaves and sorting them into groups. Diff. 3: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 20 leaves and sorting them into groups. Diff. 4: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 15 leaves and sorting them into groups. 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 activity will help reinforce students’ understanding of place value as they sort numbers on a number line in a fun and practical way. The pack contains two number lines and sets of number cards, one with numbers from 1 – 10 and another from 1 – 100. Set up: Print out the number line cards and number cards (laminate if possible so they can be re-used). Create the number line by sticking / tying the number line cards to something (a fence, the floor, trees, etc.). Try to make the scales as accurate as possible. Teaching structure: Give each child a number card and get them to run to the correct place on the numbers line. Once all students are in the correct place, get them muddle up, swap cards with somebody, then find the correct place on the number line. You can do this several times, giving students lots of practise at finding numbers on a number line. This activity is great both as a whole class and with smaller groups. 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 poetry activity gets students writing a simple poem about your outdoor space using their senses. Teaching Structure: Take the students into an outdoor space. Get them to sit quietly and think about what thy can see, hear, smell, touch, and feel. Once they’ve had time to think get them to write a poem by completing the differentiated poem templates. Along with the differentiated sheets, encourage students to use language in their poems appropriate to their ability. Once they’ve written their poems it is nice to share them together as a class. They can also make a great display! 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!