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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
This is a fun lesson on estimation, conversion and time where students will be given an activity to do for a given amount of time. They must do the activity and estimate when to stop to get as close to the given time as possible. They can then work out the difference between them.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation (one with time conversions and one without).
Equipment needed:
Activity sheets
Stop watches
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This is a fun and practical concrete addition activity that will help your little ones carry out basic sums using cubes to help them. For this game students will roll the dice, find the corresponding square, complete the addition and stack the correct number of cubes on the square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, complete the addition (using the cubes to help), and stack that many cubes on top of the square. This pack contains three levels of differentiation.
Activity sheet 1 – Numbers 3 – 10
Activity sheet 2 - Numbers 5 – 15
Activity sheet 3 – Numbers 5 – 20
Check out our number recognition / counting roll and stack activity.
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This is a fun and practical concrete subtraction activity that will help your little ones carry out basic subtractions using cubes to help them.For this game students will roll the dice, find the corresponding square, complete the subtraction and stack the correct number of cubes on the square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, complete the subtraction (using the cubes to help), and stack that many cubes on top of the square.
This pack contains three levels of differentiation.
Activity sheet 1 – Numbers 3 – 10
Activity sheet 2 - Numbers 5 – 15
Activity sheet 3 – Numbers 5 – 16
Check out our roll and stick for:
- Number recognition / counting roll and stack activity.
- Addition
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This activity is all about measuring circumferences. Children will go outside and find 8 trees to measure the circumference of, recording their answers in the table. It’s good to discuss what the easiest way to measure the circumference of a tree trunk is, hopefully coming to the conclusion that using string is a quick and easy way to measure the circumference. You can either mark out length of string or get them to measure the string after each trunk measurement.
Once they’ve recorded the circumference of 8 tree trunks they can then complete the differentiated question sheets. The second sheet has a focus on averages whereas the first sheet focuses on simple questions about the data they’ve collected.
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This is a great spelling / phonics activity to introduce or recap rhyming and initial sounds that can be used in a variety of ways. This pack contains 14 CVC rhyming pairs with visual prompts on each card.
Outdoor Activity – Rhyming pairs hunt (whole class or small groups). Cut out and laminate the cards. Hide them around your outdoor space. Get the students to go find as many rhyming pairs as they can. To extend this activity you could get them to write a short poem or sentence using the rhyming pairs that they’ve found.
Memory Pairs (in pairs or small groups). Put the cards face down spread out on the table or floor. Taking it in turns, the students will flip over two cards. If they find a rhyming pair they take the cards and have another go, if not then the cards get turned facedown and the next player tries to find a pair.
Match The Pairs (individual or pairs). This is a very simple but effective activity where students will simply match the cards with their correct rhyming pair.
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This is a great cross curricular activity where students will create a video tour on the nature around your outdoor area. It’s perfect if you’re looking at script writing, living things (habitats, animals, etc.) and video making. This activity is best done in pairs or small groups.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that they’re going to create a virtual video tour for nature around your outdoor space. Get them to complete the ideas sheet that encourages them to think about what they may want to include and how they will create the video. It can be good for them to walk around the outdoor space while doing this to help them get ideas.
Examples of things they could talk about: different habitats, trees, plants, animals, etc.
After this they will complete the script where they’ll write exactly what they are going to say and what video will be played during the audio. Once they’ve completed their script it’s time to film, record the audio, and edit it all together. These videos can be used in loads of different ways. You can create them into QR codes and put them up in your outdoor space, put them online, or simply share them with friends, family or other students.
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Long jump subtraction is a fun and practical way for students to get loads of practice with subtraction using the column method while improving their measuring skills. For this outdoor math activity they will perform and measure two long jumps, either by themselves or with a partner and see the difference in distance between the jumps by using column subtraction.
For this activity students need to understand how to use the column method for subtraction before taking part in the activity.
**Teaching Method:
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Go through the column method for subtraction with the students.
Explain that they will be going outside in partners to see how far they can jump and who can jump the furthest.
Partner 1 jumps and partner 2 measures how far they’ve jumped. They then swap over and complete the jump before using column subtraction to see the difference in the distances they’ve jumped.
This can be done multiple times for them to get lots of practice with column subtraction. This activity can be differentiated by getting students to measure to multiple decimal places.
Equipment needed: -
Tape measure / equivalent
Activity sheets
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This is a nice activity to explore the world around us through our 5 senses. It’s great if you’re looking at the human body in science or setting descriptions in literacy. Students will head outside and complete the differentiated sheets as they explore your outdoor space through their 5 senses.
It can be nice to do this activity a few times throughout the year in different seasons and weather.
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Unlock your children’s imagination with these fun story hooks. This resource will provide inspiration for them to write their very own story and can be a great hook for a big / independent write.
This pack contains 20 pictures of different doors to be used as story starters. The children can start writing imagining that they are stood in front of the door. We have got some clue cards to help those students that may need some direction when writing their stories.
We have had great success using this resources and seen some truly wonderful stories come from them.
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This activity will teach your students about the greater than, less than and equals symbols (<, >, =) as they figure out the addition or subtraction number sentence and write their own number sentence according to the symbol shown.
This resource pack contains 6 differentiated worksheets. If further differentiation is required you can provide students with cubes and number lines to help them to figure out the additions and subtractions
Check out our Comparing and Ordering Numbers activity here.
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This fun activity will teach your students to recognise and order numbers in different forms (numerals, equations, base ten, and written) from 1 - 50. They will cut out each number before ordering them from smallest to largest. It’s perfect if you’re looking at place value, comparing and ordering numbers.
This resource contains 7 differentiated activity sheets.
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The Walk to School Challenge is an exciting initiative that encourages students to embrace the joy of walking as they journey to school. Equipped with specially designed record sheets, students record their walks, share their thoughts, and reflect on the benefits of this eco-friendly and health-conscious mode of transportation. Through this engaging challenge, students not only promote physical activity but also cultivate a deeper connection with their environment and community.
Check out our Cloud Diary Weather Forecasting!
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This “Walk to School Scavenger Hunt” is an engaging outdoor activity designed to promote physical activity, observation skills, and community bonding among students as they make their way to school. This exciting scavenger hunt encourages students to explore their surroundings, fostering a sense of connection to their neighborhood and the environment as well as consider the importance of sustainable travel.
You may also like our ‘Walking To School Record Diary’.
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Liven up your outdoor space with these A- Z capital letter posters which are great to be used in your outdoor area. Simply laminate them and stick them up in your outdoor space. Each poster contains a capital letter from A - Z made using leaves. They are perfect to be used for letter recognition and motor skills activities.
Students could also take the cards and re-create the letters using leaves or other natural items.
You may also like our 1 - 10 number posters.
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Banned words is a great game to review or learn your electricity topics key vocabulary. Your class will become word detectives and put their communication skills to the test as they describe key topic words without using a list of banned words. As they think about the electrical themed key words and phrases they will take time to consider the meaning and deepen their understanding. We have found it extremely effective in helping students to retain the definitions.
Banned words can be played in pairs, groups, or as a class. It is great to be used before, during, and after a topic to help their retention.
This pack has two sets of 9 cards. The first set contains slightly easier vocabulary and the second set will provide more of a challenge. It also contains a digital version on Google Slides as well as blank copies for you to create your own.
Vocabulary Included:
Set 1
Battery
Circuit
Electricity
Insulator
Light bulb
Magnet
Switch
Wire
Light
Set 2
Conductor
Current
Electron
Motor
Parallel Circuit
Series Circuit
Resistor
Volt Meter
Voltage
Watt
Fuse
Cell
You may also like our Electricity Symbols Pair Cards.
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Banned words is a great game to review or learn your forces and motion topics key vocabulary. Your class will become word detectives and put their communication skills to the test as they describe key topic words without using a list of banned words. As they think about the forces and motion themed key words and phrases they will take time to consider the meaning and deepen their understanding. We have found it extremely effective in helping students to retain the definitions.
Banned words can be played in pairs, groups, or as a class. It is great to be used before, during, and after a topic to help their retention.
This pack has two sets of 9 cards. The first set contains slightly easier vocabulary and the second set will provide more of a challenge. It also contains a digital version on Google Slides as well as blank copies for you to create your own.
Vocabulary Included:
Set 1
Force
-Motion
Speed
Gravity
Friction
Mass
Magnet
Air Resistance
Unbalanced Force
Acceleration
Weight
Balanced Force
Set 2
Deceleration
Net Force
Velocity
Tension
Compression
Potential Energy
Isaac Newton
Momentum
Lever
You may also like our Electricity Banned Words Game
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This phonics phase 4 activity can add some good variety to your sessions. It will give the students loads of practice at decoding words and recognizing the sounds within words. For this activity students will head outside on the hunt for word cards before taking them back and placing the on the correct sound map. This resource contains phonics phase 4 sounds.
Check out our Phase 2 ‘Match The Sound’ activity.
Check out our Phase 3 ‘Match The Sound Activity’.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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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
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These butterfly ID guides 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 butterflies in your outdoor area.
They are also easy to view digitally to save on printing and laminating.
This resource goes perfectly with our butterflies dinner investigation.
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Liven up your spelling list homework with this fun outdoor spelling activity sheet. Simply get the children to write down their spelling lists and take the activity sheet home to complete the challenges. The activities require very few resources and should be done easily at home or in a local outdoor area.
You may also like ‘20 Outdoor Challenges To Do Before I’m 8’.
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