Game number 4 in this series. 40 pictorial popular catch phrases or sayings to encourage thinking skills and speaking and listening skills. There are 4 catch phrases on each page. It is fun to work against the clock! Children can work in pairs or teams to try to work out the answers. An answer sheet is provided for them to mark off. Cut out the cards and laminate for a game you can keep and reuse. As an extra activity children can research and write the meanings of the phrases.

A 10 slide Power Point for KS1 or EYFS to encourage use of maths vocabulary, thinking skills and speaking and listening. It covers measures and positional vocabulary. Each slide has 4 pictures on and each picture asks a question e.g. Which is the largest? What time is it? Where is the bottom / top? Which is the sharpest? This is a great class activity as well as a visual aid or display pictures. It also works well if you cut out and laminate the cards and use these in discussion groups or on a 1 to 1 basis.

Here are 5 pages of maths story cards for your cross curricular maths lessons. Each page has 6 picture cards with 6 corresponding question cards. Children read the questions and write the answers or say the answers. This tests comprehension as well as understanding and use of maths vocabulary. Numbers involved are up to 20 and there are some questions around measures too. Another activity that works well is to cut out all the cards and give them out in class so each child has one. Children put themselves into pairs if they have the correct picture card to go with the question card.

A cross curricular resource based on your topic of Homes, Houses, Where we live or Ourselves. The children have 8 houses and need to work out what the colours are of each. Children read the text and then colour in the appropriate parts of each house. Next, they cut out the houses and put them in number order. Houses are even numbered from 2 to 16. Sheet 2 shows the houses when coloured in so children can mark their own work. For younger children, the adult could read the text and the children can then colour in the houses. Children could do this activity as a guided reading activity or as homework.

Game number 3 in this series. 39 pictorial popular catch phrases or sayings to encourage thinking skills and speaking and listening skills. There are 4 catch phrases on each page and 3 on the final page. It is fun to work against the clock! Children can work in pairs or teams to try to work out the answers. An answer sheet is provided for them to mark off. Cut out the cards and laminate for a game you can keep and reuse. As an extra activity children can research and write the meanings of the phrases.

Game number 2 in this series. 40 pictorial popular catch phrases or sayings to encourage thinking skills and speaking and listening skills. There are 4 catch phrases on each page. It is fun to work against the clock! Children can work in pairs or teams to try to work out the answers. An answer sheet is provided for them to mark off. Cut out the cards and laminate for a game you can keep and reuse. As an extra activity children can research and write the meanings of the phrases.

Game number 5 in this series. 39 pictorial popular catch phrases or sayings to encourage thinking skills and speaking and listening skills. There are 4 catch phrases on each page and 3 on the final page. It is fun to work against the clock! Children can work in pairs or teams to try to work out the answers. An answer sheet is provided for them to mark off. Cut out the cards and laminate for a game you can keep and reuse. As an extra activity children can research and write the meanings of the phrases.

Game number 6 in this series. 40 pictorial popular catch phrases or sayings to encourage thinking skills and speaking and listening skills. There are 4 catch phrases on each page. It is fun to work against the clock! Children can work in pairs or teams to try to work out the answers. An answer sheet is provided for them to mark off. Cut out the cards and laminate for a game you can keep and reuse. As an extra activity children can research and write the meanings of the phrases.

This is a fun cross - curricular game to play with your pupils. Show the images or cut into cards. Pupils work out the idiom or saying for each image and mark these off on the answer sheets. Great for group or pairs/team work. Links to literacy. There are 2 pages of idioms with 15 pictures on each page. Alternatively cut out all the cards for pupils to match. Differentiate with a small number of cards to start and increasing once pupils get the idea. Pupils can research any idioms they are unfamiliar with. Lots of speaking and listening and thinking opportunities.

12 easy quiz sheets for your class. Great as a back to school resource! Each quiz invites children to read, discuss and write. Each quiz has 4 questions and a corresponding picture for the answers. Children can answer in different ways - writing the letter of the picture, naming the picture or writing a phrase or short sentence. Play the quiz in pairs, groups or as a whole class. Alternatively use as worksheets to compliment your topic work. You could also laminate the sheets and add to the writing corner for early finishers or use as homework. There are a range of themes: Christmas, Halloween, On the Farm, Space, Flying things, Plants, Winter Clothing, Tigers, Baby Animals, Weather, Animals and Transport.

Introduce these 10 writing templates to your young learners, each featuring a story starter with an Autumn theme; from prompts like, ‘Inside the barn, the tiny mouse peeped out,’ to ‘Instead of fresh apples in the basket, the farmer…’.

Use these bonfire resources to support children when writing about the bright and noisy fun of firework night as well as it’s history. There are 10 worksheets/writing templates with story starters.

A Catch Phrase game for KS1 and 2. A fun activity at Christmas. 40 pictorial popular catch phrases or sayings with a Christmas theme. The game encourages thinking skills and speaking and listening skills. There are 4 catch phrases on each page. Either show on the white board or cut out and show as individual cards or sets of 4. It is fun to work against the clock! Children can work in pairs or teams to try to work out the answers. An answer sheet is provided for them to mark off with suggested answers but there may be more than one acceptable answer. Cut out the cards and laminate for a game you can keep and re use. As an extra activity children can research and write the meanings or origins of the phrases. Examples of phrases are The first Noel, A Christmas Carol and Santa’s little helper. Children will enjoy making up their own Christmas phrases or sayings. Cards may also be cut out and used for matching games or making cards or tags for Christmas.

A fun way to introduce or work with writing lists at KS1. There are 6 jars filled with Christmas pictures for children to name, list and colour in. There is space for children to write in the 12 boxes at the side of each jar. There are 2 empty jars included as templates for you or the children to draw and write on.

A fun festive game for KS1. Cut out the 15 picture cards and the letter cards. Laminate for durability and a reusable resource. Children use the letter cards to make each of the 5 letter words including: angel, Santa, holly and gifts. All the letters the children need to spell the words are included. Letters come on pages showing 3 of the words - these can be used also as a matching base game or spelling aid.

Children will have fun with this PPT activity where they work out what the pictures are for each of the 8 crosswords and then the spellings /where to put the words. There are 8 slides. Share these on the white board. On the click of the key, the answers will appear from behind the green squares. Have a word bank handy for any children that might need this. Give children a mini white board each, or they can work in pairs. Links to reading, writing, spelling, phonics and celebrations.

3 worksheets included. The first shows a worked example of the activity. Second is a template showing the letters in the word Christmas and an associated picture e.g. t and turkey. Children can then write the word and compose a sentence. Third is a template showing just the letters in the word Christmas. Children draw the pictures, write the words and sentences.

End of term fun for KS1 children. 4 worksheets with a maths and literacy theme Numbers to 10 - children colour in the correct number of objects Join the matching words and trace them e.g. Christmas and Tree List Christmas words and work out their number values Join the pictures to their initial sounds