Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources.
Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included.
Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources.
Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included.
Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
This Sports Counting Activity is designed for young learners in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1). It focuses on developing number recognition, counting, matching, and sorting skills, all linked to a sports theme.
Resource Overview:
• 10 Worksheets: Each worksheet displays numbers from 1 to 6.
• 6 Sports Cards: Each worksheet comes with six colourful sports cards that children can cut out and match to the corresponding numbers e.g. 1 football, 2 rugby balls, 3 skateboards, 4 boxing gloves, 5 trainers and 6 tennis balls.
• Versatile Usage: The worksheets can be used as standalone activities or as part of a larger set. Teachers can laminate the cards for durability, allowing children to sort them into number sets or types of sports objects.
• Final Page Template: A versatile template that teachers can use creatively, such as for making a Bingo game or for children to paste or draw into.
Curriculum Integration: Useful around Sports Day or during Olympic events, this resource adds an interactive element to the curriculum. It also supports speaking and listening skills as children discuss their sorting and counting choices and preferences for different sports.
This resource is designed to engage young learners with the excitement of the Olympic Games. It includes a set of colour cards for each of the following Olympic sports: swimming, cycling, boxing, table tennis, football, rugby, hockey, water polo, golf, and volleyball.
Alongside each colour card, there is a corresponding black and white version for children to colour in.
Key Uses:
• Classroom Displays: Use the colour cards to create an Olympic-themed display that brings the spirit of the Games into your classroom. The displays can be updated with children’s coloured versions to showcase their work.
• Discussion: Introduce each sport by showing the colour cards, discussing the basic rules, and sharing interesting facts about the sport. Encourage children to talk about which sports they like and why.
• Writing Activities: Use the cards as prompts for writing exercises. Children can write about their favourite sports, describe the images, or imagine themselves as athletes in one of the sports.
• Learning about Diversity: Highlight how the Olympics bring together athletes from around the world, promoting values of respect, excellence, and friendship.
This resource set is designed for KS1 and focuses on sports activities, perfect for integrating into sports day, lessons on keeping healthy, physical education, English Language learning and Literacy development.
Contents:
Poster: A black-and-white poster featuring 10 children engaged in various sports activities. Children can colour in the poster and discuss the different sports they see / like.
Worksheets:
10 Sports Worksheets: Each worksheet features one sport, providing space for children to write about it.
Question Sheet: An additional sheet with questions that children can refer to while writing about each sport.
2 Identification Worksheets: Two worksheets with pictures of children participating in different sports. Children will write the name of each sport next to the corresponding picture.
Educational Links:
• Sports Day
• Keeping Healthy
• Physical Education
• Reading, Spelling, Writing, Speaking and Listening
This ‘Sports’ Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on Sports Day, Sports, Physical Education, Healthy Living and Health and Wellbeing.
Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with Sports.
Make your own game using the plan provided or use the 6 ready-made symbol boards and/or the blank template.
The resource features:
Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the Sports Bingo Game ; Objectives and resources needed.
Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘Sports’ symbols.
Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders.
Boardmaker licenced
Engage your KS1 and EYFS children with these 7 sheets where children colour in black-and-white pictures of football scenes to match the colourful originals -perfect for links to Sports Day.
A complete lesson for young children linked to Literacy and Sports.
Start with the short story to share with the children which aims to show how teamwork and perseverance can overcome difficulties.
Children can colour in the picture and answer the 6 comprehension questions about the story on sheet 2.
Sheet 3 asks the children to find and underline pairs of rhyming words and then write them.They can then trace the frog and his tennis ball.
Sheet 4 is a doodle sheet with tennis related pictures to colour.
The lesson links in nicely with Sports Day and Wimbledon.
A resource which provides children with 20 cards showing Yoga poses. Children can colour in the cards and learn the poses. They can indicate in the ‘sun’ how they feel about the pose using a colour code.
There is a table outlining potential benefits of Yoga for children.
There is also a cross curricular sheet giving a range of ideas such as: Writing a Daily Diary, Pose Modifications, Role Playing, Colour Codes, Class Displays and creating Nature Scenes.
Once all the cards are coloured and cut out these can then be used to make a display board. Make it portable for using inside and outside class.
A compilation of 25 innovative and engaging hula hoop games which are fun and inclusive for EYFS, KS1 and SEND pupils.
There are 5 sets of games each with 5 games to play included:
Games to play with hula hoops
Teamwork games with hula hoops
Inclusive games with hula hoops
SEND games with hula hoops
Pairs games with hula hoops
The set comes with a user-friendly worksheet that allows children to devise their own hula hoop game either individually or in pairs or groups.
Each of the 25 games comes with planning including objectives, resource and activities.
A topical set of resources based on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022. Links to Sports topics and literacy.
Activity sheets provide a range of activities and can be used in different ways at KS1.
Sheet 1 shows 12 events that form part of the Commonwealth games.
Children can name these, talk about them and categorise them such as team games and individual events. What equipment is needed for each event?
Sheet 2 shows the pictures without the names of the events.
Children can label the events or/ and cut and match to sheet 1 or sheet 3.
Sheet 3 shows the names of events with no pictures. Children can draw in events, write key words or paste the pictures from sheet 2.
The final sheet shows a list of all the events. Children can write a sentence or phrase about each one.
A bundle of cross curricular resources for EYFS and KS1 with a Sports / Tennis theme.
Included are flash cards, Sports certificate templates, literacy and maths activities.
There is also a great end of year Catch Phrase game with a Sports Theme.
A collection of resources for early learners linked to tennis, colour and early maths.
Children colour and match the pictures of tennis players and equipment.
3 pages of colour rackets for children to cut out and match. 2 of each of 9 colour rackets.
Colour and black and white tennis balls for children to cut out, colour and match. Numbers from 1 to 6.
3 pages of Tennis flashcards with 6 cards to a page.
1 card is blank for you to use how you want.
Add these to your display on Sports or Tennis.
Duplicate and children can match them.
Add to your writing corner and children can write about Tennis.
12 sets of vocabulary cards with a Tennis theme in time for Wimbledon!
A useful resource when teaching children to play tennis or to understand how it is played and the vocabulary used.
Each sheet shows 6 cards.
Cut these out and they can be used for speaking and listening games or for children writing about tennis.
Great for adding to your classroom or hall display too.
Early years and KS1 children enjoy this game where they find pairs of cards and attempt to copy the Yoga poses.
There are 10 pairs of colour cards to cut out and laminate and then they can be reused.
Link with your PE or Mindfulness lessons.
Children could also draw or paint based on the Yoga cats showing movement.
This is a fun activity where children create their own soccer scene or poster.
There are players wearing two different colour kits - red and blue/pink.
There is a pitch, 2 goal nets, goalkeepers and a referee.
Children could paint their own pitch or enlarge the print out here.
Children could add word art or use the poster to advertise a match or Sports Day.
A fun, practical dance activity for young children.
There is an activity sheet which gives suggestions for using the resources.
There are 6 children and they each have a different move which is animated on the PPT.
There are flashcards of the children performing their moves to copy, cut out and laminate.
Children practice the moves and make combinations individually or in groups and then perform them.
Add some music that fits and this makes a lovely lesson ending.
Follow up with children coming up with their own moves and combinations.
Here are 4 designs for children to choose from when carrying out a survey.
Each of the 5 pictures on the sheets are colour and set into TVs.
The idea is that children find out which of the sports children prefer to watch on TV or they could ask about favourite sports.
There is space next to each picture for tally charts.
The sheets can then be used to write about the findings
e.g. next to the football picture - children might write - I found out that 10 out of 20 (1/2) the children surveyed preferred to watch football on TV.
Another way of using the sheets cross - curricular is to label the sports, or write a caption or sentence next to the pictures.
This quiz game is along the theme of Soccer / football sayings or phrases.
35 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.
Some pictures can be interpreted in different ways.
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 they are unfamiliar with.
Links in nicely with Sports Day and Football competitions.
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A topical resource for children.
The worksheet gives them the opportunity to design a football strip.
Boots, socks, shorts and front and back of shirt.
Links to art and design and sports.
A discussion activity around balls and sports.
Sheet 1 asks children to label the pictures e.g.rugby and tennis balls. They can colour them in.
Sheet 2 is a word bank for those children who need support with their writing.
Sheet 3 is a doodle sheet for colouring in a selection of balls including non- sports balls such as a crystal ball and snowball.