Here are a collection of cartoon faces and features for children to use to practice drawing cartoon characters. There are 2 pages of eyes, a page of mouths, noses, ears and face outlines.

4 memory games to play with your children improving their concentration and memory. There are 2 black and white and 2 colour. The games are differentiated so that children can start with 8 items to recall and then move on to 10. Children will use their spelling skills also to write the word or for younger children they can dictate their answers. Extend with more objects and/or real objects covered with a cloth as in Kim’s game.

A set of resources linked to Feelings, Ourselves and Me. Useful to support children in recognising different feelings and emotions, improving their vocabulary and emotional intelligence. Suitable for KS1 and SEND pupils. Boardmaker symbol licenced. The lesson pack includes: A lesson plan including objectives, activities, resources, assessment and extension ideas. Worksheets 1 to 4 where children have the opportunity to draw emotions, label them and complete sentences to express their emotions.

A simple lesson plan for introducing children to the Olympics and the 5 Olympic Rings. The idea is that the children create their own rings and then use these as the basis for fun activities. The lesson plan includes objectives, resources required,4 activity ideas and a conclusion. Activities: Create the Olympic Rings Ring Toss Game Olympic Ring Relay Race Musical Rings Page 1 shows an outline of 5 rings that children can trace, cut out and decorate.

This resource links to your topic on Space, the World, poetry, creative writing and labelling. Page 1 is a colouring sheet showing an astronaut in Space. Page 2 is an original poem to share with your class entitled ‘An encounter with aliens’. Children can talk about the poem and find rhyming words. They can illustrate the poem in the frame provided or use the frame to write their own Space poem. Page 3 provides a choice of 2 other writing or drawing frames. Children can also use the frames for creative writing about Space. Page 4 is a colouring sheet where children write the speech in the speech bubbles. Page 5 and 6 show 10 black and white pictures that children can name, label and colour in. The words for each page are on the bottom of the sheets. Boardmaker licenced.

4 worksheets where children use the words and pictures to write rhyming words. The first 2 pages are all CVC words. Pages 3 and 4 have a few words such as frog and boat that may be a bit more challenging depending what level the children are at. Good for your Letters and Sounds work, Phonics, Reading and writing and a good homework resource too.

6 Bible Stories to Sequence with space for children to write about and/or draw their own pictures. The Life of Jesus Noah’s Ark The Good Samaritan Adam and Eve Jonah and the Whale The Nativity Story

A PPT showing 32 samples of materials. Children can describe what they see and develop their describing vocabulary such as rough, smooth, bumpy, soft etc. They can also discuss what each material might be used for and if it is natural in origin or man made.

6 sheets where children practice their fine motor skills by tracing over the patterns. Children pair the objects e.g. take the cat to the milk or the rain cloud to the umbrella. There are 3 designs of worksheet with 2 versions - straight lines and wavy lines.

8 worksheets each showing 6 colour circles for children to draw round and cut out. An activity designed to encourage fine motor development and scissor skills. The circles are all colour and contain pictures / patterns or round objects. Extend this activity by printing out the sheets twice, cutting out the shapes and using them in your 2D shape work e.g. for matching activities or games.

Activities suitable for English Language learners, SEND and KS1 pupils. Instructions and ideas included. Verbs Resources A set of 64 cards showing picture symbols of verbs, regular and some irregular. Word grids showing each verb and past tense. Activity ideas Say or write two sentence for each verb E.g. The children were having a quarrel. The children quarrelled this morning. E.g. I wash my hair each week. I washed my hair on Friday. Cut out some of the picture symbols and paste into your workbook. Write 2 sentences next to each one. E.G. Opening window picture symbol I open my window in the summer. Dad opened my window this morning. Choose 5 cards and work in pairs to make up a verbal or written story. Share with the group or class. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

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.

Here are 7 animal faces / worksheets for children to begin to find out about symmetry. All they need are scissors, pencils and a mirror. The animal faces are differentiated as they do get more complex by sheets 6 and 7. Page 8 allows your children to begin to experiment with mirrors and lines of symmetry and gives them the idea of butterfly painting.

3 sets of cards showing objects made from wood, metal and plastic. Children can talk about them and sort them into 3 sets. There is a worksheet where children can sort words into sets or write words. Add a practical activity to make this a great lesson for little ones.

A fun speaking and listening game, for back to school, or any time, to get children into the swing of learning and concentrating again. A bumper pack of 120 flash cards showing catch phrases or sayings. Some children will be familiar with and others they may need to research or try to work out. There are 2 colour flashcards to a page. There is an answer grid that covers all the pictures and a blank grid for children to write in. There are also a set of worksheets where the cards are split up into sets of A to J, with 12 pictures per page and space underneath for them to write the answers in. A great speaking and listening activity where children can discuss with their partners or small groups and come up with likely answers. There may be more than one answer that is appropriate. May be useful, too for those learning English.

*PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols. A fun way to encourage children to speak, listen, communicate and work in teams. This is a speaking and listening game based on Ourselves / Me and linked to Jobs/Occupation/Community. The aim of the game is for children to describe a character in detail for the other team to locate the character on their board and give a grid reference. Add timers for more excitement and challenge. The full instructions are included. There are 3 sets of card boards. A and B show the same 20 colour pictures. These are jumbled up on Board B. Similarly, C and D are same, as are E and F boards.

3 sets of CVC worksheets. Each set is made up of: 12 CVC word cards Word cards with pictures Picture cards with space to write CVC words Children can learn to read, spell, sound out and match. Pictures are black and white so children can colour these too. Links to Letters and Sounds, Phonics and Spelling.

Activity ideas for teaching and learning greetings in Welsh / English. Sheet 1 contains 10 colour flashcards that show popular greetings in both English and Welsh and using symbols (Boardmaker Licenced). Sheet 2 shows black and white symbols of the 10 greetings for children to colour in and name in English / Welsh. They can then write the words in the blank boxes provided. The cards can be cut and matched. Alternatively, children could draw the pictures and write the word/s.

A set of phonics and writing assessment sheets for children. Resources: Sheets 1 and 2 - Pictures for children to say and write the initial sounds underneath. Sheets 3 and 4 - Lower case letters of the alphabet. Can children say the letter and name an object beginning with each letter? Teacher could write the words for the children or the children could draw a picture themselves. Sheets 5 and 6 - Lower case letter for children to name and write over to assess their handwriting. Sheet 7 is a blank template to be used any way you want for e.g. for children to write letters as you say them or write a word/draw a picture for a given sound.

*PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols. My trip to the Rainforest One of a set of resources based on trips suitable for EYFS / KS1 and SEND pupils. Each resource includes 12 colour and 12 black and white flashcards with symbols. Sheet 3 asks the children to draw the symbols or paste the pictures under the words. Sheet 4 is a writing and drawing template. Children can write about their trip. Links to topic work, journeys, travel, explorers as well as reading, writing and speaking and listening.