Autumn’s here and here is a collection of 5 short stories to inspire your children. The tales are perfect for story time, end-of-day reading, and linking with literacy, reading, and creative writing. They also touch on themes of seasons and feelings, making them relevant and relatable for the children. The Lonely Scarecrow: A story about loneliness and friendship. The Fox and the Acorn: A lesson in growth and nature. The Squirrel That Slept Too Long: The importance of preparation and timing. The Windy Day: A fun look at the effects of a breezy autumn day (Follow up with kite making of your own). Adrian Mouse and the Special Pumpkin: A tiny mouse finds a very special autumn home.

Encourage your KS1 children to dive into the wonderful world of creative writing with this fun story pack. This is Set 1 in the Collection. This collection features five original tales: “The Boy Who Could Not Stop Growing”, “The Princess and the Knight”, “Hide and Squeak”, “The Lonely Bear and the Magic Umbrella”, and “The Cat That Nobody Wanted”. Each story is thoughtfully written, with engaging plots that will stimulate your children’s imaginations and foster their creativity. The stories are good starting points for various writing activities, encouraging children to create their own tales, write sequels, or pen character descriptions. The stories also carry subtle moral lessons - from embracing individual differences to overcoming fear with friendship. There is a colouring sheet to go with each story.

A fun activity for young children to link in with topics on Ourselves, Me , Sorting and Speaking and Listening. There are 15 pictures of children doing a range of activities such as singing, playing football or climbing. Children can talk about what they like and do not like and cut out the cards to sort. There are 2 different sheets for writing, drawing or pasting onto. Children can write 3 things they like and 3 things they do not like. Or / and they can draw or paste pictures of things they like and do not like,

Introducing: “Catch Phrase!” - A Journey Through Words and Art A hands-on activity tailored for Key Stage 2 pupils. From the comforting “There’s no place like home” to the festive “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” and the determined “I’ve started so I’ll finish,” pupils embark on a captivating journey, uncovering the origins and meanings of 10 timeless catch phrases. Each catch phrase has it’s own original poster for inspiration, showing origins and meaning as well as instructions for pupils own poster work. “Catch Phrase!” links Literacy with Creativity: A fusion of language, art and design. Suitable for individual or group work, adapting to classroom needs.

“Introducing ‘Find the Odd One Out’ – a 12-page resource where children are challenged to spot subtle differences in sets of three pictures. Perfect for honing observation skills and for speaking and listening, this activity can be a fun race against the clock for the whole class, or a collaborative task for pairs. Whether you’re stuck indoors on a rainy day or need a quick lesson starter for KS1 and EYFS, this resource is sure to engage and enthuse your young learners. Who will spot the difference first?”

A set of colour and black and white flashcards showing 6 weather types. These can be used as flashcards, display or visual aids. Children can use the worksheets to write sentences about the weather. A wordbank is included. There are colour and black and white versions of the worksheets.

8 Colour cards showing weather types and 8 black and white cards to match or colour in. Print the cards double sided so they have a back, laminate and use for games, reading and matching weather words and pictures. Children can work in pairs to name the weather and come up with a sentence about it.

These planning sheets are for children to write key words that they will then use in their written work. Differentiate for those children needing extra support by writing in key words for them to use in their writing. There are 4 different options for planning to write about the weather or the 4 seasons: Set 1 - Shows photos of trees in the 4 seasons Set 2,3,4 shows different trees over the 4 seasons 16 templates in all.

Children will enjoy these different colour weather pictures. They can use the visual aid to help them to write a list of Weather and there are 2 pages of pictures to label or match.

The first page is an example of filled in word anagrams. A 10 page worksheet resource. A collection of worksheets with a weather theme where the letters of each word make an anagram of a weather word. Children write the words, draw and colour the weather pictures. 2/3- 3 letter anagrams without initial sounds included 3 letter anagrams with the initial sound 4/5 - 4 letter word anagrams with initial sounds 4 letter anagrams with missing initial sounds 6/7 -4 letter word anagrams with initial sounds 4 letter anagrams with missing initial sounds 8 /9 10/11 - 5 or 6 letter word anagrams without initial sounds 5 or 6 letter word anagrams with initial sounds included Links to your topic work on seasons, weather as well as word work / phonics.

This resource contains a poster with weather words for children to read and use in their speaking about the weather and writing / recording the weather. There is a poster of weather symbols that children can discuss and come up with words / phrases or sentences to describe each symbol extending their vocabulary. Finally there is a table / chart for children to record the weather (using words or symbols) 3 times a day for a week.

A black and white and colour version of this weather board is included. The boards are a useful visual aid to support children / pupils with their speaking and listening and communication as well as writing about the weather. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols

A cross curricular activity linked to Geography, Weather, Seasons and Literacy. 10 worksheets where children have space to write key weather words to go with each weather type. They can then use their key words to write about the weather or season and / or write a poem.

A collection of activities about the weather and 4 seasons. The workbook includes: Hot and Cold Sorting Making seasons bookmarks Sorting celebrations into seasons Learning about weather idioms Researching the meaning of common weather idioms Challenge Cards Wordsearch and answers for the 4 seasons

A set of worksheets to stimulate writing about the weather and seasons at KS1. Sheet 1 shows muddled weather words for children to unscramble. Sheet 2 is a template for children to write their own weather words into. Sheet 3 is divided into the 4 seasons and asks children to write weather words for each season. Sheet 4, 5, 6 and 7 asks children to write words in the boxes for each of the seasons.

4 worksheets for children learning about the letter W. Links to phonics, handwriting and reading. Sheets- 1 water 2 well 3 weather 4 week

A resource suitable for children who benefit from symbols and visual aids including those learning English language, SEND pupils and KS1. The resource is linked to the weather / Seasons. Sheet 1 asks children to identify the colour weather symbols and complete the sentences e.g On Monday it was sunny / I wear boots when it is rainy. Sheet 2 is the same as sheet 1 in black and white. Sheet 3 has space for children to draw their own weather symbols / pictures and asks them to say / write about their favourite weather. Finally there are 6 colour and 6 black and white weather flashcards to support the learning / lesson. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

Here is a novel idea for making a Father’s Day card. Children design patterns onto the ties and assemble to make the card.

A Father’s Day / Celebrations PPT and activities. This is an animated PPT with 2 activity sheets as a follow up. Jo wants to get her dad a Father’s Day gift but she cannot decide what. There are 20 animated ideas to choose from. Children watch the PPT and help Jo to decide on a gift they feel would be suitable. The slides are animated so the children will delight in watching the present ideas on the TV, There are lots of details too on the slides for children to talk about and spot in the other slides. Some of these are animated also. The activity sheets are at the back: A writing frame for children to write their choice for Jo and their personal choice. They then draw these gift choices. Activity sheet 2 is for children to draw and label all the choices of gift. One is done for them. Extension activities include data handling - how many children chose the same or different gifts? Make a Father’s day gift, card or write a letter to dad.

3 different colour versions of this ‘I Love Dad’ Father’s Day card for children to choose from, cut, fold and make - green, pink and yellow. There is a black and white version that children can colour in themselves. There are also 2 inserts saying ‘Happy Father’s Day’ that children can paste inside their cards.