This creative outdoor writing activity gets students using their senses to describe the setting around them using a mixture of descriptive writing and drawing as they create their very own nature journals. Teaching Structure: Explain to the students that over the next few days / weeks they are going to use their senses to make their own nature journal to describe the settings in different outdoor areas. Go through the journal to check the students understand each section that they’re going to complete. There are three journal templates, one which is just for drawing, one for a little bit of writing and drawing, one for more advanced writers. Take the students outside to a specific place (or let them choose their own spots) and get them to complete a page of their journal. Do this on several different days (the more varied the setting and weather the better). Once they have several journal entries they can create their booklets using treasury tags or stapling them together. Give students time to share journals with each other. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical activity. This activity will work best if you can give an input or lesson before taking the class outside. Once outside, each student / pair will find an object and write it in the first column of their table, for example, a tree. They’ll then go around and see if they can find another one or two things that rhyme with their original object. They can the repeat this until they’ve had a chance to find a few rhymes. This activity can be made more competitive by assigning rhymes points. Extension: Once they’ve got a good amount of rhymes they can use them to create their own poems using our templates provided. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun Christmas themed Literacy activity where your students will write treasure map instructions for their partner to find the Christmas present. This activity works great at the end of term where you can give a little gift to each child to put in the present they hide and write instructions for. Teaching Structure: Give each child (or get them to make) a small box for them to decorate and put either a small note with a Christmas message or a gift you’ve provided inside. Explain that they’re going to hide the present outside and then write a set of instructions for their partner to follow, find, and unwrap. At this point it’s good to give an example of some instructions giving simple directions, demonstrating how clear and detailed they need to be. E.g. Walk forwards 10 steps. Turn right and walk to the big tree. Get the students to hide their present then come back to a designated starting point and begin to write their instructions. Once all of the instructions are finished, they can swap with their partner and try to find the gift. Extension: Get the student to draw a map to go along with their instructions. **Equipment needed: ** Activity pack Small box (or card for the students to make their own). Clipboards Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Spelling and phonics have never been more fun! This outdoor activity is designed to help students recap and reinforce their Phase 4 phonics sounds through active, hands-on learning. The objective of this lesson is to strengthen students’ spelling skills while reviewing Phase 4 sounds in an interactive way. . In this activity, students will search for picture cards featuring missing letters, decipher the word, and write the correct spelling on their provided spelling sheet. This engaging approach helps improve phonics recognition and spelling accuracy, making it an excellent choice for early literacy development. . What’s Included: . 6 spelling lists targeting Phase 3 phonics sounds 60 word cards with pictures and missing letters -Perfect for outdoor learning or classroom phonics centers! . Ideal for kindergarten and early primary students, this resource is a great way to make phonics practice exciting and engaging. . Check out our Phase 3 Phonics Hunt. Check out our Phase 2 Phonics Hunt. . . Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. . Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales.

Spelling and phonics have never been more fun! This outdoor activity is designed to help students recap and reinforce their Phase 3 phonics sounds through active, hands-on learning. The objective of this lesson is to strengthen students’ spelling skills while reviewing Phase 3 sounds in an interactive way. . In this activity, students will search for picture cards featuring missing letters, decipher the word, and write the correct spelling on their provided spelling sheet. This engaging approach helps improve phonics recognition and spelling accuracy, making it an excellent choice for early literacy development. . What’s Included: , 6 spelling lists targeting Phase 3 phonics sounds 60 word cards with pictures and missing letters Perfect for outdoor learning or classroom phonics centers! , Ideal for kindergarten and early primary students, this resource is a great way to make phonics practice exciting and engaging. , You will also love our ‘Match The Sound’ phase 2 - 5 phonics game. Check out our Phase 2 Phonics Hunt. Please don’t forget to rate this resour Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales.

Spelling and phonics have never been more fun! This outdoor activity is designed to help students recap and reinforce their Phase 2 phonics sounds through active, hands-on learning. The objective of this lesson is to strengthen students’ spelling skills while reviewing Phase 2 sounds in an interactive way. . In this activity, students will search for picture cards featuring missing letters, decipher the word, and write the correct spelling on their provided spelling sheet. This engaging approach helps improve phonics recognition and spelling accuracy, making it an excellent choice for early literacy development. . What’s Included: 6 spelling lists targeting Phase 2 phonics sounds 60 word cards with pictures and missing letters . **Perfect for outdoor learning or classroom phonics centers! ** . Ideal for kindergarten and early primary students, this resource is a great way to make phonics practice exciting and engaging. . You will also love our ‘Match The Sound’ phase 2 - 5 phonics game. . Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. . Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales.

This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs. There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb. This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class. Contents: - 4 x Box Decorations - 30 x Adverb Cards - 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!

It’s time to get messy writing instructions for and making potions! This fun activity is sure it be a hit with your class while the learn about the key features in instruction writing such as imperative verbs and time connectives. At the end of it all they will have their own set of instructions for their very own magic potion using natural materials. Our teaching structure: 1: Show examples of instructions and highlight the features 2: Get the children to go outside to think about which natural resources they may want to use. 3: Fill in the planning sheet 4: Write the instructions 5: Swap the instructions and make the potions! Contents - Teacher’s Guide - Instructions Checklist - Potion Instructions Example - Planning Sheet - Differentiated Instructions Template We hope you have as much fun as our class did! ------------------------ Please don’t forget to leave feedback if you enjoyed this resource. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about

Teach sentence structure with this fun outdoor scavenger hunt. Each sentence is split into three parts. Simply hide the sentence cards around your outdoor area and get your class to collect the cards and create the sentences. Once they’ve created a sentence they can write it down on the differentiated sentence record sheets. This is a great activity for students to understand how to create a sentence and the key components of a sentence (subject, verb, and complete thought). You may also like our ‘Sentence Fixers PowerPoint’. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Can you have an outdoor learning area without a mud kitchen? These fun labels are the perfect addition for your mud kitchens. Simply print them out, laminate, and stick them around your mud kitchen. Each label comes with a helpful visual to aid those early readers and EAL students. This pack contains 29 labels as well as an editable version for you to create your own. Click here for the editable version. You may also like our ‘Mud Kitchen Recipe Cards’. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Children will get lost in their imagination and creativity with this fun and engaging story telling / writing activity. It is a great way to practise creating exciting stories, thinking carefully about describing characters and settings. The children must select one of each card (character, lives, problem, & solution) and base their stories around each of the cards. The children will absolutely love it! We have used this very successfully for a few days worth of lessons. The children spend the first lesson playing with the cards and enjoying telling stories. They then choose four cards, stick them in their books, and do a big write based on those cards they have chosen. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have! ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Inventing an outdoor game is a great way for your class to develop their instruction writing skills as part of your non-fiction topic. They’ll first look at an example set of instructions in the form of a memory game, studying the different features of instruction writing before planning and writing a set of instructions for their own game that they can test out on their friends. **Contents: ** Teacher Guide Instruction Writing Checklist Instruction Example (Memory Game) Differentiated Mind maps Differentiated Writing Templates Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know your thoughts. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These display resources and help cards will help your children become more independent with improving their writing. Not only will this allow your children to take more independence over their learning and writing, it will also save you a ton of time as they use this display to improve, and continue improving! This pack consists of display resources and help cards for the following areas: - Adjectives - Adverbs - Connectives - Punctuation - Sentence Openers - Writing Checklist This display has worked wonders in my classroom, and I hope it does in yours too!

These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs. Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card. Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction. This pack contains differentiated card levels. Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card). Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card). Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Autumn is a wonderful time of year where there are a lot of changes happening. This can be a fantastic opportunity to look at poetry and description. These lessons will get your students looking descriptive language and adjectives to describe the world around them through an acrostic poem. They will look at adjectives and other descriptive techniques to describe autumn before writing their own acrostic poems. Part 1: Get the students to go outside to find the most interesting leaf they can. They will then stick the leaf in the middle of the worksheet and write adjectives / descriptive phrases around the outside to describe the leaf. Part 2: This lesson is all about thinking of adjectives and descriptive phrases to describe Autumn. They must find somewhere outside (ideally around trees) and use their descriptive language techniques to describe the changes happening in autumn. Part 3: It’s now time for the students to write their acrostic poems using the descriptive language they’ve been looking at. This pack contains a few different poem templates for them to use. Love teaching outdoors? Check out our year of outdoor home learning challenges here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Adjectives (Pair Cards): Adjectives have never been so easy with our set of 4 adjective pair cards. Engage your children with our fun activities either individually, as a group, or as a class and they will be Adjective Pros before you know it! Check out our preview to see just how exciting you can make adjectives! Contents: - Opposites train - x1 (23 pairs) - Opposite pair cards pack x 1 (11 pairs) - Synonym pair cards pack x 1 (14 pairs) - Who am I? pairs pack x 1 (17 pairs)

This activity develops letter recognition and fine motor skills as your class complete task cards by making letters of the alphabet out of natural materials.Each card comes with visual aids to support learners. You can give out these cards and ask your class to create the suggested word using the natural material depicted in the card. You can also create your own activities using these cards. Contents: A – Z letter art cards