We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
This is a fun activity to experiment with measuring and units of measure. Children will find objects to measure in your outdoor space, however instead of using standard units of measure, they’ll create their own wonderful units of measure, for example, leaves. If they chose leaves as their units of measurement they’d use a leaf to measure the item and record their answers in the table. As an extension students can convert their ‘weird units’ to cm.
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Rain is great fun and no reason to stop outdoor learning. This pack contains cross curricular resources and activities that you can do in the rain. So put those waterproofs on and enjoy the rain!
This resource includes science, literacy, and math activities for ages 7 - 10.
Activities included:
Rain Description: Children will go outside and use adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe what they can see, hear, feel and touch.
Rain poetry: Children will use their descriptions to write a poem about the rain. It’s great if they can do this outside using a whiteboard or scrap paper before writing it up in neat inside.
Rain Gauge Investigation: For this investigation children will design and build their own rain gauge to record the amount of rainfall over a decided period of time. It’s good to give children the chance to experiment with their ideas, however you may need to give them some guidance. We find this investigation works best when done in teams of 3 or 4. You can use these teams to provide differentiation and support by using mixed ability groups. Once they’ve collected their rainfall data they can then answer some questions based on their results as well as input their results into a line graph.
Puddle Size: This activity is all about measuring using diameters, radius, and perimeter. Children will find 5 puddles to measure, recording their results onto a line graph before answering some questions on their results. Vibrant Rain: This activity is all about the colors of nature. Children will find different colored natural items, crush them with stones, and use the colors to create some rain art. It’s best to print this activity sheet on card so that it does not get too soggy when using the damp natural resources to paint with.
This is a nice non-fiction writing activity where students will explore your outdoor space while they write their very own nature guide for friends, family, or other students.
They will go around your outdoor space and choose four subjects to focus on (trees, animals, habitats, etc.). After carrying out some observations and research (using books / the internet) on each of their chosen subjects they can complete the guide templates.
You could laminate their guides or scan them and turn them into QR codes to be displayed in the outdoor area.
We hope you find this resource useful and enjoy working outside with your class!
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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.
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This is a great cross curricular activity where students will create a video tour on the nature around your outdoor area. It’s perfect if you’re looking at script writing, living things (habitats, animals, etc.) and video making. This activity is best done in pairs or small groups.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that they’re going to create a virtual video tour for nature around your outdoor space. Get them to complete the ideas sheet that encourages them to think about what they may want to include and how they will create the video. It can be good for them to walk around the outdoor space while doing this to help them get ideas.
Examples of things they could talk about: different habitats, trees, plants, animals, etc.
After this they will complete the script where they’ll write exactly what they are going to say and what video will be played during the audio. Once they’ve completed their script it’s time to film, record the audio, and edit it all together. These videos can be used in loads of different ways. You can create them into QR codes and put them up in your outdoor space, put them online, or simply share them with friends, family or other students.
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This is a nice activity to explore the world around us through our 5 senses. It’s great if you’re looking at the human body in science or setting descriptions in literacy. Students will head outside and complete the differentiated sheets as they explore your outdoor space through their 5 senses.
It can be nice to do this activity a few times throughout the year in different seasons and weather.
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Liven up your outdoor space with these A- Z capital letter posters which are great to be used in your outdoor area. Simply laminate them and stick them up in your outdoor space. Each poster contains a capital letter from A - Z made using leaves. They are perfect to be used for letter recognition and motor skills activities.
Students could also take the cards and re-create the letters using leaves or other natural items.
You may also like our 1 - 10 number posters.
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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.
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Liven up your spelling list homework with this fun outdoor spelling activity sheet. Simply get the children to write down their spelling lists and take the activity sheet home to complete the challenges. The activities require very few resources and should be done easily at home or in a local outdoor area.
You may also like ‘20 Outdoor Challenges To Do Before I’m 8’.
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This phonics phase 3 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 3 sounds.
Check out our ‘Match The Sound Phase 2’ activity.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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This phonics phase 2 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 2 sounds.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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Introduce a refreshing twist to your sessions with this Phase 5 phonics activity. It provides students with ample practice in decoding words and identifying sounds within them. During the activity, students venture outdoors to hunt for word cards, bringing them back to place on the appropriate sound map. This resource contains Phonics Phase 5 sounds.
Check out our Phase 2 ‘Match The Sound’ activity.
Check out our Phase 3 ‘Match The Sound Activity’.
Check out our phase 4 'Match The Sound Activity.
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Introduce a refreshing twist to your sessions with our ‘Match The Sound’ phonics bundle for phases 2 - 5 It provides students with ample practice in decoding words and identifying sounds within them. During the activity, students venture outdoors to hunt for word cards, bringing them back to place on the appropriate sound map. This bundle contains Phonics Phase 2 - 5 sounds.
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Celebrate World Book Day with a unique outdoor adventure! This outdoor poetry session delves into the beauty of William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” followed by a series of exciting activities that bring the poem’s vivid imagery to life.
Step outside the classroom walls and engage with nature: Immerse yourself in the natural world, drawing inspiration from the poem’s descriptions of landscapes and emotions.
Explore your creativity: Through interactive activities, express your responses to the poem’s imagery in a fun and personalized way.
Deepen your understanding: Gain a deeper appreciation for poetry and its ability to connect us to the world around us.
This interactive outdoor poetry experience is perfect for:
Ages 7 - 11: Tailored activities cater to diverse interests and abilities.
World Book Day celebrations: A unique and memorable way to honor the joy of reading and writing.
Boosting creativity and mindfulness: Encourages students to explore their creativity and connect with nature.
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For this outdoor scavenger hunt students will solve literary clues inspired by beloved children’s stories. As they work together to find hidden objects, they’ll engage their reading comprehension skills and explore the natural world around them, making connections between stories and the environment.
Other World Book Day Resources:
William Wordsworth Outdoor Poetry
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This ocean facts reading comprehension is full of interesting facts about our oceans. Children will read through the short passage before answering a set of 8 true or false questions based on what they have just read.
It’s a great filler or extension activity for your oceans topic.
You may also like our Ocean Animals Word Search activity.
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The “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet guides young explorers through the exciting moments of their beach day. From the arrival at the beach to the playful activities, seashell hunts, and sandcastle building, students will have the opportunity to relive the highlights of their seaside exploration.
Teachers and parents can use this “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet to encourage children’s writing proficiency, creativity, and memory recall while providing a platform for sharing their beach tales with friends and family.
This resource contains just one recount template. Check out our full pack to get all three templates here.
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The “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet guides young explorers through the exciting moments of their beach day. From the arrival at the beach to the playful activities, seashell hunts, and sandcastle building, students will have the opportunity to relive the highlights of their seaside exploration.
Teachers and parents can use this “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet to encourage children’s writing proficiency, creativity, and memory recall while providing a platform for sharing their beach tales with friends and family.
This resource contains three differentiated templates.
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Your kids will love reading all about Easter with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through how Easter started, the meaning behind Easter and how it is now celebrated. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
2 page reading passage
2 x comprehension questions
Answer key
You may also love our Easter word search!
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This global warming reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your humans and the environment topic. This is a basic text that goes through what global warming is, what impacts global warming, and why they it is an important issue that we need to be aware of. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our ‘Sea-Level Rise Reading Comprehension’.
Check out our ‘Solar Energy Reading Comprehension’.
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