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!

This is a great outdoor activity as part of your living things topic, senses, outdoor art, or just as a fun outdoor activity. It’s a great way to get students exploring your outdoor space and appreciating the nature around them. For this activity students will go on a walk around your outdoor space, recording what they spot along the way using pictures and simple words or sentences. This activity is a great way to get students looking closely at the nature around them, making observations, and recording what they see. If pack contains different observation sheets to suite different needs and focuses. When on the walk you can either let the students choose when they want to draw or get everybody to stop at certain points to fill in their observations. It works really well if you can do two nature walks in contrasting areas so that students can compare their observations and discuss why they see different things in the contrasting environments. 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 and practical activity for continuing patterns that’ll get your students identifying and continuing patterns without them even realizing they’re learning! These activity sheets are great for the main lesson, filler, or extension activities. They will roll a dice and complete the matching patterns on the activity sheet until all number patterns are complete. You can even add a level of competition by seeing how quickly they can complete the game. This resource contains 12 differentiated activity sheets for grades 1 - 5. Check out our other Roll and Multiply Bundle for times tables 2 - 12: Roll & Multiply 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 upcoming sales!

This outdoor STEM challenge gets students working as a team as they explore your forces and motion topic, with a focus on gravity. They will be set the challenge to transport water from a bucket at the top of a hill / set of stairs to the buckets at bottom using only a bucket and length of hose. Once they’ve completed the activity they can fill in the evaluation sheet which gets them to think about the effectiveness of their method as well as how they worked together as a team. Set Up: This activity works best in teams of 3 or 4. For each team you need 3 buckets and a length of clean hose. Find a hill (or set of stairs (however space can be an issue here) and place one bucket full of water at the top and another at the bottom for each team. The students can not touch either of these buckets. Their challenge is to transport the water from the bucket at the top to the bucket at the bottom without touching either of the buckets. They must only use the third bucket and the hose to transport the water. You will see lots of weird and wonderful ways that the students come up with to do this. The idea is for the students to develop a siphon by placing one end of the hose in the water and the other in the empty bucket, sucking until the water reaches the high point in the hose, and then letting gravity do the rest. If by the end of the activity the students have not used this method to transport the water, show it to them and encourage a discussion as to why it works. Resources Needed Per Team: 3 buckets of the same size Hose (1 - 2 meters long) To make things more interesting you could also add more objects they can use that won’t be as effective, such as a sponge. 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 activity is all about students exploring the properties of different materials in the outdoors. This lesson can be done anywhere, from the beach to your garden. If access to the outdoors is limited you can easily adapt it to be done inside. For this activity students will find items matching the properties on the sheet and record what they’ve found by either writing or drawing. Encourage students to think carefully about their decisions. What makes something heavy? Would that be heavy for a giant? 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!

All about adjectives is an activity where students will find something they find interesting outside, draw it, and think of some adjectives to describe it using all of their five senses. This pack contains differentiated sheets as well as word banks to support those who need the extra help. It can be a great starter activity, plenary, or even whole lesson depending on the age of your students and their abilities. It’s important students have a basic understand as to what an adjective is before starting this activity. 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!

Imagine if insects had a social media platform… well now they do! Your class will think like an insect and create a ‘bugbook’ page for their chosen insect. This is a great cross-curricular activity that will firstly get students looking at the features, habitats, and characteristics of insects in their outdoor space as well as practicing their non-fiction writing and research skills. It’s great when looking at description writing and non-fiction texts. You can also use this as a base to talk about internet safety using the question prompts provided. PSHE, science, and literacy all in one! Teaching Structure: Explain to your students that insects are getting social and love the new bugbook social media site. It’s their job to observe and research a chosen insect and make a bugbook profile for it. Share the example with them as a starting point to showcase the kind of things they may include. Get students to head outside, choose an insect they’d like to create a profile for and spend some time observing it, filling in as much of the research sheet as possible. They can then compete the sheet using the internet to research. Once the research sheet is complete they can create the insect’s profile using the templates provided. **Internet Safety: **Once they’ve completed their profiles, you can use the 10 internet safety question prompts to have a discussion with your class about the importance of being safe online. This could be done in small groups where each station is a different point outdoors. 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 outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think carefully about the differences between facts and opinions as they produce their own statements with about your outdoor area. Students will go to your outdoor area (this can also be done inside) and complete the table by writing facts in the left column and opinions in the right column about the area you are using. This activity is great when done both in pairs and individually. 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 handwriting / spelling letters and sounds dice game for phase 5 phonics is great for getting your little ones practicing sound recognition, letter formation and fine motor skills without them even realizing they’re learning! They will roll a dice and trace the matching letters / sounds on the activity sheet before filling in the gap for the spelling. Once all the sounds have been traced for the number rolled they can continue to roll until the sheet is complete. This is a great morning or filler activity that your class are sure to love! This pack contains all the sounds for phase 5 phonics. 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 math board game is a great way for students to practise mental multiplication for tables 2 - 10 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their multiplications. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends. Contents: Board 2 - 10 Times table cards Check Out Our Other Board Games: Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals Elapsed Time Long Multiplication Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000 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 visual Easter themed word search activity is a great fun for your students. It contains 12 Halloween themed words each with an accompanying picture perfect for your EAL students. This word search is perfect for bell work, filler activity, homework, or as a fun whole class activity. A black and white version is included. 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!

Building a bug hotel is great fun for all ages groups, however this pack will encourage students to look more carefully at the different insects their hotel is attracting and the habitats they thrive in. For this project they’ll design a hotel and observe the changes over time. It is a great cross-curricular project if you are looking at data handling, habitats, living things, and even engineering. This pack contains two levels of differentiation. Contents: Teacher Guide Instructions Design Sheets Results Table (before) Bar Graph (before) Results Table (after / during) Bar Graph (after) Conclusion Questions 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 math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with decimals without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends. Contents: Board Playing cards with carrying Playing cards without carrying Check Out Our Other Board Games: Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals Column Subtraction With and Without Carrying Elapsed Time Long Multiplication Mental Multiplication Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000 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 addition activity gets your little ones practicing basic addition in an easy way with no prep. To complete the activity they must figure out the addition and color the correct bubble pairs This pack contains 5 levels of challenge. Depending on their ability you can also provide students with number lines and physical objects to hep them with their additions such as counters or number lines. Check out our Bubble Subtraction worksheets. 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!

Find and color each subtraction pair. The first one has been done for you. This subtraction activity gets your little ones practicing subtraction in and easy way with no prep for you! To complete the activity they must figure out the subtractions and color the correct pairs of bubbles. This pack contains 5 levels of challenge. Depending on their ability you can also provide students with number lines and physical objects to hep them with their subtractions. 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!

This fun STEM team building activity will get your glass thinking about forces as they build the strongest platform they can off the ground using only sticks and string. Once students have planned, built, tested, and evaluated their platforms they can have a fun competition to see which platform hold the heaviest weight. This activity is great if you are looking at forces in motion, engineering, or simply as a fun team building activity. It is easy to set up as you only need access to our resources, string, and sticks. Teaching Structure: Planning sheet – Students will discuss ideas and complete the planning sheet. Build the platform – Give students 20 – 30 minutes to build their platform. Test the platform – Give students 5 minutes to test their platform. Evaluation sheet – Students will fill in the evaluation sheet, thinking about what went well and what they could do to improve their designs. Give each team 5 minutes to improve their designs. Competition! See which tower can hold the most weight. You could use stones, weights, or anything else you can find. Resources needed: Resource pack Sticks (any size) String Scissors It is useful to go through some basic knots with your class before doing this activity. 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!

15 visual healthy eating / lifestyle vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They’re a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this relevant and engaging topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid. Contents 15 X Key Vocabulary Cards Display Title Healthy Eating Vocabulary Included Balanced Diet Calories Carbohydrates Diet Exercise Fat Fruit Keeping Healthy Minerals Nutrition Protein Pulse Saturated Fat Vegetables Vitamins 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!

This animal observation record is designed to be used either outdoors or when looking at live webcams. Students will look closely at both the physical and behavioral characteristics of the animas over a period of 3 or 5 days and record what they see on the observation sheets. It fits in really we if you’re looking at adaptations or camouflage and mimicry. This is also a great science investigation or fun home earning project for students. This resource contains three different levels of challenge. If doing this activity outside it’s important to choose an animal that’ll still be there when they return for the other observations. Good animals to observe outside: Birds with a nest Spiders in webs Ant Nests Animals in ponds 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!