In this Halloween themed activity your class must hide words on spooky cards that make up a secret message around your school / outdoor space and mark the coordinates on their map. They will then swap maps and figure out each other’s secret hidden message. Contents: Teacher guide. 2 differentiated worksheets. Halloween themed message 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!

This halloween themed coordinates activity contains 8 differentiated (4 quadrant and 1 quadrant) worksheets where the children need to find the missing halloween themed words by using the coordinates given in the table. This is great to be done in class or sent home as a distance learning exercise. I have used these time and time again and my class always love cracking the code. 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 cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning family vocabulary in Spanish and English. This is a great way to have students review their Spanish vocabulary and not even realize that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity. This pack contains 2 Cootie Catchers from Spanish to English translation as well as English to Spanish. Each has a second copy included if you would like students to fill the translation for each family vocabulary themselves. Vocabulary included: parents : los padres mother : la madre father : el padre child : el niño or la niña grandfather : el abuelo grandmother : la abuela daughter : la hija son : el hijo uncle : el tío aunt : la tía brother : el hermano sister : la hermana cousin : la prima / el primo Folding and playing directions are also included as well as black and white versions. Have fun! 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!

The smell hunt is a great activity to get students exploring the wonderful smells nature has to offer. It’s perfect if you’re looking at our senses as part of the human body topic or descriptive writing and adjectives. Students will find and crush the leaves of plants or trees before letting their partner smell the leaves without letting them see them. Their partner must then see if they can find the same leaves based on what they smelt. For higher grade levels you can use small pots for them to collect and store the leaves in as well as completing the record sheet before swapping sheets with their partner. This resource contains optional differentiated activities sheets that can be used to support this activity and provide good curricular links. **Record sheet: **These sheets can be used for students to record the leaves they’ve collected and think of some adjectives to describe the different smells. Evaluation: These sheets get students to think of the science behind smells, diving deeper into how we smell the crushed leaves and why things have particular smells. The smell hunt is a great starter for our potion making resource. 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 cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or key manners in Spanish and English. This is a great way to have students review their Spanish vocabulary and not even realize that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity. This pack contains a Cootie Catcher from Spanish to English translation as well as English to Spanish. Each has a second copy included if you would like students to fill the translation for each manner phrase themselves. Vocabulary included: Please : Por favor Thank you : Gracias You’re welcome / no problem : De nada Pleased to meet you : Mucho gusto Excuse me, pardon me : Disculpe, Perdón Don’t worry about it : No importa Good luck : Buena suerte I am very sorry! / I’m so sorry! : ¡Lo siento mucho! Folding and playing directions are also included. Have fun! 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 gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful characters. It can be used really effectively when designing characters before writing a story, encouraging them to think about adjectives and character descriptions. Each student will choose a small natural item and place it in the first column of the table. Encourage them to spend some time looking at all the small details - it’s great if they can use a magnifying glass when doing this. Next, they will re-create their item in the middle column. This could be done through a variety of ways (pencil drawing, coloring, chalk, etc.). Finally they’ll use their imaginations to bring their item to life. Drawing their new character in the right hand column. There is a challenge sheet included with space to think of some adjectives to describe their character. Please don’t forget to rate 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 gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively when designing and describing characters before writing a story. Each student will choose a small natural item and place it in the first column of the table. Encourage them to spend some time looking at all the small details - it is great if they can use a magnifying glass when doing this. Next, they will re-create their item in the middle column. This could be done through a variety of ways (pencil drawing, coloring, chalk, etc.). After that they will use their imaginations to bring their item to life by drawing their new character in the next column. Finally they will describe their character by thinking of adjectives, a descriptive sentence, or similes and metaphors to describe their creation. It can be good to encourage the use of similes and metaphors 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!

This is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or key greetings in Spanish and English. This is a great way to have students review their Spanish vocabulary and not even realize that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity. This pack contains a Cootie Catcher from Spanish to English translation as well as English to Spanish. Each has a second copy included if you would like students to fill the translation for each greeting themselves. Vocabulary included: Hi : Hola How’s it going? : ¿Cómo está? Very well, thank you : Muy bien, gracias What’s your name? : ¿Cómo te llamas? My name is … : Me llamo … Goodbye : Adiós See you soon : Hasta pronto See you later : Hasta luego Yes : Sí No : No I don’t know : No sé Folding and playing directions are also included. Have fun! 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 cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning food and drink vocabulary in Spanish and English. This is a great way to have students review their Spanish vocabulary and not even realize that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity. This pack contains 2 Cootie Catchers from Spanish to English translation as well as English to Spanish. Each has a second copy included if you would like students to fill the translation for each food and drink vocabulary themselves. Vocabulary included: bread – un pan breakfast : el desayuno dinner : la cena drinks : las bebidas fish – pescado food – la comida fruit - fruta lunch : el almuerzo meat – carne mikk – leche nuts – nueces savory : salado(a) sweet: dulce tomato – tomate vegetables : las verduras water – agua Folding and playing directions are also included as well as black and white versions. Have fun! Check out our other Spanish Vocab Cootie Catchers! 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 cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning time vocabulary in Spanish and English. This is a great way to have students review their Spanish vocabulary and not even realize that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity. This pack contains a Cootie Catchers from Spanish to English translation as well as English to Spanish. Each has a second copy included if you would like students to fill the translation for each time vocabulary themselves. Vocabulary included: a year : un año afternoon : la tarde day : día evening / night : la noche hour : la hora midnight : medianoche morning : (por) la mañana noon / midday : mediodía Folding and playing directions are also included as well as black and white versions. Have fun! 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!

24 visual volcano vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid. Contents 24 X Key Vocabulary Cards Display Title 2 Blank Cards Vocabulary Included Active Volcano Batholith Caldera Cinder Cone Volcano Composite Volcano Crater Dormant Volcano Explosive Eruption Extinct Volcano Fissure Hot Spots Hot Spring Lava Magma Magma Chamber Nonexplosive Eruption Pyroclastic Material Rift Ring of Fire Shield Volcano Vent Volcanic Ash Volcanic Neck Volcano 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!

The sound map is a great way to get students listening to the sounds around them as they investigate this fascinating topic with good links to measuring, compass work and estimation. They will choose a spot in your outdoor area to sit then mark on the sounds they can hear in relation to them (with them being in the middle of the sheet) by drawing or writing on the activity sheet. Encourage students to think carefully about how far away they think the sounds are and mark them on the sheet accordingly. You can also look at bearings by getting students to mark on the estimated distances on their map. You can even give each child a compass so they can also mark on the bearings of each sound. 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!

A set of 24 differentiated task cards to practice the bar model method with mental addition and subtraction. These task cards are perfect to give years 3 - 4 students loads of practice with mental addition and subtraction using the visual bar model method. This pack contains two levels of differentiation each with 12 cute animal themed cards. You can provide equipment to add a further level of differentiation for this who need a more concrete approach. We love to hide these cards around our outdoor space and use them as a math scavenger hunt but there are loads more ways to use these task card to fit your needs! **Purple cards: Addition and subtraction within 40. Pink cards: Addition and subtraction within 210.** An answer sheet and answer key is also provided with this resource. 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!

Get creative by creating characters using only natural materials that can be found in your outdoor space. For this activity students will create characters using leaves, sticks, stones and anything else they can find in your outdoor space. The story ‘Stick Man’ fits in really nicely with this activity and can be good to read before letting the students create their own characters. Once you’ve given students time to create their own characters it can be nice to go around and share their creations, getting them to explain a bit about their creations. You can take this activity even further by taking a photo of their character and sticking it on the sheet (quarter page) or getting them to stick their character directly onto the sheet (doesn’t work so well if sticks and stones are used!) and then getting them to write some adjectives or sentences to describe their character around the outside. This activity can make a great display! More ideas… Once they’ve created their characters you can also get a learning assistant to interview them about their characters. Where do they live? What do they like doing? What are they scared of? 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!

End the year with this fun Christmas literacy challenge! This pack contains 10 cards that you can hide around your outside space each with a fun Christmas themed challenge covering a wide range of topics for the students to complete on the answer sheet provided. This activity is a great fun and practical lesson to do at the end of the year. **Topics covered: ** Acting Descriptions Adjectives Instructions Metaphors Rhyming Similes Spelling This resource requires minimal preparation, however a couple of the cards require some resources to go with them. Card 4 - This needs to be somewhere where children can write using chalk. Card 8 - Optional: Write the letters on this card on small stones so that children can physically move them around. Equipment needed: Task cards + Answer Sheet Chalk - Lettered stones (optional) Blindfold Check out our outdoor Advent Calendar here. 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!

Two templates for children to research a Catholic saint of their choice and create a profile for them where they’ll draw a picture, record key information and find some interesting facts. Check out our Catholic Saints student research booklet 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!

This catholic saints student research booklet is a great project for students to carry out research on the different Catholic saints creating a page for each with space for a picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity as well as distance learning. This pack comes in with a blank template for students to choose their own saints. To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together. Vocabulary included: St. Francis St. Christopher St. Patrick St. Catherine St. Anthony St. Cecilia St. Joseph St. Michael St. Sebastian St. Lucy St. Valentine St. Nicholas St. Bernadette St Joan Of Arc 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!

Bring the outdoors to Advent with this fun outdoor activity Advent calendar. Each day of Advent has a fun and easy outdoor activity to complete. This calendar can be used in class, at home, or as part of a club or group. It’s great fun and your children are sure to love exploring the outdoors each day. There are flaps included with this resource for you to stick over each activity. If you are not using the flaps, encourage your students not to peek at the other days! Merry Christmas! 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 shape cut and stick activity is perfect for the Christmas season. Children will cut out the different shapes and stick them back down to create a simple Christmas themed picture. It’s a easy hassle free activity that’s perfect for the end of term or to be sent home for distance learning. This resource contains an activity sheet with the final picture displayed as well as one where the children will need to figure out what picture the shapes make. **Pictures: ** Snowman Holly Angel Christmas Tree Present Check out our outdoor Advent calendar here. 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!