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This is a great activity around Halloween, if you’re looking at living things, or just as a fun team building / problem solving outdoor activity. Your students will hunt out and take a close look at a spider’s web before working as a team to create their own human web using string or wool.
First, get your class to find a spider’s web (ideally with a magnifying glass) and draw a picture of it on the sheet, looking carefully at the small details. Once they have completed the sheet, give each group (of 3 or 4) some string / rope and scissors and ask them to go find two trees or posts that are close to each other. They will use the trees / posts to create their human webs, thinking carefully about the design of the spider’s web they looked at.
Once they have finished they can draw their web or take a picture and stick it on the sheet.
It can be useful to give your class a lesson on simple knots before doing this activity.
Equipment:
2 x human web sheets
Magnifying glasses
String / rope
Scissors
Camera (optional)
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A great FREE activity for Halloween, a topic on African tribes, or just for fun, this mask activity will let your class’ imagination run wild. After completing the design sheet then choosing and cutting out a template they will head outside to find natural materials that they’ll use to create their mask.
Sticking the natural materials onto the mask is a great temporary solution for this activity, however if you want them to last longer it is a good idea to then laminate the masks.
Resources needed:
Design sheet
Crayons
Templates
Scissors
Glue
Stapler (optional)
Laminator (optional)
-Outdoor space with
natural materials
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Be it for Halloween, a literacy topic (instruction writing fits in well with this), or just for fun in the outdoors, this activity is sure to get your classes imagination flowing. Each student will plan and make their own magic potion using natural materials that they can find in your outdoor space. There are two differentiated sheets, one which gets your students to think about what they might include in their potion, the other that expands on this, getting them to think about the purpose of the potion.
Once your class have completed the planning aspect of the sheet they can go outside and start creating their potions in a small bowl, pot, jar, or anything else you can find!
Equipment needed:
Differentiated sheets
Small container
Natural resources
Spoon or equivalent (optional)
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 - 6. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 - 5. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 - 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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This activity gets your class thinking carefully about adjectives and things that they could describe by placing the cards next to items they can find outside that match the adjective. For example, they might place ‘big’ next to a big tree. As an extension, they could then go on to use the card and the item they have found to write a sentence containing the adjective.
This activity is differentiated by the support given and the amount of input before the lesson. It may help to put your students in mixed ability groups, or for small groups to complete the activity with an adult.
Contents
Teacher’s guide
18 x adjective cards (British + American spellings)
Sentence worksheet
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Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice recognising initial sounds (A-Z) by pairing the letter with the initial sound picutre. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white background) which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
**Contents: **
5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white background)
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Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching upper-case letters to their lower-case pair. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white), which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
**Contents:
**
5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white)
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Colour Matching Freebie
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition
Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching colors to their name. This FREE pack contains 1 puzzle, however it can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
1 x Tarsia puzzle
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition
Perfect to be used as a math station, these fun addition puzzles are great for your early mathematicians to practice adding numbers 1 - 15 using dice to help. This pack contains 3 differentiated puzzles, however it can be further differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
3 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Perfect to be used as a math station, these fun addition puzzles are great for your early mathematicians to practice adding numbers 1 - 15 using dice to help. This pack contains 3 differentiated puzzles, however it can be further differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
3 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles
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Perfect to be used as a literacy station, these fun animal puzzles are great for your early readers to practice their phonics, beginning to recognise and blend simple sounds. This pack contains 5 differentiated puzzles, however it can be further differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
5 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles
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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
Mix up your electricity topic with this activity where your class will explore the conductivity of items in the outdoors. After making a simple circuit, they’ll head outside and place objects within the circuit to test whether they are conductors or insulators, completing the table before analysing their results and starting to produce some simple conclusions.
Contents
Teacher’s guide
Circuit diagram
2 x differentiated results tables
2 x differentiated results and conclusion questions
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Grab the magnifying glasses, binoculars, and pond nets to explore the habitats in your school grounds / outdoor space. Your class will see how many different habitats they can spot and which animals are lurking there.
In pairs, get your class to walk around to see how many different habitats they can spot. They should fill in the differentiated record sheets as they go.
For each habitat that your students identify they can use the available equipment to find and record any animals that might be living there. Some students may find it easier to draw pictures of the animals that they find.
Contents
Teacher’s guide
4 x differentiated resource sheets
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Be it measuring, converting cm to m, data handling, estimation, graphing, or science, this outdoor math activity has it all. Your students will use a practical technique to measure and record the height of trees around your outdoor space before compiling their results into a chart that could be used for further investigation.
It’s useful for students to have access to books / the internet for this activity to help them identify the trees.
**Contents: **
Instruction sheets
Differentiated record sheets
Differentiated bar chart sheets
Questions sheet
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It’s time for your class to put their detective’s hats on and go on a mission to figure out who eats what. This resource is split into three differentiated activities, each of which involve your class finding animals and trying to figure out what it is through observation, any clues in the area, and prior knowledge.
Contents:
Teacher’s guide
3 x differentiated resource sheets
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