This activity will give your students lots of practice at counting between 1 and 20 as they collect natural items and explore the outdoors. It’s a great way to use concrete resources to support the learning of number recognition and counting. Simply print off the cards (either on card or laminate the paper) and place them around your outdoor space. Your students can then go around and pile the correct amount of items on top of each card. Each card shows a picture of an item as well as a number which indicates how many they need to collect and leave on top of the card. Check out our Summer Counting Worksheets! 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!

It’s time for an adjective hunt! This activity will get your student thinking about adjectives for all letters of the alphabet in and around your outdoor space. Simply provide your students with the activity sheet and let them walk around your outdoor or indoor space and think of adjectives for each letter of the alphabet to describe items they can see. This activity is great to be used as an extension challenge for your early finishers. Check out our fun phonics word searches 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!

These challenges are a great addition to your light and shadow unit. They will get your students exploring shadows in a fun and practical way as they attempt to complete each of the challenges on the cards. These challenges encourage self-discovery and independent thinking as well as teaching them how shadows are created and the influence that the angle of light has on the shadow. This activity works best on a sunny day first thing in the morning when the sun is lower in the sky so that the shadows are larger. These cards contain a main challenge as well as some having an extension to the task (written in purple) for more of a challenge. Cards 1 - 10 are more simple activities. Cards 10 - 20 are more complex. Some of these cards work much better when students are working in a small group. For the cards where students are required to make their own shadows, it’s really effective if you get them to use chalk to draw around the shadow they’ve created. Digital version: You could get them to take photos of their shadows and upload it to the Google Slides. There is also a printable answer sheet where they can record their challenges. Check out our ‘Light & Sight’ Powerpoint. 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!

Engage your little learners with these delightful Summer-themed counting worksheets! Each worksheet features a collection of summer-inspired objects like beach balls, ice creams, sandcastles, and seashells. Designed to practise counting skills up to 10, children will have a blast as they count the number of each object and write the corresponding number in the provided boxes. These interactive and visually appealing worksheets will keep your kids entertained while reinforcing their counting abilities. Perfect for ages 4 - 6, these worksheets make learning to count a breeze during the sunny season. Download and print these summer counting worksheets to ignite your child’s curiosity and love for numbers. Check out our Outdoor Counting 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!

Engage young hearts and minds with our mindset coloring pages and activity that will help to promote mental health and well-being. Let children immerse themselves in the power of positive thinking as they read meaningful quotes, reflect on their significance, and express what each quote means to them by completing the table provided. It’s great to promote healthy discuss amount your class and being stronger connections. This resource is great as a whole lesson or filler activity. Check out our Mindfulness Task 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 is a great challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them. For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet. This is a free version of a bigger resource. For more photo challenges and the digital version check out the other resource in our store. Check out our full photo challenge pack here.

This is a great challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them. For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet. There are a few ways you can get them to complete the challenge. Tick box: Get them to tick the challenges off as they complete them on the worksheet. Photo book: Get them to print out and complete their very own photo book. Google Slides: Get them to upload their photos on to the Google Slides photo challenge. Click here to get access to the Google Slides. Check out our Outdoor Maths 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!

These fraction cards will give your students loads of practice at ordering fractions in a fun and practical way. This pack contains three sets of cards. Diff. 1: All of the denominators are the same. Diff. 2: The denominators are different. Diff. 3: The denominators are different and more complicated. These cards can be used as a whole class or in small groups. There are lots of different variations for this activity; we have listed a few that we like to do below. Go outside and give each child a fraction card. Ask them to get into order smallest to biggest as quickly as possible. To make it more challenging, see if they can do it without talking. Scavenger Hunt: Hide the cards around your outdoor space and get them to find the cards and order them as quickly as possible. Small groups. Give a set of cards to small groups and get them to hang them on a washing line from smallest to biggest. 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!

Get your detectives hat on with our series of animal crime scene investigations! These activities will teach your students about animals and their habitats as well as developing their observation, problem solving and inferring skills. The crime scenes are easy to set up with printable props, clue cards, and suspect cards. If you want to add extra elements or real props this can help to bring it alive for the children even further! The Hedgehog horror will take your class through an investigation involving the mysterious death of the friendly local hedgehog. They will need to use the clues provided to them as well as their knowledge of the local wildlife to determine who or what is guilty of the murder. Contents: Teacher Guide Prop Cards Crime Scene Report Suspect Cards (Blank and Complete) Clue Cards Clue Record Sheet Verdict Record Sheet Our Verdict 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!

Summer is a wonderful time of year when nature is blooming. 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 summer before writing their own acrostic poems. 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 scavenger hunt to get your little ones practicing their initial sounds as part of your phonics topic. For this activity they will take the worksheet outside, find the item in the box before circling the correct initial sound. This resource contains sounds from phase 1 – 4. There are two variations of the worksheets. One where the students simply circle the initial sound. The other where they circle the initial sound before attempting to spell the word. 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 reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what solar panels are are, how they work, and why they are an important renewable energy source. 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 Wind Turbines Reading Comprehension. 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 reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what wind turbines are, how they work, and why they are an important energy source. 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 ‘Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension’. 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 reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what renewable energy is and the different forms of renewable energy that have been developed. 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 Comprehension questions Extension questions Answer key This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning. 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

Your students will love using alliteration with this fun poetry lesson. For this activity they will head outside and choose a variety of different items for them to describe and complete the table. Once they have done a few items they can piece together their alliteration poem. This lesson will help students to understand what alliteration is and how to use it in their own writing. Check out our Outdoor Writing 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

Take the confusion out of algebra wit this fun outdoor activity where the students will simplify and solve differentiated algebraic problems. They will be given a task card containing an equation which will consist of sticks, leaves and numbers. They must first simplify the equation by creating it on the playground using stick, leaves and chalk before writing a possible solution to the algebraic equation underneath. It’s a great lesson to introduce students to solving equations and representing numbers through letters / objects. This pack contains 24 differentiated task cards (1 - 10 are simple equations and 11 - 20 are more complex). 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!

Sticks are a great resource when looking at shape, angles, and lines. These task cards / slides get your students building shapes using sticks based on a set of criteria (for example it must contain 2 right angles). Using the task cards: Place the cards in your outdoor space for your students to find. They will then build the shape using sticks and either take a picture of it or draw their shape. Slides: Students can take an I-pad outside and create the shapes using sticks, take a photo of their shapes, and upload it onto the correct slide. Topics covered: - Right, acute, and obtuse angles, - Parallel lines, - Perpendicular lines 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 team activity to get children thinking carefully about composting. They will have to sort object cards based on whether they can be composted or not in a fun relay race. **Teaching structure: ** Discuss what composting is and why it’s so important. - Put the students into teams of 3 or 4. Have two labeled zones or tubs for ‘compost’ and ‘don’t compost’. Get the students to line up in their teams a good distance from the zones or tubs. The first person from each team collects an object card from the teacher and takes it back to their team (if you want to make this even more exciting you could use real items!). The team discusses whether it can be composted or not before the first player runs it to the correct zone / tub. The next child then runs to collect a new card. - Do this activity for an agreed amount of time or until all of the object cards have been used. Go through the object cards to see if they are all correct. To add a greater level of competition you can get each team to write or put a colored sticker on each of the cards they collect and then count up how many cards each team got correct. 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!

Algebra can be great fun outdoors! This activity will introduce simplifying algebraic equations to your children while exploring sticks and leaves found in your outdoor space. They will be given a differentiated task card containing a formula which they must build before simplifying. The ‘x’ represents sticks and ‘y’ represents leaves. If the formula reads x + y + x they must order stick, stick, leaf and then write ‘2x + y’ underneath. This pack contains 22 card with 8 challenge 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!

Ratios are everywhere and a great opportunity to take your math lesson outside! For this fun outdoor ratio lesson your students will collect some leaves, write some ratio sentences based on their characteristics and then convert the ratios to fractions. It’s a great way to recap ratio to students and give them lots of practice at spotting different ratios as well as converting the ratios to their equivalent fractions. This resource contains two levels of differentiation. Diff 1: They must write the ratio and convert it to the fractions. Diff 2: They must write the ratio and convert it to the fractions, before simplifying the fraction. 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!