Fuel your KS1 children’s curiosity and knowledge of transportation with this resource featuring 10 picture grids! Each grid displays a mode of transport such as a soaring plane, a chugging train, a hovering helicopter, a robust truck, and a modern electric car. This resource is designed to encourage children to replicate these transportation illustrations onto a blank grid, square by square, developing their observational and fine motor skills. Enlarge the grids as required. Extend by asking children to draw or paint the modes of transport freehand.

This resource, designed for Key Stage 1 teachers, begins with worksheets that feature different clothing items -such as shorts, dresses, trousers, and more -embellished with a variety of patterns, including circles, squares, stars, and colourful designs. These worksheets are intended to integrate art and design with the concepts of shape and pattern. By colouring and creating outfits from clothing items, children engage in a hands-on exploration of 2D shapes, pattern and artistic elements, reinforcing their understanding through interactive and creative activities. The resource links to textile technology. The emphasis at KS1 for textile technology is on exploration, creativity, and developing basic skills. There is a planning sheet included, together with objectives, materials needed, instructions and outcomes.

This series of 5 worksheets is designed to help young children develop their observation skills while learning about the seaside / beach / holidays. Each worksheet features two scenes from the beach with six differences for children to locate. After spotting the differences, children can colour in the scenes, reinforcing their engagement with the topic.

This “Who’s Who in the Classroom” resource is a colourful poster for KS1 children returning to school. It features 18 children, each ready for their new class and year, making it a fun way to explore new friendships and learn about one another. The resource includes five activities where children can read and answer questions about the characters, identify them from descriptions, and practice phonics by matching names. They’ll also get to write names in alphabetical order, describe the characters to a friend, and write their own short descriptions. This resource supports learning about feelings, Ourselves, School and phonics. To make the learning experience more personal and engaging, you can create a class resource using the children’s own photos or drawings. Start by asking each child to either bring in a photo of themselves or draw a picture of how they see themselves. Then, create a large poster or a digital display featuring all the children’s images. Alongside each photo or drawing, add a space for the child’s name, a fun fact about them, and their favourite things. You can also include activities similar to the ones in the “Who’s Who in the Classroom” resource, such as matching names, ordering them alphabetically, or describing a classmate’s picture. This personalized resource reinforces the skills practiced in the original poster and also helps children feel more connected to their classmates and comfortable in their new environment.

A fun activity for the introduction of Autumn for KS1. Children have the opportunity to create creatures from leaves and then invent adventure stories for them. The resources include a lesson plan: Creating leaf Creatures for Autumn, which lays out objectives, materials and step by step instructions. There are 2 stories with ready made examples of leaf creatures: Flappy the Flying Frog and Squiggle the Squirrel. Each story shows the character and has a comprehension sheet with 6 questions for children to answer. The resource links to reading, guided reading, writing, comprehension, animals and Autumn.

A poster showing 30 cute animals. Children can name and write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the animlas first. Words can be put into alphabetical order.

A poster showing 20 animals beginning with the letter B. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first.

A colouring book for EYFS or KS1. Each letter of the alphabet has a colour picture and animals to colour in. There is a colour poster for every 4 letters and the final 2 - Y and Z. Links with Phonics, the Alphabet and any Animal topic.

This Power Point starts of with an animated slide showing all 7 kinds of animals. Click to show the words to go with the pictures and children can see if they can name the animals correctly. Page 2 shows black and white drawings of the same animals and the words appear on a click. Next there is a slide for each kind of animal and a sentence. Children can read the sentences. Print off the sheets for worksheets where children can read, match, colour and write the words and sentences.

6 sheets of colouring sheets with 4 pictures on each one. Children read the sentence and then decide which animal they need to colour. e.g. Colour the flying owl or Colour the striped animal. This encourages reading for meaning, thinking skills and speaking and listening.

A set of worksheets for your topic on Animals, Water, or Water Animals. There are 6 animals with photos and then activities: Name and colour pictures of the animals Draw the animals Colour and label the animals Finally an animal doodle colouring picture where children can also count how many of each animal there are.

This activity is about teaching or consolidating the collective nouns for animals. There are 20 pictures of animals on 2 worksheets with the collective nouns to identify and match. Sheets 3 and 4 are grids. Sheet 3 shows the collective nouns for all 20 animals. Children can write the animal names underneath or draw them. Sheet 4 shows the animals names. Children can write the collective nouns underneath or draw the groups of animals. Extend with children saying a sentence for each animal or writing sentences e.g. I heard a gaggle of geese. Links with literacy and animal topic work.

This is a fun lesson where children find out about animals with fruity names such as the lemon shark and the raspberry crazy ant. Share the power point with the children and see if they can guess the name of each animal using the picture clues. Click the key and the name will appear on each page. There are 8 animal slides. The final slide is a list of suggested activities or tasks that the children can do. e.g. finding a picture or photo of each animal, drawing cartoon animals combining the fruit and the animal and then making a model. Links to art and design and science(animals).

3 writing frames for children with colour pictures. Each frame shows colour insects or small animals around the outside. On the inside, there is space for childrens writing or drawing on your topic of animals, insects, bugs or animals. Sheet 1 - A lined centre frame where children can make a list or write sentences or a short story. Sheet 2 - Boxes in the centre for children to write the names of 12 insects or animals and /or, draw them. Sheet 3- A blank centre box for children to write in, draw or paste into.

A bright power point showing animals from A to Z. Each page encourages the children to say the sounds, recognise the lower and upper case letters and read the sentence about the animal. Use as part of your work on animals and phonics. The slides also make a lovely wall display or alphabet frieze. Extend by printing off the slides and cutting off the black letter and word sections. Laminate for reuse. Children can match the two parts together to complete the pictures.

A brave lioness has lost her cub. The story traces her journey and the 11 baby animals she comes across before she eventually finds her baby! Along the journey, children can name the animals, read the thoughts and speech, count the animals and match them to the flashcards included. Children can then complete the worksheets where they write the animals names and trace the words. Lots of opportunity for role play and drama too. Suitable for EYFS and KS1.

This resource is an Exploration of Baby and Parent Animals using 10 black and white worksheets. Each worksheet showcases a different baby animal alongside its parent. Children will learn new vocabulary like ‘cygnet’ and ‘swan’, ‘lamb’ and ‘sheep’. Children can colour in the pictures, whilst developing their understanding of the animal kingdom. An added activity includes sentence writing, which gives further opportunities to enhance language and writing skills. Each picture is surrounded by a thick border, assisting the children in the task of cutting out the shapes.

These sheets are black and white and duplicated in colour. There are 4 of each sheet showing a cow, sheep, pig and chicken. The idea is that children discuss each animal and their impact / effect on humans/humanity. E.g. For the chicken, children may say we benefit from having eggs and chicken to eat as well as soups and mayo. Older children may consider any negative impacts of eating meat or using fertilizer for example. The pictures around each animal give children starting points or clues for discussion and writing.

Here are 10 baby animals for children to find in a word search grid. An answer sheet is included. Baby animals include cygnets, goslings, kids and piglets. There is a sheet where children can mark off the animals as they find them. This sheet can be laminated and then reused to save paper / printing. There is also a labelling sheet where children name and label 6 of the colour baby animals.

An Animals Phonics Resource for Key Stage 1 children. This set comprises of four engaging worksheets that encourage children to say, write, and recognize initial sounds of various animals. They can enhance their learning experience by colouring the illustrations.