Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
A resource designed to captivate the imagination through the world of frogs.
There are an array of activities including colouring, matching, fine motor skills, sensory exploration, literacy, and numeracy.
Resources Include:
Frog Colouring Pages
Cutting and Matching Exercises
Sets of flashcards in colour and in black and white in large and small sizes.
Encourage early literacy with frog-themed writing frames in colour and black and white. Children can practice handwriting with froggy patterns that mimic the leaps and bounds of frogs.
Children can cut out and arrange frogs smallest to largest, fostering understanding of basic math principles. These are in colour and black and white.
Sensory Frog Bin: Dive into sensory play with a guide to creating a frog-themed sensory bin, offering a tactile experience to explore textures, sights and sounds associated with pond life.
Whether as part of a science unit, a literacy program, or simply for fun, this resource promises to foster curiosity and exploration in young children.
This sorting game links in with animals and the food they eat.
There is a poster showing carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Next there are 2 worksheets showing pictures of the animals.
Children can write under each animal C, H or O to indicate which group of animals each one belongs to.
Alternatively, children can cut out the 8 animals on each page and sort under the 3 headings.
There are also black and white copies of the worksheets for children to colour in.
6 Boards showing black and white animal images.
15 game cards to copy, cut and use in this game of Lotto.
Great resource for Science, Animal or matching topics. Children can also colour in the pictures and make their own unique boards.
6 Lotto boards with colour images of fruit and vegetables.
15 cards to copy, cut and use to play the game.
You could make enough cards for children to play pairs or match
fruit and vegetables to word cards or real food.
Great for your Harvest or Food topics.
A resource for your topics on Homes, Houses, Buildings or Habitats.
Sheet 1 shows 12 colour pictures of habitats or homes for children to talk about and label. They can label in different ways e.g. name of or who lives or would stay there.
Sheet 2 has 12 sentences and children can read these and find out which habitat or home each sentence refers to e.g. A place loved by spiders but hated by flies would refer to the Web.
Sheets 3 and 4 are word banks showing 12 words on each such as names of pictures on sheet 1 or ideas for who might stay or live at each place e.g. the Royal family may live in the Castle.
Sheet 5 is a colouring and labelling sheet showing 10 homes or habitats.
The “Alphabet Autumn Association” is a teaching pack that connects each letter of the alphabet with something related to autumn.
It helps children learn their letters while also getting them excited about the fall season.
By using pictures that match each letter, children can practice their reading and writing. The resource contains a planning sheet detailing activities, resources and objectives.
Engage in the vibrant hues and textures of the Autumn season with this resource for SEND, EYFS, and KS1 teachers and children.
This set consists of six sheets, each showcasing six boxes filled with inspiring ideas for both activities and display items centred around an autumn theme.
Children can interact with the activity boxes exploring pinecones, pumpkins, seeds, flowers, and feathers.
Children are given opportunities for crafting necklaces or wreaths using autumn-coloured beads and resources, or immerse in hands-on activities using themed papers, sand, materials, instruments and craft supplies.
The set further encompasses autumn-themed bricks, sand, numbers, and stickers, ensuring an interactive autumn experience for the young learners.
Whether you’re looking to decorate your classroom, add to displays, or engage children in seasonal projects, this resource offers a blend of nature and craft.
Individual cards can also be duplicated and cut out for speaking and listening, matching games or to label activity boxes.
4 worksheets for children to link to their topics on Flowers, Plants, Nature. The sheets will also help to develop their handwriting / fine motor skills.
Here is a fun doodle activity for your topic on Summer, the Seasons or Weather.
Good speaking and listening activity for pairs or writing activity making lists.
Show on the smart board and see how many words the children can say or list in a given time.
A resource linked to weather. It can be used over several weeks or a single week.
The resource is a Weather Log designed for whole-school use, with each page featuring two weather logs in different colours and designs to keep the process engaging. There are 8 designs of logs with 2 to a page.
Children can use the sections for each day of the week in a multitude of different ways e.g. noting the date, weather conditions (sunny, rainy, cloudy, etc.), morning or afternoon, temperature, and / or for drawing or pasting symbols.
This allows children to track daily weather effectively.
The logs can be enlarged as required.
The final page is in black and white, encouraging children to personalize it with their own drawings, colours, and symbols, fostering creativity and ownership of their weather tracking.
16 colourful pictures/posters on 8 slides showing things that float on water.
Great for discussion and leading up to your floating and sinking experiments.
Links with Science and topics on holidays, water and water safety.
Suitable foe EYFS and KS1.
Laminate for your displays and water play areas.
Here are 22 ideas for making sensory boxes or baskets on a range of themes including:
Wooden objects
Natural objects
Shiny objects
Smelly things
Autumn box
Baby box and many more
Sensory treasure boxes enable children to explore
and use their senses to find out about the world.
Although the boxes are superb for young children,
please remember to choose objects that pose no
safety risk to children such as sharp objects.
I like to add photographs of the objects and or pictures for children to match and talk about.
3 worksheets of activities where children can:
Name and count the plants
Colour the plants on each row to make them all the same
Colour the plants on each row so that they are all different
Make a continuing colour pattern using your colours
Children could also cut out the pictures and make them into sets
A matching and sorting activity for KS1
4 sets of cards:
Birds
Fish
Butterflies
Bugs
There are 4 of each type in black and white and 4 in colour.
Children colour the pictures to make them the same as the colour versions.
These can be made into flashcards for children to match and sort into the 4 sets or catergories of animals.
3 pages with 6 pictures of different animals.
The backgrounds of each animal picture represent their skin / fur / patterns.
Children colour in the pictures of the animals taking into account these patterned backgrounds.
Enlarge and children could use paint or collage materials - these pictures then make a lovely classroom display.
A set of colouring, counting and naming resources for EYFS with a Nature theme
Count how many of each picture and write the numbers
Label the Nature pictures or write a caption
Name and colour the Nature pictures
4 - 8. 2 large pictures to a page for colouring or flashcards
6 pages showing 6 animals on each with coloured borders.
These can be used for a variety of activities:
Colouring worksheets
Duplicate, print and cut out for matching games
Duplicate and use for lotto games
Sort the animals into categories such as farm, land, sea etc.
Enlarge the cards and use different media such as collage or paint
Speaking and listening activities describing the animal for a friend to guess