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 PPT with 7 colour slides related to Autumn and phonics.
Each slide shows 8 cards for children to say the sounds, read the words and try to find pairs of words/cards starting with the same initial sounds.
Use as a whole class slide show encouraging observation and speaking and listening.
The cards can then be cut out and made into flash cards for children to continue practically playing sounding and matching games.
Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children.
This Christmas workbook blends crosswords, a word search, labelling, writing, and colouring activities, offering a range of learning experiences that cater to different abilities.
The resource includes Boardmaker symbols (Boardmaker licenced).
The activities align with EYFS and KS1 learning objectives and link to literacy.
There are 9 worksheets altogether and an answer sheet to go with the word search.
Embrace the vibrancy of Autumn with this resource titled ‘Autumn: Exploring Seasons and Change,’ designed for KS1 and EYFS teachers. The resource features a planning unit detailing three activities, each with clear objectives, detailed resource lists, step by step guides and extension ideas.
Included in this resource are the ‘Autumn Doodles’ worksheet and three colouring sheets featuring a scarecrow, an umbrella, and leaves.
Immerse your KS1 children in the spirit of Thanksgiving with this resource featuring 10 picture grids!
Each grid portrays a Thanksgiving-themed image, incorporating the iconic pumpkin, festive turkeys, and pumpkin pie.
This resource is crafted to encourage children to replicate these Thanksgiving illustrations onto a blank grid, square by square, nurturing their observational and fine motor skills.
Enlarge the grids as required and extend by asking children to draw or paint freehand.
Blast off into the wonders of the cosmos with this KS1 Space Week Resource, featuring 10 picture grids!
Each grid presents an image related to space, including the glowing moon, twinkling stars, mysterious UFOs, a satellite dish, telescope, and brave astronauts exploring the unknown.
Designed to celebrate Space Week, this resource encourages children to replicate these illustrations onto a blank grid, square by square, fostering their observational and fine motor skills.
Integrate the knowledge of Space Week into the classroom, inspiring young minds to learn more about the universe and our place in it.
Boardmaker licenced.
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.
Bring the spooky and enchanting spirit of Halloween to your KS1 children with this resource featuring 10 picture grids!
Each grid unveils a classic Halloween-themed image, including a mysterious haunted house, a grinning pumpkin, a creepy spider, a fluttering bat, and a funny witch.
The resource is crafted to inspire children to replicate these Halloween illustrations onto a blank grid, square by square, nurturing their observational and fine motor skills.
You may want to enlarge the grids and extend the activity by asking children to then draw or paint the pictures free hand.
This Spooky Creativity Pack is designed to bring festive Halloween spirit into EYFS and KS1 classrooms. The pack contains 10 worksheets, each showing a Halloween theme in both colour and black & white versions.
Children can either match the colours or use their own colours or designs!
The worksheets cover a variety of Halloween themes, including pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and more, keeping the children engaged and excited.
Versatile Use: Beyond colouring, these sheets can be used to create Halloween cards, enhance classroom displays, or serve as matching game cards.
Ignite the sparkling spirit of Bonfire Night in your KS1 children with this resource featuring 10 Firework related picture grids!
Each grid showcases a Bonfire Night-themed image, highlighting the visuals of rockets soaring , dynamite, and colourful fireworks painting the night sky.
The resource is designed to encourage children to replicate these illustrations onto a blank grid, square by square, enhancing their observational and fine motor skills.
An engaging way to bring the magic of Bonfire Night into the classroom!
Enlarge the grids as required and extend the activity by getting children to draw or paint firework pictures freehand.
Prepare for, and enhance your festive activities with this set of 10 Christmas worksheets.
Each sheet shows a colour Christmas scene with a matching black and white version.
Children can copy the colours or use their own designs and colours.
These cards be a fun and educational tool for colour matching exercises, but they also offer an opportunity for children to craft their own Christmas cards.
A set of activities and resources for an introduction to Transport and sorting into Land, Sea and Air.
The planning sheet includes learning objectives, activities, resources and assessment. Planning can be used for a lesson or unit of work.
There are a set of colour flashcards of the 6 vehicles introduced which can be cut out, duplicated and laminated.
There is a sheet with space for drawing or pasting vehicles.
Sheet 3 is for labelling and colouring.
Sheet 4 is to support handwriting and fine motor control.
Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children.
The ‘Mystery Boxes’ game is a perfect ice-breaking activity designed for EYFS and KS1 children.
The game uses symbols and is a fun resource for SEND children too.
Boardmaker Licenced.
In the game, each child gets a turn to open a ‘Mystery Box’ containing a picture card. This prompts children to introduce themselves and share a bit about their lives, connecting their introductions with the picture on the card. For example, a card with an apple might encourage a child to say, “My name is Lucy and my favourite fruit is an apple.”
The game encourages speaking and listening. The excitement of revealing what is in the mystery box, together with the joy of sharing and listening, make it a fun and interactive way to ease children back into school or a new class.
The resource includes a lesson plan showing objectives, resources, intro, activity, conclusion and assessment opportunities. There are 5 sets of colour cards that can be cut out and laminated to go inside the treasure boxes.
Links to Ourselves, Me and School topics, as well as speaking and listening.
In this interactive lesson, children explore the concepts of ‘ourselves’ and identity. The lesson utilises amusing rhymes about four baby and toddler characters.
Through activities like colouring characters, overwriting rhymes, and reflecting on personal attributes, children are encouraged to express themselves creatively while improving fine motor skills, speaking and listening.
Links to literacy, rhymes and handwriting.
This is a complete lesson which is a great starting point for introducing the Seasons to young children.
The first sheet is a lesson plan which gives 8 ideas for using the resources and for fun engaging activities for the children.
There are 4 colour flashcards representing each of the 4 seasons.
There are 4 item black and white cards for each of the seasons e.g associated with winter is a snowman, a child dressed for the snow, a snowflake and a Santa in the snow.
Children can colour these in and trace over the words.
4 sets of colour flashcards, one for each of the seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Each set of 6 flashcards shows a character holding a key word associated with the 4 seasons.
The flashcards can be added to displays, duplicated, laminated and used in matching games. The flashcards link to literacy, word and phonics work.
The first page of the resource gives information about the flashcards, activity ideas and outlines the key vocabulary used.
A 7 page resource linked to Insects.
Children will get the opportunity to learn the names of insects, write the sentences and initial sounds and match the colour and black and white pictures.
They can colour in the black and white pictures their own way or to match the colour versions.
There are 6 insects and the first page which shows all 6.
Suitable for EYFS and KS1.
This is a monster activity where children create their own monster pictures or make an individual or class collage.
It is fun to enlarge the pictures of the monsters and each child choose one - these can be added to make a large scale collage.
Page 1 shows all the monsters on one page. This can be used as a worksheet on its own, or children can choose their monster to work on.
Page 2 shows an example of a colour collage made from a selection of the monsters.
Page 3 shows a collection of coloured eyes that children could copy or add to their monsters.
Pages 4 to 15 - here are the black and white monsters with 2 to a page.
Links to art and design, colour and Halloween.
9 activity sheets connected to the Toys, Journeys, Ourselves and reading and writing.
Suitable for EYFS/KS1 and SEND pupils.
Connect the resources to a trip to or a visit to the Toy Shop, either virtual or real.
Page 1 is a filled bus off to the Toy Shop for children to talk about and colour in.
Page 2 is an empty bus template. Children can draw themselves and their class mates going to the Toy shop in the windows. Alternatively, they can choose, colour, cut and paste Toys pictures onto the bus. Page 3 shows a selection to choose from.
Page 3 shows a collection of symbol cards and pictures that children can use to add to the bus, for their written work, or duplicate for matching card games.
Page 4 is a writing template about a Toy shop trip in Colour and page 5 is the same sheet but in black and white.
Pages 6 to 9 show toy animals and things that children might see at the Toy shop for them to label. These sheets are in colour and black and white. Children write the labels.
Boardmaker licenced.
A set of worksheets / activities based on the theme of the Community and People who help us.
Learning objectives are included.
Sheet 1 LO - To recognise, name and label people who help us.
There are 12 characters in colour here each having a different role to play in helping us. Children can talk about the jobs that they do. Does any one person have a more important job to do than the others? Why or why not?
Sheet 2 LO - To use text as a stimulus for writing thank you letters to people who help us.
There are 2 examples here of letters written by children to a school cook and a postman.
Sheets 3 - 4 LO -To show appreciation for our community workers by writing a letter of thank you.
There are 4 colour frames that children can choose from to write their thank you letters or to help them with ideas for making their own.
Sheet 5 - Shows some key words that children may want to include in their letters and space to make a draft letter.
5 worksheets and activities based on the theme of ‘Going for Gold’. The resources cover Sports focused activities and Personal achievements and accomplishments.
Each resource has a learning objective.
Personal focus:
To reflect on personal interests and strengths
To recognise and celebrate personal achievements
To recognise and talk about different achievements and accomplishments
Sports focus:
To identify, name and match sports equipment and write about each one
To sort the sports pictures into groups - throwing, swimming, hitting and kicking.
The resource includes reading and writing activities, speaking and listening and sorting. It links to PSHE, Ourselves and Me.