Enjoy looking through my resources. Most of them are suitable for EYFS/ Year 1 though there are some others for older children. Follow my Instagram @LittleWildLearners for lots of teaching and outdoor learning ideas.
Enjoy looking through my resources. Most of them are suitable for EYFS/ Year 1 though there are some others for older children. Follow my Instagram @LittleWildLearners for lots of teaching and outdoor learning ideas.
10 writing prompts- these are pictures, which can be coloured in, with lines for a sentence to be written underneath describing the picture. These are suitable for children working at Phase 3 - 5 phonics.
1 sheet for reading opportunities aimed at Phase 3 readers. Children read the sentence and cut out the corresponding picture and stick it next to the sentence.
Halloween themed.
15 labels on 3 A4 Pages.
Perfect for a Halloween Party, mud kitchen, role play area or other Halloween themed activity.
Simply print and stick to bottles!
Labels include text and image so even younger children can use them.
8 Mud Kitchen Recipe Cards - Halloween themed
Recipe cards include simple reading opportunities, numerals/ digits to be recognised and pictures to follow meaning children can access them more independently.
Lots of maths opportunities such as recognising numbers on the recipe cards, and counting items into the bowl/ pan.
Suitable for children working within the EYFS (Early Years)
Only uses easy to find mud kitchen resources e.g. sticks, water, mud, conkers, pine cones, pumpkin seeds.
16 page PDF Early Years Transition booklet
It includes various activities for children to do at home or in nursery prior to moving into a school nursery or reception class.
Activities all encourage children to think about their new school and discuss it with a grown up. Some give space for children to draw their ideas or colour in, alongside key questions for adults to ask them as they complete the activity.
There are some pages for guided discussion such as around what they may do in their new setting, and discussion of the child’s feelings.
There are 5 pages of tips for parents on how they can support their children to have a good transition experience too and how to prepare their children for school.
This would work as a document to send home for families to complete, or to do some in nursery and send the tips home to parents.
This resource includes planning and resources for a short topic covering King Charles III coronation for Early Years (EYFS).
There is provision planning for each area of the classroom and outdoors. Alongside this there are challenge cards and all printable resources required to set up the activities and challenges (anything else needed is very simple resources found in schools such as pens, pencils, scissors, card etc).
It covers planning and resources for:
Maths – addition activity (differentiated from addition to 5, 10 and 20)
Writing – activity for writing invitations and guest lists for the coronation
Art ( 3 activities – indoor, outdoor and easel area)
Sand
Water
Construction (1 x activity for indoor construction and 1 x activity for large outdoor construction)
Playdough
Role Play
Fine motor skills
Stage / performance
Music
Bonus outdoor scavenger hunt activity
Pack consists of 30 pages which include:
16 planned activities with resource lists
10 challenge cards with picture prompts to support practical learning activities
Further picture prompts to support play based activities
5 printable worksheets to support maths, writing and scavenger hunt activities
Easter themed shape and repeating pattern maths activities.
4 lessons including planning, slides and challenge cards to support simple and easy to resource practical activities.
Learning objectives cover:
Lesson 1 : LO: Identify & describe shapes
Lesson 2 : Identify & describe shapes
Lesson 3 : To continue and create repeating patterns with shapes
Lesson 4 : To create own repeating patterns
Aimed at Early Years EYFS or lower ability Year 1.
Activities include:
Creating Spring pictures using plastic or paper shapes
Creating repeating patterns on Easter Eggs
Children have opportunities to:
identify shapes
describe shapes, including identifying and counting corners and sides
Use shapes to make pictures
describe repeating patterns (2x and 3x repeats)
continue repeating patterns (2x and 3x repeats)
Create own repeating patterns
Watch the teacher model, work together in a group, practise individually
All lessons include:
Starter idea- whole group
Teach - whole group
Practice- in a group and/or individually
Review - group or independently
4 differentiated writing tasks for Early Years EYFS around the theme of Easter and Spring.
Design and describe an Easter egg (2 x differentiations)
Label a chick (2 x differentiations)
Write a sentence to describe an Easter or Spring picture
Write a word to describe an Easter or Spring picture
Folding books so children can write their own Easter or Spring stories in provision or lesson time
Outdoor learning planning for the book Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. Suitable for EYFS or KS1.
Lots of opportunities to get outdoors and active to develop children’s literacy skills and understanding of the book.
18 Superhero themed home learning tasks for Nursery or Reception (Early Years)
There are a total of 18 activities that can easily be done at home split over two sheets. Children asked to select 3 per week to complete but you could suggest more. Activities are practical using items children will have at home. There are key questions to guide parents delivering the activities at home. The activities are topic based. They cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. There are art projects, research ideas, movement, imaginative etc. Phonics or maths opportunities are available in some of the activities.
This resource is perfect for sending out as home learning generally or during Covid 19 isolation or closure. It is also great as a planning tool for a topic with lots of ideas for activities.
14 Phase 2 phonics activity sheets giving opportunities for reading and writing of initial sounds, CVC words and sentences. There is also opportunities to demonstrate understanding of what the child has read.
Several activities are differentiated.
Activities include:
Read and colour - graphemes
Read a colour- common exception words
Say and write initial sounds
Read and match to the picture - CVC words
Read and match to the picture -Simple sentences
Read and match to the picture - Slightly more tricky sentences
Read and draw - CVC words
Read and Draw- simple sentences
Spell- CVC words
It is all Christmas themed with bright pictures and simple-to-read font.
Can be used as individual worksheets or the whole thing can be printed as a workbook.
Children can write or use magnetic letters to complete the spelling activities.
For matching Phase 2 flashcards and grapheme handwriting cards see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12610872
For lots of practical Early Years ideas follow me on Instagram @LittleWildLearners
A great 21 page resource for an independent baking activity used in Reception (though could be used with children of other ages, particularly Year 1 or children with SEND).
I modelled how to make the pies to my class, then put them in small, mixed ability groups to make the pies. I did not help them at all unless they were really stuck and came to ask for help (except with the oven!) They knew that they had to help each other instead. It was amazing how well they did! The children demonstrated fantastic mathematical language, teamwork, communication and problem solving skills. I do an independent baking tasks every so often as an assessment method. It’s a great activity to observe for assessment purposes.
This pack includes:
• Recipe slides which can be used on the board to demonstrate to the children what they need to do, then be printed to create a recipe book. Recipe is written as simply as possible (higher ability Reception children should be able to read most of it) and represented in pictures too. All measurements are in scoops or spoonfuls so the children can measure out themselves.
• Printable ‘design a mince pie’ writing/ drawing/ labelling sheet
• Teacher tips and planning (including scoop sizes etc. so you can resource the activity so the recipe works!)
EYFS areas covered within this resource :
PSED
Communication and language (following instructions, communicating ideas)
Physical development
Reading
writing
Shape, space and measure
This is a pdf resource.
A great 21 page resource for an independent baking activity used in Reception (though could be used with children of other ages, particularly Year 1 or children with SEND).
I modelled how to make the pies to my class, then put them in small, mixed ability groups to make the pies. I did not help them at all unless they were really stuck and came to ask for help (except with the oven!) They knew that they had to help each other instead. It was amazing how well they did! The children demonstrated fantastic mathematical language, teamwork, communication and problem solving skills. I do an independent baking tasks every so often as an assessment method. It’s a great activity to observe for assessment purposes.
This pack includes:
• Recipe slides which can be used on the board to demonstrate to the children what they need to do, then be printed to create a recipe book. Recipe is written as simply as possible (higher ability Reception children should be able to read most of it) and represented in pictures too. All measurements are in scoops or spoonfuls so the children can measure out themselves.
• Printable ‘design a mince pie’ writing/ drawing/ labelling sheet
• Teacher tips and planning (including scoop sizes etc. so you can resource the activity so the recipe works!)
EYFS areas covered within this resource :
PSED
Communication and language (following instructions, communicating ideas)
Physical development
Reading
writing
Shape, space and measure
This is a pdf resource.
For more EYFS inspiration follow @LittleWildLearners on Instagram.
12 home learning activities covering different areas of maths in a Christmas festive theme.
Activities are all fun and practical and can be done easily at home with items commonly found in a house. There is information for parents to help them facilitate the activities too. Activities include baking, making shape pictures, counting decorations.
Areas covered include:
number recognition
counting skills
shape, space and measure work
writing numerals
I asked children to choose 2 activities per week to complete and put an observation on Tapestry but you could alter this to suit your needs. Good to send out if children are away, isolating or if the class is shut, or just as regular home learning to support work done in class.
Information for parents about how to use an Advent Calendar to support maths development.
Suitable for early maths and number skills in Reception or Nursery.
Also instructions and a template for making their own advent calendar. This is not only a nice activity for parent and child to do together but ensures that all the children can have a calendar even if their parents cannot afford to buy one.
Speed signs to be laminated and used in the construction or vehicle area of and Early Years or KS1 setting. They encourage number recognition within play.
A frame for children to draw a picture of their family in.
We printed and laminated them once completed to stick up in the home corner like family photos!
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes outdoor learning literacy planning.
Taking picture books and early literacy outside.
A sheet of outdoor learning activities suitable to support Mr Wolf’s Pancakes.
Outdoor learning is so important for young learners and has so many benefits for their learning, development and mental and physical health. So get outside and let children be inspired by the outdoors and their favourite books.
You’ll find lots more pancake day resources on my TES page, including a campfire or kitchen recipe book (designed for early readers to be able to interpret and follow independently) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/campfire-pancakes-recipe-book-forest-school-outdoor-learning-12481093
20 photo cards showing the leaves of trees common in Britain. Can be used for outdoor learning, Forest School or science.
Perfect for topic work, enhancing continuous provision or play setups or work in science. Can be used for sorting and ID activities.
20 flash cards featuring a photo and caption.
Child friendly font used for easy recognition by early readers.
Lots of winter and Polar themed fun in one bundle!
Polar photo cards pack- fantastic to enhance your provision and display as well as able to be used for sorting, matching and ID activities - 20 cards
4 Snow flake themed maths activities, including counting and subitizing activities, tens frames and a loose parts activity
Snow Day challenges- covering literacy, maths and science on a snow day- differentiated for your learners
18 Winter and polar themed home learning activities with prompts for parents.
Perfect for topic work, enhancing continuous provision or play setups or work in science. Can be used for sorting activities (such as which belong in the Arctic or Antarctica or both).
20 flash cards featuring a photo and caption.
Child friendly font used for easy recognition by early readers.