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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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This is a great reading comprehension pack about the sacrament of first holy communion as part of your ‘Seven Sacraments’ topic. The text that goes through what first holy communion is, why people choose to get take the sacrament and the importance of receiving the eucharist. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (2 pages each)
Answer key
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This is a great reading comprehension pack about Baptism and part of your ‘Seven Sacraments’ topic. The text that goes through what baptism has, why people choose to get baptised and the importance of baptism. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
2 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (2 pages each)
Answer key
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Your kids will love reading about the popular Youtuber ‘KSI’ with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who KSI is, how he became famous, and what challenges he has faced… Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
2 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Extension questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our Minecraft reading comprehension.
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Your kids will love reading about Minecraft with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through what Minecraft is, the key features of the game, and why it’s so popular. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
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Your kids will love reading about Lego with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through what lego is, how it has expanded throughout the years, and the benefits that Lego can have. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
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This is an outdoor scavenger hunt with a twist. Before finding each item they must first figure out the fun outdoor riddle. This resource contains both task cards with the nature riddles as well as an activity sheet containing all of the riddles. Once they’ve figured out the riddle they can write or draw the answer before heading off to find it in your outdoor area. After they’ve completed the riddle scavenger hunt they could have a go at creating their own nature riddles for their friends.
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It’s time for a Christmas themed outdoor scavenger hunt! This simple activity will get your students exploring the outdoors while they find items that start with each letter of the word ‘Christmas’. This activity is perfect as a brain break, extension, or fun Christmas party activity.
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Autumn is a wonderful time of year where there are a lot of changes happening. 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 autumn before writing their own acrostic poems.
Part 1: Get the students to go outside to find the most interesting leaf they can. They will then stick the leaf in the middle of the worksheet and write adjectives / descriptive phrases around the outside to describe the leaf.
Part 2: This lesson is all about thinking of adjectives and descriptive phrases to describe Autumn. They must find somewhere outside (ideally around trees) and use their descriptive language techniques to describe the changes happening in autumn.
Part 3: It’s now time for the students to write their acrostic poems using the descriptive language they’ve been looking at. This pack contains a few different poem templates for them to use.
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This is a great resource to introduce or recap rhyming that can be used in a variety of ways. This pack contains 32 rhyming pairs with visual prompts on each card.
**Outdoor Activity – **Rhyming pairs hunt (whole class or small groups). Cut out and laminate the cards. Hide them around your outdoor space. Get the students to go find as many rhyming pairs as they can. To extend this activity you could get them to write a short poem or sentence using the rhyming pairs that they’ve found.
**Memory Pairs **(in pairs or small groups). Put the cards face down spread out on the table or floor. Taking it in turns, the students will flip over two cards. If they find a rhyming pair they take the cards and have another go, if not then the cards get turned facedown and the next player tries to find a pair.
**Match The Pairs **(individual or pairs). This is a very simple but effective activity where students will simply match the cards with their correct rhyming pair.
Wild story telling is a great way to let your students’ imaginations run wild as they use natural items they find in your outdoor space to plan and tell their very own wild story. It’s perfect if you’re looking at descriptive language or as a stimulus before they begin to write down their own stories. For this activity they will head outside and collect 6 items that will be used within their story. These items could be imagined into anything from characters in their stories to powerful magical items. Encourage them to collect varied items as this will help when planning their stories.
Once they’ve got their 6 items they can either tape or draw one item per box on the activity sheet. They must now think about what their item could be within their story. You can either get them to include the items in chronological order or allow them to use them randomly within the story. Once they’ve planned their story they can get into small groups and use their activity sheet and items to help them as they tell their wild story to others.
This activity is designed to be done verbally while in your outdoor area. They can plan their stories either individually or in pairs.
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This is a great spelling / phonics activity to introduce or recap rhyming and initial sounds that can be used in a variety of ways. This pack contains 14 CVC rhyming pairs with visual prompts on each card.
Outdoor Activity – Rhyming pairs hunt (whole class or small groups). Cut out and laminate the cards. Hide them around your outdoor space. Get the students to go find as many rhyming pairs as they can. To extend this activity you could get them to write a short poem or sentence using the rhyming pairs that they’ve found.
Memory Pairs (in pairs or small groups). Put the cards face down spread out on the table or floor. Taking it in turns, the students will flip over two cards. If they find a rhyming pair they take the cards and have another go, if not then the cards get turned facedown and the next player tries to find a pair.
Match The Pairs (individual or pairs). This is a very simple but effective activity where students will simply match the cards with their correct rhyming pair.
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This is a great cross curricular activity where students will create a video tour on the nature around your outdoor area. It’s perfect if you’re looking at script writing, living things (habitats, animals, etc.) and video making. This activity is best done in pairs or small groups.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that they’re going to create a virtual video tour for nature around your outdoor space. Get them to complete the ideas sheet that encourages them to think about what they may want to include and how they will create the video. It can be good for them to walk around the outdoor space while doing this to help them get ideas.
Examples of things they could talk about: different habitats, trees, plants, animals, etc.
After this they will complete the script where they’ll write exactly what they are going to say and what video will be played during the audio. Once they’ve completed their script it’s time to film, record the audio, and edit it all together. These videos can be used in loads of different ways. You can create them into QR codes and put them up in your outdoor space, put them online, or simply share them with friends, family or other students.
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Unlock your children’s imagination with these fun story hooks. This resource will provide inspiration for them to write their very own story and can be a great hook for a big / independent write.
This pack contains 20 pictures of different doors to be used as story starters. The children can start writing imagining that they are stood in front of the door. We have got some clue cards to help those students that may need some direction when writing their stories.
We have had great success using this resources and seen some truly wonderful stories come from them.
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This is a nice activity to explore the world around us through our 5 senses. It’s great if you’re looking at the human body in science or setting descriptions in literacy. Students will head outside and complete the differentiated sheets as they explore your outdoor space through their 5 senses.
It can be nice to do this activity a few times throughout the year in different seasons and weather.
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