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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.
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.
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Debating is a great way to get students thinking creatively about persuasive language. For this activity students will go and find the most interesting item they can from your outdoor space and write a list of points as to why their item is the best using their persuasive language techniques.
Once they have put together a strong argument they can then get into groups of 3 or 4 and have a debate about whose item is the best. As an extension, you could then turn their arguments into a piece of persuasive writing.
This is a fantastic and fun activity to encourage the use of persuasive language, especially for your reluctant writers.
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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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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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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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The “Our Woodland Adventure Recount” templates guides your young explorers through the memorable moments of their trip to the woods as they use our template to re-live their woodland adventure as they write their recounts.
These templates help to develop writing proficiency, creativity and memory recall while providing a platform for them to share the key moments from their trip with friends and family.
This resource contains three templates, each with a different level of difficulty.
You may also be interested in our Beach Visit Recount Templates.
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This space themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic.
This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column.
This pack has a fun space theme with graphics for each statement.
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Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate.
Poetry rhyming schemes:
- Acrostic
- Couplet
- Quatrain (aaaa)
- Quatrain (aabb)
- Quatrain (abab)
- Quatrain (abca)
Adjectives (Worksheets / Activities): Get your children practising their adjectives with this fun pack of differentiated worksheets / activities and they will be an adjective pro before you know it!
Contents:
- Adjectives Safari (highlight the adjectives) x 2
- Add The Adjective (cut and stick / fill the gap) x 2
- Adjective Surgery (fill the gap) x 2
- Describing Me x 1
- Invent An Animal x 2
- Scavenger Hunt (outdoor activity) x 2
- Sort The Mess (sorting adjectives from nouns) x 1
- Beat The Snake (board game) x 1
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This animal themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic.
This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column.
This pack has a fun animal theme with graphics for each statement.
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This jungle animals student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research and record facts on all their favorite jungle animals. They’ll create a page for each animal with space for a picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re doing a jungle topic.
This pack comes in both color and black and white as well as a blank template.
To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together.
Animals included:
DART FROG
ELEPHANT
GORILLA
GREEN ANACONDA
JAGUAR
ORAGUTAN
SCARLET MACAW
THREE-TOED SLOTH
TIGER
LEOPARD
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This activity gets students walking around your outdoor space putting themselves in the shoes of a chosen animal. They’ll think about what that animal might be able to see, hear and feel. It’s a great introduction to diary writing that can be used as a stand alone activity or the lead up to a big write. It also links in nicely with your habitats topic.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that they are going to go outside and find an animal. It could be anything from a tiny insect to a big bird.
Tell them that they’re going to imagine they are their chosen animal and think about what that animal might see, hear, and feel. At this point it could be useful to choose one animal to go through together.
Get them to go off and complete the differentiated sheets.
After 15 - 20 minutes get them to come back and share what they’ve done with each other.
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Liven up your outdoor space with these A- Z capital letter posters which are great to be used in your outdoor area. Simply laminate them and stick them up in your outdoor space. Each poster contains a capital letter from A - Z made using leaves. They are perfect to be used for letter recognition and motor skills activities.
Students could also take the cards and re-create the letters using leaves or other natural items.
You may also like our 1 - 10 number posters.
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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 is a fun and creative activity for teaching the difference between verbs and adverbs where students will give instructions to act both a verb and adverb. In a large open space (ideally outdoors) give one student out of the group / class the activity sheet and get them to read out a verb followed by an adjective (they don’t have to be from the same row).
The rest of the students must act out what has been said, for example, run slowly.
Once they’ve played the game you can then give them a blank activity sheet for them to create their own game tables.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation, one with a word bank and one without.
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This activity gets students listening to the sounds of nature as well as creating their own sounds as they explore the world of onomatopoeias before creating their own onomatopoeia poetry.
First, talk to the students about what an onomatopoeia is, sharing some examples of onomatopoeia poetry. Get them to highlight the onomatopoeias in the example poem. Students can illustrate this poem as a filler activity.
Next, get students to go outside to listen to what noises they can hear in nature. Encourage them to create their own noises (hitting rocks together, stamping through leaves, etc.). While they’re outside they can complete the ‘Sound Hunt’ sheet, creating some onomatopoeia art.
Once they have their list of onomatopoeias they can create their own poems, using the example to help them. This activity works great both individually and as pairs.
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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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This is a great activity to get those reluctant writers practicing their handwriting, spelling and counting where students will trace and spell the word before heading off to find the correct number of items in the outdoors.This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
**Diff. 1 - **Students will simply trace the word before going off to find the correct number and tick the item off on their list once found.
Diff. 2 – Students will trace the word, cover it, spell it, and then go off to find the correct number and tick it off on their list.
This resource contains three spelling lists for each differentiated level.------------------------
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This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively when designing and describing characters before writing a story. Each student will choose a small natural item and place it in the first column of the table. Encourage them to spend some time looking at all the small details - it is great if they can use a magnifying glass when doing this.
Next, they will re-create their item in the middle column. This could be done through a variety of ways (pencil drawing, coloring, chalk, etc.). After that they will use their imaginations to bring their item to life by drawing their new character in the next column.
Finally they will describe their character by thinking of adjectives, a descriptive sentence, or similes and metaphors to describe their creation. It can be good to encourage the use of similes and metaphors here.
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A fun interactive PowerPoint designed to give your class an introduction into the wonderful world of poetry. This PowerPoint will teach your children the technical vocabulary, creative language used, and different poetry forms.
Contents:
- Slides 1 - 4: What is poetry
- Slides 5 – 7: Vocabulary
- Slides 8 – 26: Simile, personification, or metaphor game
- Slides 27 – 36: Poetry forms
- Slide 37 – Scrapbook follow up
This PowerPoint goes hand in hand with our Poetry Scrap book. Check it out in our store or via the link in our preview.
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