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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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’. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Lionel Messi with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. 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 (1 page each) Answer key Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Neymar with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. 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 (1 page each) Answer key Check out our Messi reading comprehension! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fantastic topic or project with links to living things, maths, art, and business. Your class will create their very own business selling seed bombs where they’ll need to create their business before making, advertising, and selling their seed bombs. It’s great if you can also find some space for them to test and use the seed bombs themselves. This project is fantastic for developing team skills as well as making their learning relevant and meaningful. **Teaching Structure: ** Read through the instruction sheet explaining that they are going to make a business selling seed bombs. Encourage them to think about the importance of local flowers and the benefits they have on the local wildlife. Put the students into teams of 4 or 5 and get them to mind map their business ideas (name, who they’ll sell to, how they’ll advertise them etc.). The following activities and worksheets can be taught in an order which suites you and your class best. Below we have split them into subject areas which best relate to the activities. **Art / Design: ** Design a logo Packaging design **Science: ** Which Flowers: Research which native flowers would be good to include (you can collect or order seeds online). Make the seed bombs by following the instructions. Optional: Design their own seed bombs by changing or adding to the ingredients used. They can then re-write the instructions on how to make their own seed bombs. You could go a step further and get them to create a TV advert for their seed bombs. **Literacy: ** Seed bomb instructions: Highlight the key features of the instructions. My Seed Bomb instructions: Re-write the seed bomb instructions with their own unique ideas. Advertisement: Students will create a poster for their seed bombs. **Math: ** Cost and profits / sale prices: For these activity sheets students will work out how much it costs to produce the seed bombs, decide how much they will sell them for, and figure out their profits. Sales Report: Students will keep a record of their sales, recording their profits on here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Metaphor acting is a great addition to your figurative language topic which will encourage your students to think about and use metaphors in their descriptive writing. This resource contains 20 game cards each with a different metaphor. How to play: Get a student to come to the front of the class and choose a game card at random. They must act out the metaphor for the rest of the class to guess. This game can also be done in small groups. On each card there are acting clues to help if needed. If the students are finding it difficult to guess you can give them part of the metaphor to help. Check out Similes Acting Game. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Children will get lost in their imagination and creativity with this fun and engaging story telling / writing activity. It is a great way to practise creating exciting stories, thinking carefully about describing characters and settings. The children must select one of each card (character, lives, problem, & solution) and base their stories around each of the cards. The children will absolutely love it! We have used this very successfully for a few days worth of lessons. The children spend the first lesson playing with the cards and enjoying telling stories. They then choose four cards, stick them in their books, and do a big write based on those cards they have chosen. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have! ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs. It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way. Enjoy! Contents: 1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting) 2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and stick) 1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and stick) 2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written) 4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written) 1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs Answer Key Check out our store for more great adverbs resources, including our popular 'Acting Adverbs' game.

A sentence fixer PowerPoint activity designed to help those children who forget the simple sentence punctuation along with some commonly mixed up homophones. The Sentence Snake has stolen some punctuation / mixed up the spellings. The children must read the sentence and see if they can find all of the errors. It’s a great way to get your children editing their writing, learning to spot the common mistakes and improve their writing. Contents - Slides 1 – 10: Capital letters & full stops - Slides 11 – 21: Apostrophise - Slides 22 – 32: Homophones - Slides 33 – 39: Capital letters, full stops, question marks, & exclamation marks. ----------------------------------- Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales! ----------------------------------- Enjoy!

Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice recognising initial sounds (A-Z) by pairing the letter with the initial sound picutre. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white background) which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come! **Contents: ** 5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white background) Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years English Animal Phonics Colour Matching Freebie Letter Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Math Dice Addition (1-15) Counting to 10 - Number Recognition

These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs. Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card. Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction. This pack contains differentiated card levels. Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card). Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card). Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get creative by creating characters using only natural materials that can be found in your outdoor space. For this activity students will create characters using leaves, sticks, stones and anything else they can find in your outdoor space. The story ‘Stick Man’ fits in really nicely with this activity and can be good to read before letting the students create their own characters. Once you’ve given students time to create their own characters it can be nice to go around and share their creations, getting them to explain a bit about their creations. You can take this activity even further by taking a photo of their character and sticking it on the sheet (quarter page) or getting them to stick their character directly onto the sheet (doesn’t work so well if sticks and stones are used!) and then getting them to write some adjectives or sentences to describe their character around the outside. This activity can make a great display! More ideas… Once they’ve created their characters you can also get a learning assistant to interview them about their characters. Where do they live? What do they like doing? What are they scared of? Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A big set of literacy games that are perfect for a mid lesson brain break or as some fun lesson starters to get your classes minds in gear! Each game is designed to help improve literacy skills, from reading to spelling and writing, they have it all! Contents - Slides 1 – 15: The Riddle Challenge - Slides 16 – 34: Amazing Anagrams - Slides 35 – 41: Describe The Picture - Slides 42 – 47: The Persuasion Game - Slides 48 – 55: The Alphabet Game - Slides 56 – 60: Compare And Contrast - Slides 61 – 66: Complete The Sentence ------------------------ Enjoy! :)

Can you have an outdoor learning area without a mud kitchen? These fun labels are the perfect addition for your mud kitchens. Simply print them out, laminate, and stick them around your mud kitchen. Each label comes with a helpful visual to aid those early readers and EAL students. This pack contains 29 labels as well as an editable version for you to create your own. Click here for the editable version. You may also like our ‘Mud Kitchen Recipe Cards’. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose. I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher. Contents: - Scrapbook cover - Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own) - ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas - ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet - ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas - ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern) - ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas - ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern) - ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas - ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet - Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem) -----------------------------------

For this instructions writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with their initials on, etc.) and create a set of instructions to guide their partner to their object from a designated starting point. Teaching structure: Share different examples of instructions with your students. Get them to spot any key features. You may want to do a lesson on imperative verbs before this session. Explain that they are going to hide an object and create a set of instructions for to get from the designated starting point (that you can decide) to their object. Once they’ve written their instructions they can swap with their partner and see if they can follow them to find the hidden treasure. This activity is perfect for introducing instruction writing, but can also be a great activity to link in with your measuring math topic. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This summer-themed word scavenger hunt is a fantastic filler activity or a great choice for home learning, suitable for both indoor and outdoor settings! Students will race to find as many items as possible that start with each letter of the word “summer” to complete the table. You may also be interested in our other summer filler activities: - Summer Word Search - Summer Outdoor Scavenger Hunt Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Unlock creativity and enhance descriptive writing skills through this engaging personification activity. Nature serves as a rich source for improving descriptive writing, particularly when incorporating personification. This hands-on exercise provides students with the opportunity to experiment with personification while immersing themselves in the natural world. Check out our Outdoor Onomatopoeia Activity! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This video comprehension takes a look at the ozone layer and its depletion. Your students will watch a video where they will learn about what the ozone layer is as well as what is damaging it and the issues that this has on life on Earth before answering a set of questions about what they’ve just seen. This pack contains 3 levels of differentiation as well as an extension activity where they will draw a diagram to show how the ozone layer works. What is video comprehension? Our video comprehension series is designed to facilitate the learning of those students who find reading tricky. It allows them to access the same level of learning without the need to read large amounts of information as they will watch a video on the topic rather than reading large amounts of text. We have found it especially helpful with our SEN students. Each set is differentiated three times. With the first level of differentiation requiring them to simply circle the correct answers. These worksheets work best if each student has their own device as they can re-watch parts of the video to find the correct answers. However if you don’t have one device per students or pair we have done this with great success by having the video on repeat on the board / tv at the front of the classroom. These activities are also perfect for home and distance learning. We are constantly expanding our range of video comprehension worksheets so be sure to check back frequently for new resources. Check out our other video comprehension packs: - Compost Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!