This activity is all about students exploring different textures in the world around them. Don’t be afraid for students to get muddy for this activity! Explain to your class what the word ‘texture’ means and that they will be exploring all sorts of different textures in your outdoor space. Give them the table and go through each texture, giving them a chance to check they know the meaning of each one. Once they are ready, wearing clothes that can get a bit wet and muddy, get them to go outside and try to find each of the textures in the table, drawing or writing down their findings. Diff. 1 – Textures are already filled in on the table. Diff. 2 – To give students more of a challenge, they can fill in different textures they can think of before heading outside. For students who need more support, this activity can be done in small groups with adult support. 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 activity is all about hugging trees! It’s perfect to encourage students to use adjectives in their descriptive writing as they use their senses (apart from sight and taste) to describe a tree as best as they can. Teaching Structure: Recap on what an adjective is. Put the students into pairs with one blindfolded. The partner which isn’t blindfolded will lead their blindfolded partner to a tree of their choice. The blindfolded students must think of adjectives to describe the tree using touch and smell. Their partner can record the adjectives they are thinking of on the activity sheet. After a couple of minutes the blindfolded partner is carefully taken back to the spot they started away from the tree and the blindfold is removed. They then must see if they can find the tree that they were just describing. - Swap the blindfold and repeat. 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 activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful characters. It can be used really effectively when designing characters before writing a story, encouraging them to think about adjectives and character descriptions. 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’s 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.). Finally they’ll use their imaginations to bring their item to life. Drawing their new character in the right hand column. There is a challenge sheet included with space to think of some adjectives to describe their character. Please don’t forget to rate 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 muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures to be used as inspiration for a character in a story. Explain to your class that they will be writing a story (you may want to give them a theme or let them have free rein) but first they are going to create one of the main characters using only mud and natural materials. This activity is best done after rain, but if not, just add a splash of water and your mud is ready to get creative. Teaching structure: Create the creatures. Complete the character description sheet. Plan and write the story with their new character. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures. Explain to your class that they will be creating a character using mud and other natural materials. You can either let them create whatever they like or get them to create a character from a book they’ve recently read. Once they’ve created their character they’ll either take a picture or draw it on the sheets and complete the blanks to describe their character. Extension: Get them to draw or tell a story involving the character they created. 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 great literacy game to send home with your children that is easy to prepare. Each child must go on a journey to try and find things that they can see, smell and touch for each letter of the alphabet. Depending on ability, you may want to get children to write, draw, or write and draw the answers. Their journeys can be anything from their trip to school to a walk up a mountain! There are loads of fun challenges you can set with this 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 is a nice non-fiction writing activity where students will explore your outdoor space while they write their very own nature guide for friends, family, or other students. They will go around your outdoor space and choose four subjects to focus on (trees, animals, habitats, etc.). After carrying out some observations and research (using books / the internet) on each of their chosen subjects they can complete the guide templates. You could laminate their guides or scan them and turn them into QR codes to be displayed in the outdoor area. We hope you find this resource useful and enjoy working outside with your class! 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 word search is great fun and perfect to be used a filler activity towards the end of the term. It contains 12 summer themed words for your students to find. The resource contains a printer friendly version as well as an 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!

This is a fun activity to get those imagination juices flowing as well as encouraging creative play and drama. Students will head outside and find themselves a stick. They must then use their imaginations to turn the stick into as many different things as possible… the possibilities are endless! Examples: Wand, microphone, guitar, pencil, drumstick, ski poles, etc… Once they’ve had a little play they can complete the ‘This is not a stick, it’s an…’ activity sheet, thinking of as many things their stick could be as possible. 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 noun word search is great fun and perfect to get your students recognizing verbs within a sentence for your parts of speech lessons. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning. For this word search they must find and highlight the nouns in each of the 9 sentences before finding them in the word search. Check out our Adverb Word Search. Check out our Adjective Word Search. Check out our Verb Word Search 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 months of the year visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your key vocabulary and help students learn the months. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! Your class will learn the months in no time with the help of our fun visuals and word search. Key Vocabulary: January February March April May June July August September October November December 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!

4 differentiated templates for that all important Christmas letter to Santa! I don’t think there’s anything that’ll get your class more excited about writing than writing their Christmas wishes to Santa. Happy Christmas! Check out our outdoor Christmas Literacy Challenge here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get outside everyday for a month with this fun outdoor activity calendar. This resource contains 30 different easy activity ideas to do outside. It’s a fantastic way to encourage outdoor learning that both you and your children are sure to love. It contains activities covering many different topics from science to art. Enjoy your month outdoors! 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!

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. 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 adjectives word search is a great fun and perfect to get your students recognizing adjectives within a sentence for your parts of speech lessons. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning. For this word search they must find and highlight one adjective in each of the 9 sentences before finding them in the word search. Check out our Adverb Word Search. Check out our Adverb Word Search. 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 verb word search is great fun and perfect to get your students recognizing verbs within a sentence for your parts of speech lessons. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning. For this word search they must find and highlight one adverb in each of the 9 sentences before finding them in the word search. Check out our Adverb Word Search. Check out our Adjective Word Search. 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 adverb word search is great fun and perfect to get your students recognizing adverbs within a sentence for your parts of speech lessons. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning. For this word search they must find and highlight one adverb in each of the 9 sentences before finding them in the word search. 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 ocean facts reading comprehension is full of interesting facts about our oceans. Children will read through the short passage before answering a set of 8 true or false questions based on what they have just read. It’s a great filler or extension activity for your oceans topic. You may also like our Ocean Animals Word Search 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!

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!

10 visual punctuation vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title and blank cards. They are a great way to help your children learn the key punctuation needed to improve their writing and reading. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or writing difficulties. Each card contains the key punctuation, definition, and visual aid. **Punctuation Included: ** Apostrophe Brackets Capital Letters Colon Comma Dash Exclamation Mark Inverted Comma Period Question Mark 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!