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.
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.
Be it for Halloween, a literacy topic (instruction writing fits in well with this), or just for fun in the outdoors, this activity is sure to get your classes imagination flowing. Each student will plan and make their own magic potion using natural materials that they can find in your outdoor space. There are two differentiated sheets, one which gets your students to think about what they might include in their potion, the other that expands on this, getting them to think about the purpose of the potion.
Once your class have completed the planning aspect of the sheet they can go outside and start creating their potions in a small bowl, pot, jar, or anything else you can find!
Equipment needed:
Differentiated sheets
Small container
Natural resources
Spoon or equivalent (optional)
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Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching upper-case letters to their lower-case pair. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white), 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!
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5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white)
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Colour Matching Freebie
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition
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
This activity gets your class thinking carefully about adjectives and things that they could describe by placing the cards next to items they can find outside that match the adjective. For example, they might place ‘big’ next to a big tree. As an extension, they could then go on to use the card and the item they have found to write a sentence containing the adjective.
This activity is differentiated by the support given and the amount of input before the lesson. It may help to put your students in mixed ability groups, or for small groups to complete the activity with an adult.
Contents
Teacher’s guide
18 x adjective cards (British + American spellings)
Sentence worksheet
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This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs.
There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 4 x Box Decorations
- 30 x Adverb Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for your literacy skills lessons where they’ll look at the different types of punctuation. It’s a great literacy lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ writing, reading, and comprehension without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes both complete cootie catchers with all the answers filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the blanks must be completed before playing the game.
**Punctuation Included:
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Apostrophe
Brackets
Capital Letters
Colon
Comma
Dash
Exclamation Mark
Inverted Comma
Period
Question Mark
Semicolon
Folding and playing directions as well as B&W copies are also included.
Have fun!
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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
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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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Inventing an outdoor game is a great way for your class to develop their instruction writing skills as part of your non-fiction topic. They’ll first look at an example set of instructions in the form of a memory game, studying the different features of instruction writing before planning and writing a set of instructions for their own game that they can test out on their friends.
**Contents: **
Teacher Guide
Instruction Writing Checklist
Instruction Example (Memory Game)
Differentiated Mind maps
Differentiated Writing Templates
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Adverbs: Complete Bundle (Worksheets / Activities, PowerPoint Game, Adverbs Acting) - Everything you need to introduce or recap adverbs in a fun an entertaining way that your children will love! Teaching adverbs is easy with this one stop bundle of worksheets, activities, games and PowerPoint.
Products Included:
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Adverbs: PowerPoint Game - This PowerPoint game is a fantastic and fun way to introduce or recap adverbs for your class. It consists of two interactive and entertaining games where the children will discover what an adverb is and why they are important, learning to recognise them within sentences.
Contents:
- Slide 1 – 4: Introduction to the game / adverbs
- Slide 5 – 40: Game 1 – Deciding whether the given words are an adverb or not
- Slide 41 – 54: Game 2 – Finding adverbs within the sentence
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Adverbs: Worksheets / Activities - These differentiated worksheets / activities will help your children practise recognising and using adverbs in a fun and practical way. They will learn that adverbs give the reader more detail by modifying the verb. This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs. 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
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Adverbs: Adverb Acting:This game is played like charades. It is a great fun and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs.
There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 4 x Box Decorations
- 30 x Adverb Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!
This poetry bundle is a refreshing way to teach poetry through the outdoors. It is designed to get your children into the outdoors exploring poetry through their senses while encouraging a rich use of language.
It contains the following products:
Spring Poetry Scrapbook
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)
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Poetry Introduction PowerPoint
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
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Poetry Help Cards
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)
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This is your one stop bundle for everything you need for effective classroom management! This huge bundle is perfect if you are starting a new school or want to revamp your classroom management containing resources to allow your classroom to run smoothly! It fits in nicely with cooperative learning and growth mind-set.
We have implemented all of these is my classroom and it has made such a big difference!
This pack consists of the following resources:
Group Roles Badges and Job Plates
Group roles badges and plates that allow you to easily structure cooperative learning / group work so that each child has a specific responsibility that is crucial to their success. This pack includes role plates for the tables as well as badges that they can wear around their neck while taking part in the group work both with descriptions of what the role duties are.
The five roles are:
- Agent Manager
- Agent Time Manager
- Agent Volume
- Agent Materials Manager
- Agent Encourager
When children have a specific role that they are responsible for they seem to be much more focused and more involved in their learning. I normally change the roles each time they do group work so that every child experiences each role.
Contents:
- 5 x job plates with descriptions
- 5 x double sided job badges with descriptions
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Classroom Management: Self Help Poster and Bookmark
This resource is used to help children to become more independent learners.
Do you wish your children would think for themselves and know what to do when they don’t know what to do, well this is the resource for you! We decided we needed to try help our children become more independent, so we gave each of them a bookmark which goes through a checklist as to what they should do if they get stuck as well as putting the poster up in the classroom. It has saved us hours of our time!
Contents:
- 1 x Poster
- 1 x bookmark
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Classroom Management: Table Jobs / Duties
This is a great resource for classroom management, and the children love it too! The pack contains 6 table job / duty plates so that each child on the table has a specific responsibility which will not only aid their learning, but help the classroom run smoothly. Each plate contains instructions on the back to help the children understand what the responsibility involves.
Contents:
1 x Head Captain
1 x Vice Captain
1 x Captain Focus
1 x Captain Volume
1 x Captain Tidy
1 x Captain Collector
1 x Table Job Record Sheet
We noticed a big different in the children’s behaviour and work quality after introducing these responsibilities. We hope you find them as helpful as we do!
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Classroom Management: Reward Vouchers
These classroom management reward vouchers are a perfect addition to any behaviour system. They are a low cost resource that the children love! Simply print and laminate the vouchers and give them to your children who are working hard or showing good behaviour for them to redeem at an appropriate time.
There are 22 vouchers levelled from 1 – 3, 3 being the best rewards and should be used as a rarity.
You can either let your children choose which reward voucher they want (from the correct level) or have a lucky dip system in place.
I have noticed a huge difference in my class since introducing these vouchers. They have worked magic for me!
Contents:
Level 1:
- Pillow Time: Sit on a pillow for half a day
- Chair Half Day: Sit on the special chair for half a day
- Pick A Pen: Choose one of the special pens to write with all day
- Story Picker: Choose a story for the teacher to read to the class
- Wear A Hat: Wear your favourite hat to school for a day
- Any Job You Want: Choose a class job to do for the day
Level 2:
- Extra Recess: You get 2 minutes extra recess
- Board Artist: Use the whiteboard as your canvas, get creative!
- Sit By A Friend: Sit by a friend for 1 lesson
- Game Master: Pick a game for the class to play at the end of the day
- Extra Tech: 5 minutes extra computer or tech time
- Toy From Home: Bring in a toy from home to play with during recess
- Pillow Time: Sit on a pillow for a day
- Chair Day: Sit on the special chair for a day
- Desk Upgrade: Use the teacher’s desk for a lesson
- Reading Break: Take 5 minutes, have a relax, and read a book
Level 3:
- Extra Recess: You get 5 minutes extra recess
- Call Home: Your teacher will phone your parents to tell them that you’re a super star
- Sit By A Friend: Sit by a friend for 1 day
- Extra Tech: 10 minutes extra computer or tech time
- Mystery Box: Take a lucky dip from the box
- Table Treat: Your whole table gets 2 minutes extra recess
I hope your class enjoy this as much as mine have!
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Classroom Management: Effort Thermometer
This is a great classroom management resource / display which was created to help children think about how much effort they are putting into their learning. They must move their name-tag on the thermometer according to how much effort they are putting in. It fits in well with Growth Mindset.
It can be used in a few ways.
Self Reflection: At the end of or during a lesson the children place their name-tag onto the effortometer depending on how much effort they think they are putting in.
Teachers Assessment: During the lesson the teacher can move names around depending on how they are working. I sometimes give a reward token (see our store) if a child reaches the top of the scale.
This has made a huge difference in my class as children are starting to become aware of what they are capable of. I hope it does the same for you!
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Interactive Literacy Display & Help Cards: Improving Writing
These display resources and help cards will help your children become more independent with improving their writing. Not only will this allow your children to take more independence over their learning and writing, it will also save you a ton of time as they use this display to improve, and continue improving!
This pack consists of display resources and help cards for the following areas:
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Connectives
- Punctuation
- Sentence Openers
- Writing Checklist
This display has worked wonders in my classroom, and I hope it does in yours too!
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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
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This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify the trees. After thinking about different ways to describe their chosen tree they will write a poem using the description and imagery they came up with.
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Teaching structure:**
Explain to the students that in pairs they will find their favorite tree and using clay make a face on the trunk. Bigger trunks create better faces!
First, students design their tree face on the ‘design’ worksheet. - Once their face has been designed, they can create the face on the tree.
They can then fill in the description sheets. Having a lesson on adjectives and metaphors / similes, and personification before this can be useful.
Once they have completed their description sheets they can use this to help them write their poems. You can either ask them to focus on a specific form of poetry or let them choose.
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This creative outdoor writing activity gets students using their senses to describe the setting around them using a mixture of descriptive writing and drawing as they create their very own nature journals.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that over the next few days / weeks they are going to use their senses to make their own nature journal to describe the settings in different outdoor areas.
Go through the journal to check the students understand each section that they’re going to complete. There are three journal templates, one which is just for drawing, one for a little bit of writing and drawing, one for more advanced writers.
Take the students outside to a specific place (or let them choose their own spots) and get them to complete a page of their journal. Do this on several different days (the more varied the setting and weather the better).
Once they have several journal entries they can create their booklets using treasury tags or stapling them together.
Give students time to share journals with each other.
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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).
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Encourage your students to use all of their senses to help develop their descriptive writing.
For this activity your class need to be in pairs, where one will be blind folded and the other will safely lead them to an area in your school grounds or outdoor space (this activity is most effective when you have a variety of different places available for students to go).
The blindfolded student will then begin to describe what they can hear, smell, and touch while the other partner records what they are saying. The blind folded student will then be asked to guess where they think they are before removing the blindfold. Both students will then work together to describe and record what they can see.
Once they have finished, they can swap roles and do that activity again. Encourage students to think carefully about powerful descriptive language as they are describing the settings they have been taken to.
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Develop your class’ report writing by getting them to observe nature in the world around them. They will head outside to find an animal to produce a report on, gathering their information through close observation and research.
Once they have decided on their animal, they need to begin their research through observation, books, and the internet, recording their findings on the sheets. It is best if your students have access to magnifying glasses for this activity.
When the research is complete, they can then write their report using the templates, or create their own unique design. It is good for students to go outside and capture their own photos to use within the report.
Resources needed:
Research sheets
Differentiated template sheet
Magnifying glasses
Books / technology for research (optional)
This resource can work well in pairs where students are able to support one another.
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This outdoor writing activity is great fun and a nice way to teach adjectives as well as introduce the idea of personification.
Students will create their very own magical trees by using clay to make a face on their chosen trees trunk before drawing their tree and writing adjectives around the outside.
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All about adjectives is an activity where students will find something they find interesting outside, draw it, and think of some adjectives to describe it using all of their five senses.
This pack contains differentiated sheets as well as word banks to support those who need the extra help. It can be a great starter activity, plenary, or even whole lesson depending on the age of your students and their abilities.
It’s important students have a basic understand as to what an adjective is before starting this activity.
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