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.
This outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think carefully about the differences between facts and opinions as they produce their own statements with about your outdoor area.
Students will go to your outdoor area (this can also be done inside) and complete the table by writing facts in the left column and opinions in the right column about the area you are using. This activity is great when done both in pairs and individually.
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This outdoor poetry activity gets students writing a simple poem about your outdoor space using their senses.
Teaching Structure:
Take the students into an outdoor space. Get them to sit quietly and think about what thy can see, hear, smell, touch, and feel. Once they’ve had time to think get them to write a poem by completing the differentiated poem templates.
Along with the differentiated sheets, encourage students to use language in their poems appropriate to their ability.
Once they’ve written their poems it is nice to share them together as a class. They can also make a great display!
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This handwriting / spelling letters and sounds dice game for phase 5 phonics is great for getting your little ones practicing sound recognition, letter formation and fine motor skills without them even realizing they’re learning!
They will roll a dice and trace the matching letters / sounds on the activity sheet before filling in the gap for the spelling. Once all the sounds have been traced for the number rolled they can continue to roll until the sheet is complete.
This is a great morning or filler activity that your class are sure to love!
This pack contains all the sounds for phase 5 phonics.
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This handwriting / spelling letters and sounds dice game bundle for letters A- Z and phonics phases 2 - 5 is great for getting your little ones practicing sound recognition, letter formation and fine motor skills without them even realizing they’re learning!
They will roll a dice and trace the matching letters / sounds on the activity sheet before filling in the gap for the spelling or letter. Once all the sounds have been traced for the number rolled they can continue to roll until the sheet is complete.
This is a great morning or filler activity that your class are sure to love!
This bundle contains all the sounds for phases 2 - 5 phonics as well as letters A - Z.
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This STEM activity gets your students looking at the properties of materials as they are challenged to test their survival skills by getting the dirt out of water using only natural materials and a drinks bottle (they need to design and make their own natural filters!).
To set up the challenge: - Put students into teams of 2 or 3. - Give them the instructions to read. - Give each group a good-sized plastic bottle with four small holes in the bottom (a hot metal skewer is great for this). - Tell them to go into your outdoor space and make their filters. - Test the filters by pouring muddy water in and seeing how much cleaner the water that comes out is. As well as leaves, sticks, stones etc. in your outdoor space, for this activity it is good for them to have access to both sand and gravel.
Once they have completed the activity they can fill in the evaluation sheet which encourages them to think scientifically about what they have done. Extension: You can then move onto looking at real filters and seeing how they work with different liquids – will it separate salt from water?
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise long multiplication without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated long multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach multiplication.
Contents:
Diff. 1: 1 digit x 2 digit numbers
Diff. 2: 1 digit x 3 digit numbers
Diff. 3: 2 digit x 2 digit numbers
Diff. 4: 2 digit x 3 digit numbers
Check out our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Elapsed Time
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise mental multiplication for tables 2 - 10 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their multiplications. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
2 - 10 Times table cards
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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This fun and visual Easter themed word search activity is a great fun for your students. It contains 12 Halloween themed words each with an accompanying picture perfect for your EAL students.
This word search is perfect for bell work, filler activity, homework, or as a fun whole class activity.
A black and white version is included.
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Building a bug hotel is great fun for all ages groups, however this pack will encourage students to look more carefully at the different insects their hotel is attracting and the habitats they thrive in.
For this project they’ll design a hotel and observe the changes over time.
It is a great cross-curricular project if you are looking at data handling, habitats, living things, and even engineering.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Instructions
Design Sheets
Results Table (before)
Bar Graph (before)
Results Table (after / during)
Bar Graph (after)
Conclusion Questions
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For this activity students with think about the properties of different materials as they figure out whether they float or sink, cutting and sticking the pictures into the correct columns.
It’s a great lesson or topic starter for your floating and sinking topic.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Diff. 1: The activity contains two columns - float and sink.
Diff. 2: The activity contains three columns - float, sink, and both. Students are encouraged to think about items which can both float and sink depending on the situation.
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with and without carrying without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
Playing cards with carrying
Playing cards without carrying
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with decimals without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
Playing cards with carrying
Playing cards without carrying
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Column Subtraction With and Without Carrying
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Invention Example
Differentiated Design Sheets
Differentiated Final Idea Pan
Differentiated Evaluation Questions
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This pack contains 14 fact cards all about ocean plastics and the problems it’s having on animals and the environment. They’re great to be used as a display or research cards if you’re looking at plastic pollution or sustainability.
We love using fact cards for starter or plenary activities where you give each student a fact card. They must learn and remember the fact before going off, pairing up, and teaching each other the fact they learned.
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This addition activity gets your little ones practicing basic addition in an easy way with no prep.
To complete the activity they must figure out the addition and color the correct bubble pairs
This pack contains 5 levels of challenge. Depending on their ability you can also provide students with number lines and physical objects to hep them with their additions such as counters or number lines.
Check out our Bubble Subtraction worksheets.
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Find and color each subtraction pair. The first one has been done for you.
This subtraction activity gets your little ones practicing subtraction in and easy way with no prep for you!
To complete the activity they must figure out the subtractions and color the correct pairs of bubbles.
This pack contains 5 levels of challenge. Depending on their ability you can also provide students with number lines and physical objects to hep them with their subtractions.
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This fun STEM team building activity will get your glass thinking about forces as they build the strongest platform they can off the ground using only sticks and string. Once students have planned, built, tested, and evaluated their platforms they can have a fun competition to see which platform hold the heaviest weight.
This activity is great if you are looking at forces in motion, engineering, or simply as a fun team building activity. It is easy to set up as you only need access to our resources, string, and sticks.
Teaching Structure:
Planning sheet
– Students will discuss ideas and complete the planning sheet.
Build the platform
– Give students 20
– 30 minutes to build their platform.
Test the platform
– Give students 5 minutes to test their platform.
Evaluation sheet
– Students will fill in the evaluation sheet, thinking about what went well and what they could do to improve their designs. Give each team 5 minutes to improve their designs.
Competition! See which tower can hold the most weight. You could use stones, weights, or anything else you can find.
Resources needed:
Resource pack
Sticks (any size)
String
Scissors It is useful to go through some basic knots with your class before doing this activity.
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15 visual healthy eating / lifestyle vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They’re a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this relevant and engaging topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
15 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
Healthy Eating Vocabulary Included
Balanced Diet
Calories
Carbohydrates
Diet
Exercise
Fat
Fruit
Keeping Healthy
Minerals
Nutrition
Protein
Pulse
Saturated Fat
Vegetables
Vitamins
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Board games are a fun way for your students to practice different Mathematica skills. Perfect for home learning, filler activities, or as the main lesson. They’ll be having so much fun they don’t even realize they’re learning!
This growing bundle is packed full with board games for the following topics:
Addition With + Without Carrying
Addition With Decimals
Column Subtraction With + Without Carrying
Column Subtraction With Decimals
Elapsed Time Problems
Mental Multiplication (2 - 10 times tables)
Multiplying By 10, 100, and 1000
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This animal observation record is designed to be used either outdoors or when looking at live webcams. Students will look closely at both the physical and behavioral characteristics of the animas over a period of 3 or 5 days and record what they see on the observation sheets.
It fits in really we if you’re looking at adaptations or camouflage and mimicry.
This is also a great science investigation or fun home earning project for students.
This resource contains three different levels of challenge.
If doing this activity outside it’s important to choose an animal that’ll still be there when they return for the other observations.
Good animals to observe outside:
Birds with a nest
Spiders in webs
Ant Nests
Animals in ponds
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