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 activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for pollution as part of your ‘Humans And The Environment’ topic. It’s a great lesson starter, filler, or activity that will easily get your learning some scary facts about pollution without them even realising that they’re 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 students must find the answer before playing the game.
Contents:
Folding instructions
1 x Complete Cootie Catcher Quiz
1 x Cootie Catcher Quiz With Blank Answers
Have fun!
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15 visual trash and recycling 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
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Trash and Recycling Vocabulary Included**
Compost
Conservation
Disposable
Driving a car creates pollution.
Environment
Hazardous Waste
Natural Resource
Pollution
Trash
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This fun and visual sorting / cut and stick activity for recycling is a great addition to your sustainability or humans and the environment topic. Students will look at the items and sort them into the four main recycling materials (plastic, paper / cardboard, glass, and metal).
This resource works great both in small groups and individually. It’s great to encourage students to think about the kind of items they can recycle instead of throw into the trash.
You may also be interested in our pollution bundle.
Humans and The Environment: Pollution - HUGE BUNDLE
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun space themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 20 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun under the water themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun ‘Happy Campers’ themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun ‘Around The World’ themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun ‘Superhero’ themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun ‘Harry Potter’ themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags / labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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This is a set of 16 visual weather symbol cards that includes all of the main symbols used in weather forecasts.
They make a great display, EAL support, or visual prompts. We have used them very successfully by choosing a child each day to put up the correct symbol to show the current weather.
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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.
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Exploring what hides in the depths of the trees is a great way to look at habitats, classification and living things as well improving observation skills and sparking their interest in science and the world around them.
Get a large white cloth or tarpaulin and lay it out underneath a tree with branches you can reach. Shake the branches for several seconds. Students can now find and observe the different mini-beasts that have fallen from the tree.
It’s great if you’re able to provide microscopes and magnifying glasses to take a closer look. The students can keep a simple record of what they’ve discovered on the record sheets.
Extension activities: Older students could do some report writing on one of the mini-beasts they found.
Equipment needed:
Large white cloth / tarpaulin
Record sheets
Magnifying glasses (optional)
Microscopes (optional)
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This handwriting dice game is great for getting your little ones practicing their alphabet letter formation and fine motor skills without them even realizing they’re learning!
They will roll a dice and trace the matching letter on the activity sheet. Once all the letters have been traced of 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 the letters A- Z.
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Energy is all around us, inside and out, as your class will find out with this fun and practical lesson. This activity is a great introduction or recap for your ‘forms of energy’ topic as students will go on a hunt to see how many different forms of energy they can spot.
Teaching Structure:
Get your students to run on the spot, do star jumps, push ups etc. (tire them out!). Explain that in order to do this they need energy, however energy can come in lots of different forms. There are lots of good videos on youtube that you can watch to help introduce this topic.
Definitions sheet: Get the students to complete the definitions sheet (or use the pre-populated one) so they have a good understanding as to what the different forms of energy are. They can take this with them to help with the main activity.
Record Sheet (differentiated): In pairs, get students to walk around (inside and out) for 15 – 20 minutes recording down the different forms of energy they can spot.
Class discussion: Once the students have seen which kinds of energy they could spot, discuss their findings as a class or in small groups. This activity can be great in all sorts of weather! Don’t be afraid for them to waterproof up and head outside!
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This handwriting / letters and sounds dice game for phase 3 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 3 phonics.
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Using natural resources outside is a great way to engage your early counters. This outdoor math resource is designed to get students taking part in a fun and physical activity while becoming efficient counters in real world situations with number 1 1 - 20. They will use the visual task cards to collect a handful of a natural resource, count how many they’ve collected, and record it on the sheet.
These cards can be laminated and written on with board makers so they can be used time and time again. This is a great activity for students to do either in pairs or individually.
Extension: Once the students have collected and counted their natural objects, they can use these objects (and more if needed), to create the number on the floor.
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This handwriting / spelling letters and sounds dice game for phase 4 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 4 phonics.
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This handwriting / letters and sounds dice game for phase 2 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 letters 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 2 phonics.
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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 multiplication facts dice game for the 12 x table is great for getting your class practicing their multiplication recall without them even realizing they’re learning!
They will roll a dice and complete the matching multiplications on the activity sheet until all multiplications are complete.
This is a great morning or filler activity that your class are sure to love! You can even add a level of competition by seeing how quickly they can complete the game.
This resource contains 5 differentiated activity sheets.
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