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Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1

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Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources. Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included. Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.

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Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources. Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included. Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
Back to School Doodle Colouring Sheets
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Back to School Doodle Colouring Sheets

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2 colouring sheets for EYFS and KS1. Ease your children back into the school routine with this fun activity encouraging discussion about the new class and the year ahead. Sheet 1 is a doodle sheet where children can add in their own thoughts / writing. Sheet 2 shows an outline of the first sheet and allows children to add in their own doodles of things related to themselves or school.
5 Poems to Start the New School Year KS1
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5 Poems to Start the New School Year KS1

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These five fun, original poems for KS1, accompanied by activities will captivate your children’s imagination and help to reassure them when starting back at school. “Lolly’s Lunchtime Lesson: A School Tale” Lolly learns that a friendship can start over a shared lunch! “A Purr-fect First Day at School” Lenny hides his kitten in his backpack to take to school “Molly Plays Hide and Seek” Molly hides behind the sofa on her first day of school “My First Day at School” School turns out to be fun after all! “Under the Stair and Behind the Bear” Penelope and her brother Gary, find their courage and nerve just in time for school!
10 Christmas Colouring Cards EYFS and KS1
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10 Christmas Colouring Cards EYFS and KS1

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Prepare for, and enhance your festive activities with this set of 10 Christmas worksheets. Each sheet shows a colour Christmas scene with a matching black and white version. Children can copy the colours or use their own designs and colours. These cards be a fun and educational tool for colour matching exercises, but they also offer an opportunity for children to craft their own Christmas cards.
Bumper Pack of Tiger Worksheets EYFS/ KS1
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Bumper Pack of Tiger Worksheets EYFS/ KS1

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A cross-curricular topic on animals, with a focus on tigers. This theme links to literacy and number and offers a chance for children to broaden their understanding of the world around them. Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children. This bumper pack includes 10 worksheets. Tiger Sudoku: Challenges logical reasoning while having fun. Story Read and Answer: A tiger tale to read and share and answer comprehension questions. Tiger Facts: Read about tiger facts and encourage children to answer the questions. Word Search: A game to reinforce vocabulary related to tigers. 5 words to find. Tiger Colouring Sheet: Children colour the tiger to match the example or use their own design and colour. Tigers Tale Poem: A captivating acrostic poem. Guide children to craft their own poem using the initial letters of “Tiger a cat”. Writing Template: Stimulate thinking with a structured template for writing 8 facts about tigers and writing about tigers in general. Tiger Maze: Enhance problem-solving skills with this maze. One in colour and one in black and white. Tiger Colour by Numbers: A fun way to mix mathematics and art, as children use numbers as cues to create a tiger masterpiece. Handwriting Sheet: Refine handwriting with focused practice on the letters ‘t’ and ‘T’ and tiger-related words. Use as a unit or work or dip in to support your work on animals or Tigers, literacy or number.
10 Transport Picture Grids to Copy KS1
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10 Transport Picture Grids to Copy KS1

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Fuel your KS1 children’s curiosity and knowledge of transportation with this resource featuring 10 picture grids! Each grid displays a mode of transport such as a soaring plane, a chugging train, a hovering helicopter, a robust truck, and a modern electric car. This resource is designed to encourage children to replicate these transportation illustrations onto a blank grid, square by square, developing their observational and fine motor skills. Enlarge the grids as required. Extend by asking children to draw or paint the modes of transport freehand.
Fashion Designer Fun for KS1
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Fashion Designer Fun for KS1

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This resource, designed for Key Stage 1 teachers, begins with worksheets that feature different clothing items -such as shorts, dresses, trousers, and more -embellished with a variety of patterns, including circles, squares, stars, and colourful designs. These worksheets are intended to integrate art and design with the concepts of shape and pattern. By colouring and creating outfits from clothing items, children engage in a hands-on exploration of 2D shapes, pattern and artistic elements, reinforcing their understanding through interactive and creative activities. The resource links to textile technology. The emphasis at KS1 for textile technology is on exploration, creativity, and developing basic skills. There is a planning sheet included, together with objectives, materials needed, instructions and outcomes.
Spot the Differences at the Beach
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Spot the Differences at the Beach

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This series of 5 worksheets is designed to help young children develop their observation skills while learning about the seaside / beach / holidays. Each worksheet features two scenes from the beach with six differences for children to locate. After spotting the differences, children can colour in the scenes, reinforcing their engagement with the topic.
Back to School: Who's Who in the Classroom?
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Back to School: Who's Who in the Classroom?

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This “Who’s Who in the Classroom” resource is a colourful poster for KS1 children returning to school. It features 18 children, each ready for their new class and year, making it a fun way to explore new friendships and learn about one another. The resource includes five activities where children can read and answer questions about the characters, identify them from descriptions, and practice phonics by matching names. They’ll also get to write names in alphabetical order, describe the characters to a friend, and write their own short descriptions. This resource supports learning about feelings, Ourselves, School and phonics. To make the learning experience more personal and engaging, you can create a class resource using the children’s own photos or drawings. Start by asking each child to either bring in a photo of themselves or draw a picture of how they see themselves. Then, create a large poster or a digital display featuring all the children’s images. Alongside each photo or drawing, add a space for the child’s name, a fun fact about them, and their favourite things. You can also include activities similar to the ones in the “Who’s Who in the Classroom” resource, such as matching names, ordering them alphabetically, or describing a classmate’s picture. This personalized resource reinforces the skills practiced in the original poster and also helps children feel more connected to their classmates and comfortable in their new environment.
Autumn Leaf Creations with  Lesson Plan
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Autumn Leaf Creations with Lesson Plan

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A fun activity for the introduction of Autumn for KS1. Children have the opportunity to create creatures from leaves and then invent adventure stories for them. The resources include a lesson plan: Creating leaf Creatures for Autumn, which lays out objectives, materials and step by step instructions. There are 2 stories with ready made examples of leaf creatures: Flappy the Flying Frog and Squiggle the Squirrel. Each story shows the character and has a comprehension sheet with 6 questions for children to answer. The resource links to reading, guided reading, writing, comprehension, animals and Autumn.
30 cute Animals to Name and List
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30 cute Animals to Name and List

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A poster showing 30 cute animals. Children can name and write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the animlas first. Words can be put into alphabetical order.
20 Animals that begin with the Letter B
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20 Animals that begin with the Letter B

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A poster showing 20 animals beginning with the letter B. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first.
Animals Colouring Book from A to Z
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Animals Colouring Book from A to Z

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A colouring book for EYFS or KS1. Each letter of the alphabet has a colour picture and animals to colour in. There is a colour poster for every 4 letters and the final 2 - Y and Z. Links with Phonics, the Alphabet and any Animal topic.
7 Kinds of Animals PPT and Activity EYFS / KS1
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7 Kinds of Animals PPT and Activity EYFS / KS1

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This Power Point starts of with an animated slide showing all 7 kinds of animals. Click to show the words to go with the pictures and children can see if they can name the animals correctly. Page 2 shows black and white drawings of the same animals and the words appear on a click. Next there is a slide for each kind of animal and a sentence. Children can read the sentences. Print off the sheets for worksheets where children can read, match, colour and write the words and sentences.
Animals, Read, Choose and Colouring Cards
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Animals, Read, Choose and Colouring Cards

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6 sheets of colouring sheets with 4 pictures on each one. Children read the sentence and then decide which animal they need to colour. e.g. Colour the flying owl or Colour the striped animal. This encourages reading for meaning, thinking skills and speaking and listening.
Water Loving Animals Worksheets
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Water Loving Animals Worksheets

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A set of worksheets for your topic on Animals, Water, or Water Animals. There are 6 animals with photos and then activities: Name and colour pictures of the animals Draw the animals Colour and label the animals Finally an animal doodle colouring picture where children can also count how many of each animal there are.
Collective Nouns Animals Worksheets
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Collective Nouns Animals Worksheets

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This activity is about teaching or consolidating the collective nouns for animals. There are 20 pictures of animals on 2 worksheets with the collective nouns to identify and match. Sheets 3 and 4 are grids. Sheet 3 shows the collective nouns for all 20 animals. Children can write the animal names underneath or draw them. Sheet 4 shows the animals names. Children can write the collective nouns underneath or draw the groups of animals. Extend with children saying a sentence for each animal or writing sentences e.g. I heard a gaggle of geese. Links with literacy and animal topic work.
Chinese Zodiac Animals Worksheets KS1
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Chinese Zodiac Animals Worksheets KS1

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6 worksheets for KS1 children learning about the Chinese Zodiac. Introduce the Zodiac and the animals as well as the order in which they come. Children can find out what their animal is dependent on their birthdays. Worksheets - reading, writing, drawing, ordering Children draw or past the animals clockwise in the order that they appear in the Chinese Zodiac. Recognise the animals? Write the names of the 12 shadow animals under the pictures. Write the names and / or year of the animals under the colour pictures. Draw or paste the animals onto the sheet which shows the animal names. 2022 is the year of the tiger. Children draw or paste the animals above the years shown. Each animal has a sign, children find out what they are and draw them into the appropriate circles.
Animals with a Fruity Name Fun Lesson
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Animals with a Fruity Name Fun Lesson

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This is a fun lesson where children find out about animals with fruity names such as the lemon shark and the raspberry crazy ant. Share the power point with the children and see if they can guess the name of each animal using the picture clues. Click the key and the name will appear on each page. There are 8 animal slides. The final slide is a list of suggested activities or tasks that the children can do. e.g. finding a picture or photo of each animal, drawing cartoon animals combining the fruit and the animal and then making a model. Links to art and design and science(animals).
Insects and Small Animals Writing Frames KS1
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Insects and Small Animals Writing Frames KS1

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3 writing frames for children with colour pictures. Each frame shows colour insects or small animals around the outside. On the inside, there is space for childrens writing or drawing on your topic of animals, insects, bugs or animals. Sheet 1 - A lined centre frame where children can make a list or write sentences or a short story. Sheet 2 - Boxes in the centre for children to write the names of 12 insects or animals and /or, draw them. Sheet 3- A blank centre box for children to write in, draw or paste into.
Animals A to Z Power Point EYFS KS1
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Animals A to Z Power Point EYFS KS1

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A bright power point showing animals from A to Z. Each page encourages the children to say the sounds, recognise the lower and upper case letters and read the sentence about the animal. Use as part of your work on animals and phonics. The slides also make a lovely wall display or alphabet frieze. Extend by printing off the slides and cutting off the black letter and word sections. Laminate for reuse. Children can match the two parts together to complete the pictures.