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.
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.
A resource, or lesson, linked to Weather and the Four Seasons. There are 3 activity ideas included and worksheets.
Matching pictures to seasons and colouring sheet
List writing exercise for each season
Sentence creation task for the 4 seasons
The resource aids the understanding of the cyclic nature of the seasons, enhances handwriting and vocabulary building for EYFS and KS1 children.
This Holidays Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on Holidays, Seaside, Weather or Seasons.
Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with going on Holidays. Make your own using the plan provided or use the ready made symbol boards.
The resource features:
Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the Holidays Bingo Game ;objectives and resources needed.
Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘Holidays’ symbols. Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders.
Boardmaker licenced
Photos of 6 Jungle animals along with pictures for children to colour in, name, write a phrase or sentence about and match to their names.
The last sheet is a doodle sheet where children can count how many of each animal there are and colour them in.
A simple word search for Halloween for children at KS1.
There are 8 words to find which correspond to the colour pictures around the word search.
There is an answer sheet and a blank template for you to fill in other words of your own related to Halloween or Autumn.
Other similar word search sheets including Christmas, farm, toys and bugs can be found on this shop too.
5 worksheets with a Ghost/Halloween theme and cross curricular.
Children sort the ghosts looking for ones the same. They colour these in and count how many of each type.
Ghosts to copy, colour, paint or cut out and use in your Halloween work/displays.
A lined border template to write a story, poem or Halloween words.
A border template, blank in the middle to write, draw or paste onto.
Continue the pattern of ghosts sheet.
We hope your class enjoy this 20 page treasure trove of Halloween delights that are sure to bring the magic of Halloween into your classroom, while reinforcing key learning concepts. The unit, planning and resources are aimed at EYFS and KS1 and incorporates symbols which support SEND pupils and should save teachers precious time planning and preparing.
Boardmaker Licenced.
The unit offers a rich array of activities including English, Maths, Art, and Outdoor Learning, fostering connections across subject areas.
From an original story and poetry reading and writing, to comprehension questions and word searches, children can have fun whilst improving their literacy skills. Children learn too about staying safe on Halloween.
The unit incorporates phonics with Halloween-themed words and sounds that make learning relevant. For the mathematicians, included are examples of simple Halloween-themed math problems.
Boost creativity with the Halloween poster designing and board game creation activities. Instill team spirit with name search puzzles and collaborative activities.
Immerse children in the spirit of the season with an outdoor scavenger hunt and nature walks, all themed around the spookiest time of the year.
There are also detailed planning sheets giving activities and extension ideas and even a suggested Halloween themed picture book list.
This bumper pack offers a blend of fun and education, designed to captivate children. The resource can be adapted to different learning styles and paces.
This is a Collection of 5 fun Short Stories about Dinosaurs for young children. The stories are entertaining and stimulate childrens imagination encouraging them to create their own dinosaur stories.
Each story incorporates a simple lesson such as friendship, perseverance, and kindness.
The stories can be incorporated into various subjects, from science (studying prehistoric life) to art (drawing and imagining dinosaur worlds) to language arts (writing their own dino-tales or poems).
Teachers can create activities based on the stories, like discussions, role-playing, or even field trips to museums, amplifying the learning experience.
There is a colouring sheet for each of the stories.
Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children.
Set 5 in this story collection invites children to share in 5 new, original short tales.
Each of these five tales holds a unique message and sparks thinking, speaking, listening, and creative writing. Links to PSHE and Citizenship and Ourselves. There are colouring sheets included.
“The Elephant with the Bad Memory” teaches our children that it’s not what you do or do not remember that is important, but what is in your heart that makes you truly special.
“The Girl Who Loved Balloons” celebrates a little girl’s love of balloons and the enchanting things that happen when she shares them.
“The Rainbow Unicorn” enchants our little ones with the magic of unicorns. The rainbow unicorn has a unique style that inspires others to be themselves.
“Doris Duck and Her Two Little Ducklings” explores the importance of acceptance and diversity in a community.
‘‘The Owl that needed Glasses’’ is the final story, teaching children how even the wisest of us may need to seek and accept help.
The magic of these stories will inspire creative writing among children.
Let them create their sequels, alternative endings, or even design new characters and adventures.
Autumn’s here and here is a collection of 5 short stories to inspire your children.
The tales are perfect for story time, end-of-day reading, and linking with literacy, reading, and creative writing.
They also touch on themes of seasons and feelings, making them relevant and relatable for the children.
The Lonely Scarecrow: A story about loneliness and friendship.
The Fox and the Acorn: A lesson in growth and nature.
The Squirrel That Slept Too Long: The importance of preparation and timing.
The Windy Day: A fun look at the effects of a breezy autumn day (Follow up with kite making of your own).
Adrian Mouse and the Special Pumpkin: A tiny mouse finds a very special autumn home.
A fun activity for young children to link in with topics on Ourselves, Me , Sorting and Speaking and Listening.
There are 15 pictures of children doing a range of activities such as singing, playing football or climbing.
Children can talk about what they like and do not like and cut out the cards to sort.
There are 2 different sheets for writing, drawing or pasting onto.
Children can write 3 things they like and 3 things they do not like.
Or / and they can draw or paste pictures of things they like and do not like,
8 Colour cards showing weather types and 8 black and white cards to match or colour in.
Print the cards double sided so they have a back, laminate and use for games, reading and matching weather words and pictures.
Children can work in pairs to name the weather and come up with a sentence about it.
These planning sheets are for children to write key words that they will then use in their written work.
Differentiate for those children needing extra support by writing in key words for them to use in their writing.
There are 4 different options for planning to write about the weather or the 4 seasons:
Set 1 - Shows photos of trees in the 4 seasons
Set 2,3,4 shows different trees over the 4 seasons
16 templates in all.
The first page is an example of filled in word anagrams.
A 10 page worksheet resource.
A collection of worksheets with a weather theme where the letters of each word make an anagram of a weather word.
Children write the words, draw and colour the weather pictures.
2/3- 3 letter anagrams without initial sounds included
3 letter anagrams with the initial sound
4/5 - 4 letter word anagrams with initial sounds
4 letter anagrams with missing initial sounds
6/7 -4 letter word anagrams with initial sounds
4 letter anagrams with missing initial sounds
8 /9
10/11 - 5 or 6 letter word anagrams without initial sounds
5 or 6 letter word anagrams with initial sounds included
Links to your topic work on seasons, weather as well as word work / phonics.
A cross curricular activity linked to Geography, Weather, Seasons and Literacy.
10 worksheets where children have space to write key weather words to go with each weather type.
They can then use their key words to write about the weather or season and / or write a poem.
A collection of activities about the weather and 4 seasons.
The workbook includes:
Hot and Cold Sorting
Making seasons bookmarks
Sorting celebrations into seasons
Learning about weather idioms
Researching the meaning of common weather idioms
Challenge Cards
Wordsearch and answers for the 4 seasons
A set of worksheets to stimulate writing about the weather and seasons at KS1.
Sheet 1 shows muddled weather words for children to unscramble.
Sheet 2 is a template for children to write their own weather words into.
Sheet 3 is divided into the 4 seasons and asks children to write weather words for each season.
Sheet 4, 5, 6 and 7 asks children to write words in the boxes for each of the seasons.
A Father’s Day / Celebrations PPT and activities.
This is an animated PPT with 2 activity sheets as a follow up.
Jo wants to get her dad a Father’s Day gift but she cannot decide what.
There are 20 animated ideas to choose from.
Children watch the PPT and help Jo to decide on a gift they feel would be suitable.
The slides are animated so the children will delight in watching the present ideas on the TV,
There are lots of details too on the slides for children to talk about and spot in the other slides. Some of these are animated also.
The activity sheets are at the back:
A writing frame for children to write their choice for Jo and their personal choice. They then draw these gift choices.
Activity sheet 2 is for children to draw and label all the choices of gift. One is done for them.
Extension activities include data handling - how many children chose the same or different gifts?
Make a Father’s day gift, card or write a letter to dad.
3 different colour versions of this ‘I Love Dad’ Father’s Day card for children to choose from, cut, fold and make - green, pink and yellow.
There is a black and white version that children can colour in themselves.
There are also 2 inserts saying ‘Happy Father’s Day’ that children can paste inside their cards.
3 different butterfly colour patterns for children to copy.
They could use a range of media such as felt pens, paint, collage or crayons.
Extend by asking children to make a colour butterfly pattern for their friends to copy.
Links to symmetry.