5 labelling sheets based on events children are familiar with. Playtime Holiday time Games time Work time Bed time Children write the words in the spaces provided that correspond to the colour pictures.

This activity has 30 black and white cartoon cards. The first page is an example of 6 pictures that have been given a title and coloured in. Cut out the black and white pictures and ask the children in pairs or groups to come up with a title for each picture. This makes for a fun speaking and listening activity and for children to be creative in their writing. Children could colour and share their cartoon pictures explaining them to the rest of the class. They could write a caption / sentence or paragraph to describe their picture. There is a blank template at the end for you or the children to use to make more drawings or cartoons of your own. This activity is great too, for those learning English!

24 ‘t’ colour pictures on blackboards for children to cut out and match to the words all beginning with t. You may want to cut and laminate the cards for matching fun activities that you can reuse. Links to reading and phonics work.

12 ‘i’ colour pictures on blackboards for children to cut out and match to the words all beginning with i. You may want to cut and laminate the cards for matching fun activities that you can reuse. Links to reading and phonics work.

24 ‘S’ colour pictures on blackboards for children to cut out and match to the words all beginning with S. You may want to cut and laminate the cards for matching fun activities that you can reuse. Links to reading and phonics work.

24 ‘a’ colour pictures on blackboards for children to cut out and match to the words all beginning with a. You may want to cut and laminate the cards for matching fun activities that you can reuse. Links to reading and phonics work.

24 ‘n’ colour pictures on blackboards for children to cut out and match to the words all beginning with n. You may want to cut and laminate the cards for matching fun activities that you can reuse. Links to reading and phonics work.

This is a fun activity to share with your KS1 class. Give each child a copy of the activity sheet to fill in as you go along - there are 6 activities to complete. Share the PPT discussing each of the slides so that children are clear what to do. You can use a timer to make the activity more competitive or ask children to work in pairs. Introduce new vocab such as anagram and palindrome.

2 pages of colour labelling sheets containing 18 pictures with space for children to write underneath. Page 1 all begin with the letter S Page 2 - pictures begin with letters within the word SANTA Page 3 is a blank template for you to use

This activity can be shown on the whiteboard and children each given an answer sheet to mark off the missing words as they come to them. Alternatively, each of the 10 worksheets can be used on their own. Children complete the sentence with a missing word. The missing words are sometimes repeated such as ‘water’ and ‘chocolate’ but the containers or descriptions are different e.g. a bar of chocolate a box of chocolates This is a good speaking and listening activity and useful for those learning English.

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘oy’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘oy’ or the words and underline ‘oy’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: toy, toy box, oyster, enjoy, joy, royal, annoy, boy

3 worksheets based on the letter U. Colour the umbrellas Colour the U pictures and match to the words Trace over the letters and draw a line to matching ones or colour the matching Us the same colours

A word and matching activity linked to phonics and reading at KS1. Children read the words and match to those around the turtle. they trace over the letter Tt. The second worksheet is another version of the first but with essentially the same content.

A simple word search with a BUGS theme for KS1 children. There are 7 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 Bugs or Minibeasts. Other similar word searches in this shop include Halloween, Christmas and Toys.

5 pages of pencil patterns to assist with developing fine motor control. Laminate and use with dry markers for a lasting resource in the writing corner.

A great way to encourage spellng without the use of a pencil! Children cut out the letters for each animal and sequence them to spell the words. Laminate and these then make a resource you can re-use. Link to your topic on Animals as well as Phonics. Words included are: chick, snake, horse, bull, monkey, dog and zoo.

3 stories for children to put together using the colour cards and talk about and/or write about. There is no special order so all answers are acceptable. There are 5 cards for each story to sequence. Links also to Occupations, Sports and World of Work.

A set of high frequency word cards for you to cut out, use as teaching aids, on display or in the writing corner. There are some blank ones too, that you can print out and write your own key words. Words are written on phones for added interest. Useful too, for sending home for homework.

10 lists for children to write. Children talk about the collection of pictures in the shapes and then list or draw them. There is an oval shape for children to draw or write in. Art materials Fruit Animals Toys Christmas Halloween Numbers Sea Creatures Doing words Feeling faces

Share this Christmas picture with your children and make a list of everything they see. What might be in the gift boxes? Children can write or underwrite what they see in the word boxes. Page 2 is an empty shelf unit. Children draw in Christmas things to fill the shelves. They can then write a list of the contents.