A bright set of posters for your classroom wall with a Birthday theme. Each poster shows a month of the year. Children could add pictures of themselves or their names and dates of birthdays. The final sheet shows all 12 months on one sheet. Children can cut these out, match them to the posters and sequence them.

This resource is based on Eric Carle’s amazing book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The resource shows a colour poster for each day of the week and what the caterpillar ate on each day. There is a black and white set of worksheets based on the posters for children to draw the food for each day, write the word and find the initial sound for the day of the week. Children can check that the food and days match the story itself. Ask them to check Saturday in particular. Did the story specify what flavour the ice cream was? Links to stories, reading, writing, days of the week and time.

10 worksheets based on a food theme. Each sheet shows 4 food or drink items - 1 of these is the odd one out e.g. potato, pizza and popcorn all begin with p - thus the odd one out is cake. Children can write the cursive words and colour the pictures. Children can compare the pictures on each page and say how they have decided on the criteria.

A power point presentation where children learn to recognise numerals, read number words and practice counting from 0 to 10. The theme is rainbow and each number and word is made up of coloured stars. There are hearts for children to count on each slide.

Here are photos of animals to think and talk about and to count. Could discuss e.g. habitats, diet, young, specific features, patterns. Slides show animals from 1 to groups of 5. Children could go on to listing the animals on each slide and / or to make their own collections of animals.

A lovely slide show to share with your children at Spring or Easter. There are 10 beautiful images of Easter to talk about and count together.

EYFS or KS1 game of dominoes with a Fruit theme. 18 pages with 4 dominoes to a page. There are some blank templates included in case you want to add more fruits or the children can draw some of their own.

A great little game or activity for EYFS, KS1 or those learning English. A poster showing colour pictures of things that you might find in the home. Each set is of 3 with some sets showing the same item and some different versions of the same thing. e.g. 3 toasters the same, 3 books in different colours and 3 different tea pots. There are matching cards to go with the poster. Children can talk about the objects and match them to the main poster. They can say if they are the same or different items in each set. Show as a PPT for lots of speaking and listening. Cut and laminate the cards for multiple use including displays and flash cards. Links to Homes, Numbers, Counting and Speaking and Listening.

10 slides to share with your children and encourage speaking and listening and close observation. There are 3 birds on each slide. Children look closely and say if they are the same or different and then say why. Links to maths, matching, and animal topics,

An original story rhyme for young children which tells of 7 little princesses. Each princess has a favourite colour and was born on a different day of the week. Links in nicely with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Share the colour pictures on the smart board or print them out, laminate and make into a book. Following the story, ask the children what they can recall about the Princesses - Who was born on a Monday? Who has a room that is a terrible mess? Who likes to wear yellow? etc. Next, there are 6 sets of cards to cut out and sort. These show: 7 Princesses 7 Princesses with their names 7 different colours Days of the week Numbers from 1 to 7 An activity or object belonging to each princess This makes a good memory games and builds on skills such as speaking and listening, thinking, observation, reading, matching and sorting. Duplicate the cards to play card games such as snap or pairs.

Activities where children can use 10 colour or black and white vehicles to make and continue patterns. Included are colour and black and white pictures to copy or paste. There are black and white images to colour in or use for sorting or pattern making activities included.

10 colour worksheets for children at Christmas learning their numbers to 10. Print out or show on your screen. An idea is to give children a mini white board and as they look at each picture they either write the numbers or sentences e.g. I see 3 presents.

10 worksheets with an Easter theme. Each sheet shows a number from 1 to 10 with chicks inside. Children count the chicks, overwrite the numbers and words and colour the pictures. Each page has a Spring themed border. When completed, these sheets make lovely number posters for a display or the number corner.

A fun activity linked to People Who Help Us , Transport and Maths (Making Sets) as well as working together. The instructions are on the first sheet of the resource. There are 12 sets of vehicle sheets including police cars, tractors, taxis and buses. The aim of the game is for children to collect 12 different vehicles. They will need to swap their vehicles with their friends in order to collect all the ones they need. They paste these onto their template boards to complete the task. There is an example board showing what it should look like when all 12 vehicles are pasted onto it.

14 colour pages of cards for early years and KS1 children to support their maths, speaking and listening skills and topic work. Each page has 2 sets of 3 cards for children to cut out, talk about, sort and make into sets. Themes range from food and drink, flowers and trees, blue and yellow and large and small. Cut up, duplicate and laminate the cards for matching games and making into sets of 3. Children can begin by sorting along 2 criteria e.g. red and yellow and then extend e.g. using blue and green. Extend by asking children to sort in other ways such as all the transport, all the weather pictures or all the containers.

3 pages of pairs of animals in photo form. Each page shows 9 pairs of animals. Use in your animal projects or work on pairs, numbers or sets cross curricular. Duplicate and print / cut for children to match the animal pairs.

A fun game for young children that can be differentiated from counting and adding small numbers together to adding up to 36. There are different ways of using the resources. Activity 1 Share page 1 and work through together with the children so they understand the process. Then children can complete page 2 on their own, or in pairs. Here they say how many ducks they see on the ponds and add up the numbers using the colour duck key. Page 3 is a template so that the children can add their own colours to the duck key. Add their own ducks to the pond and then work out the answers to the questions. Activity 2 Page 4 is a set of colour duck cards. Duplicate these and cut them out to play matching games, snap, pairs and colour sorting. Page 5 is a pond for children to colour in and add ducks of their own. Page 6 are outline black and white ducks for the children to colour in how they want. They could cut these out and add them to the pond. Extend by making a class pond collage where all the children can add their own duck. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

A pack of resources for young learners with a cross curricular theme. Something here for everyone in the class to enjoy. Links to maths - sorting, matching, counting, symmetry, ordering, numbers and fractions. Links to food - fruits and plants. Links to Art and Design and Literacy - reading comprehension and phonics. Resources: Apple counting sheet and template to make your own A set of apple dominoes to colour, cut out and play A comprehension sheet about a market stall to read and write the answers The letters in a p p l e s to colour, cut out and order Letters to trace or colour in A counting whole and half apples number sheet A colouring fruit page 3 colour half fruits to cut and make whole Apple character ideas to stimulate children to design their own An apple poster to stimulate children’s own poster designs

This is a fun activity for young children which requires close observation and number matching. What to do: Show the first page of the quiz to the class or to a group of children. The page shows 15 baby animal parts and each one is numbered. See if children can name the baby animals from the small parts they can see. Give each child a copy of sheet 2, the numbered template. Children can write the name of the animals or draw them next to the correct numbers. Sheet 3 shows the full pictures of the 15 baby animals. Children could mark off the animals as they recognise them from the quiz. Or, they can cut out the pictures and add them to sheet 2 - pasting them onto the correct number squares. The final sheet is a colouring page showing the 15 baby animals.

8 colour worksheets where children name and count out the number of animals in each of the 8 pictures. They then write the numbers in the squares underneath. Another way of using this resource is to cut out and laminate each of the 64 pictures and use as flashcards or matching cards to place onto the worksheets. Animals can also be sorted into sets such as land, sea, jungle, farm. Duplicate and you could also make this into a fun lotto game for EYFS or KS1.