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 PPT showing 32 samples of materials.
Children can describe what they see and develop their describing vocabulary such as rough, smooth, bumpy, soft etc.
They can also discuss what each material might be used for and if it is natural in origin or man made.
This is an animated PPT with 2 activity sheets as a follow up.
Jo is thinking about the foods she likes and dislikes. She wants to decide on her favourite food.
There are 20 animated ideas to choose from.
Children watch the PPT and help Jo to decide on her favourite food.
The slides are animated so the children will delight in watching the food ideas on the TV,
The activity sheets are at the back:
A writing frame for children to write their choice of food for Jo and their personal choice. They then draw these food choices.
Activity sheet 2 is for children to colour and label all the choices of foods.
Extension activities include data handling - how many children chose the same or different food from the 20? What is the most popular food? Do a class or year group survey.
Links to Ourselves, Food, Plants and Data Handling.
A bumper 28 page pack of resources on a Superhero theme.
Everything you will need to excite your children and stimulate their writing, drawing and imagination.
Included are:
12 colour A4 posters of superheroes characters
Mask templates
Graffiti words
Superhero symbols
A template for comic strips
Black / white and colour pictures for writing in speech and thought bubbles
Wanted photo frames and blank frames
Superhero certificates for boys and girls
Superhero drawing frames
6 baddy cards
12 small Superhero picture cards
Have fun!
Lets cheer up Fridays (or any days), with this Dingbats Visual Word Puzzle for Kids or the whole family.
28 Picture clues for children to solve, complete with a blank answer template and an answer sheet.
Works well on Zoom too!
There are 4 aisles in this supermarket resource.
Each aisle presents colour pictures of the produce on sale.
There are 2 worksheets for each aisle.
Record how many of each item in the grid.
Read and answer the questions related to the produce.
Links to speaking and listening, shopping, weights and measures as well as data handling and number.
Children can present their data / findings in the form of graphs, charts, tables or pictograms.
You could extend yourself, by adding prices to produce and linking to money.
A fun way to get back to school work after the festive season.
4 worksheets based on January 2022.
Children answer the questions about dates in January.
They fill in the blank January calendar, adding dates.
3 /4. Children can make their own calendar for January either adding dates or adding dates and pictures related to January or the Winter Season.
2 underwater scenes for children to talk about and colour in.
There is a black and white and a colour version of each of the 2 scenes.
Links to your topic on Animals and their Habitats and Seas and Oceans.
3 worksheets each showing 6 pictures related to the Pirate theme.
A key word is written for each picture that the children can include in their sentence writing.
This is a writing frame that children can use to inspire them to write about anything.
Here the focus is on the months of the year - there is a blank frame that children can use to fill out the months of the year. They can add in how many days are in each month.
The second sheet already has the months filled in for differentiation.
Children can write in the shapes, add relevant words or pictures to denote each month. They could also add in celebrations such as Easter and Birthdays.
There is also a worked example where pictures have been filled in for each month. Discuss this with the children before they start to give them some ideas.
These posters make a lovely months of the year display when completed.
A little book for children to make and fold with a Royal theme.
Print out double sided, children can complete the activities and then fold in 3 to make their own special book to commemorate Coronation Day.
Activities include, labelling, matching words, writing, drawing, colouring and a mini quiz.
Boardmaker licenced.
A set of worksheets / activities based on the theme of the Community and People who help us.
Learning objectives are included.
Sheet 1 LO - To recognise, name and label people who help us.
There are 12 characters in colour here each having a different role to play in helping us. Children can talk about the jobs that they do. Does any one person have a more important job to do than the others? Why or why not?
Sheet 2 LO - To use text as a stimulus for writing thank you letters to people who help us.
There are 2 examples here of letters written by children to a school cook and a postman.
Sheets 3 - 4 LO -To show appreciation for our community workers by writing a letter of thank you.
There are 4 colour frames that children can choose from to write their thank you letters or to help them with ideas for making their own.
Sheet 5 - Shows some key words that children may want to include in their letters and space to make a draft letter.
This is a fun activity for young children.
Cut out and laminate the 30 circular cards showing Christmas pictures and hide inside the classroom or in nature’s den / outside areas or in a sand tray.
Children can hunt for the pictures and then tick off on the master board when they find them! Children will enjoy working in pairs or small groups.
A differentiated resource for your work on Weather or Seasons.
There are 2 pages of statements for children to read and sort on the 4 seasons e.g. It is Icy in the mornings - Winter
I like to eat ice cream - Summer
Cut and laminate these for reuse.
There is a lined writing frame showing the 4 seasons - children can select up to 8 statements and write them into the frame.
Another way of writing about the 4 seasons is the sheet with the 4 seasons pictures and a box for each for children to write the Season words or a phrase or sentence.
The final worksheet shows 4 colour flashcards of the seasons with matching words for children to cut and match.
This resource is designed to inspire a love of books in Key Stage 1 pupils while developing their understanding of literary classifications.
Young learners distinguish between fiction and non-fiction and then delve deeper into genres and topics.
Included is a planning sheet that outlines three lesson plans, complete with objectives, a list of necessary materials, activities, and follow-up suggestions to reinforce learning.
There are two ready-made labels for fiction and non-fiction to facilitate a hands-on card sorting activity.
Accompanying these are 10 pages, each featuring six diverse book covers in black and white, which can be cut out for an interactive classification game and a range of activities. Examples of book covers are ‘Learn to Play the Piano’, ‘I have a New Daddy’ and ‘My Book of Fairy Tales for 7 year olds’.
Tailored for Key Stage 1 children, the book covers lend themselves to lots of speaking and listening and predicting.
Follow up with sorting of real books and / or children can design their own book covers using the cards for inspiration.
The resource is a useful addition to library skills and any celebrations around Books.
Here are 7 animal faces / worksheets for children to begin to find out about symmetry.
All they need are scissors, pencils and a mirror.
The animal faces are differentiated as they do get more complex by sheets 6 and 7.
Page 8 allows your children to begin to experiment with mirrors and lines of symmetry and gives them the idea of butterfly painting.
Have fun with your children this Easter with this Easter Egg Trail game.
The idea is to place your colour egg posters around the outside area / playground or school for children to locate.
They then mark off what they have found on the Easter Egg Trail recording sheets.
There is a colour and a black and white version of the recording sheets.
There are 16 colour posters included showing the different designs of Easter eggs.
There are also 16 sheets where there is a colour and black and white picture of each of the eggs. Children can colour in the black and white pictures to make them the same as the colour ones or choose their own colours.
They could also cut the eggs out to add to a class frieze or Easter display. Children could use the eggs to make their own Easter cards too.
Links to maths, matching, recording as well as pattern.
Differentiated sticker / reward charts with a football theme.
A great alternative to a star chart for those interested in football.
There is a female goal keeper on chart 1 with room for 5 football stickers and on chart 2 with room for 10 stickers.
There is a male goal keeper on chart 3 with room for 5 and then 10 football stickers on chart 4.
There are footballs that can be cut out and stuck on with glue.