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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Place value: tens and units
Partitioning numbers means breaking them down into units, tens, hundreds and more. Can you partition the numbers below into tens and units (or ones)?
Mixed-up mental maths
How quickly can you answer these mental maths questions? Get an adult to time you! On your marks, get set...
Measurement terms around the house
Cut out the cards. Put some Blu Tack on the back of them, then go on a measurement trail around your house. What items could be described by the words? Stick your cards on them!
Measurement problems
Can you work out these measurement problems? Draw pictures to help you visualise the problems.
Guess the number game
Cut out the number cards and arrange them, face down, on a table. Take turns to turn over a card without showing the other player, who has to ask yes/no questions in order to guess the number on the card within 10 questions.
Estimate then measure
An estimate is a clever guess. It’s a guess that you think carefully about before making. Have a look at your ruler. Can you find 3cm? Can you estimate whether each of the items below is shorter or longer than 3cm? Write your estimate underneath the picture.
Doubling and halving money
Can you double and halve the amounts in the purses? Show the answers as coins in the empty purses (trace around real coins to draw them!).
Discussing and explaining results
Evie has asked her friends and family about their favourite sports. She’s made a bar chart showing her results. Can you read the bar chart and then fill in the table?
Comparing weights directly
Find these objects in your house, then search around your home or garden for things that are lighter and heavier. Fill out the chart, finding something that is heavier and lighter than each of the objects.
Comparing lengths in cm
Here are some rather funny aliens. Can you measure them from head to toes (if they have any!) using a ruler? Under each alien write their length in centimetres.
Calculations: different ways of working out
Can you draw pictures to help solve these tricky word problems?
Addition story problems: adding three numbers
Can you read through these story problems and do the calculations?
Adding 10 to a number
This is a calculation machine! It’s set to programme Add 10 today. Every number that goes in gets 10 added to it. Choose some numbers to go into the machine, then use the 100 square to add 10 to each one. Remember: you don’t need to count along 10 to add 10 to your number, just drop down one row on the 100 square.
2D or 3D shape?
Cut out these shape names. Can you organise them into two piles, one for 2D and one for 3D? Look around the room. Can you find an object to match each shape card? Stick the card to the object with Blu Tack!
Ordering numbers on a 100 square
A number thief has stolen some of the numbers on this 100 square! How fast can your child write in the missing digits in the correct order?
Halloween crossword
Demons and ghouls and black cats, oh my! Prepare for the pumpkin season with our Halloween crossword and increase your child's supernatural vocabulary.
Patterns playbook
Before children are able to start writing letters and words their hands and muscles need to get used to producing marks on paper. Our Patterns playbook offers your child the opportunity to
practise common writing patterns in preparation for handwriting letters at age 4 or 5. It's also a fun way to encourage an older child who has trouble writing particular letters. Can they make some waves, draw some curly baby hair and decorate a birthday cake with Smarties, all while doing some vital handwriting practice?
practise common writing patterns in preparation for handwriting letters at age 4 or 5. It's also a fun way to encourage an older child who has trouble writing particular letters. Can they make some waves, draw some curly baby hair and decorate a birthday cake with Smarties, all while doing some vital handwriting practice?
Year 1 money maths: coin combinations
How good are you at counting money? Can you combine these coins and fill the purse?
What 2D shape am I?
Can you work out what all these 2D shapes are? Read the clue and draw the shape!