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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.
4 times table practice
Cards to cut out and use to help your child speed up with remembering their 4 times table.
Rounding numbers to the nearest ten
A worksheet for practising rounding numbers in the hundreds to the nearest ten.
Investigating forces - pushes
An investigation into the effect of pushing various objects. This includes extension activities to encourage your child to investigate further.
All about rocks
A worksheet encouraging children to match types of rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) with their descriptions.
Understand the concept of time
This worksheet activity will help your child to understand how long a second and a minute are and use their knowledge to write simple poetry.
Descriptive writing using the senses
A weird and wonderful new creature has been discovered and you’re one of the only people in the world to have seen it with your own eyes! Share your experience by writing a description of the creature using your senses.
Time words
A worksheet prompting children to look for words associated with time in a poem. They then need to sort these words into categories.
Circuits and conductors
A cutting out and re-ordering activity, where your child needs to match vocabulary on electricity with the correct definition.
Using data to reach a conclusion
This worksheet shows the results of an experiment into friction. It has questions below to prompt children to think about what the results mean and draw their own conclusions.
Proving that air exists
Activities for your child to do at home that will demonstrate the fact that air exists.
Upper case and lower case letters matching game
A fun game involving matching capital letter and lower case letters.
Writing your ideas with paragraphs
This worksheet requires children to imagine that they have been given a large sum of money and then use paragraphs to write about what they would do with it.
Ordering sentences
Use this worksheet to help your children to re-order words to make sentences that make sense and have capitals and full stops.
Match present and past tense
This worksheet gives jumbled-up verbs in the present and past tense. Children need to match each present tense verb to its past tense form.
Writing non-fiction
A worksheet prompting your child to use the contents page in an information book and then write out facts from a particular page.
How animals are adapted to their habitat
This worksheet encourages children to think about animals in the desert and research how they are adapted to life in that habitat.
Reversible changes: heating and freezing
Some examples of changes made by heating or freezing. Children need to work out whether these are reversible or non-reversible. Some can be tested at home.
Multiply by 10 (including decimals)
This worksheet gives your child lots of examples of numbers to multiply by 10, including decimals.
Column addition including decimals
This worksheet gives plenty of opportunity for children to practise column addition when adding decimals. Answer sheet included.