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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.
Telling the time game: time for dinner spinner
This fun two-player game will help your child to practise reading and setting the time.
Rhyming maze
Can you help the animals through the mazes? Follow the words that rhyme with your pencil to help them to their snacks.
Reception problem-solving
Four children have put some of their marbles into a dish. They each have different-coloured marbles. Using these clues, can you work out who has which colour marbles?
Read and Spell Game (Phase 2 phonics)
This fun game is designed to support your child’s progress in phonics and covers some of the Phase 2 sounds.
Partitioning mini maze
Follow the clues to help the pirate through the maze to the treasure using your partitioning skills.
Number recognition and counting to 10
These five children each have a bag of marbles but the bags have been muddled up. Can you help them to find the right bags?
Number bonds to 20 crossword
Colour the pairs of numbers that make 20 in the same colour. Try to use a different colour for each pair. What do you notice? Now use these bonds to find the answers to the crossword.
Number bonds to 20 racing game
This game is designed to support your child’s understanding of number bonds to 20 (pairs of numbers that make 20). Ready, steady, go...!
Number bonds to 10 racing game
This game is designed to support your child’s understanding of number bonds to 10 (pairs of numbers that make 10).
Marble Muddle: addition and subtraction board game
This game is designed to support accurate counting skills, reinforce the idea of “more than” and “less than” and develop an understanding of the maths symbols + and -.
Making compound words
Look at all the ingredients in our compound word soup. How many different compound words can you make from them?
Identifying patterns
Can you help Captain Clumsy cross the river to get to her treasure? Her map tells her she can only cross on the stones that create a repeating pattern. Can you spot the path she needs to take and colour the last two stones the right colour?
Fraction Frenzy flash cards
How quickly can you complete this flash cards game? Try it a few times and aim to do it faster each time!
Five in a row: numbers 7-12
Help your child to count the spots accurately and then find the correct number on the game board.
Five in a row: numbers 1-6
This game is designed to support early number recognition and counting skills. Help your child to count the spots accurately and then find the correct number on the game board.
Days of the week crossword puzzle
Can you solve the clues below and fill in the crossword with the correct days of the week?
Counting to 10 practice
These children want to put their marbles in order, starting with the person who has the smallest number and ending with the person who has the most marbles.
Capacity spinner game
This fun game encourages your child to compare volumes using the language of measurement: full, empty, half full, quarter full, more and less.
Addition and subtraction to 20 wordsearch
This fun activity is designed to support children in their addition and subtraction as well as helping them to read and spell the numbers to 20.