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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.
Symmetrical pairs game
This butterfly playing cards game will help your child to recognise when items are symmetrical.
Sharing problem-solving
This worksheet is designed to help your child practise their division problem-solving skills.
Sharing a group of objects equally
Sharing is a practical skill and is your child’s first step towards understanding division. In Reception, children are expected to be able to share a group of objects equally.
One Less Board Game: numbers 0-20
This game is designed to help your child practise the skill of finding one less than a given number.
One and two more and less game
This game is about looking at numbers and getting used to moving along a number line / ladder. Don’t worry about the vocabulary of adding and subtracting, just count on and back and discuss the numbers as you go. It’s a race to the stars!
Measuring: heavy or light?
This worksheet is designed to help your Reception child solve first weighing and measuring problems.
Making numbers to 20: part / whole number challenge
This activity is designed to consolidate your child’s understanding of numbers, addition and subtraction and gently introduces the concept of number bonds.
Halving quantities to 20
This activity is designed to help your child to understand and practise halving quantities up to 20.
Halving quantities to 10
This activity is designed to help your child to understand and practise halving quantities up to 10.
Find one less
This worksheet is designed to support and reinforce your Reception child’s skills and understanding around finding one less than a given number.
Doubling and halving numbers 1-20 game
A maths board game for Reception children, designed to help them find doubles and halves of numbers and quantities up to 20. It will help children recognise the relationship between doubling and halving.
Doubling and halving numbers 1-10 game
This Reception numbers and counting game is designed to help your child to find doubles and halves of numbers and quantities up to 10. It will also help your child to recognise the relationship between doubling and halving.
Dinosaur races: Ordinal Numbers Game
A game designed to to introduce children to ordinal numbers, which tell us an item’s position in a list (for example, first, second or third).
Comparing numbers of coins
Help your child practise comparing quantities and reinforce the language of more and less or fewer with this penny-counting worksheet.
Using capital letters
Help your child recognise capital letters and practise using them correctly with this simple worksheet for Reception children.
Suggest the ending of a story
Help your child read a text and then imagine how it might continue. They'll be taking their first steps into creative writing and story telling!
Sentence scramble game
How many different full sentences can your child make with these words? Remember that a full sentence needs to start with a capital letter and end in a full stop.
Revise /oo/, /ar/, /or/ and /ur/ sounds (Phase 3 phonics)
This simple game is designed to help support and reinforce the learning of the Phase 3 phonics sounds /oo/, /ar/, /or/ and /ur/.
Revise /ai/, /ee/, /igh/ and /oa/ sounds (Phase 3 phonics)
This simple game is designed to help support and reinforce the learning of the Phase 3 phonics sounds /ai/, /ee/, /igh/ and /oa/.
Phase 3 phonics missing tricky words
Help your child practise reading and writing the tricky words they've learned in Phase 3 phonics with this Reception activity. Tricky or exception words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual or uncommon way.