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Investigating animal homes
Think about all the ways our houses protect us. Now think about animals or bugs living in your garden or house. Where do animals and bugs like to live? Draw a picture and/or write the name of their home. Cut out all the cards and make two piles, one for creature cards and one for house cards; mix them up. Pick one card from each pile. Would a mouse like to live in a fish pond? Would a frog like to live in a bee hive? Why?
Bird watch
Have a look at the different trees in your neighbourhood and find one birds like to land in. Why might the birds have chosen that tree? Does it have a nest in? Then draw a picture of the tree and label your picture with all the reasons why you think this is a good tree for birds to nest in.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
How an electrical circuit works
A worksheet designed to illustrate the fact that a circuit must be complete for electricity to flow and a bulb to work.
Practise the -ing rule
In this worksheet, your child can practise the -ing rule and add it onto the ends of words.
Practise adding adjectives
Help your child get used to using adjectives by turning these plain sentences into ones that are interesting to read.
Reading comprehension practice: Growing vegetables
With this worksheet, have your child answer questions after reading about how to grow their own vegetables.
Practise -tion words
In this worksheet, your child can learn how to spell words that end in -tion, and write them in sentences.
Ice cream wordsearch
Whatever your favourite ice cream flavour is, you'll love our fun ice cream wordsearch!
Summer holiday wordsearch
Can you find the words in our summer holiday wordsearch?
Halloween wordsearch
A spook-tacular wordsearch that your child can do in preparation for Halloween!
Half-term wordsearch
Use this wordsearch during half-term to help your child with vocabulary and spelling while recognising words that are all about having fun!
Looking for the silent letter
Help your child learn tricky spelling words with this worksheet. Can they use the words in sentences of their own afterwards?
Writing the /e/ sound: ‘ea’ (Phase 5 phonics)
Use this worksheet to help your child recognise the grapheme 'ea', representing the /e/ sound, and then use those words in the sentences provided.
Giving instructions
Help your child understand how instructions are ordered by having them fill in the blanks on this worksheet to complete the recipe.
Calculating halves and quarters
Once your child has mastered halving even numbers they'll need to try quartering. Show them how to halve and then halve again to calculate a quarter of a number.
Reading the time to the half hour and quarter hour
In year 2 your child will be learning to read the time to the half and quarter hour. Help them practise both clock-reading and fractions skills with this worksheet.
Halves to 20 speed challenge
How fast can your child divide numbers 2 to 20? Challenge them to a speed test! Can they better their time each time they complete the challenge?
Half and quarter turns
Your child will learn about half and quarter turns at school by physically turning their body and facing different parts of a room. Can they use their knowledge to solve these simple problems?
Finding half of a number
Using their choice of counter (Lego bricks, beds or chocolate buttons!) your child will need to find half of numbers by sharing counters equally into two boxes. A useful practical exercise to help your child understand the concept of halving.
Finding a quarter of a shape
Can a shape be cut into four pieces that are all the same shape and size? Help your child understand quarters with this practical worksheet.
Finding half of a shape
Help your child understand whether shapes can be halved equally with this worksheet. They'll put theory into practice by cutting out shapes and folding them in half.
Fractions made simple
Foxed by fractions? Not any more! From the foundations of fractions learning in Reception to converting fractions to decimals and percentages in Year 6, our teacher-created learning pack explains everything your child needs to know in fractions. We'll break fractions down and show you, step by step, how to teach your primary school child fractions.
Identify the loudest sound
A fabulous game to encourage discussion and develop your child's reasoning skills whilst learning more about sounds.