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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.
Breaking words into syllables
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to read words aloud and then break them into syllables.
Writing sentences in order
This worksheet gives sentences that can be cut up and re-ordered to help children with structuring text.
Writing a contents page
Encourage your child to think about creating their own book by writing their own contents page.
Choose 'ee' or 'ea' (Phase 5 phonics)
Sometimes the same sound can be written in different ways. This sheet enables children to choose when to use the grapheme 'ee' and when to use the grapheme 'ea' to represent the sound /ee/, as part of a colouring activity
What material is it made of?
Your child will develop their knowledge of materials and their properties with this fun to do worksheet.
Find all the pairs that make 10
How fast can you find all the pairs of numbers that make ten? Why not do it against the clock... can you improve your time with practice?
Terrific Times Tables
Our Terrific Times Tables pack is full of ideas and tips to help your child learn – and even enjoy it! We share practical ideas for memorising all 12 sets, as well as tips to help make practice easy. Download your pack now to reinforce your child's learning with fun games and quizzes and print out achievement certificates to reward their effort.
Make and organise a table
This numeracy worksheet will help your child to develop their numeracy skills by encouraging them to make and organise a table. It focuses on helping your child to develop their data handling skills and understanding.
Magnetic and non-magnetic
Worksheet with recording table to suggest a way of investigating whether different objects are attracted to a magnet.
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.
Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
Incomplete number sequences for your child to fill in, helping them practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Comparative sentences
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to use comparative words ending in 'er' to complete the given sentences.
Blending sounds
Use this worksheet to help your child sound out and identify the phonemes in various words.
Writing descriptive statements
Encourage your child to write sentences about an outing they have been on. The sentences need to contain two pieces of information each.
Be a scientist
This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
What plants need to grow
An experiment that combines having fun with learning all about what plants need to grow.
Using a number square to identify odd and even numbers
A colouring in activity that will enable your child to identify odd and even numbers on a 100 square. What do they notice about the numbers they have coloured in?
Demonstrate the power of flight
Learning activity: launching a bottle rocket to demonstrate the power of flight. Please note: adult help is required to construct and launch the bottle rocket.
Read simple maps
This downloadable worksheet will help your child to work on writing simple instructions.