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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.
Guess the weight competition
This numeracy download will help your child to become familiar with the approximate weight of different objects, practise recording weights using appropriate symbols and to organise and run a 'guess the weight' competition.
Acrostic adjectives
This poetry worksheet encourages your child to experiment with adjectives used to describe someone in order to write an acrostic poem / puzzle.
The properties of different materials
This kids' science activity looks at the properties of fabrics.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
Identifying odd and even numbers
Practice identifying odd and even numbers with this colour in worksheet. Can your child see a pattern, and perhaps even be able to say the next number in the pattern?
Add and subtract numbers game
This maths problem will help your child to practise adding and subtracting numbers mentally.
Make reasonable estimates
This mathematics worksheet will help your child to estimate, measure using a ruler and gain an understanding of centimetres.
Design your own forces investigation
A worksheet to prompt children into carrying out an investigation into the force exerted by water on different objects.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
Telling the time pack
Learning to tell the time is a process which spans the primary-school years, and children can find it overwhelmingly hard. The Telling the Time pack is a complete guide to everything you need to know to support your child and help them get to grips with this vital skill, bursting with practical suggestions, advice from experts and activity sheets for all the key stages.
Multiply by 10
A worksheet consisting of problems involving the 10x table with spaces to draw pictures and work out the answers.
Rhyming words
Encourage your child to read this poem out loud and then look for the rhyming words.
Sorting sentences
Encourage your child to think about how sentences are structured, by getting them to sort these sentences into those with one piece of information and those with two pieces of information.
Wordsearch - Identify words associated with time
Use this fun wordsearch to help develop your child's vocabulary with words associated with time.
Alliteration: make up your own rhymes
This worksheet covers work from the KS1 English curriculum and will help your child to understand and use alliteration.
Measurement: using correct vocabulary
Mathematical vocabulary can be confusing, so help your child master some measurement terms with this activity. Cut out the words and attach them to the animals. Which animal is the largest? The lightest? The tallest?
Guess the shape game
A game to make and play! Help your child to stick and cut out the shapes and then take turns to describe a shape for the other to guess. Start with three or four shapes, and progress as your child becomes more and more skilled. Brilliant for helping children identify the main features of 2D shapes
Adding and subtracting numbers under 10
This printable download will help your child to practise number bonds to 10 and working with the number system. It is suitable for children at Year 1 level and a parent or carer can supervise.
Practise measuring capacity
This mathematics download will help your child to practise the vocabulary associated with capacity, eg. 'This container holds more water than that container'. It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and a parent or carer should help the child.
Electricity dangers
A worksheet to prompt children to think about the dangers of electricity and how they could warn others about this.
What's in our food?
A sheet encouraging children to look at the ingredients in different food and consider which are healthy and which are not.