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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.
Two-digit place value arrow cards
Arrow cards can help your child to understand place value. Ask your child to cut these cards out. Either write down or call out various two-digit numbers and ask your child to make them with their arrow cards, lining up the arrows so that the number 43, for example, is made up of the 40 card and 3 card together.
Place value quiz
Ask your child to cut out the number cards below while you cut out the question card. Your child then needs to lay out all the number cards on a table, face up. Call out each question. Your child needs to find the number card that has the answer on it. If they get it right, they turn the card over. Continue until all the cards have been turned over.
Place value matching cards
Cut out all the cards. Each blue number is made up of two pink numbers. Can you match up the correct cards?
Addition magic square
An addition puzzle challenge for Year 2 children, to help them practise adding number to 15.
Maths magic square
A magic square contains the numbers 1 to 9. Each number is only used once and each row of numbers (horizontal, vertical and diagonal) must add up to 15. Can you follow the rules and work out what the missing numbers are?
First Day of school printable signs
Prepare for the traditional first-day-of-school photo by printing out our free school-year signs (UK school years from Reception to Year 8). New academic year, here we come!
Year 2 Cloze test: the oak and the reeds
Look at the words at the bottom of the page. Can you work out where they should go in the text?
Year 2 Cloze test: the mouse and the lion
Look at the words at the bottom of the page. Can you work out where they should go in the text?
Year 2 Cloze test: the cat and the mice
Look at the words at the bottom of the page. Can you work out where they should go in the text?
Reading comprehension: THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PURSE
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE OAK AND THE REEDS
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE LION AND THE MOUSE
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE LION AND THE FLY
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE FOX AND THE CRANE
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE FARMER AND THE SPARROW
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE FARMER AND THE ANGEL
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE DONKEY AND THE PAINTING
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE CAT AND THE MICE
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: THE BUNDLE OF STICKS
Read this short passage and then have a go at answering the questions below.
Year 1 Cloze test: the talking tree
Look at the words at the bottom of the page. Can you work out where they should go in the text?