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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.
Learning to spell a word
A worksheet to help your child practise different techniques to help them learn to spell words.
Letter to Father Christmas
Help your KS1 child handwrite their Christmas list with style with our Father Christmas handwriting template. The dotted font will show them how to form letters correctly and there's plenty of space to include three wished-for items! Writing this most exciting letter will also help them understand that letters have a purpose and a particular audience.
Comparing measures: describing objects using the correct vocabulary
A worksheet for budding artists! Can you draw a tall flower and a taller tree? What about a small ant? Children will be asked to produce a piece of artwork using the description and then improve their knowledge of correct measurement vocabulary by describing their picture back to others.
Learning about symmetry
This Year 2 maths download will help your child to recognise reflective symmetry in familiar 2D shapes and patterns.
Wordsearch: length or distance
This wordsearch activity will help your child to identify the words we use to talk about length.
Heating and cooling
An investigation to determine what happens when you heat and then cool down different foods. Children are then encouraged to record their results.
2x table practice
Encourage your child to practise their 2x table by working out these party-themed word-problems.
Subtraction story problems
A worksheet giving word problems involving subtraction with space for working out and answers.
What is a sentence?
This worksheet gives sentences that need correcting with regards to word order or punctuation.
Tricky words memory game
Use this memory game to help your child to remember the spellings of some tricky high frequency words.
Using question marks
Full stop or question mark? Help your child know when to use which one by putting the correct mark at the end of these sentences.
Reordering sentences
Help your child understand how to create sentences by having them rewrite these so the words are in the proper order.
Capital letters and full stops practice
Your child can practise working with capital letters and full stops by writing them where needed in this list of sentences.
Multiplication arrays
An array is a different way of visualising multiplication. Can your child complete these multiplication sentences using their knowledge of arrays?
Make a pinwheel
Making a pinwheel will help your child understand air power, as well as offering a great opportunity for a spot of decoration. You'll need a push pin or straight pin and a pencil with a rubber on the end as well as our pinwheel template.
Subtraction: counting back in hops
Help your child solve subtraction problems (up to 20) with the help of number lines and counting back in 'hops', the techniques they'll be learning at school.
Fabulous phonics
Learning to read is all about phonics these days, so if you don't know your phonemes from your digraphs our phonics learning pack is for you. You'll get a complete overview of how and why phonics is taught, as well as teacher tips to help you make phonics learning part of your child's everyday life and 50 printable games and activities to put the theory into practice.
Key Stage 1 SATs Maths practice papers A
Use our KS1 Maths SATs practice papers (based on the pre-2016 SATs format), designed to replicate the kind of questions your child will answer in the Year 2 test, to offer them extra practice in completing a paper.
Talking about dilemmas
This worksheet gives various school scenarios which children are encouraged to consider. They then need to think about the course of action they would choose.