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Be a scientist
This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
Animal spinners
Cut the spinners out, stick them on card and push a pencil through the middle. Spin both wheels at the same time and act out or talk about the two animals that you land on (for example, talk like a frog or grow like a caterpillar!). Now research your favourite animal.
A to Z of body parts
Play a car game listing an A to Z of parts of the body, for example: arm, belly button, cuticles… If you get stuck you may need to be creative and think of variations (for example, digits instead of fingers). If you’re playing with older children they could also list internal organs!
Identify the parts of a plant
This Year 1 science worksheet is all about plants and their different parts and offers you the opportunity to discuss how plants grow with your child.
Number bonds to 20 racing game
This game is designed to support your child’s understanding of number bonds to 20 (pairs of numbers that make 20). Ready, steady, go...!
Number bonds to 10 racing game
This game is designed to support your child’s understanding of number bonds to 10 (pairs of numbers that make 10).
Making compound words
Look at all the ingredients in our compound word soup. How many different compound words can you make from them?
Fraction Frenzy flash cards
How quickly can you complete this flash cards game? Try it a few times and aim to do it faster each time!
Days of the week crossword puzzle
Can you solve the clues below and fill in the crossword with the correct days of the week?
Capacity spinner game
This fun game encourages your child to compare volumes using the language of measurement: full, empty, half full, quarter full, more and less.
Addition and subtraction to 20 wordsearch
This fun activity is designed to support children in their addition and subtraction as well as helping them to read and spell the numbers to 20.
KS1 Easter activities pack
English, maths and science have a very chocolatey taste over the Easter break, with lots of maths, phonics, spelling and simple science investigations to keep chocolate-hunters busy and learning.
Tricky words memory match (Phase 5 phonics)
Exception words or tricky words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual way. Have a go at this game of memory match to test your knowledge of some tricky spellings!
The grapheme ‘ch’ for the /k/ sound and the /sh/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)
The grapheme ‘ch’ is used to encode (spell) different sounds in English. Say each word aloud, then sort them into the table below.
Y1 phonics practice: reading alien words
Let's go alien hunting! Read each word aloud and decide whether you think it is a real word or an alien word.
What are polysyllabic words?
A polysyllabic word is a word that has more than one syllable. Can you break these polysyllabic words down into syllables?
The /zh/ phoneme mini bingo (Phase 5 phonics)
There are lots of different ways of writing the /zh/ sound. Let's play mini bingo to help you learn them!
The /ee/ sound practice (Phase 5 phonics)
Cut out the words below and place them under the “sea”. Now it's time to go fishing!
Say and write a sentence (Phase 3 phonics)
Cut out the words and place them face down on a table. Working with a grown-up, take it in turns to turn a word over and read the word out. Can you say a sentence that contains the word?
Reading tricky words (Phase 4 phonics)
Cut out these words and place them under the “sea”. Next, reach under the “sea” and pull a fish out, then read its word aloud. Can you catch all the fish?
Polysyllabic words Game
To play, cut out the word cards and place them all face down on the table. Take it in turns to turn a card over and read the word and its individual syllables out loud. Keep the words you have turned over; when all the cards have been collected, count the total of syllables for all your words. The winner
is the person with the most syllables.
is the person with the most syllables.
Measuring objects practice
Rulers at the ready! Before you measure your items, ask a grown up to estimate how many centimetres long each item will be, then estimate the length yourself, too. Whose estimate will be the closest?
Hard g or soft g? (Phase 5 phonics)
Usually the way we read ‘g’ depends on the letter that follows it (there are exceptions). Learn the rule then see if you can sort these words into the table.
Forming the plural memory match
Cut out the words below, muddle them up and place them face down. Each player takes it in turns to turn two cards over and read the words aloud. If the words are the singular word and its plural when a suffix has been added they keep the pair; if not they turn them back over. When all the pairs have been collected the winner is the player with the most pairs.