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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.
Spelling patterns: 'ie' (Phase 5 phonics)
In these words the letters i and e are making the /igh/ sound. Fill in the letters ‘ie’ to complete the words in the pies. If the word is real, match the pie to the chef. If not, match it to the clown!
Spelling patterns: ‘aw’ words (Phase 5 phonics)
Miss Muddle can’t remember how to spell these words. Can you help her? Colour in the correct spelling for each picture.
Spelling patterns: ‘air’ balloons (Phase 5 phonics)
The ‘air’ has blown out of these hot air balloons! Can you put ‘air’ back into the words, read them and match them to the correct baskets?
Spelling crossword: 'nk' words
Can you work out the missing words in these sentences? Clue: They all have the sound /nk/ in them. Write your answers in the crossword grid
Reading split digraph 'e_e' words (Phase 5 phonics)
Can you spot the /ee/ sound, spelled e_e, in these words? Look carefully and colour in the letters e_e.
Reading and drawing the /er/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)
Read these /er/ words. Can you draw a picture for each one?
Making -ay words (Phase 5 phonics)
How many words can you make with the /ai/ sound when it’s written ‘ay’?
Find the rhyme using 'ou' (Phase 5 phonics)
Look at these rhyming pictures. Using the ‘ou’ spelling, can you write the rhyming words?
Codebreaker: 'nk' (Phase 4 phonics)
Detective Dan needs some help breaking a code. He’s worked out that each number in the code words represents a different letter of the alphabet. Can you use the grid to help you break the code and decode these words, then draw a picture of them?
China Homework Gnome facts
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First 100 high-frequency words list
Children learn to read and spell high-frequency words, the most common words in English-language texts, throughout primary school. Download a list of the first 100 high-frequency words to use for at-home spelling practice and revision.
Edward the Confessor Homework Gnome facts
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King Alfred Homework Gnome facts
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India Homework Gnome facts
Download and print all the main facts and information about India for free with TheSchoolRun's Homework Gnome factsheet for primary-school children.
Brazil Homework Gnome facts
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Read the weight
Mary has weighed lots of different things on her kitchen scales. Look at the scales and write the weight of each object underneath.
Your own seed dispersal experiment
Try this experiment and discover if spreading seeds out helps them to grow better than keeping them all in one place.
What happens to nature in the winter?
Use your local library or the internet to find out how each of these animals keep warm in the winter.
What happens to nature in the spring?
Cut out these cards. Match each picture to the correct group of sentences!