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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.
Halves to 20 speed challenge
How fast can your child divide numbers 2 to 20? Challenge them to a speed test! Can they better their time each time they complete the challenge?
Fractions made simple
Foxed by fractions? Not any more! From the foundations of fractions learning in Reception to converting fractions to decimals and percentages in Year 6, our teacher-created learning pack explains everything your child needs to know in fractions. We'll break fractions down and show you, step by step, how to teach your primary school child fractions.
Poetry word games
This great word game helps children get familiar with all aspects of poetry including rhyming and alternative patterns.
Understand odd and even
Introduce the concepts of odd and even to your child with this worksheet, which helps them practise grouping #sweets#. Even more fun when done with the real thing!
Magnetic and non-magnetic
Worksheet with recording table to suggest a way of investigating whether different objects are attracted to a magnet.
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.
Using observation in investigations
A worksheet showing the results of an experiment into plant growth with encouragement for children to carry out a similar experiment and think about the results.
Writing non-fiction
A worksheet prompting your child to use the contents page in an information book and then write out facts from a particular page.
Practise estimating numbers
Practise estimating numbers by doing an experiment and guessing how many pegs you can hold in your hand. Repeat the experiment using marbles and enter the data in a table.
2D shapes: Pentagons and hexagons
This activity gives your child practice at identifying a series of regular and irregular five- and six-sided shapes.
Collecting data: pictograms
A pictogram is a simple way to organise data in which each object is represented by a picture of itself. Introduce your child to the concept and offer a fruit-tastic practice activity to help them understand the concept.
Materials and their properties
A grid for you and your child to record what you find out about the properties of different materials.
Create habitats for wildlife
A worksheet encouraging your child to design their own area that will encourage wildlife.
Joining words
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to think about which joining words can be put in the sentences so that they make sense.
Write a poster and a letter
First your child reads a story about a missing cat and then they need to design a poster with the aim of finding him. This is followed up by writing a letter to the cat asking him to come home.
Estimating and checking times
This fun maths worksheet will help your child to estimate and check times using a simple timer, watch or clock.
Using a number square to identify odd and even numbers
A colouring in activity that will enable your child to identify odd and even numbers on a 100 square. What do they notice about the numbers they have coloured in?
Collecting data quickly
This worksheet will help your child to develop data handling skills and understanding by asking them to conduct a die investigation and complete a block graph.
Natural or man-made
Worksheet to prompt your child to consider whether different objects are natural or man-made.
2x table practice
Encourage your child to practise their 2x table by working out these party-themed word-problems.