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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.
What plants need to grow
An experiment that combines having fun with learning all about what plants need to grow.
Learning about symmetry
This Year 2 maths download will help your child to recognise reflective symmetry in familiar 2D shapes and patterns.
Investigating forces - air power
A worksheet to suggest a fun experiment looking at the effect of air power on different objects.
The language of subtraction
Worksheet involving subtraction questions using the words 'subtract', 'take away' and 'take from'.
Writing descriptive statements
Encourage your child to write sentences about an outing they have been on. The sentences need to contain two pieces of information each.
What plants need to grow part 2
Following on from part 1 of the experiment, this further develops your child's knowledge of healthy plant growth and encourages their skills of comparison and conclusion.
Investigating static electricity
Worksheet giving ideas for showing the effect of static electricity by using a balloon and various objects.
Engaging With English
Created by an early years education expert, the Engaging with English pack will provide you with lively and original ideas to help bring four popular children’s books vividly to life. Whether your child is in the EYFS or KS1 these activities are the perfect starting point for turning book-shy children into bookworms.
Animal habitats
A grid for children to fill in what they know about the habitats of different animals.
Writing longer sentences
These sentences each contain two parts joined by a connective. Encourage your child to underline the two parts of each sentence in different colours.
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.