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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.
Writing a short story
Write about a time when you played or watched a football game. Use the word bank below to help you with spellings.
Using connectives
Connectives join two parts of a long sentence together. Look at these five connectives. Which ones fit best in the following sentences?
Using commas to separate items in a list
When you write a list of objects in a sentence you need to use commas to separate them. Can you add the commas into these sentences? Remember, you don’t need a comma before ‘and’!
Statement, question, exclamation or command?
Are these sentences statements, questions, exclamations or commands? Cut them out and sort them into four piles
Selecting adjectives
Can you make these sentences more interesting by using the adjective bank at the bottom of the page? Cut out all the adjectives so that you can move them around, then stick them down when you are happy with your sentences.
Pick the correct homophone
Homophones are pairs of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Cut out these words and put them in the sentences in the correct places.
Finding half and a quarter of an amount
Use this fractions of amounts worksheet to help your child understand finding half and a quarter of an amount.
Finding 2D and 3D shapes
Look at these pictures. Can you spot the 2D and 3D shapes listed? Once you find them, write the names over the top of each shape. Make sure you copy the spellings correctly!
Calculate the price
Look at the following items on sale at a football match. The coins next to each item shows how much it costs. Can you write down the price of the item under each one?
Apostrophes for possession
When we are showing that something belongs to someone we use an apostrophe. Look at these sentences about football and add in the missing apostrophes.
Apostrophes for missing letters
Sometimes we want to shorten words when we’re speaking or writing. When we miss letters out, we replace them with an apostrophe (contractions). Look at the red words in this passage. Can you write them as contractions?
Answering questions on a pictogram
Look at this pictogram, which shows the number of goals scored by Premier League teams in one week, and then answer the questions.
Square words wordsearch
Can you find all these Goldilocks-themed words in the wordsearch?
Number crossword: days and time
Fill this like an ordinary crossword, except the answers are numbers not words.
Mini word Sudoku 4 x 4
Put the letters from the word EASY in the squares so that each column, row, and mini-grid contains all the letters that make up the word.
Double letter: opposites
Cross out the letters that are in the grid twice. The letters that are left will spell two words that are opposites.
Rhyming words: creatures word puzzle
Practise your rhyming and spelling skills by thinking of names of animals that rhyme with each of these words. There could be more than one answer... how many can you identify?
Number Bond Snap
Make number bond recall fun for Y1, Y2 and above with a game of Number Bond Snap. All you need is an ordinary pack of cards and a competitive streak!
Maths card games for KS1 and KS2
Playing with cards might seem old-fashioned in our screen-loving age, but maths card games will help your child become fluent and confident with numbers – without them even realising they're exercising their maths thinking brain. From number bonds to fractions and probability, try some of our traditional or adapted card games to practise basic maths concepts.
Number ladders
Number lines are vertical versions of number lines, used in primary-school maths to help children become familiar with our number system and perform simple calculations like addition and subtraction.