This story-writing activity sheet supports students to think about the order of events and their significance when writing and constructing stories. Perfect to use when running a project about story writing. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help your child thinK about the order of events for their latest story project. What does the activity include? • Picture prompts showing 3 different events that are happening in a story. • Students to think about what each of these events might be and to write them down. • They are then encouraged to think about re-ordering the events to see what impact or change this might have on the outcome of the story. • Finally students are asked to design the next scene of the story themselves. This resource can be printed out and used as a worksheet or simply used on screen as a guide for the activities. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

A fun craft activity getting children to build and make story dice to help them think of topics and ideas when writing stories. Sometimes it’s hard for pupils to come up with ideas in creative writing lessons, and they find it a challenge to put pen to paper. These story dice are a great way to remove the barrier of idea creation, and children can put together some interesting topic ideas. Perfect to use when delivering creative writing lessons. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help your child think of topics for a creative writing project at home. What does this activity include? 3 Story cube templates including images to help children come up with ideas for their creative writing project. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free ‘Phonics challenge’ is a great home learning task for your class to practise their phonics skills. Children join Laura the Explorer on her African adventure, where they solve problems using their phonics knowledge. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child practising their phonics skills. What does this activity include? • Sound hunt activity – Children search their home for objects that begin with the same sound. • Missing letters – Some of the animals have lost the letters in their names, can you help fill in the blanks? • Real vs Nonsense – Can you help Laura cross the bridge on her adventure by sorting out real words from nonsense words. • Arranging sentences – Finally children have to rearrange words into the correct sentence, making sure they include capital letters and full stops at the end. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to www.explorelearning.co.uk to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free worksheet is a fun activity to run with your class and helps them to practice their multiplication skills along the way. Perfect to use as a warmup activity at the beginning of lessons too. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to tackle times tables questions with your child. You can even use the customisable template to include some of those tricky times tables questions your child has been working on lately! What does the activity include? • 1 X ‘maths Fortune tellers’ activity sheet with prepopulated multiplication questions. • Blank template with instructions of what to include so children can make their own custom version to challenge their friends with! • How to play instructions Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free activity sheet is filled with fun Lego themed activities for children to engage with. It includes some great challenges that they can get stuck into at home during the holidays, or even some fun lesson warmups if you have Lego in your classroom. Why Lego? • Lego provides endless games and activities for children of all ages. • Lego develops creativity, collaboration and problem-solving skills. • Lego provides an easy, immersive and hands-on activity for all. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child doing problem solving activities without even realising they are practising such an essential skill. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.