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Christmas Literacy Challenge: Years 3 - 5
End the year with this fun Christmas literacy challenge! This pack contains 10 cards that you can hide around your outside space each with a fun Christmas themed challenge covering a wide range of topics for the students to complete on the answer sheet provided. This activity is a great fun and practical lesson to do at the end of the year.
**Topics covered: **
Acting
Descriptions
Adjectives
Instructions
Metaphors
Rhyming
Similes
Spelling
This resource requires minimal preparation, however a couple of the cards require some resources to go with them.
Card 4 - This needs to be somewhere where children can write using chalk.
Card 8 - Optional: Write the letters on this card on small stones so that children can physically move them around.
Equipment needed:
Task cards + Answer Sheet
Chalk - Lettered stones (optional)
Blindfold
Check out our outdoor Advent Calendar here.
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Outdoor Spelling Task Cards
These 12 outdoor spellings task cards are a great way to spice up your spelling lessons. Students will go outside and practice their spelling lists through a range of fun and practical activities.
Print out the task cards, laminate them, and then hand them out to the students. Once a student has completed an activity they can come back and swap their card for a new activity.
It’s a good idea to keep track of which activities the students have done so that they don’t end up repeating the same ones.
Check out our Phonics and Handwriting Dice Game for phase 2 - 5 sounds.
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My How To Guide - Instruction Writing - Non Fiction
This is a fun activity to experiment with measuring and units of measure. Children will find objects to measure in your outdoor space, however instead of using standard units of measure, they’ll create their own wonderful units of measure, for example, leaves. If they chose leaves as their units of measurement they’d use a leaf to measure the item and record their answers in the table. As an extension students can convert their ‘weird units’ to cm.
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Literacy Games PowerPoint
A big set of literacy games that are perfect for a mid lesson brain break or as some fun lesson starters to get your classes minds in gear! Each game is designed to help improve literacy skills, from reading to spelling and writing, they have it all!
Contents
- Slides 1 – 15: The Riddle Challenge
- Slides 16 – 34: Amazing Anagrams
- Slides 35 – 41: Describe The Picture
- Slides 42 – 47: The Persuasion Game
- Slides 48 – 55: The Alphabet Game
- Slides 56 – 60: Compare And Contrast
- Slides 61 – 66: Complete The Sentence
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Simile Acting Game Flash Cards
This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn to recognise and use similes to improve their writing.
There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the simile.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 1 x Instruction Sheet
- 24 x Simile Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it! Best of all, they now use similes effectively in their writing!
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Outdoor Diary Writing / Recount Activity
This diary writing & research project is a great way to get your class learning about and having fun with first person narrative in the form of diary writing (recounts) in the outdoors. This differentiated resource has been used very successful with grades 2 – 5 (years 3 - 6).
The children are to choose a min-beast and spend a few days finding, exploring, and researching their chosen mini-beast. They will then have great fun planning and writing a diary entry for their chosen mini-beast based around ‘a day in the life of’.
Contents:
- Teacher’s Guide
- Mini-Beast Identification Sheet
- 2 x differentiated drawing sheets
- Instructions Sheet
- Diary Extract Eample
- 2 x differentiated research templates
- 1 x Diary Writing Checklist
- 1 x planning sheet
- 2 x Differentiated writing checklists
This resource is a great way to get the children exploring the outdoor while learning about a key writing style.
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Homophones PowerPoint Game and Worksheets
Homophones with Larry The Knight PowerPoint, games, and worksheets lesson makes for a fun way to teach these tricky words. This highly visual and interactive PowerPoint will keep your children engaged and thinking carefully about the homophone spellings.
I find this PowerPoint works best if all the children have a whiteboard to record their answers. This means there can be no hogs or logs!
Contents
- Slides 1 – 4: Introduction
- Slides 5 – 21: Game 1: Homophone or Not? Children must decided whether the word is a homophone or not.
- Slides 22 – 35: Hunt The Homophone. Children must find the homophone using wrongly in the sentences.
- Slide 36: Conclusion
Check out some of our other grammar resources!
Figurative Language PowerPoint and Quiz
Literacy Games PowerPoint
Sentence Fixers PowerPoint Activity
Adjective Acting Game
Figurative Language Acting Activity Flash Cards: Similes
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Persuasive Writing Activity: Estate Agents
The pack is a great way to get your children outdoors learning and exploring lines of symmetry. There are different activities and worksheets that will get your children exploring the outdoors while thinking about and creating patterns and shapes with one and more lines of symmetry. We have aimed this pack at grades 3 – 5, however it can be used in most grades with different levels of support and outcomes.
Contents:
- 1 x Symmetry Collecting Worksheet
- 1 x Stick Bugs Activity Task Card
- 1 x Symmetry Hunt Worksheet
- 9 x Natural Symmetry Task Cards
We hope you enjoy these as much as we did!
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Outdoor Literacy Challenge Cards: Years 1 - 3
This pack of outdoor literacy challenge cards contains 20 cards each with a different literacy challenge for a wide range of topic areas for your students to do outside.
These cards can be used in a variety of ways, from students choosing their own cards to using them as a scavenger hunt by placing them randomly in your outdoor space.
This activity requires minimal preparation and is great as a starter activity or a fun brain break.
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Metaphor Acting Game
Metaphor acting is a great addition to your figurative language topic which will encourage your students to think about and use metaphors in their descriptive writing.
This resource contains 20 game cards each with a different metaphor.
How to play:
Get a student to come to the front of the class and choose a game card at random. They must act out the metaphor for the rest of the class to guess. This game can also be done in small groups.
On each card there are acting clues to help if needed. If the students are finding it difficult to guess you can give them part of the metaphor to help.
Check out Similes Acting Game.
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Bugbook – Non-Fiction Writing Activity & Living Things
Imagine if insects had a social media platform… well now they do! Your class will think like an insect and create a ‘bugbook’ page for their chosen insect. This is a great cross-curricular activity that will firstly get students looking at the features, habitats, and characteristics of insects in their outdoor space as well as practicing their non-fiction writing and research skills.
It’s great when looking at description writing and non-fiction texts. You can also use this as a base to talk about internet safety using the question prompts provided. PSHE, science, and literacy all in one!
Teaching Structure:
Explain to your students that insects are getting social and love the new bugbook social media site. It’s their job to observe and research a chosen insect and make a bugbook profile for it. Share the example with them as a starting point to showcase the kind of things they may include. Get students to head outside, choose an insect they’d like to create a profile for and spend some time observing it, filling in as much of the research sheet as possible.
They can then compete the sheet using the internet to research. Once the research sheet is complete they can create the insect’s profile using the templates provided.
**Internet Safety: **Once they’ve completed their profiles, you can use the 10 internet safety question prompts to have a discussion with your class about the importance of being safe online. This could be done in small groups where each station is a different point outdoors.
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Spring Poetry Scrapbook
This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose.
I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher.
Contents:
- Scrapbook cover
- Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own)
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet
- ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas
- ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern)
- ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas
- ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern)
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet
- Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem)
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Figurative Language PowerPoint and Quiz
A 53 slide interactive PowerPoint and quiz on figurative language that looks at similes, metaphors, personification, and alliteration. Perfect for a lesson introduction or recap.
TOP TIP: Make the quiz interactive by getting the children to write their answers on whiteboards.
Contents
- Slides 1 - 4: Introduction
- Slides 5 - 10: Similes
- Slides 11 - 15: Metaphors
- Slides 16 - 19: Alliteration
- Slides 20 - 23: Personification
- Slides 24 - 52: Quiz
- Slide 53: Conclusion
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Adjective Acting Game
This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn to recognise and use adjectives to improve their writing.
There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adjective.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Content
- 1 x Instruction Sheet
- 24 x Adjective Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it! Best of all, they now use adjectives effectively in their writing!
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Famous Soccer Players Reading Passage and Questions Bundle
Your kids will love reading about popular football players with our fun reading comprehensions! These are basic texts that go through who they are, how they have become such a huge football star, and key points in their career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included For Each Player:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
Soccer Players Included:
Lionel Messi
Harry Kane
Christiano Ronaldo
Neymar
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The Seed Bomb Company: LITERACY - MATH - SCIENCE
This is a fantastic topic or project with links to living things, maths, art, and business. Your class will create their very own business selling seed bombs where they’ll need to create their business before making, advertising, and selling their seed bombs. It’s great if you can also find some space for them to test and use the seed bombs themselves.
This project is fantastic for developing team skills as well as making their learning relevant and meaningful.
**Teaching Structure: **
Read through the instruction sheet explaining that they are going to make a business selling seed bombs. Encourage them to think about the importance of local flowers and the benefits they have on the local wildlife.
Put the students into teams of 4 or 5 and get them to mind map their business ideas (name, who they’ll sell to, how they’ll advertise them etc.).
The following activities and worksheets can be taught in an order which suites you and your class best. Below we have split them into subject areas which best relate to the activities.
**Art / Design: **
Design a logo
Packaging design
**Science: **
Which Flowers: Research which native flowers would be good to include (you can collect or order seeds online).
Make the seed bombs by following the instructions.
Optional: Design their own seed bombs by changing or adding to the ingredients used. They can then re-write the instructions on how to make their own seed bombs. You could go a step further and get them to create a TV advert for their seed bombs.
**Literacy: **
Seed bomb instructions: Highlight the key features of the instructions.
My Seed Bomb instructions: Re-write the seed bomb instructions with their own unique ideas.
Advertisement: Students will create a poster for their seed bombs.
**Math: **
Cost and profits / sale prices: For these activity sheets students will work out how much it costs to produce the seed bombs, decide how much they will sell them for, and figure out their profits.
Sales Report: Students will keep a record of their sales, recording their profits on here.
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The Rain Project: Cross-Curricular Activities
Rain is great fun and no reason to stop outdoor learning. This pack contains cross curricular resources and activities that you can do in the rain. So put those waterproofs on and enjoy the rain!
This resource includes science, literacy, and math activities for ages 7 - 10.
Activities included:
Rain Description: Children will go outside and use adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe what they can see, hear, feel and touch.
Rain poetry: Children will use their descriptions to write a poem about the rain. It’s great if they can do this outside using a whiteboard or scrap paper before writing it up in neat inside.
Rain Gauge Investigation: For this investigation children will design and build their own rain gauge to record the amount of rainfall over a decided period of time. It’s good to give children the chance to experiment with their ideas, however you may need to give them some guidance. We find this investigation works best when done in teams of 3 or 4. You can use these teams to provide differentiation and support by using mixed ability groups. Once they’ve collected their rainfall data they can then answer some questions based on their results as well as input their results into a line graph.
Puddle Size: This activity is all about measuring using diameters, radius, and perimeter. Children will find 5 puddles to measure, recording their results onto a line graph before answering some questions on their results. Vibrant Rain: This activity is all about the colors of nature. Children will find different colored natural items, crush them with stones, and use the colors to create some rain art. It’s best to print this activity sheet on card so that it does not get too soggy when using the damp natural resources to paint with.
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Spring Poetry Scrapbook, Help Cards, and PowerPoint Bundle
This poetry bundle is a refreshing way to teach poetry through the outdoors. It is designed to get your children into the outdoors exploring poetry through their senses while encouraging a rich use of language.
It contains the following products:
Spring Poetry Scrapbook
This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose.
I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher.
Contents:
- Scrapbook cover
- Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own)
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas
- ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet
- ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas
- ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern)
- ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas
- ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern)
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas
- ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet
- Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem)
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Poetry Introduction PowerPoint
A fun interactive PowerPoint designed to give your class an introduction into the wonderful world of poetry. This PowerPoint will teach your children the technical vocabulary, creative language used, and different poetry forms.
Contents:
- Slides 1 - 4: What is poetry
- Slides 5 – 7: Vocabulary
- Slides 8 – 26: Simile, personification, or metaphor game
- Slides 27 – 36: Poetry forms
- Slide 37 – Scrapbook follow up
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Poetry Help Cards
Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate.
Poetry rhyming schemes:
- Acrostic
- Couplet
- Quatrain (aaaa)
- Quatrain (aabb)
- Quatrain (abab)
- Quatrain (abca)
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Phase 2 - 4 Phonics Word Searches - Spell and Find
This phase 2 - 4 phonics visual word search bundle is a great prep free activity to get students looking at the sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search.
This pack contains 10 word searches each with two levels of differentiation for phase 2 - 4.
Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the phases sounds.
Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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Match The Sound: Phonics Phases 2 - 5 Bundle
Introduce a refreshing twist to your sessions with our ‘Match The Sound’ phonics bundle for phases 2 - 5 It provides students with ample practice in decoding words and identifying sounds within them. During the activity, students venture outdoors to hunt for word cards, bringing them back to place on the appropriate sound map. This bundle contains Phonics Phase 2 - 5 sounds.
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