These back to school activities will hold your pupils attention as a new year begins! There are 10 activities included that you and your pupils will enjoy! There are a wide variety of activities that encourage your class and yourself to get to know your pupils better. These ten back to school activities require very few supplies - most will be ones you already have in your classroom! Do one a day for the first ten days of school or make a whole day of activities. Here’s what you’ll get: 2 facts and a fib name tag glyph Classmate word search find someone who connections holiday snapshots minute to win it (5 activities) cootie catcher would you rather paper chain STEM challenge Preperation is quick, easy and very manageable … display the slide(s) for the activity you would like to do. Some activities have printable, some need a few supplies and others require nothing!

Reveal the 10 mystery Christmas pictures by follwoing the coordinate instructions/ Coordinates contain a letter and number e.g., B7, E12.

This PDF contains the resources to set up an outdoor maths orienteering style game. There are 2 games and 3 levels of difficulty - numbers to 1,000,000, numbers to 100,000 and numbers to 10,000. The 2 games require: Game 1) learners to write the standard, word and extended form of 12 numbers (found at each orienteering"flag". Game 2) Learners need to understand a digits place and value i.e., find the flag with a 7 a in the thousands place. Please note: this resource uses the term units.

This PDF resource is a complete lesson for writing an Autumn themed poem that focuses on personification. There are 19 slides/pages which require no additional resources. This lesson is designed for middle to upper primary.

6 digit place value Bingo includes 30 individual bingo boards and 3 styles of calling cards: Identify the place of a digit, Identify the value of a digit Recognise the whole number in standard form. The game can be played with the whole class or in cooperative learning teams or in small guided maths groups.

This PDF contains 8 maths revision Christmas themed topics suitable for lower to upper KS2 (or 2nd level in Scotland). These activities do not teach concept but provide activities that cover: measurement, area and perimeter. coordinates. symmetry. multiplication addition place value subtraction fractions

2 lessons on the concept of mime with embedded videos.

This Place Value Write the Room resource is a pdf with 2 levels of difficulty most suited to upper primary. Each level of difficulty contains 20 write the room cards. Also included is a recording sheet with chilli’s to colour to show the level of difficulty of question they answered for each question. Plus an anser page for both levels. I placed the 3 chilli cards on one side of the room and the 2 chilli cards on the opposite side of the room. Learners could change between levels of difficulty for each question. Question include: rounding more than, less than Expanded form Word form Standard Form

Quick and easy maths playing card games! No prep - just print and add playing cards! These playing card maths games are perfect for practicing a variety of basic maths skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication and place value. Students will love playing these games. Quick set up and easy to read student instructions make this perfect for maths rotations, in a maths center or as a fast finisher game. There are 7 cards games, each game comes with a printable for 2 player use and multiplayer use.

This powerpoint is based on the well known game show Family Fortunes. There are 5 rounds - each round requires children to predict the top 5 answers to the question asked to the 100 people surveyed. For each correctly guessed answer, pupils will score the the number of points for each top answer they guessed. This will required student to add (up to 5 numbers) within 100. After all five rounds, pupils must add their total for each round. The player with the highest total wins the game.

This is an Escape Room activity for multiplication. The activity focuses on multiplication of 1, 2 and 3 whole digit numbers by a single digit whole number. An Escape Room is an adventure in which players solve a series of puzzles using clues, hints, and strategies to complete the objectives at hand. In this Escape Room, students are presented with a situation. They are trapped in the school by a mad professor and must solve 5 puzzles in order to escape. Each puzzle gives them a them a clue word which they give to the educator in order to receive the next puzzle. As each puzzle is successfully solved they are given a key word - to escape they must use each key word to make a sentence and say this to the educator before time is up! The activity is designed to be played in small groups. Teacher forms teams. I suggest no more than 4/5 students in a team. Why this game? Escape Rooms are highly engaging for the students. Their task is to solve 5 multiplication puzzles in order to escape the room. They compete in teams which adds to the engaging nature of this game. Includes: introduction materials 5 puzzles plus final clue Teacher Guide Teacher Checklist Teacher Planner Clue cards Completion Certificate Answer Key

This PDF resource contains a set of 24 fraction word problems. Also included is a recording sheet, answer sheet, instructions and front cover. Write the room is a great game - children are required to be active in their learning and will answer multiple questions. I like to place the cards around the room, set a timer (often 5 - 10 minutes) and the pupils will work their way through the cards solving as many as they can in the time given.

Whole Number Revision Rings: place value multiplication and division rounding addition and subtraction Each ring contains 35 numbered questions with a range of difficulty. My students enjoy using this mostly as a fast finisher activity, they grab a ring and a whiteboard, write down the number of the question and their answer. If they leave their whiteboard out I know it means they would like me to check their answers. I have also used these as a plenary - a child will select a number at random, I read out the question which they write on a sticky note along with their answer - I usually encourage them to write a sentence explaining to me how they solved the question. Once prepped these are great to just grab and go and can be used multiple ways - above are just a couple of suggestions!

This resource is a PE lesson ppt. It is designed to play live by sharing your screen. However could be played individually but learners would need to start and stop the embedded videos by themselves. This PE lesson used a deck of cards (random card selector embedded in the ppt), each card has an assigned workout, there is also a demonstration for all 4 workouts. These are body weight workouts suitable for children: burpees, squats, sit ups and press ups. There is also a 30 minute timer - ready to get a sweat on?!

This resource is a complete lesson for writing an Autumn poem using verbs, nouns and adjectives. It contains a PDF containing 19 pages including the lesson presentation and printables to go along with the lesson. title page Learning Intentions verb sorting activity Autumn word brainstorm Verb highlighting task Verb naming task planning page Shared writing pages help mat and more!

10 pdf slides with child friendly would you rather questions. These are thought provoking questions as well as being quite silly. Simply ask your students “would you rather?” and have students use the hands up feature on microsoft teams to answer the question (hand up icon versus no hand up for each question). Choose a few students to say their choice and explain why they picked that choice. Encourage students to use the sentence “I would rather … because…” This is a great game for building oral language and for discussing opinions.

This PDF resource contains 28 write the room cards which require learners to add British coins to the value of £4. How to play: place the write the room cards around the playing area. Give each pupil a recording sheet. Pupils move around the room and count the coins on each card, writing the value on their recording page. Whats included: 28 write the room cards How to play instructions A recording page An answer sheet This resource is also available in my TES shop as part of a money bundle that includes: Money bingo (adding coins to the value of £1 Penny pile up (adding coins to the value of £1) Money loop cards (adding coins to the value of £3

This PDF resource is a game for up to 30 players that requires learners to add British coins to the value of £3. How to play: Each player receives a loop card. The player with the first card reads their card “I have the first card, who has 27p?” players need to add the value of their coins. The player with 27p in coins replies with “I have 27p” then reads their who has question. The game continues until all players have read their card. This resource is also part of a money bundle which also contains: money bingo to the value of £1 Penny pile up to the value of £1 Money Write the Room to the value of £4

This PDF resource is a game for up to 30 players which requires learners to add British coins to the value of £1. Resource contains: 30 individual bingo boards, a callers card recording sheet and how to play instructions. This resource can also be purchased as part of a bundle to make a HUGE saving. The bundle also contains: money loop card card to the value of £3 Money write the room to the value of £4 Penny Pile up game to the value of £1