Useful resource for taking students gardening in the community. Incorporates accident and fire precautions to be considered, use of equipment and tools, keeping work areas clean and tidy and behaviour whilst walking to and from the gardening location.
Could be used as part of a volunteering activity, during Citizenship sessions or during work related activities,
Are you wanting lots of different resources about plants. Key vocabulary, writing prompts, and lots of different images about the different aspects of park life. A huge discount when you buy it as a bundle (over 50% reduction!)
If you are teaching about park life, then this is the bundle for you! It looks at all the aspects of park life. It is a great way of comparing and contrasting a wide range of different parks around the world with your own local park. I have also included a creative writing prompt your students to imagine the different features they would find in the park. Try it today.
The Aga Khan Academies (AKA) work to develop curriculum units that are relevant to their students in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique. This resource has been developed as part of a collaborative project between the Academies and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) to develop curriculum units for use in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma Programmes.
This IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) interdisciplinary unit encourages MYP1 students to reflect on the invisible capacity of parks and gardens to unite people by contributing to the building and development of communities and enhancing their psychological, social and physical health. The unit is centred on developing interdisciplinary learning outcomes and subject-specific learning objectives in the Arts (Drama, Music, Visual Arts), English language acquisition (ELA) and/or English language and literature (ELL).
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Links to the Alphabet, phonics, nature and gardens and parks.
Each of the 3 pages shows black and white symbols or pictures related to gardens or parks. There is a picture for each letter of the alphabet.
Children trace the initial sounds / letters, name and colour the pictures.
These can then be cut out to make a book or display or to sequence the alphabet.
Boardmaker licenced.
A growing collection of photos from manor houses and park gardens around Britain. This will be added to in time.
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This KS1 microhabitats (or micro-habitats) activity is a fun way for children to explore where minibeasts would like within a garden. They’ll also think about why different minibeasts prefer different microhabitats.
Use this resource to support a year 2 science lesson about local habitats/microhabitats or before exploring the microhabitats in your school grounds.
This resource includes:
A3 printable garden (with and without microhabitat labels)
A4 printable garden (with and without microhabitat labels)
12 common minibeasts to place in the garden
Minibeast ID sheet
Guidance notes on how the resource could be used, including follow up questions to explore together.
Primary science link:
identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and
plants, and how they depend on each other
identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats
This resource supports work on Plants, Animals, Habitats, Gardens, Parks and Nature in general at KS1.
The first sheet shows 6 cards / words of handy tools needed to be a good garden detective. These can be cut and matched and used to make a cover for the child’s Note or Observation book.
Sheet 2 and 3 are recording sheets and sheet 4 shows an example of how the sheet can be used.
Great for a field trip to the local park or a nature trail around the school grounds.
The pack includes:
Display banner- a long colourful banner for your displays
Display border
Animal photos- a collection of coloured photos of the animals in the story
Title poster- a colourful A4 poster
Story words
Park photos
Character pictures
Large leaves- coloured leaves to add to your displays
Animal fact cards- fact cards about the different animals in the story
Animal footprints- flash cards showing the different footprints of the animals in the story- great for discussion, identifying footprints found and recreating the prints in the sand tray
Acorn alphabet- an alphabet line on acorns
Autumn leaves alphabet
Large Autumn themed letters- a complete alphabet with both lower and upper case letters
Favourite part of the story worksheet- draw and write about your favourite part
Wordsearch- find the hidden Percy words
Speech bubble worksheet- fill in the speech bubbles of the characters
Favourite story and animal worksheet- draw or write about your favourite part of the story and your favourite animal
Matching worksheet- match the animal pictures to their names
Describing worksheet- think of some words to describe the animals
Acorn number line- a number line from 0-50
Animals number line- a number line from 0-50 on the different animals in the story
Addition worksheets- 2 differentiated worksheets to add the numbers on the acorns
Subtraction worksheets- 2 differentiated worksheets to subtract the numbers on the acorns
Counting worksheets- 2 differentiated worksheets to count the animals
Missing number worksheets- 2 differentiated worksheets tofill in the missing numbers on the animals
Songs and rhymes- a collection of themed songs and rhymes to learn
Face masks- black and white face masks to make of Percy and the animals
Colouring sheets- a collection of colouring sheets
Large characters- large pictures of Percy and the animals- great for collage and art work
Large leaves- black and white outlines of some different leave
Percy's tools- black and white pictures of some of the tools which Percy uses
'Welcome to Percy's Hut' sign- a long banner
Character flashcards
Face masks- colour face masks of Percy and the animals
Percy's hut- a coloured and black and white picture of Percy's hut
Percy's tools- coloured pictures of some of the tools which Percy uses
Board game- a Percy themed board game to make and play
Matching pairs- find the matching pairs or use the cards for a game of 'snap'
Bingo- a picture bingo game
Picture dominoes
Pictures of Percy and the animals in the story
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by, the authors or publishers of the story or any related stories or products.
Suitable for EYFS and KS1.
5 pages of colour Garden flashcards with 6 to a page.
Great for your Outdoors topic, Science, Plants, matching games, discussion and displays.
These documents are to help children describe the setting in the story ‘Secret Sky Garden’.
The first document is the car park at the beginning - the red circles help children focus on the things close, further away and then in the distance.
The second document is the car park at the end of the story when it is beautiful!
Here is a complete term's medium term planning based around the book Percy the Park Keeper. The pack includes a plan for each week detailing the Early Learning Goals covered, learning activities, enhanced provision opportunities, weekly homework and a curriculum plan overview which can be shared with parents.
Find out what some badgers got up to at night in a British garden. This activity, based on a real wildlife camera trap recording, can be used with KS1 or KS2 to support learning about animal identification, habitats, survival, the local environment and adaptations for survival. The activity following the video is an opportunity to practice writing and thinking skills.
Proceeds from the sales will be donated to a wildlife charity.
Here are 30 items you may find in the garden.
Children can name them, colour them in and make a list of them using the grid provided.
Links to literacy, list writing and your topic on homes.
Multiple choice exercises with insects and some things you can find in a garden (tree, tulip, pine, sunflower).Perfect to practice some spring vocabulary with the little ones. Hope it’s useful :)
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different activities, animals and locations in the garden being shown in each of the photos.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts.
The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story .
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.
52 display or flashcards for you to cut out, laminate and use for your displays and / or reading / writing aids.
There are 4 cards on each page each showing garden related pictures and words, with a flower border.
The final page is a blank template for you or the children to make some more of your own.
This garden colouring page is the second illustrated colouring page in my series of colouring sheets, you can purchase the 2 colouring sheet bundle on my shop for a reduced price.
You will receive:
1 A4 colouring page in PNG format perfect for printing on paper or on card (for a thicker feel)
This sheet is great for older children or adults!
If you enjoy this colouring sheet I would be very grateful if you left a review.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different plants being shown in each of the photos.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about plants and gardens.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different gardening activities. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking.
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.