Want to help your students write well-crafted sentences using strong vocabulary? I have designed these weekly English sheets full of activities to support vocabulary building, sentence construction and imaginative writing. I use these for home tutoring, but they could also make a nice homework activity of weekly quiet activity.

Practice addition up to 50 (crossing tens) with this fun joke codebreaker Solve the equations to reveal the answer to the joke. Note: The words are scrambled to avoid students predicting the answers

Practice mental addition using this tic-tac-toe game Students can practice a range of mental addition strategies using these fun tic-tac-toe boards. The rules of the game are the same as traditional tic-tac-toe: each player is aiming to get three in a row. However, the twist is that they need to answer the addition questions! There are several boards with questions aimed at practising different strategies, such as finding doubles and adding to the next ten. Some adult guidance may be needed to ensure they are answering the questions and to guide them with each strategy.

Practice adding 1-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers (crossing the tens) using this fun codebreaker! Solve the equations to find out the punchline to the joke. This puzzle focuses on adding 1-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers, mostly below 30. Each section gives the letters to one word of the joke. Note: The letters are scrambled in order to prevent students from guessing answers based on the word they can see