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. ----------------------------------- Enjoy!

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 ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is an extremely fun outdoor activity for your children to learn about place value with decimals. Place Value Relay is an active way for children to learn about decimals and place value. This activity is best played outside where the children will take a decimal and place it in the correct place on the large number line in a relay format. This pack also contains 2 differentiated cut and stick worksheets where the children must place the decimals in the correct place on the number lines. Contents - Teacher’s Guide - 3 x Large number lines along with playing cards for each - 2 x Differentiated worksheets ------------------------ If you like this resources please don't forget to leave us feedback. Thank you! Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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! ------------------------ If you liked this resource please don't forget to give us feedback.

Algebra can be great fun outdoors! This activity will introduce simplifying algebraic equations to your children while exploring sticks and leaves found in your outdoor space. They will be given a differentiated task card containing a formula which they must build before simplifying. The ‘x’ represents sticks and ‘y’ represents leaves. If the formula reads x + y + x they must order stick, stick, leaf and then write ‘2x + y’ underneath. This pack contains 22 card with 8 challenge cards. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your little ones counting outdoors with this fun Christmas themed number recognition activity where they will find the correct amount of items before filling covering the squares on the activity sheets. This is a great activity for those early mathematicians that are working on simple number recognition and counting from 1 to 10. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis. Contents: Teacher Guide Invention Example Differentiated Design Sheets Differentiated Final Idea Pan Differentiated Evaluation Questions Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity looks closely at how different skeletons are made up, encouraging children to think about how different animals are able to move in different ways depending on their skeleton. This activity works best in groups. Give each child an animal card and ask them to create the animals skeleton using sticks, thinking carefully about how the animal moves. Once they have done this and you have allowed for sufficient discussion both with each other and an adult, give them the animals skeleton card and let them see how they have done. They can then take another animal to try. You’ll be amazed at the improvement of their skeletons over the course of one lesson! </br> Contents: A normal and skeleton sheet for each of the following Human Fish Frog Snake Elephant Horse </br> --------------------- Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is a great way for students to practise their 1 - 10 times tables. They will find the answers to a set of multiplications in the number grid, coloring in the correct answers with the colour to match the times table. This pack contains one number word search for each times table (2-10). They’re a great lesson, filler, or home learning activity. My class absolutely love them as I’m sure yours will too! Black and white copies are also included in this pack. Check out our addition number word searches: Years 1 - 2 Years 3 - 4 Years 5 - 6 Check out our subtraction number word searches: Subtraction number search: Years 1 - 2 Subtraction number search: Years 3 - 4 Subtraction number search: Years 5 - 6 Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your class engaged with your forces and motion topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor science scavenger hunt activity. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the forces and motion topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 10 challenge task cards that cover the following areas: Air resistance Gravity Floating and sinking Friction Magnetism My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining! Contents Teacher’s Guide 8 x Differentiated Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 10 x Challenge Task Cards Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again! Resources needed for cards: 1 - Leaves 2 - A4 and A3 paper 3 - Sticks 4 - Magnets 5 - Toy car 6 - Bucket of water 7 - Tennis ball & similar sized plastic ball 8 - Football / basketball 9 - Bin bag / similar 10 - Tennis ball & similar sized plastic ball Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your class engaged with your shape, space, and measure topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor math scavenger hunt activity for grades 3 and 4. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 20 differentiated task cards that cover the following areas: 2d shape 3d shape Angles Area and perimeter Measuring & conversions -Symmetry My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining! Contents: Teacher’s Guide 2 x Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 20 x Task Cards Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

The insect trap investigation gets students looking closely at all the amazing creepy crawlies that can be found in your outdoor space by creating small traps. It’s great if you’re looking at living things, habitats, or data handling as well as developing key investigation skills. **Ages 4 - 6: **Students will set the traps and observe what they collect. At this age it’s great for them to explore the wildlife, talking about their looks, how they move, key features, and other general observations. Once they’ve had time to study what they’ve trapped they can compete the observation sheet where they’ll draw what they’ve collected. **Ages 7 - 9 & 10 - 12: **Students will set the traps and wait to see what crawls inside (checking each day for a few days. They’ll identify the creatures and record their results on the results table. They can then use their results to create a bar graph of their findings (you can choose to accumulate all the results or just use individuals). After that, get them to complete the evaluation question sheets which will encourage them to think about how successful their traps were and the reasons behind their results. Equipment needed: Activity pack Trowel Yogurt pot Tray Card Stones ID Guide (optional) Check out our outdoor science bundle here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your class engaged with your living things topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor science scavenger hunt activity. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the living things topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 10 challenge task cards that cover the following areas: Camouflage Food Chains Habitats Identification / Classification Observation Skills The Human Body My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining! Contents Teacher’s Guide 8 x Differentiated Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 10 x Challenge Task Cards Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again! Check out our Outdoor Science Bundle here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This math board game is a great way for students to practise mental multiplication for tables 2 - 10 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their multiplications. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends. Contents: Board 2 - 10 Times table cards Check Out Our Other Board Games: Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals Elapsed Time Long Multiplication Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000 Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

The students have been trapped in a magic classroom by a mischievous wizard who has hidden the key to unlock the door in a series of algebraic equations. They must work together to solve the equations and find the key before time runs out! This escape room is a great end to your algebra topic or perfect start to see what they already know! This resource has 8 clue cards each with an algebra equation they must solve. This resource comes with two sets of 8 clue cards. The green ones are slightly easier and the blue ones are a little trickier. Contents: Teacher Guide 2 Sets of 8 Clue Cards (green = easier & blue = more complex) Answer Sheet Congratulation Card Check out our Algebra Task Cards Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Woodland tracker is a great way to investigate which animals are sneaking around in your outdoor space or local woodland. It’s a great activity if you’re looking at observation skills or habitats and can be differentiated for all age ranges. For this practical science investigation students will mark out an area using sand or fine soil and leave it overnight before returning to see if they can spot and identify any animal tracks that have been left behind. This can be done as a one off investigation or as an ongoing project where you could introduce different variables such as location, season or food. Contents: Teacher’s Guide 2 x Match The Tracks activity sheet and answers(US & British animals) 2 x Investigation Method worksheets 3 x Results Table 4 x Investigation Question Cards 2 x Evaluation Question Sheets To further differentiate this activity, get students to carry it out multiple times choosing something to change. They can complete the investigation method sheet and questions to help guide them through this. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales.

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!