Children will enjoy these activities together with learning the number rhyme. Activities include, colouring, cutting and pasting, ordering letters and numbers and matching numbers to number words.

There is a poster for children to talk about and label or write about. There is a letter F poster with lots of different fonts. Children can use the idea to make their own poster by hand or on the computer. There is a lovely little poem to share and then children can write their own simple poem. Finally, a colouring and matching / handwriting sheet all about the letter F.

10 pictures to colour in, with lines for retelling and writing about a selection of Bible Stories including: Adam and Eve Jonah and the Whale The Good Samaritan Noah and others

A Speaking and Listening and writing resource. 8 different types of tools for children to label with 2 to a page: DIY Gardening Artists Mechanics Cooking Sewing Electrical Children name the tools and say their uses and write the words in the arrows or where the arrows point.

14 designs of mazes of different complexity. Great for improving pencil control and concentration. You could also enlarge and use with other media than pencils, such as paint.

A resource for your Houses, Homes or Ourselves topic. Children label the house and add features such as a garage and garden path. They list and draw who might live in the house. There is a sheet for children to draw and label their own house and write the house number on the door. Children write out their address, who they live with and why they like their house.

Here is a fun activity where children learn to sort pictures according to their initial sounds. There are 3 sets of 24 colour pictures for each letter sounds. There are 3 sets of 24 matching words to match the pictures. Activities include matching the words and pictures for 1 or more sounds. Sorting pictures into those beginning with b, p, d Sorting words into those beginning with b, p, d Differentiate by cutting the sheets in half or rows or single cards to make the activities easier.

This is a fun activity linked to your topic on Homes and linking to numbers, reading and comprehension. 6 Children live in the street and the children work out from the questions who lives in which number house, the names of the children and the numbers of the houses. Sheet 1 can be filled when all the questions are answered or can be used as a template for the teacher to add his/her own names and numbers. Sheet 2 gives some house numbers and names and the children fill in the missing answers. Sheet 3 asks 10 questions. The teacher could read these out or the children can read them and work out their answers alone or as a pair. Encourages speaking and listening. Answer sheets are included. Sheet 6 is a cutting and matching activity where children match the colour houses with the children that live in them.

A set of writing challenge cards for your KS1 pupils. Great for early finishers, wet play or home work. Cut and laminate and use over again with dry markers. Or add to your writing corner/table with paper and pens. Continue your collection and you could store them in a small file index box. Activities include: speech bubbles, story planning, diary extracts, a thank you card, birthday message, labelling and note writing.

A great speaking and listening slide show for the smart board or set of posters to print and use as visual aids when thinking about Ourselves or Toys.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter A. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story.

Share on the Smart Board or print off as posters. A speaking and listening activity based on the school timetable and the days of the week. See what the children get up to on each day of the week. Good for ordering, sequencing and as an inspiration for children to make their own posters or pictures of their own timetable.

A great little game for EYFS and KS1 for speaking and listening and extending vocabulary and understanding. Here are 48 discussion cards to encourage children to think and talk about what they see. There are 4 cards to a page which can be cut out and laminated if you want to reuse them. There is also a sheet showing all the 48 pictures. Ideas for activities: Show the children the full sheet of 48 pictures and ask them to identify pictures showing opposites e.g. number 33 - open and closed bin, 48 - empty and full Christmas stocking and 44 - sick or well. Children work in pairs with a set of cards to discuss. Pairs or small groups could then share their findings with the class e.g. 31 - both baskets are the same but one is full and one is empty or 24 - both animals are bears, one is large and one is small. Did any other children find a card with a similar theme? Children could write the number of the card they are discussing and then one similarity and one difference they find. Cards can be sorted into different types of opposites e.g. cards 18, 29 and 31 are all Full and Empty themed. Children can make up their own cards with drawings or pasted pictures to show they understand the concepts. This resource is also good for those learning English or other languages, children are encouraged to speak in sentences.

This resource has 7 pages. The focus is the letter B. Activities: Cut and match the words beginning with B to the pictures. Colour the pictures. Write a letter B, word or sentence next to each picture. Write the 3 words next to each cube which shows 3 pictures beginning with B. 2 handwriting sheets to practice handwriting the lower and upper case letters.

3 worksheets in black and white for children at KS1. Each sheet shows 8 pictures and 8 sentences. Children read the sentences and match them to the pictures. They can cut and match or write the numbers of the sentence next to the corresponding pictures. Next, children write the names of the animals or children in alphabetical order in the box at the foot of the pages. Children can write underneath the sentences and colour the pictures too.

5 worksheets to support children learning to read, write, recognise and sound the letter Z. Children overwrite the sentences about 4 pictures beginning with Z - zoo, zebra, zip and zigzag. Children practice writing lower case Z and overwrite the word Zoo. Children colour the zoo picture and write the sentence. Children match the words and pictures with a line and overwrite the words. A set of flashcards to colour, cut out, match and write the words beginning with Z.

Colouring sheets for young children learning their sounds. Set 5: ck ff ss y z worksheets. Differentiate for those children who can also write the words alongside the pictures.

A pack of resources based on Humpty Dumpty that includes Literacy and Numeracy Resources for KS1. There are 2 pages of rhyming word cards for children to cut, write and match. There is a writing frame for children to use the key words to write out the rhyme. There is a set of pictures of different wall patterns that children can observe and talk about before using the shapes (or practical materials) to make their own wall for Humpty. There are 2 shape puzzles where children cut out egg shapes and tangrams and put them back together again.

4 worksheets of 2 designs, with tracing patterns for children to help develop their fine motor and pencil control. One set of sheets is in a cursive format. The theme is a space theme e.g. children draw a line from the alien to the UFO. Laminate these sheets and they can be reused and added to the writing table.

6 sheets where children practice their fine motor skills by tracing over the patterns. Children pair the objects e.g. take the cat to the milk or the rain cloud to the umbrella. There are 3 designs of worksheet with 2 versions - straight lines and wavy lines.