Enjoy looking through my resources. Most of them are suitable for EYFS/ Year 1 though there are some others for older children. Follow my Instagram @LittleWildLearners for lots of teaching and outdoor learning ideas.
Enjoy looking through my resources. Most of them are suitable for EYFS/ Year 1 though there are some others for older children. Follow my Instagram @LittleWildLearners for lots of teaching and outdoor learning ideas.
16 page PDF Early Years Transition booklet
It includes various activities for children to do at home or in nursery prior to moving into a school nursery or reception class.
Activities all encourage children to think about their new school and discuss it with a grown up. Some give space for children to draw their ideas or colour in, alongside key questions for adults to ask them as they complete the activity.
There are some pages for guided discussion such as around what they may do in their new setting, and discussion of the child’s feelings.
There are 5 pages of tips for parents on how they can support their children to have a good transition experience too and how to prepare their children for school.
This would work as a document to send home for families to complete, or to do some in nursery and send the tips home to parents.
Everything you need for Pancake Day literacy! After children have watched a pancake being made (in real life or on a video) they will use the resources to write ingredients lists, order the steps and write instructions.
This resource fully editable and includes:
Pancake recipe booklet - instruction writing template
Photos of each step of making a pancake for children to cut out and stick on to their recipe booklet or ordering sheet
How to make a pancake- picture and step ordering activity
Pancake ingredients list
Write your own pancake ingredients list
Pancake Day word mat
The resource could cover multiple literacy lessons and/or can be used for differentiation.
Children will need the printed resource, pencils, scissors and glue.
For a free ‘design a pancake’ sheet to accompany this resource please see:
/teaching-resource/design-a-pancake-sheet-pancake-day-12481053
4 differentiated writing tasks for Early Years EYFS around the theme of Easter and Spring.
Design and describe an Easter egg (2 x differentiations)
Label a chick (2 x differentiations)
Write a sentence to describe an Easter or Spring picture
Write a word to describe an Easter or Spring picture
Folding books so children can write their own Easter or Spring stories in provision or lesson time
14 Phase 2 phonics activity sheets giving opportunities for reading and writing of initial sounds, CVC words and sentences. There is also opportunities to demonstrate understanding of what the child has read.
Several activities are differentiated.
Activities include:
Read and colour - graphemes
Read a colour- common exception words
Say and write initial sounds
Read and match to the picture - CVC words
Read and match to the picture -Simple sentences
Read and match to the picture - Slightly more tricky sentences
Read and draw - CVC words
Read and Draw- simple sentences
Spell- CVC words
It is all Christmas themed with bright pictures and simple-to-read font.
Can be used as individual worksheets or the whole thing can be printed as a workbook.
Children can write or use magnetic letters to complete the spelling activities.
For matching Phase 2 flashcards and grapheme handwriting cards see /teaching-resource/resource-12610872
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This pack includes 2 x 5 days (2 weeks) of planning for subitising which includes:
A small group or whole class input each day
Group or individual task each day
Differentiation 3 ways where appropriate
Resource list each day
Planning for the child initiated provision so children can practise their skills
1 home learning task
The pack also includes all the digital resources needed to carry out the planning- Interactive whiteboard slides and activities as well as printable activities.
Resources include:
Subitising cards (printable) for matching game, snap activity and Bingo.
Bingo boards (printable)
Tens frame introduction – interactive whiteboard slides
Real world subitising activity – interactive whiteboard slides
Number cards (printable)
2 x dice activity worksheets (printable)
1 x number shape worksheet (printable)
tens frames (printable)
dice game creative activity (printable)
Printable note to parents explaining the home learning task
You will also need access to items which are not included:
Number shapes such as Numicon
Dice
Counters
Chalk
Paints
Game
Selection of board games
The inputs and activities are suitable for young children and consist of a range of practical activities as well as a couple of work sheet style tasks. Printable resources are designed so that they can be used during an adult led task but also left in the provision for children to access independently later to practise their skills.
Dinosaur themed home learning tasks for Nursery or Reception (Early Years)
There are a total of 18 activities that can easily be done at home split over two sheets. Activities are practical using items children will have at home. There are key questions to guide parents delivering the activities at home. The activities are topic based. They cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. There are art projects, research ideas, movement, imaginative etc. There aren’t really stand alone phonics or number activities but these subjects are addressed in other activities e.g. where writing, stories, counting, size or measuring weights are involved.
Originally made for Covid school/ bubble closures and where children were asked to complete 3 tasks a week, however, it could be easily used as a half termly or termly home learning sheet where children complete one task a week or similar.
This can also be used as a basis for activity planning for the topic or used by support or cover staff.
18 Space themed home learning tasks for Nursery or Reception (Early Years)
There are a total of 18 activities that can easily be done at home split over two sheets. Activities are practical using items children will have at home. There are key questions to guide parents delivering the activities at home. The activities are topic based. They cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. There are art projects, research ideas, movement, imaginative etc. There aren’t really stand alone phonics or maths activities but these subjects are touched upon in other activities too e.g. where writing, stories or shapes are involved. There are several activities which cover ‘Understanding the world’ (science).
Originally made for Covid school/ bubble closures and where children were asked to complete 3 tasks a week, however, it could be easily used as a half termly or termly home learning sheet where children complete one task a week or similar.
This can also be used as a basis for activity planning for the topic or used by support or cover staff.
EYFS Valentine’s Day celebration activities inc. mud kitchen, maths, literacy, art
Continuous provision ideas and activities for Valentine’s Day with all printable resources included.
Activity booklet includes
Printable mud kitchen recipes
Play dough recipe and challenge prompts
Valentines addition activity
Heart shape hunt, sort and count activity
I love you writing and PSED task
Colour mixing prompt
Everything you need to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your Early Years children (age 3-5 recommended).
Outdoor learning planning for the book Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. Suitable for EYFS or KS1.
Lots of opportunities to get outdoors and active to develop children’s literacy skills and understanding of the book.
Mini beast (bugs, insects) themed home learning tasks for Nursery or Reception (Early Years)There are a total of 18 activities that can easily be done at home split over two sheets. I ask children to select 3 per week to complete but you could suggest more. Activities are practical using items children will have at home. There are key questions to guide parents delivering the activities at home. The activities are topic based. They cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. There are art projects, research ideas, movement, imaginative etc. There are a couple of stand alone phonics/ maths activities and these subjects are addressed in other activities e.g. where writing, stories, patterns are involved.
Originally made for Covid school/ bubble closures and where children were asked to complete 3 tasks a week, however, it could be easily used as a half termly or termly home learning sheet where children complete one task a week or similar.
This can also be used as a basis for activity planning for the topic or used by support or cover staff.
Lots of winter and Polar themed fun in one bundle!
Polar photo cards pack- fantastic to enhance your provision and display as well as able to be used for sorting, matching and ID activities - 20 cards
4 Snow flake themed maths activities, including counting and subitizing activities, tens frames and a loose parts activity
Snow Day challenges- covering literacy, maths and science on a snow day- differentiated for your learners
18 Winter and polar themed home learning activities with prompts for parents.
18 Jungle themed home learning tasks for Nursery or Reception (Early Years)
There are a total of 18 activities that can easily be done at home split over two sheets. Activities are practical using items children will have at home. There are key questions to guide parents delivering the activities at home. The activities are topic based. They cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. There are art projects, research ideas, movement, imaginative etc. There are no stand alone phonics or number activities but these subjects are touched upon in other activities e.g. where writing, stories or patterns are involved.
Originally made for Covid school/ bubble closures and where children were asked to complete 3 tasks a week, however, it could be easily used as a half termly or termly home learning sheet where children complete one task a week or similar.
This can also be used as a basis for activity planning for the topic or used by support or cover staff.
18 Spring themed home learning tasks for Nursery or Reception (Early Years)
There are a total of 18 activities that can easily be done at home split over two sheets. Activities are practical using items children will have at home. There are key questions to guide parents delivering the activities at home. The activities are topic based. They cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. There are art projects, research ideas, cooking, movement, imaginative etc. There are no stand alone phonics or number activities but these subjects are touched upon in other activities e.g. where writing, stories or patterns are involved.
Originally made for Covid school/ bubble closures and where children were asked to complete 3 tasks a week, however, it could be easily used as a half termly or termly home learning sheet where children complete one task a week or similar.
This can also be used as a basis for activity planning for the topic or used by support or cover staff.
A Christmas themed resource to support teaching repeating patterns (2 and 3 repeats)
Power point activity for the interactive whiteboard where children need to complete the repeating patterns. They will develop the skills to identify, describe and continue patterns,
Differentiated cut and stick activity where children can then independently complete repeating patterns and also make their own. Children will practise the skills to identify, describe and continue patterns, The cutting also develops fine motor skills.
The patterns have pictures missing both at the end and in the middle and the resources include patterns with 2 and 3 repeats.
This resource includes planning and resources for a short topic covering King Charles III coronation for Early Years (EYFS).
There is provision planning for each area of the classroom and outdoors. Alongside this there are challenge cards and all printable resources required to set up the activities and challenges (anything else needed is very simple resources found in schools such as pens, pencils, scissors, card etc).
It covers planning and resources for:
Maths – addition activity (differentiated from addition to 5, 10 and 20)
Writing – activity for writing invitations and guest lists for the coronation
Art ( 3 activities – indoor, outdoor and easel area)
Sand
Water
Construction (1 x activity for indoor construction and 1 x activity for large outdoor construction)
Playdough
Role Play
Fine motor skills
Stage / performance
Music
Bonus outdoor scavenger hunt activity
Pack consists of 30 pages which include:
16 planned activities with resource lists
10 challenge cards with picture prompts to support practical learning activities
Further picture prompts to support play based activities
5 printable worksheets to support maths, writing and scavenger hunt activities
Everything you need for a whole phonics lesson or session on the ‘ear’ phoneme and grapheme.
Printable activity cards for ‘splat’ game to recap some phase 2 and 3 tricky words.
Presentation for teaching ‘ear’ (Phase 3 phonics). There are lots of opportunities for interaction from the children and opportunities for them to practise reading skills.
Paired reading activity.
Fun writing activity - Children dress up in beards and ears to reinforce their learning to complete the activity. Required dressing up props are provided to be printed for this- its nice and interactive and fun, perfect for EYFS (my class loved it!)
Evidence from this activity can be used towards:
Literacy (writing)
Physical Development (moving and handling)
UTW (Technology)- if children photograph themselves in their costumes!
As this is a whole session it could be used for remote learning too.
Trash or treasure game.
192 of real and fake words on coins for children to read and sort as trash (fake words) or treasure (real words).
Words contain all Phase 3 and 5 graphemes.
Simply print one slide per page, laminate and cut out.
Perfect revision for the Phonics Screening check or just as part of recap work.
Preview makes the text look different to the actual resource, text is Comic Sans and all words fit on one line so are easy for the children to read, as shown in uploaded picture.
5 activities designed to be used outside to get evidence of independent, child initiated reading activities. 3 are differentiated to 2 or 3 levels. This is show by colour so the same activity can be going on at different levels at the same time e.g. children with the purple sheet find the purple words, children with the orange sheet find the orange words. The other 2 can be differentiated by staff who can guide children to a suitable word/caption. Activities include phonetically decodable words and ‘tricky words’. Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4 covered.
Activities require very little setting up apart from printing out the activities and cutting them up.
Activities include-
2x instructions for children to follow
1 x labeling activity
1x word hunt
1 x picture hunt (read and draw)