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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
This is a great activity to get those reluctant writers practicing their handwriting, spelling and counting where students will trace and spell the word before heading off to find the correct number of items in the outdoors.This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
**Diff. 1 - **Students will simply trace the word before going off to find the correct number and tick the item off on their list once found.
Diff. 2 – Students will trace the word, cover it, spell it, and then go off to find the correct number and tick it off on their list.
This resource contains three spelling lists for each differentiated level.------------------------
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Who doesn’t love a treasure hunt!? This is a great activity for looking at compass bearings and use as well as instruction writing. For this lesson students will hide some treasure before writing instructions to get from the starting point to the treasure using compass bearings.
Once the instructions are complete they can swap with a friend and see if they can find each other’s treasure.
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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.
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This is a nice non-fiction writing activity where students will explore your outdoor space while they write their very own nature guide for friends, family, or other students.
They will go around your outdoor space and choose four subjects to focus on (trees, animals, habitats, etc.). After carrying out some observations and research (using books / the internet) on each of their chosen subjects they can complete the guide templates.
You could laminate their guides or scan them and turn them into QR codes to be displayed in the outdoor area.
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This activity is all about hugging trees! It’s perfect to encourage students to use adjectives in their descriptive writing as they use their senses (apart from sight and taste) to describe a tree as best as they can.
Teaching Structure:
Recap on what an adjective is.
Put the students into pairs with one blindfolded.
The partner which isn’t blindfolded will lead their blindfolded partner to a tree of their choice.
The blindfolded students must think of adjectives to describe the tree using touch and smell. Their partner can record the adjectives they are thinking of on the activity sheet.
After a couple of minutes the blindfolded partner is carefully taken back to the spot they started away from the tree and the blindfold is removed.
They then must see if they can find the tree that they were just describing. - Swap the blindfold and repeat.
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This is a great literacy game to send home with your children that is easy to prepare. Each child must go on a journey to try and find things that they can see, smell and touch for each letter of the alphabet.
Depending on ability, you may want to get children to write, draw, or write and draw the answers. Their journeys can be anything from their trip to school to a walk up a mountain! There are loads of fun challenges you can set with this activity.
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Rain is great fun and no reason to stop outdoor learning. This pack contains cross curricular resources and activities that you can do in the rain. So put those waterproofs on and enjoy the rain!
This resource includes science, literacy, and math activities for ages 7 - 10.
Activities included:
Rain Description: Children will go outside and use adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe what they can see, hear, feel and touch.
Rain poetry: Children will use their descriptions to write a poem about the rain. It’s great if they can do this outside using a whiteboard or scrap paper before writing it up in neat inside.
Rain Gauge Investigation: For this investigation children will design and build their own rain gauge to record the amount of rainfall over a decided period of time. It’s good to give children the chance to experiment with their ideas, however you may need to give them some guidance. We find this investigation works best when done in teams of 3 or 4. You can use these teams to provide differentiation and support by using mixed ability groups. Once they’ve collected their rainfall data they can then answer some questions based on their results as well as input their results into a line graph.
Puddle Size: This activity is all about measuring using diameters, radius, and perimeter. Children will find 5 puddles to measure, recording their results onto a line graph before answering some questions on their results. Vibrant Rain: This activity is all about the colors of nature. Children will find different colored natural items, crush them with stones, and use the colors to create some rain art. It’s best to print this activity sheet on card so that it does not get too soggy when using the damp natural resources to paint with.
This is a fun activity to experiment with measuring and units of measure. Children will find objects to measure in your outdoor space, however instead of using standard units of measure, they’ll create their own wonderful units of measure, for example, leaves. If they chose leaves as their units of measurement they’d use a leaf to measure the item and record their answers in the table. As an extension students can convert their ‘weird units’ to cm.
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These 12 outdoor spellings task cards are a great way to spice up your spelling lessons. Students will go outside and practice their spelling lists through a range of fun and practical activities.
Print out the task cards, laminate them, and then hand them out to the students. Once a student has completed an activity they can come back and swap their card for a new activity.
It’s a good idea to keep track of which activities the students have done so that they don’t end up repeating the same ones.
Check out our Phonics and Handwriting Dice Game for phase 2 - 5 sounds.
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These CVC visual word searches are a great prep free activity to get students looking at the CVC short sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search.
This pack contains word search for the short, a, e, i, o and u sound.
Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the CVC sounds.
Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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This phase 2 - 4 phonics visual word search bundle is a great prep free activity to get students looking at the sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search.
This pack contains 10 word searches each with two levels of differentiation for phase 2 - 4.
Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the phases sounds.
Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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This phase 4 phonics visual word search is a great prep free activity to get students looking at the phase 4 sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search.
This pack contains 4 word searches each with two levels of differentiation.
Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the phase 3 sounds.
Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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Who doesn’t love scavenger hunts? This is a great activity to get your students thinking about adjectives and how they can be used to describe things. They will go on a hunt to find objects that match the adjectives in the table. It’s a great way to introduce adjectives to your class or just as a fun recap activity.
Resources needed:
Scavenger hunt sheet
Clipboard (optional)
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This phase 3 phonics word search is a great prep free activity to get students looking at the phase 3 sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search.
This pack contains 3 word searches each with two levels of differentiation.
Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the phase 3 sounds.
**Diff. 2 - **The student must spell the whole word.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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This phase 2 phonics word search is a great prep free activity to get students looking at the phase 2 sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search.
This pack contains 3 word searches each with two levels of differentiation.
Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the phase 2 sounds.
Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word.
Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game BUNDLE.
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Get muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures. Explain to your class that they will be creating a character using mud and other natural materials. You can either let them create whatever they like or get them to create a character from a book they’ve recently read.
Once they’ve created their character they’ll either take a picture or draw it on the sheets and complete the blanks to describe their character.
Extension: Get them to draw or tell a story involving the character they created.
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Get muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures to be used as inspiration for a character in a story. Explain to your class that they will be writing a story (you may want to give them a theme or let them have free rein) but first they are going to create one of the main characters using only mud and natural materials. This activity is best done after rain, but if not, just add a splash of water and your mud is ready to get creative.
Teaching structure:
Create the creatures.
Complete the character description sheet.
Plan and write the story with their new character.
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This activity gets students walking around your outdoor space putting themselves in the shoes of a chosen animal. They’ll think about what that animal might be able to see, hear and feel. It’s a great introduction to diary writing that can be used as a stand alone activity or the lead up to a big write. It also links in nicely with your habitats topic.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that they are going to go outside and find an animal. It could be anything from a tiny insect to a big bird.
Tell them that they’re going to imagine they are their chosen animal and think about what that animal might see, hear, and feel. At this point it could be useful to choose one animal to go through together.
Get them to go off and complete the differentiated sheets.
After 15 - 20 minutes get them to come back and share what they’ve done with each other.
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This is a fantastic activity to get your students exploring the smells of nature while thinking about adjectives.
Give each student or pair a tub to take outside. Get them to collect and crush (using a stone or hands) flowers and leaves and put them in the tub to make their very own scent tubs. Once they’ve made their scent tubs, get them to complete the activity sheet where they’ll draw whats in their tub and write adjectives around the outside to describe what they can see and smell.
This resource contains two activity sheets, one with a word bank and one without.
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Equipment needed:**
Tubs
Activity sheets
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This is a fun and creative activity for teaching the difference between verbs and adverbs where students will give instructions to act both a verb and adverb. In a large open space (ideally outdoors) give one student out of the group / class the activity sheet and get them to read out a verb followed by an adjective (they don’t have to be from the same row).
The rest of the students must act out what has been said, for example, run slowly.
Once they’ve played the game you can then give them a blank activity sheet for them to create their own game tables.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation, one with a word bank and one without.
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