Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
3 sets of cards showing objects made from wood, metal and plastic.
Children can talk about them and sort them into 3 sets.
There is a worksheet where children can sort words into sets or write words.
Add a practical activity to make this a great lesson for little ones.
This science resource is designed for young children to explore and understand the concept of sound through visual activities. The resource includes 3 pages, each featuring 6 colour cards that children can cut out and sort into categories based on the sound’s volume. The cards depict various sounds, helping children distinguish between “loud” and “soft” sounds.
Examples include cards with images of loud sounds such as yelling people and a washing machine, alongside soft sounds like someone asleep and children whispering.
Each page includes a mix of adjectives (e.g., yelling, whispering) and objects (e.g., drill, softball) to help children understand how different sounds can be categorized.
In addition to the colour versions, there are black-and-white versions of the same sheets for children to colour in. This allows them to engage more deeply with the activity and reinforces their understanding of the concepts as they add their own colours to the pictures.
This resource uses symbols and supports SEND children, EYFS and KS1.
Boardmaker licenced.
A KS1 activity to teach about electricity or find out how much your children understand which things work by electricity.
There are 4 sheets containing a collection of things that do and do not use electricity.
There is a template provided that children can draw on, write on or cut and paste pictures onto to show their learning or understanding.
A collection of photo dominoes showing 10 different animals.
There are 25 pages with 4 dominoes on each page.
There are a few blank dominoes that you may want to use to add different animals.
EYFS and KS1 will enjoy this game whilst learning to match, make pairs, take turns, name and talk about animals.
A fun way to introduce, consolidate or teach about materials and their uses.
There are 7 slides showing different materials:
Wood, Leather, Fabric, Glass, Plastic, Wool and Metal.
Children can discuss what they know and what they see in the slides.
The circles can be used to add the names of the objects the children come up with.
Extend by giving children a circle /template to write their own ideas on or what they can remember from the discussions.
A lovely activity for OUTDOOR or indoor learning about nature / plants/ change/animals/mini beasts.
Children can cut, and match the pictures to the correct numbers.
They could go on a hunt to see how many of the things can they see outdoors.
Cut and laminate the pictures for reusable activities.
This is a nice activity for EYFS or KS1.
There are 8 different ideas here to stimulate your children to create their own Shadow boxes or framed nature pictures including bugs, trees, plants and fruits.
Use card / junk modelling or wood if available with support as needed.
Children will enjoy colouring in the pictures and making some drawings of their own as well as going on a nature hunt and collecting materials for their boxes.
Collage also works well.
There is a blank template included.
This resource contains photographs of things, birds and animals that you might see on the farm.
The children can talk about these, name the pictures and read the words.
They can cut and match the photos to the words.
There are 5 cut and match worksheets.
There are 3 templates that children could paste onto: Farmland Birds, Farmland Animals and At the Farm. They can write or paste the words.
Links to Literacy, Reading, Science, Animal Habitats and any Farm Topics.
This resource supports work on Plants, Animals, Habitats, Gardens, Parks and Nature in general at KS1.
The first sheet shows 6 cards / words of handy tools needed to be a good garden detective. These can be cut and matched and used to make a cover for the child’s Note or Observation book.
Sheet 2 and 3 are recording sheets and sheet 4 shows an example of how the sheet can be used.
Great for a field trip to the local park or a nature trail around the school grounds.
An activity that encourages children to look out for and identify popular flowers . There are 12 types here with colour photos.
Activities / pages:
Label the plants / flowers
Answer sheet for labelling
Write a fact or description of each flower
Answer sheet with brief information /descriptions
Draw the flowers in the boxes provided
Colouring sheet of flowers
Links to Plants/ Science / Outdoor Learning / Nature topics.
Here is a PPT depicting 7 types of trees. Each slide has a photograph, a leaf and a few facts about the tree.
The activity sheets are for recognising the leaves, labelling and colouring.
Change the facts or make them more in depth depending on your audience.
Extend by taking a field trip and identifying trees in your school grounds or local park / woodland.
Collect leaves for in class activities such as leaf prints and observational drawings.
Also, bark rubbings are quite nice to do on location.
A PPT showing 32 samples of materials.
Children can describe what they see and develop their describing vocabulary such as rough, smooth, bumpy, soft etc.
They can also discuss what each material might be used for and if it is natural in origin or man made.
A beautiful PPT showing 25 photos of a range of mixes including fruit, vegetable, sweets, toys, leaves, cakes and pebbles.
Good for speaking and listening /discussion on colour, pattern, shape, texture, materials as well as using the senses.
Materials can also be sorted e.g. into natural and man - made/edible and non- edible.
Useful to brighten up displays and as visual aids.
Here is a fun activity for KS2 pupils.
There is a doodle poster showing items relating to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
These images can be named, categorised and discussions around their purpose and value .
Page 2 is a sheet for pupils to create their own STEM doodles.
Page 3 is a table where pupils can list the items sorting them into the 4 categories and also showing where an item may link to all 4 areas.
Key vocabulary may be useful for some pupils to aid spelling and brief descriptions to aid understanding.
Activity sheets based on fruit and vegetables.
Colour poster to encourage children to eat their greens - nice for display and a visual aid.
Basis of a poster to start children off - they can draw their favourite fruits and vegetables around the character.
18 colour fruits and veg for children to name and label.
4 / 5. 4 lots of fruit/veg to colour in.
12 elephant cards for children to colour in to make them the same as the colour versions.
There is also a template for children to draw their own elephants.
Here are 5 pages of ideas for helping children to explore using their feet.
Superb for both EYFS children and SEND pupils.
Each page shows 6 colour pictures or ideas on how children can use their feet to explore.
Ideas range from using their feet to play the keyboard, feeling different textures and painting with their feet.
Ideas incorporate both natural and man - made materials and resources.
For children who are wheel chair bound- bowls, buckets or trays are useful to put your resources into or place materials underneath their feet.
Materials such as sand, grass and stones can be wet or dry or even cold or warm.
The activities are linked to science and encourage speaking and listening.