Under the Sea Record Breaker! 🌊

This word fit puzzle has the names of creatures who live for many years, sometimes hundreds, beneath the sea. It also gives interesting facts and suggestions for things to find out about.

12 Times Table Fortune Teller! 👁

This brilliant activity provides instructions on how to make your own 12 times table themed fortune teller!

Are you struggling to keep your child motivated with school work?

Here is a book that explores the struggles that come with staying at home. The book shows a family of raccoons going through a day in lock down. It touches on children’s responsibilities and how it is important to continue to do things like exercise and your school work! 

Staying Home By Sally Nicholls

Art: Self Portraits 🎨

Use this simple guide to teach children the steps to draw a portrait. Provide children with mirrors to look at themselves, or encourage them to look closely at a friend as they draw their face. Children could create a self-portrait and then compare it with a drawing of a friend. Can they identify the similarities and differences between themselves and others?

Measuring the mass of objects 🧪

This is great resource for students to practise using balance scales to measure and compare the order the mass of everyday items.

Snakes and Ladders: Maths game

Children play this snake and ladders differentiated game to practise recognising place value, partitioning three-digit numbers and representing numbers in different ways.

Solids, Liquids and Gases: Sorting activity

Use this simple, printable KS2 resource to help your child learn the difference between the three states of matter – solid, liquid and gas. A number of picture cards with illustrations of everyday items must be sorted into the correct category on the worksheet provided. This exercise has some tricky items which will get them thinking about what exactly constitutes a solid, a liquid and a gas.

You may like to support your child as they learn about different states of matter by completing this worksheet with them at home. Help them identify between liquids, solids and gases. You can even use items from around your house to help them understand. This activity is engaging, but not too challenging so is perfect to use in the relaxed space of your home.

You can then look at this mixture called Ooblek! It’s an unusual material that is both and solid and liquid!

Join Winnie and Wilbur in a brand-new stay-at-home adventure! With Wilbur’s fun ideas and a flick of Winnie’s wand, staying at home can be lots of fun.

Click on the link below to read the interactive eBook with your child.

Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home

London Sea Life Aquarium! 🐧

We’re heading back to the penguin enclosure at London Sea Life Aquarium for a feeding session full of fun facts and information!

Watch the video and then complete this step by step guide on how to draw penguins and annotate your picture with any of the facts you have learnt.

https://www.facebook.com/SEALIFELondonAquarium/videos/270367311002234/

Five Senses Scavenger Hunt!

This activity would be an excellent way to get your children outside and exploring if they are currently cooped up at home.

To use the worksheet, simply download it, print it out or display it on a smartphone or tablet, take your kids into the backyard or to a nearby park, and see what they find.

This worksheet is divided into twelve sections, with each section asking children to locate an object that fills a sensory criterion, such as “something smooth”, “something yellow”, or “something that has a smell”.

What are some good scavenger hunt ideas?

Maths: Escape The Hut! 🔑

Apply learning and challenge reasoning and problem-solving skills with this fun, summer-themed group Escape The Hut!. Students are ‘locked’ inside a beach hut and must solve a range of maths puzzles hidden in the room in order to find the ten-digit keypad code which will unlock the door.

Fractions of amounts 🌗

In this summer themed fraction activity, children colour/circle fractions of amounts. They will find one half, one quarter or three quarters and one third or two thirds of a set of objects