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You will need to gather up the musical instruments on the picture cards. Print the picture cards – you might want to laminate them if you are going to use them more than once. Set up a screen or a box so that the children cannot see which instrument you are using.
Encourage a small group of children to sit in a circle or facing the front so they can see you and the spelling robot. Have the picture cards ready. Sound out and blend the phonemes in the pictures.
Print out this lovely spelling robot and carefully cut out his "mouth" ready for posting cards through it. You could laminate the page for durability.
Make learning about music hands on fun with these playdough mats. Encourage the children to use different colours and to decorate their musical notes using beads, sequins or feathers.
Find out what sounds each instrument makes and then colour it in. Which one is your favourite?
Use our beautifully illustrated flash cards to explore the names of different musical instruments. How do you think that the instrument is played? How do you think the instrument will sound?
This is a really fun activity to do that encourages children to explore sounds and use their imagination. Ask the children to colour in the monsters on the sheet and then discuss with them what noise they think each monster would make.
Take the children on a walk and encourage them to listen carefully to the sounds that they hear. Remind the children how to be good listeners and discuss the importance of listening carefully when they are outside. When you return from your walk, make a list of the things that you heard.
Help the children to develop their memory skills by asking them after a listening walk if they remember which environmental sounds they heard. Discuss the sounds and ask the children to colour in anything that they heard.
This is a great way for children to think about their favourite sounds and record what they like and what they don’t like pictorially. If you have more than one child, you could compare their favourite sounds or rank them in order of popularity.
This is a great starting point for discussing children’s favourite sounds. Go through the pictures and ensure that the children understand what each picture represents. Discuss what sound each picture makes.
These environmental sounds flash cards are a great discussion point and can be used to extend children’s vocabulary and develop their understanding of the world. Use them before a listening walk to make predictions about what noises the children think that they might hear.
Here are 20 division with remainders problems for the kids to tackle.
There are 4 cards in this set with illustrated division problems for the kids to solve - perfect for beginners to dividing with remainders. You could laminate the cards and give the children a dry wipe pen to use to help to work out the answer.
Can the kids match up the improper fractions on the acorns to the correct mixed numbers?
This pretty autumn-inspired worksheet provides plenty of practice with working out, adding and subtracting squares and cubes. There are 14 questions in total and we've provided an answer sheet too.
Practise adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators with this pretty autumn-themed worksheets. There are 14 questions in total.
There are 14 questions on this pretty autumn worksheet, to give the kids practice at adding and subtracing fractions with different denominators. We've included an answer sheet so that they can check their work.
This number sentence involves squares and cubes, negative numbers and more - we've aimed it at Year 6 kids.
Solve the long number sentences - which will involve decimals, negative numbers and other Year 5 level maths skills.