Six Areas of Learning
These comprehensive teaching resources cover all Six Areas of Learning in a fun and imaginative way and provide ideas for a full term's work on the topics. .Many more on our Foundation Stage pages.
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Foundation Stage topic on buildings
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My dad is brilliant-topic FS
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6 goals on The hungry caterpillar
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My mum is fantastic topic
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Exploring shape and colour for FS
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Topic ideas
The beginning of number
Introduction to number and number concepts can be covered both orally, tthrough matching games and pages enjoyed together with an adult.
Foundation stage maths ideas
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Help your child with telling the time - FS
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Maths thoughts for R and KS1
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Many parents nowadays do start the process of teaching phonics at home by their pronunciation of the first letter of a word. This process can be tailored in school to make the teaching of phonics both enjoyable and beneficial. See the Phonics page for more resources.
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Phonic actions for s,a,t,i,p and n
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Phonic actions for g,o,u,l,f and b
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Phonic actions for y,x,ch,sh,th
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Animal sounds used to teach phonics
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Language work on Humpty Dumpty
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Nursery rhymes help with phonic sounds
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Nursery rhymes for phonics
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Letters and sounds for FS
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Children from an early age emulate adults by putting 'pen tp paper'. They love colouring and using crayons and these activities can be beneficial in learning the art of handwriting. Our handwriting pages include examples of the various styles of handwriting.
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Animals reading and writing practice
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Shapes and writing patterns
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Write over numbers; colour pictures
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Nursery rhymes
Traditional nursery rhymes
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Action rhymes for 4 year olds
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Counting rhymes for three year olds
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Can you name these nursery rhymes
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Below you will see just a small sample from our range of English pages. These will help the beginning of learning in a fun and imaginative way. More topics can be found through the Worksheet Finder.
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The little red hen rebus story
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Language work on Humpty Dumpty
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears discussion board
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Resources for teachers
We have collected together a range of resources to help you. You will find many more resources on the Worksheet Finder, under Teacher's resources.
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Communication, language and literacy
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Crickweb Early Years resources
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High frequency words R to 2
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Knowledge & understanding of the world
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