This is a good activity for working on minibeast vocabulary, especially for small group work with EAL or SEN children. There is a set of four lotto boards, with corresponding cards to cut out, and it can be laminated to make it more durable.
Are your kids buzzing to learn about bees? This 160 pages resource pack includes many engaging and exciting activities for your students. This resource will captivate your kids. Written in kid friendly language the information pages and activities will deepen your students understanding. Your kiddo’s will be buzzing with new knowledge in no time.
Included in this printable pack are the following resources:
Posters:
•Entomologist
•Bees
•Where do bees live
•Anatomy
•Diagram
•Life Cycle of a honey bee
•Beehives
•Diet
•In the beehive
•Queen Bee
•Worker Bee
•Drone Bee
•Bee Jobs
•Bee Keepers
•Bees and Humans
•Pollination
•Communication
•Bee Wax
•Honey
Life Cycle Spinner
Life Cycle Flip Book
Life Cycle Honeycomb
Did You Know? Bee Facts
Word Wall
Mini Book (2 levels)
Research Report
Differentiated Comprehensions
Worker Bee Timeline - Day 1 - Day 45
Worksheet and Graphic organizers:
◈Label a Bee
◈KWL Charts
◈All About Bees
◈Bees Can Have Are
◈Bee Life Cycle
◈Bee Facts
◈Word Search
◈Acrostic Poem
◈A Bee C Order
◈Syllable Sort
◈Noun, Adjectives and Verbs
◈Describing a Picture
◈If I was a Bee
◈Fact or Opinion
◈Venn Diagrams
◈Fill in the Blanks
◈Investigation
◈Puzzles
◈Syllable Sort
◈Noun, Adjectives and Verb sort
KS1 Narrative writing pack.
Includes -
5 lesson ppt to support planning, writing and editing their story.
Differentiated worksheets, word mat, and setting/character cards.
Adjectives to describe a character
Describe a setting
Planning template - story map
editing prompts
self-assessment
5 lesson ppt and differentiated worksheets to support grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Activities -
question marks
exclamation marks
Adding the correct punctuation
suffixes -er and -est
identifying verb groups
Ticklist of common creepy crawlies.
Get kids outdoors exploring with this fresh activity from the Woodland Trust's nature detectives website. Bring the outdoors into your classroom with this inspiring activity from the Woodland Trust's nature detectives website.
This is an assembly I used with Year 1 children. We share information we have found out about different minibeasts then act out the story 'The very greedy bee.' Songs are from cbeebies or out of the ark -minibeasts CD
A six week unit of work linked to questions. Questions attached so you can enlarge and display in the classroom. Activities and outcomes included. Lots of exciting ways to engage children in a Minibeast topic.
A small collection of minibeast photos that I put together for my class as part of our module on minibeasts, ecosystem, life cycle, and habitats.
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This KS1 microhabitats (or micro-habitats) activity is a fun way for children to explore where minibeasts would like within a garden. They’ll also think about why different minibeasts prefer different microhabitats.
Use this resource to support a year 2 science lesson about local habitats/microhabitats or before exploring the microhabitats in your school grounds.
This resource includes:
A3 printable garden (with and without microhabitat labels)
A4 printable garden (with and without microhabitat labels)
12 common minibeasts to place in the garden
Minibeast ID sheet
Guidance notes on how the resource could be used, including follow up questions to explore together.
Primary science link:
identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and
plants, and how they depend on each other
identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats
This brilliant educational worksheet is a great learning activity for all little bug enthusiasts. Print it out then take it with you on a nature walk and tick or cross the box supplied, a hint has been provided to help little ones locate the bugs easier. A bright, simple and enjoyable exercise that guarantees lots of fun.
Recommended Age: 4+
Minibeast class assembly pack suitable for EYFS, Y1. I used this with my Reception Class and the children, parents and whole school loved it!
This pack includes everything you need to do a class assembly.
Included:
A script which is fully editable. I have highlighted some key text which could be changed for example this pack refers to the story ‘Superworm’ but you may have learnt a differnt book.
Ideas for art work produced to show in your assembly (again this could be changed dependant on what art work or learning your class have produced)
2 songs to learn
Powerpoint outline - fully editable
A colouring page that I drew for my class as part of our minibeasts module all about bugs, insects, life cycle, and habitats.
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A great whole class teaching activity or group activity – children use labels and pictures to sort minibeasts into insect or not insect, and match key features while cooperatively making decisions and discussing the different possibilities.
Includes instructions, posters (text) to introduce Minibeasts, minibeasts pictures, group and features labels, recording worksheets and posters to check answers.
Follow up activities – worksheets:
• Complete a table, matching minibeasts with features and identifying if it is an insect or not
• Identify insects and not insects by circling in different colours
• Classification keys – use a series of questions to identify each minibeast
• Complete a Venn Diagram – list key features to compare insects and not insects
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A great starter activity for KS1 when teaching mini beasts or insects in Science. Print this resource several times, laminate and cut up the photos and hide in a tray with shredded paper. Place a tray on each table and challenge the children to work together to place the photos they find on the correct name of each mini beast. The table to complete first is the winner!
This resource is differentiated by having a brief description of some of the more difficult to identify mini beasts, such as distinguishing between the damselfly and the dragon fly, written on the card…
Six resources for EYFS numeracy on the theme of Minibeasts.
Introduce number stories with the presentation and then work on numeracy with the worksheets. Doubling & halving, Addition and Counting.
Set of worksheets to learn about minibeasts, their body parts, their features and habitats (minibeasts hunt), life cycle of a butterfly, butterflies colours and patterns (camouflage).
Activities include reading and answering questions, labelling, highlighting answers in different colours, completing a table, using word banks to complete sentences, sorting cut and paste, and illustrating.
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