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EYFS & KS1 Animal Reading and Writing Activities

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Description This resource pack offers fun activities, themed around a different animal for each year group. For EYFS & KS1 the animals are puffin, squirrel and owl. There are five sessions for each year group and activities include discussing photographs, research tasks, and writing. Online clips are provided, and the activities can be adapted, extended, or supplemented with books to fit your pupils needs. A KS2 pack is also available.

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  • Overview Creatures Great and Small.pdf 360.22 KB
  • EYFS Puffin Day 1 Talk Time.pdf 359.10 KB
  • EYFS Puffin Day 2 Fact Finding.pdf 356.67 KB
  • EYFS Puffin Day 3 Poetry.pdf 348.60 KB
  • EYFS Puffin Days 4 and 5 Storytelling.pdf 440.35 KB
  • EYFS Puffin Photo.pdf 345.29 KB
  • Y1 Squirrel Day 1 Talk Time.pdf 367.25 KB
  • Y1 Squirrel Day 2 Fact Finding.pdf 377.23 KB
  • Y1 Squirrel Day 3 Research.pdf 318.57 KB
  • Y1 Squirrel Days 4 and 5 Writing.pdf 352.43 KB
  • Y1 Squirrel Photo.pdf 345.55 KB
  • Y2 Owl Day 1 Talk Time.pdf 367.43 KB
  • Y2 Owl Day 2 Fact Finding.pdf 347.97 KB
  • Y2 Owl Day 3 Research.pdf 363.44 KB
  • Y2 Owl Days 4 and 5 Writing.pdf 361.24 KB
  • Y2 Owl Photo.pdf 370.64 KB

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