Year 1 and 2 Garden Visitors – KS1 Home-Learning Pack

This home learning pack is designed for children in Years 1 and 2 (ages 5-7) to complete, with some adult support where possible.

It contains fun, engaging opportunities to develop and practise reading and writing skills that can be completed within a child’s home environment as part of a homeschool curriculum, based around the topic of ‘Garden Visitors’ with reading extracts from The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Activity sheets are provided – but if you do not have access to a printer, all activities could be completed using any paper or writing books that you have at home.

This primary resource includes:

• Reading practice: Year 1 – The Robin
• Reading practice: Year 2 – The Robin
• Writing Task – A Visitor to the Garden
• Garden Birds Identification Chart
• Garden Babies matching cards
• Design a garden activity
• Bird Spotting Journal

National Curriculum links

Reading

• Apply phonic knowledge and skills to read words
• Read accurately blending sounds in words
• Answer questions about what they have read

Writing

• Year 1: Write simple sentences
• Year 2: Write a character description

Science

• Identify and name a variety of common animals – birds
• Notice that animals, including offspring, have offspring that grow into adults

Geography

• Devise a simple map and use basic symbols for a key

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• Notes and guidance for teachers/parents/carers
• Reading practice Y1 - The Robin, with answers
• Reading practice Y2 - The Robin, with answers
• Writing task - a visitor to the garden
• Garden birds identification chart
• Garden babies matching cards
• Bird spotting journal