Year 3-6 Garden Visitors – KS2 Home-Learning Pack

This home learning pack is designed for children in Years 3-6 (ages 8-11) 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, based around the topic of ‘Garden Visitors’, with reading extracts from The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The activities can also be used as part of a homeschool curriculum.

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 3 / 4 – The robin who showed the way
• Reading practice Year 5 / 6 – The first visit
• Writing Task – The Secret Garden
• Secret Garden themed writing paper
• Garden Flowers Identification Chart
• Life cycles of flowering plants and animals
• Design a garden
• Wildlife journal

National Curriculum Links

Reading

• Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes, to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet;
• Check that a text makes sense to them, answering questions including using inference.

Writing

• Create setting (years 3/4);
• Describe settings (years 5/6).

Science

• Explore plant lifecycles
• Explore classification to identify and name a variety of living things (plants)
• Describe the differences in lifecycles of different animals

Geography

• Create sketch maps and plans

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• Reading practice - Y3/4 - The Robin Who Showed the Way (with answer sheet)
• Reading practice - Y5/6 - The First Visit (with answer sheet)
• Writing task - The Secret Garden
• Themed writing paper
• Garden Flowers Identification Chart
• Life cycles of flowering plants and animals - card sort activity
• Design a garden worksheet
• Wildlife journal