We find this book is useful for looking at weather in different seasons, sorting materials to make clothing for different types of weather and for explaining how rainbows are made. It is 30 pages long, with one sentence of text, plus a few entertaining speech bubbles on each page. To help her go back to sleep, Mission control back on Earth tell Rosie stories about other robots in space. Include resources for making invitations and cards, and involve the children in creating healthy party snacks.

We love the way this book shows what robots do in the home, at the farm and on building sites, and especially like the settings some children may not of thought of, such as up in space or in a factory. Explain some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries, drawing on knowledge from stories, non-fiction texts and – when appropriate – maps.We have also includes blank versions of this resource for your Year 1 / Year 2 class to read the passage and choose sounds of their own. These lessons are aimed at a year 2 class, however they can be easily adapted for other year groups.

A donkey, a cow, a pig, a sheep and a tiny mouse try to get into a boat, but which one will cause it to sink? It’s a great resource for extending the knowledge and understanding of dinosaur fanatics and children with an interest in the past. For water related activities, see our looking through water STEM at home activity and our floating flowers activity.We think EYFS children will love the illustrations and die cut peek holes in the tree trunk where they can spy an owl throughout the seasons.

Ask the children to paint sheets of card in various colours, brush with PVA glue to make the paint glossy and cut the cards into balloon shapes. For related weather activities, see our wind sock STEM at home page and our reflective mobiles activity. Make a recycling diary for your home to record the different types (and amounts) of waste that you recycle in a week. Each picture has a brief caption of two or three words, with longer descriptions of the photographs and a map of the world at the end of the book. It is quite long at 28 pages with six lines of rhyming text per double page, but we think the vivid descriptions and detailed illustrations will keep the majority of EYFS aged children engaged.Lively full-page illustrations accompany the rhythmic, repetitive text, which is perfect to read aloud. We really love the predictable, rhythmic pattern of the text and onomatopoeic language used to describe the dinosaurs. For ice related activities, visit our meling ice STEM at home activiy and our insulating ice activity. His creative interior includes structures such as ball pools, helter-skelters and flying rooms, complete with robot arms to run it all. For light and dark related activities, visit our shadow tubes STEM at home page, our sundial page and our reflective mobiles page.

A rhyming book about what happens when a nocturnal monkey experiences the day and a diurnal monkey experiences the night for the first time. It’s a good way to show children that animals need to find their own food to survive, and some of this can come from trees they might see in their own environments.Week 2 looks at the author Sarah Roberts and the issue of plastic pollution in our seas to prepare children for making their own news report in week 3.