Learning zone - year 1 & 2

Area of learning

A story about the character Mr. Bump who is always having accidents.

Watch and listen to animated versions of four of Aesop’s most famous stories about animals.

An ideal site for Year 1 children learning how to spell three letter words (consonant-vowel-consonant). The football imagery is likely to appeal to boys and girls.

A good site for learning about how a consonant blend can combine with a rime to produce a word. Suitable for high attaining Year 1 pupils and Year 2 pupils.

A good game for Year 1 pupils. This activity allows children to practise reading common words.

Eight simple stories about animals, beautifully illustrated with digital photographs. This is a particularly popular website which has been created by Kent County Council.

A series of three multimedia stories. Children can hear a simple story as well as doing a number of simple activities.

Listen to authors who have written favourite children’s stories or play an interactive game related to the story.

Two good stories for children about this well known character who spends his life visiting different places. The stories help to develop children’s understanding about how places differ.

Five and six year olds will love these literacy games. Set around the Oxford Reading Tree characters, children can practise where the full stops and capital letters go and have fun too.

The familiar game of Snakes and ladders in an interactive format. Good for practising counting up to 100.

Children can practise simple addition and subtraction calculations, using numbers no bigger than 12.

A good activity for practising telling the time. This is a particularly good tool for parents to use at home to help your child learn how to tell the time.

A BBC site designed for Year 2 pupils. A wide range of mathematical topics that children learn about in Year 2 are included.

A huge range of mathematical games that focus on supporting pupils’ understanding of different areas covered in the Key Stage 1 mathematics curriculum.

One of many games on the ICT games website.

A simple drop and drag activity involving children placing animals in their correct environment. It assists children to understand the idea of natural habitats.

A simple drop and drag activity involving children placing animals in their correct environment. It assists children to understand the idea of natural habitats.

There are multimedia activities about humans and animals, habitats and materials.

Help Sparky, the alien to find out about plants.

Two different sites are available each containing five different interactive activities.

Find out about different habitats: the plants and animals that live there.

A fun quiz to see if you know what uses mains electricity and batteries. Make the bulb light up in a circuit and see if you can spot the dangers in a kitchen.