Reception home learning 6th-15th January
Hi everyone, welcome to our latest home learning blog! I hope that you are all well and keeping safe.
Below is a set of ideas, games and activities to support your child’s learning while they are away from school. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me via the ‘contact Mrs Hulland’ button on the reception class front page or the school office. There are also links to other useful web pages on the reception class front page. Many of the activities below do not require any special equipment but can be done with things you may have at home. Please email pictures of your learning at home.
Phonics:
This week in our phonics lessons we are introducing the children to 4 new phase 3 sounds (ch, sh, th and ng; one new sound per day) as well as the tricky word you.
We are practising our blending skills for reading words and segmenting the sounds to help with our writing.
Ch:
Practise orally segmenting (chopping up) the sounds in the following words chop (ch-o-p), chin (ch-i-n) chip (ch-i-p) rich (r-i-ch) such (s-u-ch) plus any other simple words with ch in them (check, chug, chicken, chill) When sounding out try not to add uh at the end of ch, I am working on making video clips so you will be able to hear the ‘pure ‘ sounds as we try to teach them to the children.
Using cut up pieces of cardboard (cereal packets are great!) write down the letter sounds needed to create the words above; 1 sound per piece of card. (The ch will be written together on 1 piece as the 2 letters make 1 sound; this is called a digraph.)
Say a ch word. Can your child use the letter sound cards to create the word, sounding it out and blending together to read the word.
Practise writing the words too. Again encourage sounding out as they write it down: ch-i-p,chip.
Help your child to think of and then write a simple sentence with a ch word in it. For example ‘The man is rich.’ The chip is big’
Literacy:
Go on a treasure hunt in the house or garden and look for things beginning with different letters of the alphabet. You can use this alphabet sheet if you wish to.
Using a selection of simple objects using phase 2 letter sounds such as peg, pan, cat, dog, pig, hen, hat, pen, doll, play a game of I spy with my little eye…. and then sound out the object e.g c-a-t. The child has to blend the sounds together to say the word cat. Take turns to sound out the word. Can the child write down 5 of the objects using their phonics knowledge?
Play a game on ICT games called Big letter bunnies. The children have to match the captial letters to the lower case letters.
Practise forming their name correctly and begin to copy their surname too.
Use the letter formation sheet to practise writing letters of the alphabet.
Play a game of tricky word hopscotch. Draw up a hopscotch grid but instead of numbers write a tricky word from phase 2 or phase 3. Children say the tricky word as they land on it.
Practise reading their reading books or go onto some of the reading websites linked on the reception front page.
Play a game where you sit back to back with the child and each have an identical set of objects or coloured bricks. The child has to give a detailed description of what to build with the bricks or what to do with the objects. For example: ‘Turn the cup upside down and put the peg on top of it. Put the spoon inside the pan.’ After several instructions you turn around and see if you have both done the same thing with the objects.
Read familiar stories together such as the 3 little pigs. Encourage your child to re-tell the story. You could make story masks to go with it.
Use paint brushes and water to practise writing letters outside. Our most recent letters are j, v, w, x, y, z,zz and qu. Can the children think of words with these letter sounds in them?
Maths:
Create 2 sets of number cards from 1-10 using a cereal packet or any scrap cardboard. Use different coloured pens for each set. (you can use this number formation sheet; just click the link to see how we teach the children to form each number.) Play a matching pairs game with the 2 sets of number cards. Take turns to turn over 2 cards to try to find a matching pair. Can they say the numbers they have turned over? If the numbers are the same the child keeps them. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Using 1 set of number cards (or magnetic or plastic numbers if you have them) ask the children to put the numbers in order. Once the numbers are in order, take a number away, can they say what number is missing? Can they write the numbers down in order?
Put the numbers 1-10 in a bag or a box, pick out a number. Can the child count out objects to match that number? Repeat with different numbers (The objects can be toy cars, buttons, stickers, stones, pasta shapes or anything else that can be counted!)
Put out 2 groups of objects. Can they compare the 2 groups saying which has more and which has less? Repeat with different amounts of objects.
Play games such as snakes and ladders where the children have to role the dice and move their counters on the correct number of places. Teach children to recognise the number of spots on the dice without counting.
Play a game where the children have to count sounds such as claps, stomps or bangs on a drum (or saucepan!)
Develop simple concepts such as adding 2 groups of objects together. Create simple number sentences: 2+3=5 using number cards or writing them down.
Bake cakes together and teach children how to use scales to weigh out ingredients.
Select 3 or 4 items of food to weigh and put in order from lightest to heaviest.
Draw around the hands or feet of people in the family and put them in order from smallest to largest or the other way round.
Comparing groups of objects.
Other activites:
Make your own playdough using our easy recipe.
Follow the brain gym links on the main reception page and do one of the dance routines; the children love chu chu wah and chocolate!
Build a den and have a teddy bear’s picnic together, sharing food between each teddy bear.
Make a junk model car/ animal/ robot/ castle etc.
Take part in a Joe Wicks workout. Look on the link on the Reception front page The body coach.
The children have really enjoyed joining in with some cosmic kids yoga and meditation exercises. (Again look on the front page for Reception class)
Paint a self portrait.
Find out about what it is like in Antarctica. What animals live there? What is the weather like? How is it different to where we live?
Paint a picture of a penguin.
Make a toilet roll penguin.
5 steps to well being:
Connect: Phone or video call a relative to ask them how they are. Talk about the things you have been doing.
Be active: Go for a walk in the dark, don’t forget your torch. What can you see? Hear? Smell?
Keep learning: Find out how to say hello in a different language! We have learnt to say hello in French, Spanish, Italian. What about saying hello in Polish, Russian or Chinese?
Give: Give 10 minutes of your time to help someone else; help to tidy your bedroom or put clothes in the washing machine, maybe help to wash the dishes after tea.
Take notice: Sit quietly in the garden, how many birds and animals can you see? Do the birds make different sounds? Can you name the different birds you see?