Reception home learning week beginning 6-4-20

Reception children and parents it sounds like you have all had busy weeks and are doing some fantastic home learning, WELL DONE! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!. It is lovely to see pictures of the things you have been doing and also the messages you have been sending in, so please keep them coming.

I am really trying to think of activities that do not require you to print out worksheets as I am aware many of you do not have printers at home. If you come across any ideas for activities that you think others may wish to do please share these with me via the web page and I can then pass them on.

Maths activities:

Use some of your cardboard re-cycling to create a set of numbers (up to 20) Ask the children to write the numbers on them using the number formation examples on the Reception page, useful documents area.

Ordering numbers

Number sentence

Comparing groups of objects

Making patterns

Making patterns

  1. Choose a number card and count out the correct number of objects to match.

  2. Choose 2 number cards, count out the correct amount of objects, then compare the 2 groups. Which has more? Which has less?

  3. Choose a number card. Can the children say the number 1 more or 1 less?

  4. Order the numbers to 10 or 20.

  5. Choose 3 number cards. Can the children put them in order smallest to largest? Largest to smallest?

  6. Choose 2 number cards below 10 to add together using objects to help.

  7. Create repeating patterns using beads, buttons, pompoms, pasta shapes; anything that can be used to repeat a pattern.

English activities:

  1. Go on a treasure hunt in your garden or around your house finding something you see, smell or touch for every letter of the alphabet. You can use the alphabet sheet here if you like.

  2. Chalk a hopscotch grid and use tricky words instead of numbers. Children have been exposed to tricky words from phases 2,3 and 4. Tricky words in phases

  3. Use water and a paintbrush to paint phase 2 and 3 phonemes (sounds) on the floor. Can they think of words with that phoneme in? e.g oo in boot, ow in cow, ee in sheep.

  4. Use re-cycled cardboard to create a set of phase 2 and 3 phonemes. (See sounds mat in useful documents section) Create words using the cards. Children can make real or fake words.

  5. Using a collection of objects: play ‘I spy with my little eye a… p-e-g’ Take turns with the children to sound out the different objects. (Objects such as c-ar, c-u-p, c-ow, sh-ee-p) Can they write a list of the objects?

  6. Write about the things they can see/ hear in the garden or on a walk outside.

Indoor activities:

  1. Make playdough (see our easy recipe in the useful documents section)

  2. Learn a dance routine

  3. Paint a self portrait

  4. Build a den and have a teddy bear’s picnic in it

  5. Bake cakes

  6. Make a junk model car/ animal/ robot/ castle etc (Take a look at Mason’s robot in the children’s picture gallery)

Easter crafts:

Here is a small selection of Easter craft activities I have found, there are many more on pinterest, twinkl and google to name a few.

  1. Make an Easter card (Just a couple of possible examples here)

  2. Make an Easter bunny or a bunny card or bunny skittles or toilet tube bunny or bunny egg cup or bunny art with chalk

  3. Make an Easter chick picture or a hand and foot print chick or an egg box chick (or a whole family of different coloured chicks!)

  4. Make egg box flowers or hand print flower bouquet

  5. Paint Easter egg rocks or potato egg prints or lace an Easter egg

Outdoor activities:

Enjoy the outdoors, while the weather is warm.

  1. Go on a bug hunt in the garden

  2. Create your own assault course

  3. Activities for each letter of your name

  4. Play ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf?’

  5. Make a mud pie or magic potion

ReceptionAlison Hulland