Reception home learning week beginning 27-4-20
Hello Reception!!
It is very strange not seeing you all everyday and being part of your learning. It has been amazing to hear about what you have been doing at home when I have spoken to your mums and dads on the phone; and even some of you have talked to me which was lovely. Keep sending in photos to our home learning showcase; the photos on there are fantastic and it shows how busy you have been.
I have tried to select a combination of learning activities this week; some that can be printed off as a worksheet, as some parents have requested, and others which require very few or no other resources. I have come across a website that is offering Early Years packs to download each week with different activities to do at home, all for free. It is the teacher’s pet website. Take a look, there are some nice ideas to pick and choose from. You will have to register and then sign up for the starter membership option. There are other membership options but these cost up to £20 for the year.
Some parents have requested worksheets for their children. Here is a selection:
Literacy ideas:
Learn phase 2,3 and 4 (and 5 if they know all the others) tricky words. Read the words, then rainbow write the words; write each tricky word down in a coloured crayon, then go over it with other colours. There are some practise sheets here if you want to print them out. Phase 3 words. Phase 4 words
Create an alphabet caterpillar. Cut out cardboard circles and write a letter of the alphabet on each one in capital letters (you could also use milk bottle tops if you have enough). Can the children put them in order saying their names? The alphabet song will help with this.
Make a second set of letters, but this time write lowercase letters on each circle. Can the children match all the uppercase letters to lowercase?
Play games with a tray of toys. Ask the child to give you different objects by sounding them out e.g p-i-g, sh-ee-p, f-ar-m-er, ch-i-ck-en. Once they can hear the sounds, swap roles so that they ask you for different objects by sounding out.
Play a game of ‘what’s the word Mr Wolf?’ Adult collects objects e.g book, fork, boat, brush, jumper, and places them in a bag.The children stands at one end of the garden, the adult at the other. The adult pulls out an object. The children segments the sounds in the word: f-or-k and moves 1 step for each sound. (3 in the word fork). Continue pulling objects out of the bag until the child reaches the adult…..’Dinner time!’
Write clues together for a treasure hunt around the house or garden.
Write the letters from the words Winshill Village School on scrap card. How many words can the children make by rearranging the letters? e.g win, hill, leg, go, so etc
Read a favourite story together.
Go on a walk or look in the garden. Make a list of 10 things you can see.
Think of an animal. Write down clues for someone else to read. e.g ‘It is a bug. It is red and black. It has spots.’ It is a ladybird’
Maths ideas:
Create ladybird doubles. Print out or draw a ladybird template. Count out spots onto one side (up to 10) then make it the same on the other side. How many altogether. Write it down as a number sentence. Do this again with different numbers.
Use the ladybird template again. This time find different ways to make 10 (or 20) spots altogether. e.g 3 on one side 7 on the other. 3+7=10.
Draw or print out 2 frogs and 10 flies ( you could use pebbles, milk bottle lids, counters etc to represent the flies). Share the flies between the 2 frogs, how many each? Repeat for other even numbers. Or share more flies between 3 or 5 frogs.
Use the frogs and the flies again. Count out the flies onto a tens frame, encourage the children to check there are 10. Make up stories about the hungry frog eating some of the flies. ‘The hungry frog eats 3 flies. How many are left?’ Write it down as a number sentence 10-3=7 Repeat with different numbers. To make it more difficult use numbers to 20.
Roll a die. Can the children say the number then continue counting from that number to 10 or 20?
If you have kitchen or bathroom scales, help the children to weigh 3 different toys and order them by weight.
Find different sized and shaped containers, find out which would hold the most / least water.
Create patterns using the tens frame, egg boxes, grids drawn on the floor etc. Can they make and continue 2 or 3 colour patterns?
Talk with the children about money! Where does it come from? What words do they know about money? (Coins, notes, pennies, pounds, cash, money, wallet, purse, bank, cash machine, card…)Can they create a poster all about money?
Make a number frieze. Write or paint large numbers to 10 or 20. Underneath each number stick on or draw the correct number of objects. Use your child’s interests; if they are interested in dinosaurs then make a dinosaur frieze. If they have stickers they could use these.
Creative ideas:
Make a fairy garden
Blow bubbles using different sized bubble wands
Make a face using natural objects.
Plant seeds or a small plant and look after it.
Make daisy chains. Who can make the longest?
Make a bug hotel or a bird box.
Paint rocks and hide them around the local area for others to find.
Make leaf rubbings using different colours and a range of different sized/ shaped leaves.
Go on a Spring detective hunt.
Make and fly a kite.
Develop simple sewing ideas. Using a piece of re-cycled cardboard (I seem to have lots of Amazon boxes lying around…not sure why!!!!!) Draw the child’s initial and then use a needle to make holes evenly around the letter. Choose 2 or 3 favourite coloured wool or embroidery threads and stitch around the letter one colour at a time. Another idea is to create flowers. Draw a simple flower shape, put holes around the edge and then sew around the edge and through the middle.
5 steps to well being:
Connect with family and friends: Contact friends or family and have a video chat
Be active: Set up a mini challenges in the garden, e.g how many star jumps, step ups , press ups, elbow to opposite knee in 1 minute? Bounce and catch a ball 5 times in a row. etc
Take notice: Reflect on the positives. Can the children think of 5 things they are thankful for? Maybe they could make a poster to show what they are thankful for. They could draw or stick pictures on, write words or the adult could write words for them.
Keep learning: Try to answer the quiz questions set up by Miss Goodson on the school webpage! Or maybe you could set up a quiz about your family.
Give: Offer to help with 3 chores around the house; maybe set the table for tea; tidy your bedroom; vacuum the lounge?