Reception home learning week beginning 4-5-20
Reception class you are all amazing! I am missing you all very much, but it has been lovely to see a few of you as we delivered the postcards last week. I have really enjoyed talking to you and your parents on the phone and hearing about what you have been doing. I love seeing your pictures in the gallery and seeing how busy you all are. I am working hard at home and sometimes in school, trying to find new things for you to do with your families. If any of the parents have ideas of what they want to see here, please let me know!
Literacy ideas:
Draw or paint a rainbow, write the letters of the alphabet over the top. Say the letter names as you write them down. Use the letter formation sheet to help form letters correctly.
Chalk phase 2, 3 and 4 tricky words outside, read and say each word then paint over them with a brush and water.
Play a game of BAM! (See below for instructions on how to play.) Use words containing phase 3 sounds: ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er. ( e.g shop, ship, shower, shed, shock, sheet, shark, short, singer, sheep)
Play word search games: Copy the grid below, then find the words snail, train, chair, paint, waist, tail, hair, nail, wait, pain.
Create an ‘I can’ booklet. The children think of things they can do, write their sentence I can… jump….. run….sing…..hop…..clap…..stamp…swim etc, then they draw a picture of themselves doing the activity. Encourage them to sound out the words when they write them down.
Make a poster of phase 4 words: lamp, golf, milk, tent, lunchbox, shampoo,sandwich, windmill. Children read the words then find and cut out pictures to match from old catalogues, leaflets etc (or draw the picture)
Ask the children to write about the things they can see from their windows. Encourage them to start each sentence with: ‘I can see….
Ask the children to read what I can see: ‘I can see the road. I can see a red car. I can see a big tree. I can see a garden. I can see a black cat.’ When they have read it ask them to tell you what I can see. Can they remember three things?
Use re-cycled card to write simple objects on (car, paint, pig, shelf, tractor, jumper, socks, milk, tent, belt, ) and put them in a pile face down.Play a memory game. ‘I went to the shop and I bought a…( turn over the first card) car. ‘ Continue to the next person who has to remember the first object, then turn over the second card ( car and some paint). Keep playing and turning over the cards and adding more things to remember.
Play a describing game with someone at home. Choose an object that you can see and describe it to the other player using three clues.
Maths ideas
Play a game of snakes and ladders, encouraging the children to count as they move their counter on.
Play a game of BAM! (see below for instructions) Use doubles. e.g double 3, double 5. Use simple addition questions 3+2=. Encourage them to count on from the first number to find the answer.
Write out numbers 0-20 on scrap card and mix them up (or use magenetic numbers). How quickly can they put them in the correct order? Use a timer and see if they can beat their score a second time.
Draw a snake with some spots on. How many are there? Write the number under the snake. Draw another snake with 1 more spot. Draw a snake with 1 less spot.
There are 12 children in the class. Half are boys and half are girls. Draw a picture to show how many are boys and how many are girls. (You may need to help the children to find how many there would be).
There are 10 cakes on a plate. Can the children share them between 5 people? How many each?
Choose 2 of your favourite-coloured pens. Draw a circle with one colour and a triangle with another, then another circle with the same first colour and another triangle with the same second colour. Continue the pattern. Can you make a pattern with the 2 the same, then another 2 the same, e.g. ‘red, red, blue, blue’?
Look around your house and see how many different ways of measuring time, you can find. Can you find a clock? …a watch? …a timer? …a sand timer? …a stopwatch? What are these things used for? What numbers can you see? Take some photos or draw a picture of some different ways to measure time.
Play a simple drawing game with someone in your family. Sit back-to-back, so you can’t see what the other person is drawing on their paper. You start and describe something for you both to draw, e.g. “Draw a house in the middle of the page.” Then your friend says something to draw, e.g. “Draw a tree next to the house.” Continue this so you each say 3 things and then turn around to see if the pictures match!
Use building bricks to measure some of your toys. How many bricks high are they? Can you put 5 toys in order from the shortest to the tallest?
Creative ideas
Make pizza together
Paint pictures of different kinds of weather.
Make paper plate pets.
Play a game of nature hunt bingo get 5 in a row to win.
Explore colour mixing. Use different food colouring and water. Mix a couple of drops at a time to create new colours or shades of colour. Can they create a rainbow of colours? Use different coloured paints to create a rainbow.
Skittles science experiment: arrange the skittles sweets in a circle around a plate. Carefully pour water into the middle of the sweet circle and watch what happens. Gently wobble the plate and watch.
Fill three jars full of water. Add red Food colouring to one, blue to another, and yellow to another. Put an empty jar between red and yellow, yellow and blue, and blue and red.Roll kitchen roll into tube-like pieces and put one end in a full jar and the other end in an empty jar. The kitchen roll will start soaking up the water right away, but it will take about 48 hours before the colour mixing is finished.
Paint a rainbow fish, use pieces of celery to print different coloured scales.
Make bubble paint caterpillars, butterflies or other bugs.
Make toilet tube bumblebees or ladybirds.
5 steps to well being
Connect: Send Mrs Hulland an email to tell her what you have been doing and how you’re feeling.
Be active: Can you bounce a ball on a bat 5 times? 10 times? Bounce a ball on the floor and catch it. 5 times? 10 times?
Take notice: Look at family photos. How have you changed since you were a baby? Who do you look like? Look at similarities/ differences between you and other friends and family.
Keep learning: Can you make a family tree and find out about your relatives?
Give: Make cakes or biscuits to give to someone special
BAM! A game for 2+ players.
You will need:
• Craft/lollypop sticks
• Marker pen
• Small tin can or similar
To play;
Use the marker to write a word or sum for revision on one end of each craft stick – you can include maths facts such as doubles or addition/ subtraction questions, phase 2 or 3 sounds, tricky words or other words to sound out and blend from phase 2, 3 or 4.
Write BAM! on an additional 2-4 sticks. Place all sticks into the can so that the end with the fact on it is hidden inside the can.
Players take turns drawing a stick from the can. Players must answer the fact correctly to keep the stick. If the player answers incorrectly, the stick is returned to the can.
If the player draws a BAM! stick, they must return all their sticks to the can.