Reception home learning week beginning 11-5-20
Hi Reception! Well it has been another week of home learning and I hope you are all well and keeping busy. I have been busy finding and painting rocks for each of you and I will be sending them out to you very soon. Along side all the activities I will be giving you there is also another website that I would like to direct you to. It is the Oak national academy. There are loads of really great activities to do on this webpage specifically for reception. Click on ‘classroom’, then ‘subjects’ and ‘reception’; this will give options of subjects to look at, or ‘schedule’ and ‘reception’; this will give a week of activities breaking them up into subjects in daily tabs. It’s really easy to use (even I managed it!!) and is well worth a browse.
Literacy ideas:
Play a game of Big letter bunnies on Ict games. Children match capital letters to lowercase letters.
Play a game oh phoneme splat. Have phase 3 sounds written on scrap card placed on a table (or drawn in chalk on the patio) you will need a second set of the sounds in a bag to pull out. Pull out a sound from the bag, the child says what it is and finds it on the cards on the table and splats it with a fly swatter, or jumps on the sound if playing outside.
Play High frequency word bingo on Ict games. (phase 3 or 4) Either print off a bingo board from the site or copy them down.
Cover a tray with a thin layer of rice. (You can make it coloured by adding a few drops of food colouring to rice in a bowl and stir it in, then leave it to dry over night) Use a brush to write words in the rice using phase 2/3 sounds. You could use the sound cards from the phoneme splat game, pull out a card e.g ng and write down a word with ng in it such as ring.
Play caption clips on Ict games. Children watch the clip and write the caption that goes with it. The captions can be seen quickly by the adult by clicking the eye icon! The children will have come across the captions before with pictures, but not necessarily the video clips.
Children to write simple instructions for a treasure hunt around the house. E.g ‘Go to the bathroom, look in the bath.’ Look under the bin.’
Play pick a picture on phonics play. Choose to go the new site with march20 as the username and home as the password. Children read a word and match it to the correct picture.
Read a book together. Take it in turns to read a page to each other. The ebooks on the reception front page are good options if you have run out of your own books. It is definitely worth registering (for free) on the Oxford owl sight as there are lots of books to read here.
Ask the children to think about different rooms in their home and what is there. They can write clues about each room for you to guess which room they are thinking about. They may need to learn the tricky word ‘there’. ‘In this room there is a bath and a sink'. ‘In this room there is a bed and a lamp’ (The activity isn’t about writing complex clues but just getting them writing!) Send them in to the home learning page as a challenge for their friends.
Write a letter to Mrs Hulland about what you have been doing and post it on the home learning page.
Maths ideas:
Make a number caterpillar. Children write numbers to 20 on circles of cardboard and put them in order. They could also create a number caterpillar counting in 2s or 5s.
Find different ways to make 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10. Write the target number in the middle of a page with a circle around it. Then choose 2 different coloured counters (blocks, buttons, smarties… anything that you can choose 2 different colours) make the target number in different ways e.g 2+3=5, 4+1=5, 3+2=5
Use the 2 different coloured counters to create addition towers.
Play a number game Use a ball to throw into a numbered box, throw a second ball into another numbered box and count on from the first amount to find the total.
Make a set of cards on a grid and a second set of numbers on milk bottle lids. Children think of the number 1 more and 1 less than the number in the middle of the grid and place the correct numbered milk bottle lids either side.
Make butterfly doubles. Cut out butterfly shapes and paint spots on one side. Fold it over and press down to reveal spots on the other side. Write the number sentence e.g 2+2=4. 3+3=6
Create a collage using different shaped tissue paper. Talk about the shapes used.
Create symmetrical butterflies using different shaped paper, sequins, stickers or natural objects etc.
Do some simple measuring using hand prints as the unit of measure. Print hand prints going up the side of a large piece of paper (Wallpaper or wrapping paper would be great) then place different objects next to the hand prints and measure them. If you have enough paper the children could measure how many hand prints tall they and other family members are.
Teach children to use kitchen scales to weigh out ingredients for a simple cake.
Creative ideas:
Explore the art of circles. Circle art 1. Circle art 2. Circle art 3. Circle art 4.
Make a shaker to join in with clap for the NHS (If they’re still up at this time!) Decorate a yogurt pot, add some rice, put grease proof paper over the top and secure with an elastic band.
Create a rainbow rice picture. Make different coloured rice by adding drops of food colouring to uncooked rice and stirring it in. Leave to dry overnight. Children could create a rainbow with their coloured rice.
Make eggbox animals. Caterpillars. Ants. Rabbit. Ladybird or flowers.
Make a finger print blossom tree.
Make a collage using natural materials. Make a cardboard frame and sticky back plastic and stick objects on. Or use the natural objects to make a person or an animal.
Make playdough or salt dough animals.
Try printing with different sized/ shaped objects or even potato printing.
Plant some plants and look after them. Write some instructions to tell other people what you did.
Make a sensory barefoot walk in the garden. Use trays or bowls with different textures in: mud, grass, straw, dry soil/ sand, crushed ice, leaves, bubble foam, smooth stones etc etc.
5 steps to well being:
Connect: Play your favourite game with someone in your family.
Be active: Play a game of magic beans. You could also add ‘French beans’ into this game and the children could shout ‘bonjour’ or ‘ooh la la’ when you say french beans!
Take notice: As you go out for a walk look for objects for each of the colours of the rainbow.
Keep learning: Learn how to make a sandwich.
Give: Paint some stones and write positive messages on them, leave them for people to find on their walk.
