Reception

Personal Social and Emotional Development activities:  

Mrs Boon has prepared some activities you might like to share at home with your child.  These include breathing exercises, free resources from Jigsaw PSHE (a great scheme which we use in school) and some learning based around a wonderful book called 'The Colour Monster'.  These could be really useful to help your child work through some tricky emotions at this time: 
PSED Home Learning

Fine and gross motor activities

Playdough -

Play dough recipe

Please find above the recipe for making your own playdough at home. It helps to build up and develop very important hand and finger muscles. This gives your child the ability to skillfully use their hands and fingers which is used while writing, eating, playing with toys, dressing etc. Rolling even thickness playdough sausages using the palms of their hands, pinching the sausages using their tripod grip (index, middle finger and thumb), rolling small balls between the tripod fingers are just some of the actions that will strengthen their muscles.

You could even try a 'dough disco' on the 'Spread the Happiness' Youtube channel at 9.30 a.m. each day.  There is usually an exciting theme, some fun music and a very lively presenter to help you exercise your fingers! You just need a little ball of dough.

 

 ‘The body coach’ Joe Wicks is offering virtual PE lessons at 9am each weekday on his YouTube channel so that may be worth looking at to help your children to stay active and burn some energy! PE with Joe

 

Mr Sanders, our PE coach has been busy creating an activity  for you and your children to complete and use at home to help you stay active. The materials you need have been added to tapestry.  Mr Sanders is going to post regular videos to help everyone stay active at home, so please do look up MSportActive on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube if you’re able to do so.  PE with Mr Sanders

Update 11.4

Boogie Beebies provide short dance workouts your child may like to try.

There are also 10 minute 'Disney shake-ups' available to keep you active at home.

Update 6.5 - Scholastic have made some free Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler home learning packs available with lots of ideas linked to these popular stories.  You can download the one you'd like to try by clicking on the relevant title:  
Superworm 
Tiddler
Zog
Tabby McTat
Zog and the Flying Doctors
The Smeds and the Smoos
Stick Man
The Scarecrows' Wedding
The Highway Rat
The Ugly Five
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We recently shared with you on Tapestry that the government has just published a list of approved apps for children under five. (If you look up ‘Hungry Little Minds’ you will find the full list.) One of them is called ‘Teach your monster to read’. 'Phonics Hero' is another suggestion.  It’s always good to have new, fun ways to practise those important reading skills and as your child moves through the levels the difficulty will progress to challenge your little ones.

The letter cards included in your blue home learning book can be used to make words with or if your child is seeking a challenge, perhaps they can start to write simple sentences with one in. For example, the word 'sun' can be made from the letters. Your child could think of a simple sentence to write such as, 'I can see the sun'.

Phonics play is a website we use at school.  It’s now free for parents to use.  We are currently working through phase 3 phonics.  You will be able to tell from the home learning journal which letter sounds we’ve learnt so far (up to ‘oo’) and most games have an option to select which sounds or words you’d like to practise.  The login details you need are: username: march20  password: home.

Please enjoy exploring the free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3–11 years old. It is there to help your child learn to read, and love to read, with a range of over 100 free eBooks: Oxford Owl

Update 31.3 Collins Big Cat are also providing free access to their e-books during this period of school closures.  To help you choose an appropriate book, the book band colours should be the same as your child's current school reading books (look for the pink, red or yellow tab on the side).  To find the ebooks, go to the teacher portal within Collins Connect.  You will need the username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk and the password: parents20!

The author Oliver Jeffers is reading one of his books each day online.  You can find the videos here:

Oliver Jeffers

Making your own cosy reading den to relax in together and share a story together might be something your choose to do. If you have any fairy lights from Christmas, this might make it an extra special space to snuggle up with a book.

Update 11.4

Audible are providing free access to all children's audiobooks during this time.

We love the numberblocks at school and the BBC have provided lots of videos and activity ideas to help you support your child's mathematical development alongside the numberblocks video clips.

 

White Rose Maths, the scheme we use in school, are providing fun home learning ideas daily.  Please have a look at: White Rose Maths - Early Years home learning

Other ideas to try:

Ordering numbers 1-20 - Write the numbers onto cards/paper (adults to help), shuffle the cards and support your child in ordering them correctly. If you get a bit stuck, try counting up from 1 to remind you of what comes next.

Counting an amount - Using the 1-20 cards, pick a card and count out the correct amount of an object. Pencils, pasta, beads etc work really well for this and you must count as you place the item so you count 1:1.

Practising number formation - There are some great online resources, such as https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-n-4818-number-formation-tracing-strips-0-20 to help show you where to start and stop when writing numbers. There are lots of different ways you can make this exciting, for example, in shaving foam using your finger to write, paints, chalks on the ground or simply pens and paper.

Creating treasure hunts at home using positional language such as 'on, in, under, next to, between, in front of, behind, around, through' to help give clues to find special items is a fun way to develop language as well as carefully listening to instructions.

Outdoor activities

Learning through Landscapes are providing some great ideas for outdoor learning which might be useful if you have a garden, or when out and about on your daily walk.  They also provide indoor alternatives.  Please take a look:  

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Creative activities

For those children who like to use Lego to construct for a purpose, adapt and refine their designs there is a calendar of daily challenges such as building a rocket for NASA and Prince Charming needing help to build him and Cinderella a castle to live in: Lego challenge calendar  

 

Update 7.5 Hampshire Music Service have created a powerpoint with some fun moon-related music learning opportunities you might like to try at home.  It's designed for KS1 but a lot of it is accessible for Year R children too:

Journey to the moon music ideas

 

Classroom secrets home learning pack  - Classroom Secrets have also produced a pack of practical ideas for home learning which you may wish to dip into.