Reception home learning Here is the Reception home learning

pack for children to complete whilst at home.

Please complete 3-4 activities each day and upload any activities onto Tapestry or complete the activities in the book we have provided. This can help us to keep a record of your child’s progress. We hope you find these activities very

useful.

Miss Dymond, Mrs Mepani-Madhaparia and Miss Fernando

Dear Parents,

Please find a list of suggested websites below. We hope you find these websites useful and enjoy using these sites to enhance your child’s learning experiences at home!

Kind regards,

Reception Team

TWINKL- How do I sign up for the free month?Step 1: Go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offerStep 2: Enter the code you have received, or CVDTWINKLHELPS if you have not yet been given a codeStep 3: Share the offer code and website link with anyone who could benefit Phonics websites

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ParentsMenu.htm A selection of interactive games for all phonic phases.

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ Printable resources for each of the Letters and Sounds phonic phases, also links to games aligned with each phase.

www.ictgames.com/literacy.htmlA great selection of games that link well with games in Letters and Sounds.

http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticletters/ Ask your child to make any words with this spelling game.

http://www.phonicsinternational.com/hear_the_sounds/hear_the_sounds_1.htm Useful page which demonstrates pronunciation of all sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Many games often recognised by children from their favourite programmes.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/games--1/

https://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/class-management/interactive-games/

Phonics videos

Mr Brocks phonics-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tteyeA7lklY Videos to help you and your child with the correct pronunciation of all the phonemes.

Tricky words and sight word songs-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

Phonics Blending Song CVC Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWn-qxUddqo

Maths websites and videos

http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

http://www.ictgames.com/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Let's Get Fit | Count to 100 | Count to 100 Song | Counting to 100 | Jack Hartmannhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc

Super movers-Videos to help Literacy, Maths and PSHE. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-collection/zbr4scw

ABC does-

https://abcdoes.com/home-learning/

Go on a coin hunt and collect together all the loose coins in your house, Can you sort them into different types and learn how much they are worth?Can you make a shop with your toys and practise buying things with the coins?

Junk modelling-go on hunt for used boxes, tubes and pots. Can you make an amazing model with them?

Can you build a den? Use sheets and pegs to make an awesome den. Once you have finished it, can you take a photograph and put it on Tapestry for your teachers to see? Can you make a sign to tell people about your den?

Go on a technology hunt in your house. Can you find all the things that need to be plugged in or turned on to

work. Can you write or draw the things you find?

Choose an animal you love. Use the internet and books to

find out facts about the animal. Find out whether it comes from an egg, how it

grows, what it eats, where it lives, how big it is, what it needs to be healthy etc.

Choose how your record what you find out-poster, booklet,

video, model

Go on an old photo hunt in your house. Get mummy and daddy and grandparents to get out their old photos and talk about them to you. How have people changed? What was different when mummy and daddy were younger? and when Grandparents were younger?

Choose a recipe and help a grown up to bake it. See if you can be in charge of the measuring-can you read the recipe book and measure the ingredients correctly?

Write an email to your teacher to tell them what you’ve been doing, maybe you can send a photo. Your

teacher may write back!

Go outside for a walk and notice signs of Spring, can you find buds on trees, flowers growing, baby animals? Take photos or draw what you find.

Ask a grown up to show you how to make paper aeroplanes or use Youtube to help.Test them out outside, measure the distance with a tape measure. Which one goes the furthest?

Make an obstacle course outside like Ninja Warrior, what can you use to travel over, under and through? Time yourself to complete the challenge using a grown up’s phone, can you improve your time?

Draw, paint or make a model of a spring flower.

Home Learning Rainbow challengesPlease record what your child makes, learns or discovers on Tapestry-we’d love to see!

Home learning- Reception Physical Development-Health and Self Care, Gross and Fine Motor Skills

Health and Self Care

Make a poster about keeping your teeth clean.

Gross Motor Skills Create a hop scotch and use balancing and co-ordination skills.

Gross Motor Skills

Try some yoga on you tube.Search for ‘Cosmic kids yoga.’

Fine Motor SkillsCan you make a chain of paper clips? Can you make a chain longer than a pencil, a ruler, a book or your table?

Create a healthy meal using different food groups.

Wall push ups

Find a wall, how many arm pushes can you do in minute?

Gross Motor Skills

Try some dancing. On you tube search ‘Just dance’

Use a mini hole punch – how many holes can you make in a piece of paper, card, tissue paper even leaves?

Practise cleaning your hands properly. Making sure that you rub soap on all areas on your hands.

Use your body to be different animals.Snake- slither around the floorButterfly- flutter around the roomElephant-stomp with both feetKangaroo-bounce aroundFrog-hop like a frogFlamingo-stand still on one leg

Fine Motor Skills

Sort coins into different colour groups. Then use money to post coins into a money box.

Chop up straws into small parts. Thread onto string or ribbon to make a necklace or bracelet.

Practise doing up buttons and zips.

Jumping JacksHow many different ways can you jump? Can you jump on the spot( small jumps, big jumps, side to side, star jumps and bunny jumps)

Fine Motor Skills

Write the alphabet in lower and capital letters.

Use pegs to hang out washing on a washing line. How many pieces can you hang out using two pegs?

NO-COOK PLAY DOUGH RECIPEYou need:

2 cups plain flour (all purpose) 2 tablespoons vegetable oil    (baby oil and coconut oil work too) 1/2 cup salt 2 tablespoons cream of tartar 1 to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right) gel food colouring  (optional) few drops glycerine (my secret ingredient for stretch and shine!)

Method:

Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl Add food colouring TO the boiling water then into the dry

ingredients Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough Add the glycerine (optional) Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it

vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep

at it until it’s the perfect consistency! If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right.

EASY 2 MINUTE UK SLIME RECIPEYou need:

PVA or clear glue  (also known as school glue or Elmer’s brand) Bicarbonate of Soda   Contact Lens Solution  (there are various types of this so if you click the

link to the one we used you will find it works perfectly! If you can’t choose this exact one, then make sure the one you buy contains boric acid (borax) in the ingredients list. It simply won’t work without this.)

Gel food colouring  (Liquid food colouring alters the recipe and doesn’t work so well we’ve found.)

Glitter  (optional)

Method:Tip 1 cup of the PVA glue into a clean bowl. Then add 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda.)Mix them together.If you want to add colouring this is the best time to do it. Dip a matchstick or skewer into gel food colouring to pick up a blob, then mix it into the glue and bicarb mixture until it has fully integrated.Next add 1 tablespoon of contact lens solution.Mix with a spoon until it starts to become stringy, coming away from the edges of the bowl (almost like when you’re cooking eggs.)At this stage take it out of the bowl and knead it between your hands. It will start off sticking to them but within about 20 seconds it will firm up and stick only to itself, becoming elastic and super stretchy.[If for some reason it’s still too sticky then add just a few more drops of contact lens solution until it’s just right. Be careful as too much will result in it becoming brittle and snapping.]

Home learning- Reception Maths- number, shape and measure

NumberPractise your number formation to 20.

ShapeFind shapes around you house and record them. How many can you name?

MeasureFind objects in your house and order them by height. Which object is the

Money Identify coins. Draw and label to create your own coins for your shop.

tallest?

Practise counting in steps. 2’s, 5’s, 10’s

Can you count backwards and forwards to and from 20?

Make a shape picture using recycled materials.

Label your shapes.

Help your parents cook. Use the scales to measure the amounts. Write an ingredients list with the amounts you used.

Set up a role play area at home. Label your toys with 1p, 2p, 5p,10p and 20p.

Represent numbers up to 20 in different ways.

Look for shapes in your local environment.

Look at shapes on buildings. Which shapes can you see?

Measure your foot, your arm and your hand. Ask an adult to help you draw around your hand and foot. Who are the biggest foot in your family?

Solve this maths problem.

If you had 20p how many toys could you buy?

Practise counting using these games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

Go on a shape hunt around your home. Which shapes can you see?Find items that are these shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle).

Use a ruler to measure some of your toys.

Put them in order from the shortest to tallest.

Make a shopping list for a tea

party.

Home learning- Reception Understanding of the World- Topic

ScienceGo on a Spring walk around your local area with an adult. What signs of Spring do you see?Write a list of what has changed from Winter.

ScienceFloating/sinking experimentAsk an adult if you can have a bowl of water and some tin foil. Ask an adult to help you make a foil boat.Estimate how many pennies can the tin foil hold before taking part in the experiment.

ScienceMake a list of all the electrical objects in your home. Can you come up with any ideas to use less electricity?

ScienceDuring Spring lots of animals have their babies. Find out the names of these baby animals duck, pig, sheep, cow and horse.

ArtSpring walk-observational drawingsWhen on a Spring walk draw signs of Spring you see.

ArtJunk modelling- collect any recycle materials such as yogurt pots, toilet rolls, boxes and see what you can create with them.Write a label for your creation.

ArtUse an old sock to make a sock puppet. Can you put on a puppet show for someone else.

ArtMake an Easter craft that represents Easter e.g. Spring animals being born, flowers growing, weather changing etc. Use materials from home.

GeographyGo on a nature walk. What wildlife or plants can you see growing?

GeographyDraw a map of your local area and highlight any places near by.

HistoryAsk an adult if you can see a picture of you as a baby. How have you changed? What is the same?Tell an adult the similarities and differences.

HistoryDiscuss what you do when you first started Reception and what you can do now. What has changed?

PSEDMake a list of all the things that make you happy, things you are grateful for or things you are good at.

PSEDDo something kind for someone. Can you say something nice to them, make them something or help them with a task.

PSEDSt George’s DayHow is St George’s Day celebrated?Who is St George?With an adult- research all about St Georges day.

CookingFollow the instructions for ‘Tablespoon Biscuit Recipe’ with the help from an adult.

Home learning- Reception Literacy- Phonics, Writing and Reading

ReadingRead a book using bug club to an adult. Answer some questions about the story-What happened in the story?What is going to happen next in the story?

ReadingPractise reading the tricky word train you are practising at home. Challenge- Read all tricky words from the previous trains you have moved on from (see tricky word trains document attached).

ReadingMake a reading den using cushions and blankets and read one of your reading books inside.

ReadingAsk an adult to read your picture book to you. Ask your child to draw a story map about the story. Challenge- Label pictures.

WritingPractise writing the tricky word train you are practising at home. Challenge- Write all tricky words from

WritingLook at the I spy pages. Write a list of 10 things you can see. Use a sound mat to support.

WritingWrite some sentences of what you have done at home this week.

Writing Ask an adult to read one of these sentences to you and write down the sentence (without copying).

the previous trains you have moved on from (see tricky word trains document attached).

Challenge- Pick 3 words and write three sentences with one word in each sentence. Make sure you include a capital letter, fingers spaces and a full stop.

Phase 2 sentences-The cat on a mat. Go to the top of the hill. Phase 3-Jill has dark brown hair. Dan had seven silver coins.

PhonicsPractise recalling all Phase 2 sounds using the sound mat.Challenge- Read as many sounds as you can on Phase 3 sound mat.

PhonicsTell an adult which sounds you have learnt so far. Ask an adult to ask you to read/write some words using those sounds (see list of words).

PhonicsRhyme- pick a word and write some words that rhyme. Phase 2- cat, pig, dog, manPhase 3- chip, hair,

PhonicsWrite some words with these sounds;Phase 2- a, s, ck, r, f, l, d, g,Phase 3, ch, v, x, th, ng, ai, oi, oa, igh, sh, y,

Reading gamePlay the read and race game with a family member. Instructions 1. Roll the dice.2. Sound out to blend the word you land on. 3. Who will finish first?

Alphabet gameWrite as many words for each letter of the alphabet. For example-

A- Apple, antB- Banana, ball

Chick life cycle writingWrite some sentences about what happened in the chick life cycle. Draw some pictures to go with each sentence.

Tricky word challengeWrite some sentences using words from your tricky train you are working on.

Phonics play login for parents

Maths: Early Learning Goals activities

Here are some activities you can do with your child to support them.

Early Learning Goals for all areas of the Early Years Curriculum

Prime areas

Early Learning Goals for all areas of the Early Years CurriculumSpecific areas