Learning ideas that you can do everyday:

• Read with an adult

• Practice writing your name  

• Practice dressing and undressing yourself- using buttons/zips/fasteners

• Order numbers 0-5, then 10 and beyond

• Count up to 5 objects, then 10, and match the amount to a number

• Practice singing your favourite nursery rhymes

• Practice holding your pencil correctly when you are writing or drawing

• Talk to your child about a television programme/ book/picture

Learning ideas to support literacy:

• Go on a listening walk around your house/garden and make a list of sounds you hear

• Play rhyming games with an adult- e.g. how many words can you think of that rhyme with cat?

• Make a mud pie and write or draw a recipe to explain how to make one

Learning ideas to support maths:

• Go on a ‘scavenger hunt’ around your home to find a given amount of objects e.g. 3 spoons

• Help to hang out the washing and count the clothes as you hang them up

• Help an adult cook dinner and measure/weigh out the ingredients

• Go on a shape hunt in your house/garden- see how many shapes you can find

• Make a pattern using objects in your house e.g. knife, fork, knife, fork

• Look for different colours around your house and garden

• Group different objects together by size or colour

• Practice forming numbers 0-5

• Filling and emptying different shapes of containers, full, empty, half-full/ half-empty  

Other ideas to support learning:

• Create a stick puppet of your favourite book character

• Practice forming all the letters of the alphabet

• Find out about different types of transport

• Practice holding and using child scissors

• Create a musical instruments using a plastic bottle and by adding rice/pasta/beads etc. Use this instrument when singing your favourite nursery rhymes.

• Draw pictures and speak about what you have drawn in full sentences

• Go on a minibeast hunt in the garden

• Create an obstacle course

• Have different types of races in the garden

Useful websites to support learning:

Have lots of fun with your families, playing games together, doing as much exercise as you can and staying safe. 

I miss you all and look forward to hearing all about your learning adventures when we return to school.

Hope to see you all soon! 

Miss Doolan x