Reception Home Learning Tasks - Weeks Beginning 1st June 2020 and 8th June 2020

10 minute Daily Tasks – Choose 2 tasks to do each day Reading

Write different letters or sounds on pieces of paper and see what words you can make by moving them around.

Quiet and Relaxation Time

Can you make a sensory bottle?

Get a clear plastic bottle and fill it with different small items you

can find that you like the look of. This could be leaves from

outside, beads or buttons or maybe stationery items like

paper clips!

Filling a bottle with baby oil works really well and adding

glitter too!

Number Challenge

See if you can find 20 pebbles. Give them a wash in the sink and dry them. Then use a felt tip of

marker to write numbers to 20 on them. Can you see if you can draw

the right amount of dots on the other side?

These can be used for ordering, number recognition, writing

number sentences and lots more!

Phonics/Spelling

Grab a water pistol or spray water bottle and have some fun with

phonics.

With chalk write the tricky words and sounds that you are learning outside, make sure that you space them out

around the garden/park. When your grown up says the sound

or word you have to run to it and spray it with water. Did you get them

all right?

Now it’s your turn- grab a paint brush and some water. How quickly can

you write all your diagraphs on to the patio/pavement/fence? Can you

write them all before the first ones have dried and disappeared?

Music

Can you make a shaker?

Drawing

Design and draw your own dinosaur.

Will it be an herbivore or an omnivore?

Where will it live, in a cave, in a hot desert, in a dark

forest?

Riddle

Can you solve this riddle?

What has hands but

doesn’t clap?

Can you write your own riddle?

Exercise

Moving like a dinosaur

How do you think these dinosaurs would move?

T.Rex

Pterodactyl

Velociraptor

Triceratops

Meditation

Handwriting

Practise the ‘robot’ letters

Reception Summer Term Topic: ‘Dinosaur Dig’

Please find a selection of activities that you can do with your child for each curriculum subject. You can use this to create a schedule of home-learning that

works for you and your family. We have designed this for you so that you can do as many activities as your child would like; you do not have to complete

them all. Choose what your child enjoys doing. We would love to see any work that your child would like to show us however this is not an expectation. If

your child would like to show us what they have been doing, please share it via the Tapestry app.

This week’s activities

Literacy: Phonics, Reading and Writing Resources that you may need

As we reach the final half term in Reception, we look at the Early Years Curriculum and the aim for the end of the year to be able to do the activities listed in the Early Learning Goals. This gives us an opportunity to see which bits we’re doing really well at and which bits we need a little more help with as the children prepare to go into Year 1. All children are working at different levels and have different strengths so this is just a guide of what we’d be thinking about at school in this half term, thinking about which bits we can practise now and this will be different for all of the children. Early Learning Goal: Reading: Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate an understanding when talking with others about what they have read. Activity 1: Phonics In a phonics session at school we would begin by recapping all of the sounds the children already know. You can use the Flashcards games (Flash cards: Speed Trial or Flash cards: Time challenge) on PhonicsPlay.co.uk for this. We are learning all of the Phase 2 and Phase 3 sounds. Write down which sounds that you know and which sounds you still need help with and really focus on practising these ones over the next two weeks Some activities to do:

Pens/Paper Access to a computer or tablet

-Keep practising your Jolly Phonics Songs and Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k -Watch the Letters and Sounds phonics lessons videos for the ones that you want to practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siVkXoEQDNc -Write each sound in your home learning book or in the air using your ‘magic pencil’.

-See how many times can you write each sound in one minute

-Think of some words that have these sounds in

-Have a go at putting sound buttons on the words you have written

-Play the games on Phonics Play that have these sounds in. Picnic on Pluto, Buried Treasure, Dragon’s Den

-Write the sounds on post its and stick them around the house somewhere you will see them, like by the sink or next to your bed. Each time you

see them try and remember them!

-Ask a grown up to write down some words that have these sounds in. Practise reading them together.

-Look in your reading book and spot as many of the sounds as you can Activity 2: Writing Early Learning Goal: Writing: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible. This half term we are learning about DINOSAURS! Have a go at writing two sentences using your phonics skills: Think about one thing you already know about dinosaurs Next write a sentence that is one thing you would like to learn about dinosaurs during our topic this half term. See if you can write it as a question using a question mark e.g. What did dinosaurs eat? When writing a sentence we first have to think and decide what to write. We say the sentence aloud, repeat it and then count the number of words we are going to write. Then we try to start with a capital letter and sound each word out carefully – don’t worry if this looks a bit strange, lots of words in English are not written how they sound! We leave a ‘finger space’ between each word so that someone reading our sentence can read it. Sometimes it will be a ‘tricky’ word that we have learnt such as ‘to’ or ‘the’ and this is a good opportunity to talk about how these words can’t be sounded out. Activity 3: Reading

Continue aiming to read a little each day. Record this in your reading record. Remember you can use books from home, Rising Stars, Oxford Reading Tree or a free trial of Reading Eggs.

https://my.risingstars-uk.com

Your username is your child’s first name (beginning with a capital) followed by the first initial of your surname (this is

also a capital letter) Eg HollyS

Password for the whole school is Read (with a capital letter)

Our Centre ID is: 205154

Maths: Doubling, Halving and Sharing Resources that you may need

Early Learning Goal: Numbers: Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing. Activity 1: Doubles This week practise your doubles facts and have a go at learning them off by heart. These will help with adding and working our number problems. If you already know your doubles then practise your number bonds to 20 (see rainbow picture) Some activities you can do to help you remember:

You can then test yourself on: https://uk.ixl.com/math/reception Click G.6 Adding doubles or any of the adding sections to have a go! Activity 2: Sharing Visit the Oak National Academy website: https://www.thenational.academy

Click on ‘Online Classroom’ and in subjects select ‘EYFS, Reception’. Watch Maths ‘Grouping and Sharing’ Lesson. Use can then practise sharing equally between two at home - for example, you could share out your counting objects, divide cards to play snap or share a set of dominoes between two people. You could share a healthy snack like in the video or have a go at sharing your toys between two people in your home.

Early Learning Goal: Shape, space and measures: Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

RE Resources that you may need

New Topic: Friends Activity 1: Reading about Jesus’ Friends

Activity 2: Responding to scripture Think, talk or write about these questions:

How do we know they are friends?

What does the picture tell us about friends?

What did Jesus and his friends do? (They worked, told people the Good News of God’s love for everyone, answered questions.)

Where did they go when they were tired?

What did they do together? (eat, shared experiences, rested)

Where do you go when you are tired?

Who do you talk to about your experiences of the day with?

e.g. what has gone well/what has not.

Where do you go to be quiet and still?

Expressive Arts and Design: Art in Nature Resources that you may need

Activity 1: Leaf Pictures What different pictures can you make using leaves? You can paint them for printing, use crayons to do rubbings or see how many different colour ones you can find and put them together in different ways to make an abstract picture.

Activity 2: Collage Find a selection of different small materials and use glue and card to create a collage.

Personal Social and Emotional Development: Resources that you may need

Activity 1: ‘Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.’ Can you draw a self-portrait and have a go at labelling your picture with all the things you are good at? Make sure to include things you are good at at school at home and with your friends for example, being kind, helpful, good at reading, good at tennis If you want a challenge can you write a sentence too- I am good at…….. Can you think of one thing you would like to get better at? How will you do this? Through, practice, perseverance, learning from mistakes etc. I would like to be better at……….. Activity 2: ‘Children play co-operatively, taking turns with others. They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings’ This is part of the early learning goal for PSE.

Paper and pens Games

With this is mind can you have a go at playing a board game or any game that might result with a winner/looser. Talk about the importance of enjoying the game, it’s not always about winning. How does it make you feel if you win? How do you feel if you lose? How do you feel when your friend/sister/dad wins?

Understanding The world: Resources that you may need

Activity1 &2 Research and write….. ‘They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes’ This is part of the early learning goal for K&U. With this in mind we would like you to become palaeontologists and do some research into the lives and habitats of some of your favourite dinosaurs. What did they eat? Where did they live? How big were they? You might have some books at home about dinosaurs you can look at, or use the internet to look things up. You might even have a very clever grown up in your family that you could ring and ask or maybe you already know a lot about dinosaurs yourself. We would like you start your own fact file about each dinosaur. Choose a dinosaur each week to research. Can you also include a fact sheet on humans? Are we similar to the dinosaurs in any ways? We can’t wait to see what you find out.

Pens papers books internet access

Physical development: Resources that you may need

Activity 1: ‘Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe’ This is part of the early learning goal for health and self-care With this in mind what do we need to stay healthy? Can you write a list of the things we need to remember to stay helpful, don’t forget things like washing your hands, brushing your teeth, getting exercise, and eating healthy foods. Activity 2: ‘Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.’ This is part of the early learning goal for moving and handling. With this in mind can you set up a mini assault course in your home or garden? Remember to include some bigger movements like throwing kicking, jumping and some smaller fine motor activities like picking up scrunched paper with tongs or rolling some play doh out to make a

Paper and pens Assault course objects and resources (whatever you can find at home is fine!)

sausage, cutting out safely and independently or picking up 30 cheerio’s as quickly as you can with only your thumb and forefinger.