Phonics

Please aim to do one activity a day.

S - www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMMHCfj8aI 

A - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPc5zNK9HPY 

T - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0YX6Dy2lnk 

P - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejcsU9MfFko 

I - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvWymWpUBY 

N - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAb1aUDHjJQ 

M - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqMPbs2KUEI 

D - www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMTIb5g298I 

• Continue playing the games previously provided to help you with rhyming, oral blending and initial sounds. 

• Use your ‘Reading Eggs’ account to play fast phonics.  

• Have a look, with a grown up, at the Letters and Sounds for Home and School Channel on youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

• Recap some of the sounds we have learnt in school (using the above link), particularly if there are any you are finding tricky. 

• Watch and listen to the ‘tricky word’ song to help you to remember them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2dx65u59aw 

Maths

Please click on the attachment below for activities linked to ‘Ordering’:

Other maths activities you could do at home are:

• Number recognition and ordering 

• Practice counting to 10 each day.

• Sing the days of the week song.

• Collect objects to match numbers.

• Collect a specified number of objects.

• Watch this Numberblocks episode ‘Six’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgksd/numberblocks-series-2-six 

• Look for representations of the number 6 around your house. For example, 6 apples, 6 toys, 6 on the clock etc. You could draw pictures of the things you have found. 

Other areas of learning

Please see the picture below, ask your child to talk about the picture and tell a story. There are some suggestions of questions that you can ask.

You could also:

• Practice forming letters

• Practice getting yourself dressed and undressed in preparation for PE

• Retell the story of the very first Christmas (The Nativity). 

• Make your own salt dough Christmas tree decorations. Click on this link to the recipe: www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-make-salt-dough-recipe 

• Make a Christmas card for somebody in your family. Don’t forget to use your phonics skills to write inside it.