"Use your God-given gifts to serve others." 1 Peter 4: 10
Weekly Reading Tasks |
Monday- Talk to your child about some words used in sports such as throw, hit, catch, ball. Play Simon says with sports words (e.g hit throw etc as the actions). This will support their listening skills. Extension: Go on a word hunt around the house to find these pictures/ words in books, magazines or newspapers. |
Tuesday- Listen to stories linked to sport, including Peppa Pig, The Large Family, Sports Day by Jill Murphy, and Maisy’s Sports Day. |
Wednesday- Sing a variety of rhymes. Favourites can be repeated. Hearing the patterns of language in a story will support your child’s language development. Please take a look at our Nursery Rhyme section on the website for more ideas.
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Listen to free children’s stories on Audible: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
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Thursday- Develop listening skills by encouraging your child to listen to the BBC School Radio episode about sports. |
Friday- Read a range of stories at home- enjoy reading them together. Talk to your child about their likes and dislikes in the story. |
Weekly Phonics Tasks |
Monday- Challenge 1: Mirror play – get your child to look what their face looks like when they say different sounds (e.g. s, a, t, p, i, n). Challenge 2: Participate in a set 1 phonics session. |
Tuesday- Can your child think of rhyming words? Take it in turns to say a rhyming word i.e. cat, mat, bat, sat. |
Wednesday- Try one of our alliteration activities. For example go on a letter sound hunt. How many things in the house can you find that begin with the same sound. |
Thursday- Play ‘I Spy’. ‘I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with t’. CHALLENGE: Try trickier sounds such as ch, sh or th. |
Friday- Provide your child with some simple words linked to sport e.g. ran. Say the word in sounds e.g. r-a-n. Ask your child to repeat the sounds and then write the sounds if they are able to. |
Weekly Writing Tasks |
Monday- Can your child talk about all the different sports they know? Can they have a go at drawing or writing their ideas? |
Tuesday- Listen to interactive stories linked to sport, including Peppa Pig. Talk about how the characters are feeling when they win/lose. Draw a picture to show how the characters are feeling. |
Wednesday- Ask your child to draw a picture of themselves doing something sporty. i.e. running, jumping, a cartwheel. Can they label the picture. |
Thursday- Make an assault together course using chalk. Draw different shapes and lines on the ground that the children travel along. CHALLENGE: Do different movements for different shapes e.g a circle might mean jump 5 times. |
Friday- Can your child fill different containers with pom poms or cotton wool balls. |
With the weather changing why don't you try making a rainy day obstacle course.
This video shows you how to keep your children busy on a rainy day. Let them make a rainy day obstacle course out of furniture, pillows and blankets.
Click on the link to watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7V_uKNvxvk
Have lots of fun making a obstacle course and keeping fit at the same time.
Weekly Maths Tasks- Positions |
Monday- Listen to this song and watch a short video to learn positional language. |
Tuesday- Play positional language Hide and Seek- Choose a selection of items and hide them. Ask your child to count out loud while you’re doing this. Give them clues about the positions of the objects, e.g. it’s under the chair. |
Wednesday- Listen to ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. Talk about the positional language used in the story – through, over, under. Create a story in the house using these words-over, under, though, behind, next to, opposite, around. |
Thursday- Encourage your child to jump, hop or skip. Give them directions as they do this e.g. jump forwards 5. |
Friday- Make a positional language picture- cut out a selection of 2d shapes. Give your child positional instructions to create a picture e.g. put the square in the middle of your page. |
Learning Project - to be done throughout the week |
The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about sports and games. Learning may focus on the history of sport, sporting-heroes, physical challenges and performance. Ball Games
Play Skittles
Competition Time
Parts of the Human Body
Create your own Junk Modelled Football Pitch
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