Reception guidance

The Reception team would like you to continue your learning at home doing the following activities

Communication language and literacy

· Please continue to practise all phonic sounds learnt. The way best way to do this is to read daily ensuring that children are identifying digraphs and trigraphs as they read.

· Practise tricky words and cvc words which can all be found at the front of the children’s reading diaries.

· Discuss meaning of new vocabulary and ensure children are able to understand the story plot as they read. Encourage children to make predictions about what happens next in the stories and answer questions about the text.

· Children should then write sentences about what they have read using capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and connectives such as ‘and’, ‘because’, ‘with’ etc. Please ensure children are writing using cursive script at all times, refer to letter join website:

https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/

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· Use image website Pobble 365 to discuss what children see and encourage plenty of talking making sure children are speaking in full clear sentences. There are questions linked to each image to prompt discussion.

www.pobble365.com

Maths

· Practise numbers more and less up to 20 and beyond e.g. find missing numbers on a numberline.

· Children should practise number bonds to 10 e.g. 8+2=10, 7+3=10 and should practise simple addition and subtraction number sentences such as 6+5= 12+7= 9-3= 17-4=

Use a variety of resources to support finding the answers such as different objects, numberline or 100 square.

· Please practise number facts including doubling, halving and counting up in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

· Please continue to practise number formation numbers 1-20 and beyond if able to do so.

· Practise recognising and naming 2D and 3D shapes in the environment.

· Explore capacity, weight and measure in a variety of ways e.g. using rice or water. Children could fill different size containers with varying amounts and make comparisons.

Personal, social and emotional development

· Play a selection of games to practise sharing and taking turns e.g. board games, puzzles, catching/throwing, card games.

· Encourage independence amongst children so they are able to carry out manageable tasks by themselves. This might include resolving conflicts and getting dressed and undressed independently.

· Remind children to maintain good manners towards others and consider their feelings.

Physical Development

· By the end of Reception children are expected to get dressed and undressed independently. They should be able to do their own zips and fasten and unfasten buttons without support.

· Encourage children to move in a variety of ways such as hopping, skipping, crawling etc.

· Practise moving with control and coordination showing awareness of space around them and others.

· Practise throwing and catching skills, kicking a ball and climbing.

· Practise fine motor skills with children using tweezers, threading, playdough, button fastening, screwing/ unscrewing bottle tops.

· Practising cutting skills using magazines, playdough etc.

Understanding the world

· Continue to discuss seasonal changes in the environment. Children can grow a plant and keep a diary to monitor its changes. Children should draw a picture and write a sentence to describe what they can see.

· You can bake with your child at home e.g. making biscuits or cakes. Talk about ingredients used and discuss the process of cooking at each stage. You could write a set of instructions as to how you made your biscuit or cake or describe how it tastes.

· As Easter is approaching, encourage children to talk about and compare different religious celebrations and link to their own experiences.

· Children could carry out a science experiment to look at the signs of decay. For example, children could see what happens to bread as it decays through time. They could draw a picture and write a sentence to describe changes that happen through time.

Expressive arts and design

· Explore using a range of art and craft materials. This can include natural materials found in gardens. Children can stick items to make pictures or models cutting from magazines/ pictures they are interested in.

· Children can build models using construction materials such as lego. Encourage children to talk about what they have made and how they could improve or adapt their model to make it better.

If you have access to Education City please continue to practise activities to support all areas of learning