Reception
We are sorry to hear you are not in school and hope to see you very soon. Here are some activies you can do with an adult. Try to do one or two activities a day if you are feeling well enough. We can't wait to hear how you have got on when you are back in school.
If you have any questions about the activities below, please do email us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Charlotte Talbot - ctalbot@st-annes.reading.sch.uk
Laura Cosgrove - lcosgrove@st-annes.reading.sch.uk
Maths
- Sing five little ducks or five speckled frogs
- Find 1 stone and make a pile. Find 2 stones and make another pile. Find 3 stones and make a pile. How many stones do you have altogether?
- Pair socks
- Play snakes and ladders
- Bigger and smaller games – find something bigger/smaller than an object you have
- Add numbers to pegs and order them
- Measure ingredients to cook things/help make dinner
- Sing number songs – see website list
- Sort toys by colour/shape
- Make a rain collector – keep a record
- Perfume or potion making- mud, petal, water etc
- Card games – snap
- Sort coins
- Build train tracks
- Build towers – how many blocks did you use?
- Make a bowling game out of toilet rolls
- Make up number stories – I went to the zoo and I saw three lions, two tigers and four leopards, how many animals did I see altogether? I went shopping and I brought two chocolate frogs and 3 chocolate mice, how many chocolates did I have? I ate four, how many do I have now?
- Use a grid or number tracks to make up your own games
Literacy
- Read 'The Little Hen', if you do not have the book please watch this video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclc22I4Zxk
- What is your favourite part of the story?
- Read at least 3 stories a day. Talk about what is happening on each page
- Play lotto games – matching pictures
- Hide and object in a ‘mystery bag’ give clues to what might be inside.
Phonics
- Go on an environment sound walk. You may want to got outside into your garden or stay inside. Listen for sounds around you. What can you hear? Make a list of all the sounds you can hear with an adult. You can write or draw the sounds.
- Can you make any of the sounds you heard?
- Tap out syllables to break up your name on musical instruments.
- Sound talk throughout the day – ‘Put on your c-oa-t’ ‘Sit on the ch-air’
- Sing Nursery Rhymes
- Make up silly rhymes and rhyming strings
Topic - Houses and Home
- Look through the PowerPoint below, about Houses and Homes
- What is your house like?
- Can you draw or paint a picture of your house?
- Can you use recycled material to make a junk model of your house
R.E.
- How was the world created?
Understanding the World
- Blow bubbles
- Make bread or pizza for the family to share
- Observe the weather each day and make a weather chart
- Make a family tree
- Freeze small toys in ice and work out how to free them
- Make a rainbow out of skittle sweets around the edge of a small plate – add water and watch a rainbow appear.
- Look at different ICT around the house. Can you learn to use it carefully and safely? Eg remote controls, the microwave, phones
- Feed the birds in your garden and keep a tally of the birds that visit.
Expressive arts and design
- Dance to music – use scarves
- Sing familiar songs and make up your own words
- Make shakers with rice or pasta (I realise the irony)
- Make your own paint with shaving foam or coloured ice
- Make props to your favourite stories and act then out.
Personal, Social and Emotional development
- Give someone in your family a lovely back massage
- Share stories – work together to retell them and act them out
- Chop the vegetables for dinner together as a family
- Give the children responsibility to help with house hold chores
- Sit down for snack time and lunch time together and talk about the day
- Try to keep a routine – make some visual cards with your child to represent these eg, breakfast time, exercise time, learning time, bedtime
- Relaxation and candle time
- Talk to your friends and family via facetime/skye
- Tell jokes
- Write a letter to thank a local hero – NHS workers/shop workers
- Build in quiet time for your child to rest and relax
- Discuss the news and be aware of those less fortunate than us
- Always ask your child to tidy away the toys
Physical Development
- Thread pasta onto wool or string
- Water play in the bath or sink –scooping, pouring and measuring
- Design a treasure hunt around the house
- Junk model with your recycling
- Make play dough
- Musical statues
- Lego and block play – plan what you are going to build and follow your plan.
- Sensory play – jelly, shaving foam, soap,
- Make dens out of cushions. Furniture and blankets
- Allow your child to choose their outfit for the day and get themselves dressed without any help
- Make an obstacle course
- Explore any old electric items that can be dismantled
- Water painting outside
- Chalk on the pavement
- Joe Wicks PE
- Cosmic Yoga
Communication and Language
- Tell made up and known stories with homemade puppets – use old socks, wooden spoons lolly sticks or straws
- Sing Nursery Rhymes
- Play Simon Says
- Make music with saucepans and Tupperware
- Play guessing games – such as think of an animal and give your child clues to guess
- Play board games
- Learn Makaton (see website list)
- Record videos of your child retelling the stories and share them with me
- Story scribing – get your child to tell you a story and write down what they say
- Silly Rhymes
- Shopping bag game – I went to the shop and brought an apple the next person says I went to the shop and brought an apple and a potato
- Write to a relative or friend
Useful Websites for additional projects
National Geographic Kids - www.natgeokids.com/uk
Duolingo – www.duolingo.com
Mystery Science – www.mysteryscience.com
The Kids Should See This – www.thekidshouldseethis.com
Crash Course Kids – www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
Crestawards – www.crestawards.org
Paw Print Badges www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Tinkercad www.tinkercad.com
Cbeebies Radio – www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio
Nature dectives – www.naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org/school-resources/find
Oxford Owl www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home
Blue Peter Badges – www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/about-blue-peter-badges
The Artful Parent – www.facebook.com/artfulparent
Red Ted Art www.redtedart.com
The Imagination Tree – www.theimaginationtree.com
Toy Theatre – www.toytheatre.com
Twinkl – www.twinkl.co.uk
The Muddy Puddle Teacher – www.themuddypuddleteacher.co.uk
Mummy Pickles – www.instagram.com/mummypickles www.facebook.com/sophiepicklesearlyyears
Mrs Mactivity – www.mrsmactivity.co.uk
Yoga – www.yoginisyoga.uk
Cosmic Yoga - https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Science experiments – www.myfirstdiscoveries.co.uk/early-years-scince-activities-eyfs
Boom shake the alphabet – www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boom+shake+the+alphabet
Phonics Play – www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Come outside - https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=come+outside
Makaton – www.wetalkmakaton.org/