EYFS Home Learning Ideas

Dear Parents/Carers, This will be the last week of year-group home learning. Next week we will be posting a Summer Fun-time Challenge where you can select activities across the week and record what you do in a ‘passport’. As previous weeks, most activities below are suitable for Reception and Nursery children. Where this isn’t the case, an additional activity is listed for Nursery children. Have fun and remember to choose activities that you and your child will enjoy. Routine/ Timetable Idea Activity 1: Physical Exercise. Activity 2: Maths. Activity 3: Practical activity. Activity 4: Literacy – Reading and writing. Activity 5: Practical activity.

All children need lots of time to ‘play’ away from screens and technology. If your child enjoys playing on technology, maybe add a time-slot to his/her timetable for the day – it can be something to look forward to.

WEEK BEGINNING: Monday 6th July 2020 Activity 1 (Physical Exercise): - PE with Joe Wicks on YouTube (either at 9am or can be replayed at any time of the day) - Choose A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure on YouTube to follow.

- Pick a book that has a word that’s often repeated. For example, choose the word “hat” if you’re reading The Cat in the Hat. Ask your grownup to read the story to you. Every time the word comes up in the story, do a star jump. Challenge: can you find 2 words in the story that repeat and come up with different actions for each? - Find two large bowls, fill the first bowl with water and place some marbles inside. Pick up the marbles and place them in another bowl by using only your feet. You could have a race with a member of your family; the first one who can get all the marbles in the other bowl wins. If you are not playing this game outside, place towels on the floor, or play without water. - Play the bean game. When you are outside, walk or run and wait for your grownup to shout out the name of one of the beans below. Follow the instruction. When your grownup says ‘go’, continue walking or running and wait for the next bean instruction. Runner Bean - run around Jumping Bean - jump up and down Broad Bean – make yourself as wide as possible String bean - make yourself as tall as possible

Jelly bean - make yourself wobbly like jelly Baked Bean - curl up into a small ball (like a baked bean!) Activity 2 (Maths):

- Go to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button and practise your number addition to

10 and your number bonds to 10. - Number of the week is 20. This number is 10 + 10 (not a 2 and 0). See if you can find this number when

you are out and about. Practise writing the number 20. Can you collect 20 of something? For example, you could find 20 leaves, or 20 pebbles. If you have Lego or Duplo at home, see if you can build a tower of 20 bricks. Can you make 2 towers of exactly the same height? You could try threading a necklace of 20 beads, or making 20 biscuits. Can you make 2 necklaces with exactly the same amount of beads on them? Or can you share the biscuits out fairly between two people? Make a giant chalk number line with numbers 1-20 on outside, or a tape number line inside. Which number would you land on if you went back 2 places? Which number would come after 20? Challenge: choose other numbers on the number line and ask yourself these questions. Which number will I land on if I go forward 1 place? Which number will I land on if I go forward 2 places? Which number will I land on if I go backwards 1 place? Which number will I land on if I go backwards 2 places? Ask your grownup to cover 1 or more of the numbers in the number line. Can you work out which ones have been covered? - This week we are looking at the story ‘On Sudden Hill’. In this story two boys use cardboard boxes as things like pretend castles and space rockets. Gather things from around your house to make your own castle or rocket. Think about the shapes you would want to create. You can use cardboard tubes, cups, cereal boxes or anything else you think will work. Take a picture of your finished model. Can you name some of the shapes that you used? If you can print out your picture, you could label the shapes that you used in your model.

- In the story ‘On Sudden Hill’ there were 2 boys at the beginning of the story, then one more came to join them. How many children were there then? Use soft toys or play figures to calculate what one more and one less than a number is and what 2 more and 2 less than a number is (you can also use counters, or building blocks). You will need number cards to 10 if you have them, or you could try writing your own on pieces of paper. You will also need to make cards like the ones below. Shuffle and turn the number cards upside down, so that you cant see the numbers, then turn the cards below upside down in a separate pile. Start by turning over a number card and lining up the matching number of soft toys or play figures. Next, turn over one of the cards below and follow the instructions. You can use a number line to help you. For example, if you turned over a number 6, line up 6 toys. Then if you turned over a +1 card, add 1 more soft toy. Can you guess how many you will have when you add 1? How many do you have now that you have added 1? Nursery children - Ask your grownup to write a number line to 10 in chalk outside. Ask your grownup to call out any number between 1-10. Run to the right number each time. Alternatively, ask your grownup to hide numbers outside and try to find the right number as quickly as possible. If you are playing inside, hide the numbers around the house. Ask your grownup to help you cut out some 2D shapes and make a picture using them. Can you talk about which shapes you used to make your picture?

+ 1 1 more

+ 2 2 more

- 1 1 less

- 2 2 less

Activity 3 (Practical): - Can you make an underwater scene in a box? Have a look at the example below. This one was made using a shoebox. Some of the sea animals are hanging on a thread and others are stuck to the bottom of the box. You can use scrap materials that you have at home and draw your own fish. What other scenes could you make? What about a jungle scene in a box? Or a space scene?

- Can you tell a story using the scene you have made? You could make some other characters to join the story. Maybe there is a mermaid lost at sea, or a lion in the jungle that’s lost its voice. - Funky Fingers Challenge: draw around your hand. Using paint, make a fingerprint on the corresponding fingertip of the hand shape. Repeat this with each finger and thumb of one hand. When you have made 5 fingerprints, look at each one carefully through the magnifying glass. What can you see? - Have a go at making a rainbow pizza. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rainbow-pizzas (you can substitute pizza base for flatbread or crumpets and use vegetables and cheese that you have available). You will need to be careful when chopping up the vegtables! Activity 4 (Reading and Writing): - Look at the front cover of ‘On Sudden Hill’ by Linda Sarah and Benji Davies. Talk about what you see. What do you like about it? Why? Who are these children? How do you think they know each other? What do you think they are doing or about to do? How do you think they feel? What tells you that? Have you ever felt like this with someone? Who? Why do you like being with them?

Read the title. What is this place like? Do you think you’d like to go there? Why, or why not?

- If you have a copy of it, read ‘On Sudden Hill’. If you do not have a copy, a version of it is available online at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RlV2hBwZkw

Look at and read the page below again. Is this what you expected? Why? Why not?

Think about the ‘wild seas and skies’ they are sailing in as pirates. Why might the sky feel ‘wild’? What kind of day is it? How do we know? Why are the children described as ‘always, always Big friends’? What does this mean? Have you got a ‘Big friend’? What do you like about them? Make an imaginary place of your own like the two boys did with whatever things you have to hand, like household objects or even an old box. Make it large enough to play inside, you could drape material over a table and play underneath it. It might be a rocket or a castle or anything you like. Think about what it would

look like. For ideas, think about your favourite story characters in books or in films and television. Where do they live? What do they do? Do you want to make props to play with?

Now play. Who will you pretend to be? Who else will you play with? What will they be? How will you act? What will you say? What will your voice sound like? Maybe you have made somewhere for your toys. What would they be doing and saying? You could find more ideas for pretend play at CBeebies Let’s Play: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/lets-play

Maybe you could recreate a scene from your favourite story? Will there be a problem to be solved? Will anything exciting happen? You could act out your story for someone else. Maybe they could film you or you could draw your story for other people to act it out?

- Go to https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2 and practise your blending. Remember some

words are fake or made-up words. You should know all the phase 2 sounds now so practise ‘All Phase 2’. If you have come across some digraphs in your reading, please also use the Phase 3 games to practise reading the digraphs. - Use the words on your reading sheets to write sentences, e.g. I can smell a flower. A frog can jump.

- Look at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-

page?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=&level_select=book+band+3%3A+ye

llow&book_type=&series=# There are a selection of reading books available online for your child to practise his/her reading. Please go to Level, Book Bands and most children are working within Pink-Yellow. You may come across digraphs (“2 letters, 1 sound”). Please look at the link below to help explain these sounds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics Go to the Digraph section (Yellow). - Remember to read a little every day and to try and get a bedtime story in most nights. - Practise your letter formation using pre-cursive letters. A copy of the formation is attached below. Try not to use ‘tracing practice sheets’ but rather encourage your child to write sentences or notes using the correct letter formation. You could also write out the sentence and your child can copy it (this would be purely practicing letter formation) Nursery children Talk about what you can see in the pictures. Make your own den. Where will you pretend

to be? Who will you be in your story? Practise making marks with pens, pencils and paint. You can also use some salt or tea leaves in a tray and your fingers to make marks. When you are outside you can use a paintbrush and water to make marks too. When you are out with your grownup, have a look around you. Can you spot any writing that you recognize? These could be the names of shops that you see, or maybe you can see some of the letters of your name. Practise writing your name. Activity 5 (Practical): - Have a go at bubble painting. You will need to fill a bowl with water and add a generous squeeze of washing up liquid and paint (food colouring works too). Using a straw, blow into the liquid until bubbles appear on the surface. Rest a piece of paper on top of the bubbles for a few seconds, then remove. You will have a print of the bubbles. You can repeat this several times, using the same sheet of paper, to create a rainbow bubble picture.

Do not drink through the straw by mistake, it will taste horrible!

- Play Kit and Pup: World of Opposites at https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/cbeebies-ivor-kit-and-

pup?exitGameUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fcbeebies%2Fgames%2Fkit-and-pup-

world-of-opposites-game - Practise your ball skills. Try throwing and catching a ball, or rolling or throwing it at a target. You could start off with a larger ball like a football if you have one and then see how good you are at throwing and catching a smaller ball like a tennis ball. - Have a look at an atlas, globe or map if you have one. Or have a look at the map below. This is a map of the whole of the world. You can see lots of different countries. There are lots of maps to have a look at online too. What is all the blue that you can see? Can you see any snow? Which parts are the land and which parts are the water? Do you know what shape the world is? Which animals can you see? - Have a look at the earth on earth.google.com. You can look for names of places on the map and then try to find them on Google Earth. Can you find Temple Grove Academy there? Nursery children You might remember the map of the world that we looked at in Nursery. If a bird was flying very high up in the sky and looked down, this is a bit like what it would see. Have a look at Google Earth with your grownup and at the map above. Ask your grownup to show you where we all live.