Week 1 Learning

Weekly Maths

Week 1

Watch a Numberblocks clip each day at: BBC or CBeebies.  Use this guide here to give you ideas on what to do with your children whilst watching an episode.  

● Practise counting up to 20. This can be done through playing hide and seek, singing number songs, chanting, board games etc.

 ● Write out the digits 0 - 9.

 ● Practise recognising amounts up to five or up to ten by playing these games. This can be done by reading a dice when playing board games, playing with cards, identifying how many food items on the plate etc.   ● Sing Number songs to practice counting, reciting numbers in order, one more, one less using number songs: Five Little Ducks, Five Little Men, Ten Green Bottles

Weekly/ Daily Reading

● Read a variety of books at home. Favourites can be repeated. Hearing the patterns of language in a story will support your child’s language development. 

 With your child, look in magazines, newspapers and books for the phonic sounds we have been learning. They could use a highlighter to highlight in magazines and newspapers.

Weekly Phonics Tasks

(Aim to do 1 per day) Weekly Writing Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

● Sing Nursery Rhymes and songs together. Add in actions and change the words. Can children think of different rhyming words to add in? Repeat old favourites and learn new rhymes. You can find an A-Z of Nursery Rhymes here.  ● Play phonics noughts and crosses. Draw out a grid and write a letter, digraph, trigraph or tricky word in each part of the grid. Take it in turns to name what is written in the grid. If you say it correctly you can add your nought or cross in that square.

● Ask your child to draw a picture of the people who live in their house. If they share time across two houses, draw who lives in each house. Can they label their family members using their phonics knowledge? 

● Practice name writing. Can they write their first name? Middle name? Surname?

● Can they write the names of their family members? Do they know Mummy and Daddy’s real name? They could copy this or use their phonics knowledge. Can they write this? Using chalks, crayons, paint, felt tips.