Dear Parents
To those of you that attended our Early Years Art Auction and our class party yesterday it was lovely to see you all.
Some of you were asking about things that you could be doing with your child over the summer holiday. I have put on our class blog link and attached to this email below some fun activities that would be certainly help.
It was a pleasure teaching your child this year and I will miss them all.
Have a wonderful summer break and look forward to seeing you all again next academic year.
Kind regards
Jenny
Activities
and Ideas for parents and kids over the Summer Holiday!
English
1. Try and speak as
much English as you can.
2. Listen to
stories.
3. Read a story to
someone through the pictures in the book.
4. Sing songs.
5. Watch English
cartoons.
6. Practise the
sounds of the alphabet - phonics
7. Find an object
in your house that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
8. Play English
games.
9. Write the
alphabet or copy words in your best handwriting.
10. Listen to English radio and sing along to the songs.
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Maths
1.
Write numbers from 1 to 20.
2.
Count the number of steps you walk.
3.
Count anything that is around you e.g the number of
cars, trees, people wearing shorts.
4.
Count the money in your wallet or ask mum or dad to
give you some coins to count.
5.
Ask them to describe their toys – is it long, big,
small, tall, wide, heavy, light.
6. Ask them how many are there?
7. Can you get me 5…..
8. When you see written numbers point them out. Ask them what is that number?
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Other Important Skills
1. Ask questions about what they see. Who? Where? What? Why? When? How?
2. Draw! Draw a
picture of something outside, something from a story.
3. Cut out words
from the newspaper - one for each letter of the alphabet.
4. Write your name.
Cut out each letter. Arrange the letters in A,B,C, order.
5. Go outside and
find things for every colour of the rainbow.
6. Go on a nature
walk. Collect things and put them in a picture.
7. Make a scrapbook
of animal pictures. You
might want to choose an animal you like. See if you can find some old
magazines or calendars to look for the pictures.
8. Go outside. Find
things for the sense of touch, things that are smooth, rough, prickly, sharp,
hard, soft, dry, wet, etc. Make a log book of what you discover draw or glue
in.
9.
Play the “What’s Missing?” game with someone. Find
5-10 objects inside your home. Arrange them on a tray. Have someone look at
them for 5 seconds and then cover eyes while you take one of the items away.
Can they guess what is missing? Then let your friend remove an item and you try
to guess what is missing.
10. Junk and glue. See what their imagination creates.
