Suggested Summer Fun Activities

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.

	Mr. Thorne does Phonics Not sure how to pronounce some of the letter sounds? Mr. Thorne has a series of videos you and your child can watch to hear the sounds used.   http://www.mrthorne.com/
	Oxford Owl - Reading Oxford Owl has over 250 FREE eBooks! You can enjoy these eBooks and activities with your child's favourite characters, such as Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy, the Project X team and Winnie the Witch. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/library-page
	Phonics Play A variety of games to play online.  http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/InteractiveResources.htm http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

 

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?

ICT Numeracy games       A great selection of games linked to numeracy.  http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

	Crickweb Numeracy games - http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html

 

	Crickweb Numeracy games -  http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html

 





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.