Foundation Stage
Reading:
Keep reading with your child at home. Remember to encourage your child to sound out and blend the words in their practise reading books, home readers and any other books they have at home. The Little Wandle Letters and Sounds website has lots of support and ideas for parents.
Please continue to practise the phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Writing
All of our children are at different stages of their writing journey, however we encourage all children to practise their writing ensuring they are writing for a purpose.
- writing the initial sound for a word
- writing simple words eg bus, chat, sheep
- writing a simple sentence (hold a sentence in your head and practise writing word by word).
- spelling high frequency words correctly and other words in a phonetically plausible way e.g. I went to the park and ran veree farst down the hill.
- remembering finger spaces, capital letters and full stops.
Write with a purpose! Ask your child to write a list of things you need to get from the shops, a note to a relative, postcard that you can post or photograph and upload to Tapestry.
Maths:
Key areas to focus on:
- recognising numbers to 0-10 then to 20
- writing numbers 0-10, then to 20 correctly
- number bonds to 10
- subitising to 5 (knowing how many there are without counting them)
- comparing numbers up to 5
1-Minute Maths App (White Rose) - this is a fantasitc resource you can download as an app where children can practise their maths skills.
Make the maths practical and fun!
White Rose Maths also have some videos that you can watch to support learning at home.
Topmarks provides lots of games around counting, recognising numbers and shapes to keep practising at home too.
Learning through play & following the children's interests
All the things above are "school" tasks however as you know the whole point of Foundation Stage is to learn through play:- here are just a few ideas:
Cooking - opportunities for reading recipes including numbers, weighing, doubling and halving, talking about time.
Playdough - easy to make (if you do have the ingredients) - try the best ever playdough recipe on the Imagination Tree website.
Make and write cards for people - you can always photograph them and add them to Tapestry.
Write lists of what you can see out of the window; birds, vehicles, flowers.
Write stories together - get your chid to tell you a story and write it down then act it out together.
Junk modelling - let your child use the packaging to make whatever is in their imagination, this is useful for creativity and also for fine motor skills when cutting and sticking. Maybe they can write a sign to put next to their model saying what it is and who made it. Take a photo and then you can re-use the packaging again.