Monday

Literacy - St Dwynwen’s Day – Welsh Valentine’s Day (Monday 25^th January)

Read and discuss the PowerPoint about St Dwynwen.

Activity

Make and decorate a valentine’s card for someone you love.

Can you write on the front ‘Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus’ (Happy St Dwynwen’s Day)

Numeracy – 2D and 3D Shape

Can you name all of the 2D shapes – Please see Class Dojo for links to home learning.

Discuss how many sides and corners each shape has!

3D Shape

Last week we went on a shape hunt around our house. We found cubes, cuboids, cylinders and spheres. Can you collect as many of each as you can find in your house?

Sort the shapes into their groups?

What can you build with all of your shapes? – Send a photo to Miss Walk and Miss Rafferty on Class Dojo!

Additional Activities to Support Shape Recognition 

2D Shape Patterns 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

2D Shape - Can you select and sort the shapes?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters

Arts and Crafts - Select one each day to complete!

Design a Healthy Plate of Food

Can you use different fruits/vegetables to design a plate of food?

Collage, draw or paint your food onto a paper plate. 

Food printing

Using different fruits and vegetables practice printing different patterns onto paper.

Vegetable Characters

Can you make a family of vegetable characters using a variety of fruits and vegetables?

Threading 

Practice threading cheerios or pasta onto pie cleaners, string, cooked spaghetti or uncooked (place standing up in playdough or blue tac and make a tower).

How many do you have?

 Design your own lunchbox!

What characters will you have on your lunchbox?

Tin can Bowling 

Collect your empty tins and bottles and have a game of bowling. 
Make it a challenge by writing numbers/sounds on each one. Ask a family number to give you a number/sound. Can you roll the ball to hit the correct number/sound? 

Literacy Links

Oxford Reading Owl – (Free ebooks)

Class code: oakfieldreception

Password: OakfieldReception

Teach your Monster to Read – Phonics

Phonics Play

TopMarks – Literacy games – select Early Years

PhonicsBloom – Phonic games (Phase 1-4)

Teach your child to read resources from BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/making-time-for-books-at-home

ICT Games – Variety of phonic resources -Demonstrates how to say each sound correctly

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/soundSayer/index.html

Numeracy Links

TopMarks – number recognition games and counting

Apps:

Math age 4-6

Monster Math’s Learning Games

Barnyard Games for Kids

Number Quiz

Book Creator – Practice writing your sounds/numbers or draw a picture for a family member

Oxford Owl

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/

ICT Games – Variety of number recognition games

YouTube Clips

Disco Dough – Early Years Emily – Exercises the muscles in your child’s hand to help support writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc

Jack Hartman – Phonics

Calming Yoga for children

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga