Year R – Monday 6th April – Easter Holiday

Good Morning Penguins, Puffins and Parrots!

As the next two weeks are officially the Easter Holidays we wanted to relax the learning a little.  We are going to send a selection of different activities today (Monday 6th) and then again next Tuesday (14th) after the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. We’ll also pop a post up each day just to say hello.

You are then free to choose when and how to try the activities out; you might want to do one a day or perhaps just pick one or two that you like the look of.  Please remember these are only suggestions and you might have other wonderful ideas or just need a little downtime.  There are so many wonderful resources out there that you might not have got round to trying if you have been following our activity schedule closely, so please take the time to try something new.  Remember to check here for the useful resources from our own website.

We would like to take this opportunity to say how much we appreciate your patience and kind thoughts and also the time and hard work you have been putting in to continuing our work in our absence. We wish you and your families our very best wishes for a safe and Happy Easter together. 

Best wishes,

From the Year R Teachers

Holiday Activities – 

  • Set up a garden obstacle course and record yourself completing it.
  • Create a photo storybook.  For example – The adventures of your favourite Teddy – take photos of your cuddly toy and then get an adult to video you telling your story or perform it to an audience.
  • Draw a picture and send it to someone to make them smile.
  • Make some animals out of playdough.
  • Video call a member of your famliy and read them a story.
  • Try a Numberblocks make and play activity Click to open.
  • Take the Lego Play challenge. See here for details.

Easter Themed Activities –

  • An Easter egg hunt.
  • A “Busy Bodies” Easter hunt in the garden. Click to download ideas and resources.
  • A “Keyword” Easter hunt in the garden.  Click on the sheet below to download and print (alternatively make your own on paper)    

  • A “Number” Easter hunt in the garden – Download and print the sheet below, cut each egg in half and hide all the parts. Once the children have found the egg parts they have to combine the correct ones to make a total of 10 e.g. 8 and 2, 7 and 3 etc  

Learning Activities – (if you would like to keep these ticking over)

  • Counting and sorting objects – count accurately and sort by colour/size/shape
  • Reading on Oxford Owl– you’ll need to create a parents account for this.
  • Handwriting – tracing over your alphabet card and name.
  • Keywords – practise these everyday. Found in the Educating Home page: click here to be redirected.
  • Phonics Play -sign in for free – Username: march20 Password: home.
  • Teach Your Monster To Read– the computer version is free.
  • Numberblocks Games on cBeebies.
  • Practise your Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3 sounds with Mrs Baird. Click here.

Helpful Reminders

EmailHow much to help? Too much to do?

Don’t forget you can email us on yearr@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password or need some help.

You can continue to use Tapestry to share your child’s work. Please only upload one post a day. You can either choose one activity or put all the activities you complete on one post.

We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!

Independence

The children in Year R are very rarely asked to work independently, particularly when writing. It is expected that they will need adult support to get started on all of the tasks we set for them here, and continue to need it throughout their activity. 

However, we want to continue to build their independence, so encourage them to use resources which can help them be independent like sound cards, letter formation cards for handwriting etc. 

 

Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities with you. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.

There is absolutely no expectation that you get all, if any of these activities completed each day. 

Bye for now!