Foundation Stage

Photographs of Home Learning

On the Class 1 page of the website you will see some super photographs of some of the home learning our class have been doing. Please keep emailing them to the school office. Thankyou!

Play Activities

Here are some suggestions for play activities that you might want to try at home.

High Frequency Words

Here is a list of high frequency words which you may want to help your child learn to read and spell.

Topic Activities

 Please find topic activities for Class 1 on the 'Class 1' page on the website. Thank you. 

Phonics

A phonics website that we recommend and that your child will be familiar with is 'PhonicsPlay.co.uk'. This has a range of excellent games that we regularly use at school. (Please be aware there is a small charge for using this website.)

Home Learning Daily Tasks:

You may not be able to be at school but there is lots you can do from home.

Daily activities:

• reading every day. Read a book to an adult.  How many of your ERP sight words can you find? Write these words down on a piece of paper to play SNAP! Or a memory game with them.
• Practice your phonics – Use your ERP booklets to practise your phonics. Remember to only move onto a new sheet/booklet when you can confidently and quickly say the sounds before. Practise them out of order and don’t move on until you know them all fluently.
• Practice segmenting short words: hen = h-e-n then write these words. mop, bed, cat, mum, dad, cup, hop, red, dot, top, sit, dig, wig etc.
• Practice reading your sight words. Can you write a sentence using any of these words?
• Handwriting practise - use your wipe clean boards to practise your letter formation then have a go on a piece of paper independently. 
• Daily counting to 20. Sing number songs. Google number songs for children.
• Practise number formation. Over write, then have a go yourself.
• Keep a daily diary. Draw a picture and write a sentence about the best thing you have done today. 
• Writing numbers in order from 1-20.
• Taking about days, months, time.
• Addition sums (up to 9+9).
• Subtraction sums (taking small numbers away from numbers up to 20
• Acting out / making up stories with puppets / small world toys.
• Writing simple stories, recounts, instructions, diaries.
• Planting seeds and watching things grow.
• Throwing, catching, kicking, rolling a ball.
• Designing and making things from construction or junk materials.
• Mark making with paint, pencils, chalk – anything!
• Listening to stories and answering questions about them.  
• Looking for changes outside in nature.
• Singing rhymes and songs – add in some actions.

Curriculum Activities

Please look at the following website for access to a wide range of educational activities suitable for Foundation Stage. These activities are fantastic to continue to help your child make progress across the curriculum.

www.twinkl.co.uk/offer

You can sign up for free for one month initially and can access all of their resources.  These are all grouped together in their Home Learning Hub.

In addition parents and children can now access 3000+ ebooks from World Books Online for free.

Phonics pronunciation

Please watch the video for the accurate pronunciation of the sounds we teach in phonics to help with the children's reading skills at home

Phonics Games

Please see the videos below that will demonstrate how to play the phonics games at home.