

Reception
Topaz - teacher contact e-mail address - topazlearning@rosegrove.lancs.sch.uk
Pearl - teacher contact e-mail address - pearllearning@rosegrove.lancs.sch.uk
Reception Home Learning - Spring 1
Physical development:
Ask your child to take part in activities that will help to develop their fine motor skills:
- Use scissors to cut out shapes, pictures and various lines i.e zig zags, curved etc.
- Use scissors to snip paper – you could give the toilet roll tube a haircut.
- Make some play dough and ask them to roll, squeeze, twist and build with it. Take part in dough disco and have fun!
- Create an obstacle course which you can move a ball round – use different objects around your house.
- Build 3D models with bricks, Lego and shapes.
- Make rubbings of different textured objects i.e. tree rubbings, coin rubbings.
- Run up and down – listening to instructions from your adult i.e. jump up high, touch the ground.
- Balance a balloon on different parts of your body – how many seconds can you balance it for?
Communication, Language and Literacy:
Help your child to develop their communication skills by:
- Reading stories together and talking about the books when you have read them.
- You could read some stories on the Internet and talk about the characters, setting and plot.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
- Sing nursery rhymes together.
- Ask your child questions about their day using the prompts: Where? Why? How? When? What?
- Encourage your child to speak in full sentences e.g. I would like a glass of water please. I went to the park and played on the slide.
- Involve your child in imaginative play, each take on a role and build stories around props e.g. you could turn a cardboard box into a ship and pretend to be pirates.
- You could have a look at this interactive story unit and read it and pick activities to complete.
- https://www.talk4writing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/R-Mouse.pdf
Mathematics:
Help your child to develop their understanding of number and shape by:
- Counting forwards and backwards from 0 to 20, add actions to your counting e.g. hop, jump, clap, tap.
- Counting forwards and backwards from 0 to 20 in different voices.
- Write the numbers 0-10 and 11-20.
- Make a set of number cards 0-20 and use these to play different games e.g. number hunt, bingo, snap, matching numbers to the correct amount of objects, finding one more and one less.
- Continue a two-step and three-step pattern. Make some patterns of your own.
- Use the following website to play some pattern and shape games:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1
- Can you draw some shape pictures and talk about the shapes i.e. that’s a triangle, it has 3 corners and sides?
- Can you find some patterns around your house? Can you draw a pattern yourself i.e. heart, star, teddy, heart, star, teddy.
- Find three items in your house, put them in order according to length e.g. longest, shortest.
- Find three items in your house, put them in order according to weight e.g. heaviest, lightest.
- Find three items in your house, put them in order according to height e.g. tallest, shortest.
- You could measure some of the items using some objects in your house i.e. how many bricks tall is the table leg etc.
Phonics:
- Learn the sounds that these letters make: We are continuing to learn the rest of these phonemes.
(on our school website under the ‘Learning-phonics tips’ there is a video showing you how to pronounce the sounds.
- Practise reading simple cvc words e.g. egg, kiss, bat, fun, duck, got, pull, leg, lid.
- Practise writing the letters you have learnt on their own and in simple words.
- Practise you read some simple captions such as:
- Mum and Dad
- The sun is hot.
- I am mad.
- Can you play pairs or snap with the capital and lowercase letters – say the sounds they make as you turn them over.
- Read these tricky words: I the no go to into and. Can you find these words in your reading books?
- Please access the following websites to play some phase 2 phonics games:
- https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2
- http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html
- https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-2
Topic:
Our topic this half term is ‘Food’.
- Talk about and draw your favourite food or meal. You could label your favourite food or meal with some ‘WOW’ words to describe it e.g. tasty, sweet, delicious.
- Get some food from your kitchen cupboards and sort them into two groups – healthy and unhealthy.
- Make a healthy meal or snack i.e. pasta salad, sandwich, fruit salad, fruit smoothie.
- Make a diary of all the meals, snacks and drinks you have over a week.
- Research where food comes from and talk about it with your family? You could make a map of how the food gets to your house.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swQujfPhXd0&safe=active
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGb8ZFgNDhc&safe=active
Computing:
- Talk about and make a list of technology you have at home. You could talk about how it works? Who uses it? Why do we use it?
- Read ‘Smartie the Penguin’ story and discuss the key questions throughout.
https://www.childnet.com/resources/smartie-the-penguin
Understanding the World: (WINTER)
- Go for a winter walk or look out of your window – what signs of winter can you see. You could make a tick sheet.
- Draw, collage or paint a winter picture.
- Sort winter clothes and non winter clothes – you could dress in these and send your teacher a picture.
- Talk about winter holidays (look at pictures or books) You could discuss the following:
- Have you been on a winter holiday?
- Have you been on a summer holiday?
- How do they differ?
- Could your child ask you some questions about winter.