Hello Reception Class,
I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine and that my suggestions for today are useful.
The Door Bell Rang
Share with your child the story of ‘The Door Bell Rang’ by Pat Hutchins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXtu90JnDkM
Maths
Sharing/Acting out
You will need:
- 12 biscuits, fruit or another suitable type of food. If you have play dough, your child could make the ‘cookies’ with play dough or just cut out some circle shapes to represent the ‘cookies’.
- A small selection of toys (2 – 6).
What to do:
- Begin by talking about the story. ‘Tell me what happened?’ ‘How many people were there?’ ‘How do Sam and Victoria know there will be 6/3/2/1 cookies each?’
- Show your child 2 toys and ask ‘How can we share our food out so that the toys all have the same number?’
- Ask ‘What if 2 more toys come along?’
- Repeat until you have 6 toys.
Perhaps you could model sharing the food unequally and ask your child ‘What do you notice?’ ‘How can we solve the problem?’ Or maybe suggest 5 toys to challenge your child and introduce the concept of ‘remainder’.
Letters and Sounds/Religious Education
Write a simple prayer
I suggested in my blog yesterday that you share a simple prayer with your child. If you had a chance to do this, it will give your child a starter for today’s activity. Talking and exploring ideas before putting pencil to paper is an important aspect of any writing activity.
- Ask your child to write their own simple prayer to thank God. You can always talk about this now if you didn’t get a chance to do the prayer yesterday.
- Suggested wording:
Dear God
Thank you God for ………..
Love from
- Use word bag to support spelling tricky word: you
- Encourage your child to use the sounds he/she knows.
- Use sound mat or Letters and Sounds book to support sounds.
- Remind your child to use pre cursive letter formation ‘whoosh’ writing. This can also be found in the Letters and Sounds book.
Pentecost
Sing this simple Pentecost song with your child (to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it”)
Jesus sent a friend, clap your hands.
Jesus sent a friend, clap your hands.
It’s Pentecost you know, so your happiness can show.
Jesus sent a friend, clap your hands.
Thank you for reading my blog.
Nicola Palmer